Google's New Approach to User Data: A Reevaluation of Trust

Google has recently announced its new approach to user data, one that aims to provide users with more transparency and control over their personal information. In this new model, Google will no longer ask for explicit consent before collecting certain types of data, such as operating system or device information. Instead, the company will rely on "generic hints" to gather this information. This approach has raised concerns among some experts, who worry that it may lead to a loss of trust between users and Google.

The shift in Google's approach is part of a broader trend towards greater transparency and user control in the digital age. As more companies collect and store vast amounts of personal data, there is growing pressure on them to be more open about how they use this information. Apple has already taken steps to address these concerns by providing users with clear indicators of when their data is being collected and used.

However, Google's new approach has been met with skepticism by some experts, who argue that it may not provide the level of transparency that users deserve. "We need to trust Google because they have our privacy in mind," said one expert. "They would never invade the most intimate parts of our lives." But others are more cautious, pointing out that Google has already demonstrated its ability to collect and use large amounts of personal data, including medical records.

One recent example of this is Google's partnership with healthcare companies, which allows it to access millions of patient health records in most states. While Google claims that these records are anonymized and used only for organizational purposes, some experts have raised concerns about the potential risks of this approach. "You can't really anonymize medical data," said one expert. "It's just not possible."

In addition to its efforts in healthcare, Google has also been working on several other initiatives aimed at improving user privacy. One recent example is a new exploit that breaks the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which is widely used to secure online transactions. This exploit has significant implications for security, as it allows hackers to create perfect collisions between two sets of data - one that belongs to them and one that doesn't. As a result, any application that relies on the SHA-1 hash will be vulnerable to attack.

The impact of this exploit is likely to be felt across several industries, including finance and e-commerce. In fact, some experts have already begun warning of a "breach of the week" in terms of the potential consequences of this exploit. While it's too early to say exactly what this might look like, one thing is clear: users will need to take steps to protect themselves from potential attacks.

Meanwhile, another concern has been raised about a database known as Clear View AI, which contains profile information on millions of people. The database was created by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, and it allows police to use facial recognition technology to identify suspects. While this may seem like a useful tool for law enforcement, some experts have raised concerns about its potential risks.

For example, in 2020, Los Angeles police used Clear View AI to conduct facial recognition, which sparked controversy over the use of the technology. More recently, there were reports that Florida and other states had also been using the database, raising questions about its role in policing across the country. The FBI has also come under scrutiny for its own use of the database, with some critics arguing that it is too broad and potentially invasive.

As users begin to grapple with these new developments, one thing is clear: trust must be earned when it comes to handling personal data. Users will need to demand greater transparency and control over their information, as well as better protection from potential threats. In the meantime, Google's new approach remains a subject of debate, with some experts arguing that it represents a necessary step towards greater user empowerment.

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parent company has hit the trillion dollar market cap for the first time so that's the third company to pass the trillion dollar mark with Apple and Amazon being first and second trillion dollars trillion dollar companies just staring off vacantly into space on the other hand it makes me feel slightly better about the national debt being quiet one point six trillion dollars way worse I mean that's valuation that's not revenue so even if we seized all of their revenue which would kill them for years at a time we wouldn't come close to we can't even service the debt anymore that's just crazy sure we can just borrow more money at a negative interest rate are you stupid doesn't your dad just have more money well speaking of having too much money and abusing your position how about Comcast they got caught caught and they're their own web of deceit and for once they're gonna be punished for it well not really punished this is definitely in quotation mark put those items you stole back and we'll pretend this never happened Comcast settles lying allegations and will issue refunds and cancel debts 30 1600 customers will get refunds or debt relief in Minnesota so if you don't live in Minnesota Comcast is free to continue doing whatever I've been doing that got them in trouble in the first place I have to do more of it to make up for yeah the Minnesota sales literally I mean these companies are so large they will literally do whatever they can do and get away with and if they don't happen to get away with it in all states like Minnesota mm-hm oh you gotta think still worth doing every other state where Comcast operates an is just chomping at the bit slow it's good any money I mean I don't think that most people I don't think most prosecutors cared but plus they would have been involved long before now let me rephrase that there are law offices calling up their buddies in the legislature who are like you know we need to get paid from this so they're talking about this is the old gambit where they sell you they lease you a modem and you're like I want to pay for that so you send it back and get your own modem and they continue building for it and then they also be like hey if you sign up for a full year I'm gonna give you these sweet gift cards you know yeah gift cards and I just don't give them to you yeah and you can't get out of the contract cause you're signing a contract also the fees like there was some complaints about the random fees like advertising one price and then that does you can't actually get that price so basically the worst kinds of business maneuvers that you can do and get away with except now maybe you can't get away with them 150th of the time actually Minnesota does not have a enough population to be 150th of the customers no meanwhile Apple has gobbled up more of the market they're using their trillion dollars wisely to invest in other winners wisely that was an intentional so don't innovate just consume but if you are a customer with one of these people that got gobbled up you're gonna suffer Apple's latest AI acquisition leaves some wise cameras without people detection that was a major selling point of wisest affordable cameras so there's these little cameras yes it all goes to the cloud Apple acquisition used to do face recognition and how it doesn't the feet really add a lot to that kinda looks like the this should be orange it's like a bird the Pixar man oh yeah they were animated although these guys in the back er don't have feet an orwellian screaming maybe why maybe you push you down you think yeah