Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, March 7th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Facebook pivots to privacy.

Huawei follows through on suing the US government,

duplex rolls out wide, and Bird's white label Scooter scheme.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Yesterday Mark Zuckerberg posted a piece titled A Privacy Focused Vision for Social Networking.

I could quote at length from the piece.

Link is in the show notes for the full Monte, but let me just quote this small section and then

let's focus on giving you a TLDR so we can assess what's happened here.

Quote, I believe the future of communication will increasingly shift to private

encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other, stay secure,

and their messages and content won't stick around forever.

This is the future I hope we will help bring about."

So the TLDR on all of this.

If Mark Zuckerberg's stated goals for Facebook for years now have

always been openness and sharing, at the very least this piece is signaling a strategic shift.

Not openness, not share everything to the whole world, no.

Sharing but privately with specific people of your choice.

Facebook, again, he says, believes that the future of social is messaging, specifically

encrypted secure messaging.

The concrete promise in Zuckerberg's message is something that they've been signaling for a while now and we've spoken about before

Unifying Instagram DMs Facebook Messenger and what's happened to a single encrypted messaging service.

So from a certain angle, you can read this as Facebook walking away from the news feed,

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