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Ebola update – Date/Time: 12-01-14 at 2330

Posted on December 1, 2014 by rusnivek

Confirmed cases of Ebola in Ohio: 0 patients

Confirmed cases of Ebola in the entire US: 0 patient

Confirmed pet cases of Ebola in the entire US: 0 pets

And the top-10-things you REALLY need to know about Ebola

**With no new cases of ebola for two weeks now, I am thinking about discontinuing this daily ebola update. Unless another new cases pops up, I will discontinue this running series on Friday 12-05-14.

@rusnivek

Busy December for 5 and 3 and 9 but no on 10

Posted on December 1, 2014 by rusnivek

After a busy November, let’s continue the push hard into December please!

This Wednesday, I’ll be headed to Michigan to teach with FEMA Region-5 on continuity.

Upon the return to Ohio, I’ll make the quick turnaround and head down to southern Ohio/West Virginia to teach ICS-300. A double serving of Region-5 and Region-3.

Then head to Fulton County, Ohio (Toledo area) to teach a Basic PIO course with my favorite PIOs in the biz. Back in Region-5 baby!

The Oregon trip was canceled so No Region-10 for me. Boooooooooooooooo. But ongoing through December, I have two priority special projects for R9 and R5 that need to close too. So no futzing around!

December summary: Yes on 5, 3, and 9…but no on 10.

I’m just hoping to spend some family time sometime. Happy holidays everyone!

@rusnivek

Twitter is now tracking all other apps too! Freaked out?

Posted on December 1, 2014 by rusnivek

So…this just happened to me.

Twitter will now track the activities from all your OTHER apps on your smart phone/tablet.

That’s right, Twitter will use:

your FourSquare/Swarm geolocation data to target you for ads.
your pictures to see what you take pictures of to target you for ads.
your songs to see what music you listen to so they can target you for ads
your Instagram photos to see who likes them so they can target ads to them.
your airlines apps so they can serve you targeted ads on your flights
your phone calls to see who/where you call so they can target ads to you/them.

You get the idea.

Yeowza Twitter.

From Twitter’s EULA: “…collecting and occasionally updating the list of apps installed on your mobile device so we can deliver tailored content that you might be interested in.”

Creeped out? You know you can disable this feature through the Twitter app’s settings menu. Depending on the iOS:

For iOS device users: disable this through setting —> account —-> privacy —-> “Tailor Twitter based on my apps.“
For Android users: settings —-> account —-> other —-> “Tailor Twitter based on my apps.“

I get that Twitter would like to collect data with what I do using in the Twitter app. In fact, I expect it. However, I am a bit uncomfortable with Twitter collecting info from various other apps.

Not cool Twitter. Way to be that creepy Uncle.

@rusnivek