yeah that's cool yeah so if you have one of those there's a update that's probably already been posted but if it hasn't you may want to pull that off the network if you want to keep your people detection although did it take place in the cloud or on that ya know the cloud part of it is going yeah so everyone matter anyway hmm and Amazon the other big t only knows Microsoft wasn't them was that one of them yeah it was Ames on an apple for the trillion dollars I thought Microsoft is only one mm-hmm not yet oh wow Microsoft they're only eight or maybe six billion kiddo only Jesus struggling so yeah one of the other big T's has an interesting thing going on in court with the US government because as Trump said the government does a lot to help out these giant companies but sometimes when they snubbed them the hurt is real Amazon to ask the court to block the DoD's 10 billion early Valentine's Day with Microsoft Jedi not keen to let them hang solo ah so Amazon didn't get the the Jedi award contract for cloud services and it's like where Amazon we invented the cloud how could we possibly not get this contract its jointly ordered to what Microsoft and somebody else but I think the other person is was it Oracle now or goes out the other one is is just a side note it's all Microsoft pretty much so Amazon it's just like stop it I got a point I mean any of us is arguably better no it depends what you're doing but Microsoft's got the office cloud Amazon doesn't have that do we need that I think the DoD is scared to death of not having PowerPoint that's probably is like 90% of what they do I need the slide animation wait people stop I mean remember the snowden slides it's like this is stock PowerPoint animations look the terrible Orwellian algorithm is eating the globe that's a stock that's a stock PowerPoint animation I bet the guy keep this whoever was the author of that PowerPoint when he got leaked he's like I'm terrified that this was leaked but God look at those animations yeah audible has an interesting lawsuit that we talked out before talked about before and now here's the question and we'll rehash in case you didn't know what this is about if you make a recording and then I listen to that recording and transcribe it it's that the same as the written book the recording was based on it's an interesting question and we're really never gonna find out the answer unfortunately audible has settled the copyright lawsuit with publisher over audiobook captions seven publishers had sued the audiobook giant last July claiming that its audio to text service captions was unauthorized and in court things were not going well for audible because they had said hey this is not a reading experience and the judge said there's words that you read how is this not a reading experience but if you have the permission to read the text out loud why would you not have permissions their lawyers apparently did that argument if they did they were arguing something dumber it is a crazy argument no matter how you go because the publishers are saying hey we sell exactly the same text that you're gleaning from the audiobook and you're now going to sell that out from under us but it's you can get a little getting it if you're still getting like an audio recording like I would think you would have to buy the rights to the book before you do the audio recording no yeah the the audible has the the right to produce audiobooks from the thing that you didn't have the right to produce text and it's not the same text technically but it amounts to the same thing yeah it's such a that kind of feels like the publishers just trying to like draw blood from a stone because it's like oh we've already sold you the rights once but maybe we could do it twice like oh well I mean if you could export that then if you bought an audible book you could constantly steal and then publish I guess what if you use the AI on your phone running locally to do that for you well if I just gave you the app then make it part of the service scare so yeah it goes it's trying to lock down information which is never gonna work but they will not stop trying so we'll get this nonsense wasting the Court's time all right so we all know that Google is probably the best search engine some people argue about that but you do pay a price for using it and that promoter so all your data the ads are being tailored the search results are being tailored to you no trick you into thinking that the world agrees with you more than it might and so everyone is int have X yeah there's a high cost with using Google but it's so good so what's the alternative well there's one more that's entered the firm Verizon Media launches onesearch a privacy focused search engine verizon privacy horizon I can't even read that headline say with a straight face let's not forget the Verizon and some people that introduced the super cookie which inserted markers into literally all of your unencrypted web traffic so you could be personally identified and uniquely identify a Verizon advocate would argue that's like hey who is better positioned to be anti tracking than us because we're the kings of tracking we know exactly how to defeat ourselves so they claim that they're going full privacy mode even to the point where your user agent and your search string and your IP address are logged to three unconnected servers they can never commit there's also a four we're not not logging them we're just not connecting them the fourth server that they don't talk about is the one that's storing your profile probably so do you trust Verizon no I don't there's several stories in in the theme of personal information as asbestos like it's the 21st century 2020 yeah 21st century asbestos because you know asbestos is an amazing technology it's naturally occurring it's everywhere it has great thermal properties a little bit of lung cancer you made a lot of jokes about asbestos did you find out some more bad news about the house no no nothing like that it's just that I thought like in reading all of the stories about PII this week it's like that's the new asbestos cuz it's like all these companies are like oh it's so good I want to hang on to it but it creates all these liabilities and like these compound problems and so Verizon's like we need to be privacy focused by tracking everything did you see all the clickbait articles yeah I didn't even tell you see yeah all of them The Wizard of Oz snow seen the snow was 100% pure asbestos I thought you were talking about the clickbait articles for like the privacy stuff where it was like he used this VPN that's privacy respecting cuz that's what I got on that story and it was like that's the VPN that like sells everything but it's funny cuz she was like you know looking up and dancing around in it and it literally is but this poisoning from the soundstage did anybody died from that I don't notice I've also learned that there's different like there's some asbestos that's much worse than other has but it was probably the worst yeah I was probably extra lethal extra tasty though well maybe some good news this week although this only counts toward the normies buying fully constructed units this is not a do-it-yourself measurement but hey still better than the alternative I guess annual global PC shipments grew for the first time in eight years Lenovo retains its title is the world's number one PC maker well computers didn't really get a lot faster for the last eight years until AMD came along so they blame Windows 7 as being the big driver here and they expect to continue because a lot of the world when a 7 is still being used so we'll see meanwhile the boring company which was kind of a joke and for a lot of years didn't accomplish much of anything seems to have found