Dora

I am exploring memory and consequence, time and relationships, but the reason for writing continues to be a need to document and share how data mining is creating false speculation into personal lives
which create algorithms in computer memories that will outlive most humans.
They are often incorrect, or shall I say - still incorrect - because one day, they might have enough of a data sample to map the people they are tracking.

Tonight I googled Linda Caigan, because I miss my mother.
I wanted to revisit sites that list her as a speaker for their community groups
or sites that list her as the Publicity Director for Performers of Westchester,
an organization where she volunteered for many years.

Then I see names... names I recognize from this blog,
but names that otherwise have nothing to do with each other,
such as "Gideon Loewenstein" and "Uncle Herbie".
I pause, look at the header for this search listing and see:

Dora Cohen - Email, Address, Phone numbers, everything! 123people ... 

www.123people.co.uk/s/dora+cohen

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Labels: Dora Cohen, Gideon Loewenstein, 
Linda Caigan, Uncle Herbie ... robertcaigan.blogspot.com ...

Dora is my grandmother, who died in the late 1980's at the age of 97 years. 
They do not have her email or phone number. 
At least not the Dora Cohen who is in any way related to her son,
Herbert Irving Cohen or Gideon Loewenstein,
former partner of her deceased son Robert, 
aka Bob, for whom this blog is named.

It is "just business", but it isn't.
I think of the saying, "Never speak ill of the dead."
I wonder what the dead think of this?


With respect,


Bob's Daughter