new life in good old Las Vegas the boring companies Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done so that there are only two months into this project and they've already completed a mile of tunnel and it's gonna be two miles total it's a 1 mile round-trip so two tunnels and it's half done that's very impressive where is it taking us from the airport to the strip and to a Convention Center ok I guess it's a loop I say that's not a bad little loop and they claim it's gonna move 4,400 people in an hour so it's very impressive there's also an this story Tesla Bharati there's a link to there's a live stream of the digging operation and I watched a loader put dirt and trucks for like 10 minutes last night you're so easily like seduced by strange videos like that you're like alright I'll watch this like the vending machine because when I started watching it the truck was like slowly backing in I'm like what's this track up to and then the loader started filling it up I was like how full is it gonna get it you had to know you think we could borrow one of the boring company machines here and just like start tunneling somewhere from somewhere to somewhere else I don't know where it would be useful no I don't think well I mean while Tesla's we haven't heard a lot about Tesla in terms of you know new car innovations since that god-awful truck but they are still working new features in one of them is a government mandated feature that is the alert tone how many is it thirty miles an hour thirteen or there's a certain mile per hour limit if it's under that your car needs to make a noise so that you don't run people over in parking lots and stuff like that and there seems to be some cool byproducts coming from there and being forced to put that technology Elon Musk shows how Tesla's will talk to pedestrians well don't just stand there staring hop in that's what a Tesla Model 3 says in the video that's linked in this article I think they really missed an opportunity to get that guy that's still alive for at least a little bit longer that was the voice of KITT from Knight Rider they could have just done that I was just thinking like screaming it does not stop so you know the cars coming with the Sun from Rick and more that's exactly what I was thinking uh so that's some one of the big things that people are speculating about is are you gonna be forced to use a preset series of noises or can you upload your own I'm not gonna pay a dollar for the Alexa samuel l.jackson voice but I totally would pay a dollar for the voice of the car from Knight Rider if I had a test I want like an old Eastern Kentucky lady voice from my Tesla yeah the other thing is will it just be like you say pre-recorded messages to other drivers or can you just like pick up a mic and start talking because that's gonna make road rage really interesting it was hard to hear on the video but it sounded vaguely text-to-speech ish yeah there's gonna be a lot of n words oh I get Microsoft Sam right Tesla speaking of search engines Wow should have put these two stories together I thought they were gonna be together than they weren't yeah well whose fault is that Krista yours no anyway Google had the EU ruled against them and said listen you sell these devices and you have all these apps you have this big search bar at the top of every Android phone and it uses your search engine and that's a monopoly sir and you must do something about it and they did do something about it something ingenious and a little bit evil Bing has lost out to DuckDuckGo and Google's new Android search ballot search engine ballot thing so Google is gonna start offering e users a choice of their default search engines when they set up their phone and the order that they appear in is based on popularity with this which is this ballot vote and so DuckDuckGo has moved up ahead of bing sorry you have to pay something to get on this bout it's not a lot though but they're like hey you're making this this is ridiculous so every country has their own order which is interesting everybody seems to love DuckDuckGo the best it works pretty well the only thing that I'm finding that I sometimes switch back to is I prefer Google Maps oh the UK they're not having it they like being there's a lone Bing holdout interesting so anyway you get that choice when you set up your phone for the first time or you can dig into the settings and change it so it's no longer just Google it's interesting that Google is not even in the running there well I think those were I think the big three after everywhere yeah okay yeah where's Ask Jeeves though web Carly AltaVista so patents we talk a lot about patents and patent trolling and the problems that come with modern-day patents now AI is getting into the fray of filing patents so when you think about them you wonder how hot is the the patent filing are we slowing down or speeding up well we have the answer and it's pretty surprising US patents hit a record three hundred and thirty three thousand five hundred thirty granted in 2019 IBM and Samsung lead the pack get a lobby an IBM and Microsoft have been patenting a lot of stuff per year since the dawn of time but IBM's patent war chest is insane and of course they will use those patents to destroy a small business like honestly surprised they're not they're not more litigious because like look at how like you know lawsuit Larry and Oracle I mean lawsuit Lee I mean that's what yeah well IBM's not competing as directly in the consumer space anymore I guess so maybe one day they will mmm and I'll have a nice little back-up plan if they don't succeed now this story is really really exciting because it's something this really does to me this seems like the future how we never we don't suppose don't have our flying cars the visions of the distant past of what the future should be we're not there now we do have little pieces of glass that show us all the world's knowledge that's kind of cool but we don't have the flying cars and we don't have this until now augmented reality in a contact lens it's the real deal startup mojo Vision unveils a working prototype of its AR contact lenses I didn't really get much of an impression as to what you're gonna see other than like maybe like ColecoVision remember how like the like the the Atari looked kind of like in the 80s not good well so the first iterations of this are admittedly not exciting although I think the coolest thing about it is you get a little pack to wear and it wirelessly powers gives you tumors I'd be more concerned so your your eye needs oxygen and that's why I like contacts have gotten better and better since they were first invented because they've gotten thinner and thinner you're putting like a very thick pieces I've seen plastic on your eye here and if you wear that for any like length of time how how I'm healthier your eyes gonna be well there's a there's a way more dystopian aspect of this but before I say that they are working on somehow getting a battery into that thing Oh now when that catches fire that's gonna be the first iterations of this are pretty simple so if you have poor vision and you can't like trace outlines very well it's actually gonna go in and trace all the outlines in a room for you so you can see well so like if you're driving and you see like halos or double vision or whatever it's gonna go in and fill in those blurry spots eventually they hope to have full AR with it now here's the dystopian part think about the horror that the advertising industry will use for this because this is powered and because it is driven by I assume some kind of diode you can see this when your eyes are closed that's why you take about your specific contacts out anyway even the day-night ones just take out after a while we had you didn't you have advertisements in your time fries oh we had them everywhere just not in their dreams exactly that isn't really chairman I should really make sure my glasses are up to date if they start sneaking that technology in all contacts see I don't I mean I mean okay contacts are fine but I would take a pair of glasses that looks like a normal pair of glasses that would be fine yeah not the giant yeah it seems like that would be more attainable your headset and more useful more quickly yeah but we can't advertise to you when you're sleeping there's no chance to monetize it beyond the initial sale of the device and that's not acceptable another big acquisition this week in the e-commerce world and visa who had already conquered tracking your payments in ways that are just horrific and great for building that advertising profile they said you know what the US dollar that's an asset that we can track pretty much to whatever point we want but what about all these other assets people have we need to know more about those visa is acquiring plaid for five point three billion dollars to X it's a final private valuation I think the reason that they are paying so much more for it is because the other bidder was Google which is even more scary than visa like what visa lacks in technical aptitude to be able to execute on this data set they're going to more than make up for for lack of morals and guidance so plaid tracks your you know like stocks and if you have bonds and stuff like that all those other kinds of asset all right it might do real estate it's an API for integrating with all of those aspects of your life so your visa profile can't contain all of those things and they're probably gonna give you a really cool website to put all that together and you're gonna be like oh it's so cool and it's they're gonna reap so much more of it yeah and then you ever will it's like oh you want to invest in bonds no we're gonna just take your money that's anti-american all I can think the whole time was what a lazy stock photo oh I'm like surely they have some sort of logo right but no you went with just literal like bolts of cloth that are plaid plaid does kind of fly under the radar because it's scary all the stuff that it plugs into I don't see they just found a stock photo of plaid fabric I probably would want it that way I don't want you to know so it's it's all the rage now to be woke and to be worried about the climate we've got to fix the climate and Microsoft has decided that now Microsoft is already carbon neutral which is impressive although they don't really manufacture a lot of stuff you think if you took into account whoever is actually building the parts that go into the surfaces that would still be true probably probably not but they just really consume electricity and you know whatever their campus consumes but they said that's not enough they're gonna go harder Microsoft pledges to be carbon negatives by 2030 and recapture all of its past emissions they're gonna be fully on renewables by 2025 and then they're gonna be so hardcore on renewables that they're going to outpace anything that they did previously of course part of what makes that easy is the juggernaut that is a sure because a sure is producing far more carbon emissions than Microsoft ever did through the 80s and 90s and remember this doesn't mean you can't buy Microsoft products please continue to buy and consume them as much as possible this is we're gonna be carbon neutral all those surface 5s they just throw those away because buy a new one don't worry about the battery just put it in the garbage we've got a couple of interesting crypto stories this week and it has to do with these RI cos in a way but more creative than the old eye cos I think the icy O'Connor got a bad rap there for a while yeah because we didn't really hear about them a lot of more scams a lot of people lost a lot of money but it seems like you know the collective memory we've cycled into the news that's a new year so let's get some new scams going and this gentleman is an NBA player who's looking to do something like that Spencer Dinwiddie good decentralized pro sports if accredited investors want in so he's doing his own coin that has something to do with his basketball career I don't know his so he's got a guaranteed contracts and the coin is based on that salary and something about the last year is optional and so that's a gamble for coin holders if he were to option out of that last year and get a better contract like if he's not injured and his play continues the way that it is then somehow that we've been official mm to the coin a bruise and the the the NBA was saying that that's some form of gambling the NBA is not happy about this in fact they've gone so far to say they will throw him out of the league if he does this which how does that affect a guaranteed contract well if it's not against the rules then they're gonna have a lawsuit on their hands we'll see but you can get in on that if you want I don't really know much about the basketball but I understand that he's good you know who really would have had a field day with this if it was available it should have been a Michael Jordan oh yeah Michael Jordan coin well he could probably do that just based on his passive income he's a rich man they still sell the Air Jordans right yeah they do actually I forgot I think they still do those shoes I think all the basketball players have their own like shoe line though I think well not all of them yeah no really good yeah and perhaps the greatest of all time could certainly before download I don't even know he's the greatest of my time when I cared at all about basketball he was in Space Jam that's what matters there you go and so that's in the US but now if you want to go global and get on the hot new coin it's the a coin oh it actually happened a con that just founded his own crypto and a city in Africa so he got 2,000 acres in Africa to found a city it's gonna be a con city but they're gonna use a new cryptocurrency to power the city full of pudding yeah he's got these great pictures and it's only 20 minutes from the airport so that's good so this is in Senegal I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly and there was apparently some argument about like he wanted that 2,000 acres and the people of Senegal was like that's our land and he's like I could buy and sell you and in fact probably that's what he did so he wants to create a whole 2,000 acre city and the only kind of payment that goes down there is the a coin and that's gonna pay the workers and it's gonna be everything and you can buy in and visit that city if you want this feels like super dystopian like just really bizarre does he think like everything's gonna collapse he's like I want to be basically make my own little country before that happens or but it's also you got something neither of you really hey Khan fans not busy work no seams oh yeah yeah he he sings he doesn't rap he sings but you know how like rappers want somebody singing the hook on all their songs yeah so he's like really popular for singing the hook on some hard gangsta rap and so he's always rapping about like hard gangsta star singing about hard gangsta stuff and he went from that to running a city I could have just bought Detroit it would have been cheaper yeah but nobody wants to go there it's bizarre cuz I feel like 2,000 acres you know he could have gotten that kind of land here and had less issues with the locals but no it's you're thinking about this all wrong Kristen because this is gonna be like every other resort this is gonna be a really well in his mind at least I don't know if it'll work out but I assume he's looking for like a Dubai type of experience beautiful futuristic city that's gonna require oil money not Chris crypto money and all those people from Senegal will be working there and then they'll go home at the end of the day to the slums while all the rich people luxuriate in the in the Akon city see also the red river gorge resort coming soon Oh Star Trek Picard Thursday after you hmm is it come on you're gonna watch it same reason I'll watch the Lord of the Rings series even if it's bad because I need to know I know they have a dog yeah yeah has a dog oh oh that's even better nice what what's the can intake on animals in the Star Trek universe they had any honest I don't know if data had the cat you know yeah some of them some people I pet so Picard had a pet fish it seemed like from the trailer it seems like Picard and running his vineyard was run it was like just robots completely automated plus the dog and it's like it's just him and the dog what happens when the dog dies in this season how do you make money running a vineyard in the space communist future I think he just does it because that's what their family did for like hundreds of years that's how they made it out to be in it is he on that Starfleet pension yeah well the the intro makes it seem like it's like no you're retired you need to go away now and he's like I am Starfleet or they're just like no you think he made some like really smart investments done insider information got traveling the stars well that's not what the stories about suicide yeah what we're talking about is Google stadia now Google Stadium made a lot of promises and it kept about four of them I think so people are not really enthusiastic about Google stadia but they're like no no listen more games Google stadia promises more than 120 games in 2020 including ten exclusives what I need to know what the ten exclusives are but I don't know if they said like I just they said this to get a headline but the service still isn't there it's not there it's not working it's like Tetris like reskin it's still like a super beta like you know how Google betas are it's not even that it's like pre-beta they do not mention extra mega beta what would be or go here we go here we go what if it was cyberpunk how many people do you think would buy it oh there was coming in 2020 these not necessarily exclusives though do you know if it separates the exclusives I don't think it does these are all existing games yep I'm in the next one coming over 2020 okay cyberpunk 2077 it's not exclusive gods monsters watchdogs that it does don't sound exclusive and doom eternal which doesn't sound exclusive either I don't know I don't know what the exclusives are even though this link promised me that information okay yeah man sir Chris says who cares yeah I'll pay now cares for 800 Alex often Japan we talked about Toyota and their city of the future where you will be a good Toyota servant and for that you'll be rewarded with fair points literally a sir so so either they have these big plans like we're not just selling cars this is a lifestyle in fact this is your life you will purchase it from Toyota or you will be destroyed and they're coming up with all these new kinds of services these are in Europe that are not the traditional car purchase Toyota quinto combines leasing and car sharing and other services in Europe as part of Toyota's plan to become a full-service mobility company so we kind of had some of this stuff in cities here in the US cities like Seattle which is kind of kind of a ride-sharing thing but this is gonna combine self-driving with that so it's like you need a car to go to the grocery store you can just have it pick you up and do stuff and it's gonna be a Toyota kinto well there's there's three different versions of it I think kento is the or no kento's all of them so they have one where you lease the car but you get insurance and all of the service as part of that lease so they're gonna call you up and be like hey take it here and get the service done or it's gonna drive itself to the service center eventually sure and you just pay a monthly fee and you don't think about any of it the other one was more of what you're talking about which was ride-sharing I don't really understand how that works but like it's a subscription and you buy a part of a car or availability of several cars I'm sharing essentially yeah and then the last one was just straight-up like basically carpooling but like the uber was that what we call the multiple people was just ride-sharing yeah yeah so you get all these different options and Europe on how you want to enjoy your Toyota well I say your Toyota not on here ty you didn't own the software anyway so I mean it's fine although this would be a fun thing to look at slate or no I'm sorry dice has come up with the 16 top programming skills now a lot of you are in this industry or thinking about getting into this industry so maybe need to think about looking into these 16 top programming skills focusing on how data is the key for jobs SQL Java software development engineering then Python JavaScript at Linux which is sort of generic Oracle c-sharp get C++ net blah blah blah well you say Linux is generic don't you think software development is pretty generic I don't understand how that fits the top one should be people skills and then watch everyone just like oh I think it's funny that SQL is currently like what's the like that business care for it's like the early adopters and then the trial of disappointment and then you know like reasonable expectations we're for SQL for like the whole data science think is the whole like PII is asbestos we're like the peak of of hype and it doesn't do any of the things that people think that it does and so by the time people actually get out of school this it's probably gonna be like down here in terms of like data handling also XML is on the list are they're just pure XML it's like listen I don't know anything but XML I'm not God at it we're gonna translate this kind of XML into this other kind of XML it's just continuously yeah until we die no no interesting if you're getting into this business or perhaps you're just uh you know hopping jobs which they tell you to do the streaming services have been proliferating there are so many of them and we just keep getting more more and more confusing to watch what you want to watch because you never know where it's gonna be the card is the CBS one right yeah yeah so hmm if you want to watch that better get it by Thursday and NBC has entered the fray ABC's new peacock of streaming service is just one big ad injection machine so basically any cable there was a shareholder call and the people from NBC it was a long shareholder call and the people from NBC were basically like we're gonna have a free five and ten dollar tears but look we don't actually want anybody to sign up for the pay-for tears we want them on the free tier because then we will have no remorse about shoving ads into literally every orifice they have but also the five dollars here is still ad driven you just get more stuff yeah so there's like the super pleb and then the one they're gonna teach you to go up to and then the one for ten dollars that they really don't want you to get yeah but they have to give it to you because otherwise people gonna see what this is really about that's basically Hulu's pricing model yeah Kulu does the same thing they don't do it I don't think they do a completely free service but like they have that entire yeah and it's like here's the version where you can just watch it but with ads and there's a version without ads but it's way more expensive Hulu gives you all kinds of distributor's content yeah it's not just one but this is just NBC which but the they own several movie companies too so you get probably be on there now the like you say this was a conference call and we've said this before if you really want to know what a company's about listening on the conference call go buy one share stock if you have to and listen to that conference call because it's incredible the truth that will come out to the investors and they just it's like there was a gavel with the word ads on it and they just hit it the entire call okay but it makes the squeaky noises it's like a child's gavel the whole business model is they're gonna be so a TV show that is all one company maybe even one product so it's gonna be like you know 30 rock brought to you by Dawn dishwashing liquid which is what the soap operas used to be you know we've circled all the way back around them so you're watching this show and instead of seeing all these different commercials they're just pounded into your head one single product go and buy it and you don't there might not be season to think about that play it 30 rock actually made a joke about Snapple where they had like some sort of vertical integration with it and literally the main character looks at the screen is like we love Snapple can we have our money now well that's the other thing they want to do a lot more ads like that where it's like you're not seeing the same ad over and over it's very unique or it's just in the show it's yeah it's a new show man I can't wait to do the know dad on the Friday episode yeah let's try think about come up with a good we'll put it at the beginning of Friday it's fine we'll try something different now we've been talking a lot about Google's inability for the the brass to stop banging each other they just can't do it I got all that power and it's you know that power goes to your head it makes you horny and lusty on the boardroom they're just all over each other but it turns out they are not alone best pod board investigating CEO Corey Barry for alleged misconduct and there she is that slide choose a flattering image never dude she's like literally mid talk in other news best buy one a longer price match B&H photo and Newegg so this was an anonymous letter I don't know who pointed this out was it a spurned lover we don't know but they're gonna investigate and she says that she welcomes the investigation she's eager to have it concluded mm-hmm that's not all she's eager for it's late this is the story I was thinking about before when I looked at the programming job slate has ranked the the most evil companies of the decade they say by say crowdsource that though now before we before we go into this you make your own guess for number one in the comments some surprising entries we will look at all of them let's look at the you wanna start at five or ten let's start at five seven interesting mentioned that you might not think about number fourteen Tesla we're not uncritical of Tesla here so much scrolling here hang on I apologize it's like watching my mom right now when you could just have the keyboard and hit end all right coming in at number seven Microsoft uh Microsoft top seven that's surprising hmm you do you you don't you are aware of their of the decade tracking right yeah yeah spying and super mosquitoes number six is no shock to anyone Apple and it's because of apples duplicitous behavior with regard to things like tracking and taking down apps and the VPN stuff from the whole China regime so we need to do whatever to do business in China you got it that's Miller this was not surprising although it's rank kind of surprises me yeah I would think it'd be further down the list yeah uber is number five there's definitely companies that are lower ranked that should be like should trade with uber cuz ubers solving problem but they had all that like sexual harassment sexual assaults they make money on high they can't put the genie back in the bottle as far as like what the services but in terms of like their implementation of it the only thing keeping them going is very wealthy investors back it in itself being evil though right to the shareholders yeah number four is not a surprise although this is not a name that you think about when you think about big tick and they like they like that yes exactly but they've put with it to you it's very good oh that's fantastic Pawlenty R so plenty of technologies is the one that they're a government contractor and they work on literally everything and we're proud we're working with the US government including like all of the really scary things the US government is doing like oh look at all that stick man violence there was there was another Lord of the Rings company on this list as well alphabet as number three come on we all knew it was gonna be top three right yeah well somebody is not there anymore some of your editing your comment right now cuz you're like oh I guessed alphabet but no you're wrong how about this one Chris do you like this one you know I like the other one better with the police beating the people in the streets I thought that one was better it's weird but what's the white glove spray-painting and I think they're moving the earth maybe like adjusting the world around them maybe I'm not sure number two shocks no one but once again some of you are regretting your guesses now yes this one facebook facebook is number two the second most evil company in the world yeah I mean don't need to explain that one I don't think I don't oh these are like button see I thought that was the Twitter icon in the illustration up top so that's kind of cool and finally number one general the Dark Lord Himself Amazon yeah and the slate is ranked Amazon the most evil company ever just because of their dominance in literally everything well they're destroying the climate with their fleets their workers are subjugated to the point of neo feudalism being in a bottle oh yeah he's soaking up you know that's like the 1% taking advantage of the world basically everything bad they should have been played Sauron slight is very left-leaning and you know they they hate Bezos obviously a lot so maybe some personal animosity there but we certainly can't defend them much can we you still get those one-day packages though don't you I love them they're so good what's the last thing you ordered cat trees oh that's right my god tore you up my cats are in Saint greenies dental cat treats I'm pretty sure that they would call my eyes I didn't know that really like the dog ones I had this big tub because the tub was on sale they're usually like twelve or thirteen dollars it was on sale for 6 1 and toast like I was holding the tub and toast actually jumped up and like wrapped his arms around it hung there and it's so funny because toast doesn't even chew we just inhales I know these big and they were like super crunchy because that's how it cleans your teeth I don't hear crunches when he eats I don't know I'm worried but croutons the opposite he just like sits there in the crunch crunch crunch crunch it takes him forever to eat one so what I do is I'll drop one for crouton and then I'll throw toast as far as I can through the house and toast can go and get it and eat it and be back before crouton is done with his crazy for the ROO likes them but she's not insane for them like that's not her favorite treat wish you've got an Amazon affiliate link in the wall for that turner greenies very insane for those what flavor greenness we're talk about that the other day - no one knows - no okay Arlie - oh they get different flavors no not for the dog ones oh they're just green there's no mention of what flavors then rue seems to like it but they're too calories so the tuna flavor can't be real I don't know what it is but whatever it is cats love it my cat slow its vaporized tuna I mean while switching to security news oh it's bad the citric servers have had some problems and it was a well publicized problem not everybody upgraded and we have something of a Batman out there but not quite the same as Batman a little different a hacker is patching Citrix servers to maintain exclusive access fireEye believes that this is a bad guy hoarding Citrix servers rather than a good guy vigilante looking out for organizations so there's a vulnerability in Citrix and there's they're actually no patch they were super late with the patch coming but there were things you could do to mitigate it and so nobody was patching their citrix servers and it's very bad so this guy will infiltrate your server remove all the other malware and then do nothing except leave his dropper in there so is he a force for good who's just leaving a way in in case he needs to come back and clean up again or is he waiting and biding his time I like to imagine I want to believe he's a good guy but he probably is it I will see probably not interesting a talented guy although I think that the security was pretty easy to exploit which is why there was such a huge rush to attack the citrix servers and Wendell's favorite company is by far Oracle God he just won't stop talking about how good they are on to the stock so Oracle has a bit of a history with their own vulnerabilities as they're not patching them and there's kind of a lot of them so when you see a headline like this you might think oh that's a good thing but really it's more about like you know sticking your finger and one hole while the spillway it's just coming over your head Oracle tiles previous all-time patch high with January updates so yeah the January updates from Oracle are just off the charts everything is gonna be broken you're gonna deploy these updates and this is gonna be a mess but hey at least Oracle's patching that's better than they were doing curse do you like this one I did actually like it kind of I feel like it should make a noise like like a every time a band-aid comes down on it should be animated anyway listen how are you Jimmy that so much better well dashcams I've a dashcam I love it and everyone thought that was mad it wasn't I really if I ever get in a car accident though I'm gonna be really embarrassed I think of it from you the stuff I like give to the cops because of the horrible things I say when I'm driving look at this idiot but hey it's better than not having that security blanket right because people are terrible drivers but you might have to worry about which webcam you choose or in the webcam dashcam this app lets us see everywhere people drive black view has an app that shows the location of drivers that opt in the creators say it should be possible to track users in bulk but they found otherwise yet again don't send your data to the cloud why would you do that that's a terrible idea so if you have the app you can actually share your location on this exciting little map here that's an opt-in you don't have to do it right no problem except when they reverse engineered the app I found out that even the people who weren't opted in we're still sending their location data ah the old we're gonna store your data but we're also gonna store the state of a checkbox that says I have not opted in because that counts right so they chose at random a couple of them that were near them in New York tracked them for four or five days and I said yeah we can say pretty confidently that we know where these people live we could probably find their car on any given day that would be a really great counterintelligence thing because you could you know do some terrible crime and then set up some person that uses this app is being in the wrong place at the wrong time and then they would be a plausible suspect for whatever terrible thing it is that you did you're counting on the investigative powers ain't good enough to unravel your scheme yeah I mean you gotta have to commit a high enough level crime to make sure the investigators go to that length so if you're just robbing like a bodega or something no they're never gonna do that well we there's a lot of white hat hacking right you can do penetration testing and you can submit bug bounties and stuff like that and you can even use your machine learning skills and stuff like that and competitions to try to figure out ways to do things but then you can also cheat in horrible horrible ways in some of the best meaning ones of these competitions data science community rocked by pet adoption contest cheating scandal so basically I forgot the name of the website raggle taggle okay they had a contest that was like hey we need help making sure that all these pets get adopted how can we write an online profile that makes sure that the pets are more likely to get adopted versus euthanized and so that sounds like a job for AI right so they had a contest where the best team would be paid a thousand dollars and their algorithm doesn't for ten thousand dollars and it'll be implemented on the website well the winning team may have scraped the test data set from the kaggle website which meant that their algorithm was built for the criteria that the judges would use for evaluation so that was perhaps not good so one in ten of their pets had a perfect profile guaranteed adoptable and that caused them to get an insanely high score it was between zero and one they got like a point nine something yeah so one of the so everybody got involved with the pet thing and they were like oh we're gonna motivate the community and everybody's excited about getting pets adopted so all these people entered and then these people won and then everybody was just like alright we're done see you later like wait oh no we need somebody to help us actually implement this on the actual website no no don't leave and there was one guy one of the losers he's like alright I'll help and when he started installing this he was like wait terrible and that's why you don't expect work or you don't hire they've been banned scientists don't work this is very ironic what this story is about considering that they're throwing up this paywall blocker and you know if you say yes to all these things you're gonna get a bunch of cookies cookies track you across the internet Google wants to phase them out but you know the Google really want that well see know this is that the article I think misses it a little bit but yeah Google actually does want to phase it out because they want you to use their tools for doing all that because yeah well I mean that's exactly right because between Android and mobile browsers that even the unknown Android platforms plus chrome plus everything else Google can actually do a reasonable job tracking everything without cookies so if they eliminate cookies then competing platforms have a harder time doing the same level of tracking I mean Google was wanting your credit card history they already mined your email for receipts so they can incorporate that into your profile why not this so Google's alternative is something called client hints so what's gonna happen Krista and you can be very trustful about this process if you think about it I have a deep trust for Google Google is gonna take this information about you and they're gonna protect it and they're just gonna let out little bits and pieces to the websites that you visit so they can know who you are and some of these other things kind of but not in any way that where they can actually violate your privacy that's reasonable yeah they're gonna put the asbestos in a ziploc bag I'm just gonna stop using DuckDuckGo and switch back to Google and continuing on that same path that was not the only thing that they're looking to phase out and blue of their client hints they're also going after the user agent Google to phase out user agent strings in Chrome's one of the things that advertisers currently use for end-user fingerprinting so even though we've disabled our ad blocker and don't really track cookies advertisers will often use a fingerprinting technique which incorporates the user agent string and a whole bunch of other data points about your browser things like screen resolution etc etc and that can be used to uniquely identify a visitor even when they clear the cookies even when they're using you know different browsers on the same device or any number of other things so chrome is longer in a report the standard user agent although it will for legacy reasons till some unknown time and that's not a thing anymore but they're gonna offer this new thing which is it's not gonna tell them their operating system or anything else like that it's gonna be very generic hints more hints hint don't trust Google they ought to do the thing like like Apple is doing where it shows you what is being requested so the website you can get a thing like in the corner just an icon not a pop-up not like to look not like the notification thing but you get a thing at the top that's like hey the website would like to know your browser resolution because there might be a legit need for that and this that and the other and you can be like okay yeah that's cool you can use that I'm cool with that I'm cool if like Pizza Hut knows my location so they can show me the closest Pizza Hut I feel like the normies would be overwhelmed by that well you say and so the the message here and both these articles is that we need to trust Google because they have our privacy in mind they would never invade the most intimate parts of our lives that's not what they're about they're here to help us Google can view millions of patient health records in most states well that seems contradictory to what I just said no does how are they doing this oh they're helping people organize their medical they have partnerships I don't remember the names of the companies but they have several put into winter mountain oh wow that sounds like a an ascension so Google is doing business with both those companies and I'm sure it's anonymized but how anonymous can medical data be the Google III is like I heard them talking about this once a long time ago you've probably written some gmail emails about that tumor and its location we'll just put those together oh that's who you are and bad news for security this week as we kind of already knew this yeah but you know you say that the old phrase nail in the coffin this is more like these sawed-off shotgun to the head exploit fully breaks sha-1 and lowers the attack bar so if you are application depends on the sha-1 hash i've got some bad news for you in the threat post article here so they can literally take their own data set and make it whatever they want it to be and cause it to be a perfect collision with the real data set that you're trying to send so you can imagine how that might be bad would you call this the breach of the week that's not really this mormon exploit this will lead to several reasons breach of the weeks to come this is I like this key crystal what you think it's okay it's fine you that has this underwater isn't in space I don't that's the thing with like stock photos like this it's just like oh I need a picture of a key and it's not enough that you just use a picture of kids like make it look digital yeah it's like oh man we finally figured out the formula for finding prime numbers now we can search for prime numbers super quickly uh well you know Kristin you mentioned the breach of the week and this is not really a breach it's a breach of trust but this is something that not everybody knew about and now that we find out about it it is terrifying records on clear view AI reveal new info on police use so clear view that sounds innocent what is that that is the database of all public profile information of faces and names like imagine a terrible search engine that has crawled the internet to find your picture in your name it's been stuffed into a private database and now it's available for police use now you're saying ah we already knew about this we know that cops are using facial recognition why this is not a big deal but this graph is really nice so remember that Los Angeles did some facial recognition and there was controversy about that then there was Florida which was the plant ear test and the Amazon test they were using both and plant ear was like oh this is fine don't worry about this and then there's the FBI we know the FBI is definitely farming our driver's license photos and etc and so mm you know what let's let's scroll down here we go la not a big deal eight million Florida FBI well that's your a little bit oh okay well it's more than the FBI what oh and this is open to police yeah you can use this if you're a cop the genie is out of the bottle so yeah your face our face everybody's face it's in a database would you say it's in a book Reading Rainbow so think about that while you wait for Friday's episode or they'll surely be more bad news so you kind of a downer note to end on just just put your head between your knees and just you know rock back and forth and protect your facial idea see you FridayOh today is the 18th 19th no no oh yes another yesterday the 22nd what is the day what is one so mixed up lately second I think yes okay 22nd January 22nd time marks is on whether we wanted to or not I'm ready for winter to be over I'm okay with January premature the mortgage think is doing a great job in hearing army oh yeah it feels good yeah I'm Dyer I've got this big fuzzy vest on I'm like extra comfortable sir thank you always thanks constricting mean its coils of love well let's start we decided to go business and security so this is a packed Wednesday to get you over the hump Friday's gonna suffer because of that you're welcome we'll try to go fast we don't care so let's start out with a big milestone we all knew they were gonna do it I mean after all the Fed is just pumping liquidity into the giant companies and just feeding them like overfed giant reptiles I don't know snakes themselves and alphabet has joined the tea club alphabet Google's parent company has hit the trillion dollar market cap for the first time so that's the third company to pass the trillion dollar mark with Apple and Amazon being first and second trillion dollars trillion dollar companies just staring off vacantly into space on the other hand it makes me feel slightly better about the national debt being quiet one point six trillion dollars way worse I mean that's valuation that's not revenue so even if we seized all of their revenue which would kill them for years at a time we wouldn't come close to we can't even service the debt anymore that's just crazy sure we can just borrow more money at a negative interest rate are you stupid doesn't your dad just have more money well speaking of having too much money and abusing your position how about Comcast they got caught caught and they're their own web of deceit and for once they're gonna be punished for it well not really punished this is definitely in quotation mark put those items you stole back and we'll pretend this never happened Comcast settles lying allegations and will issue refunds and cancel debts 30 1600 customers will get refunds or debt relief in Minnesota so if you don't live in Minnesota Comcast is free to continue doing whatever I've been doing that got them in trouble in the first place I have to do more of it to make up for yeah the Minnesota sales literally I mean these companies are so large they will literally do whatever they can do and get away with and if they don't happen to get away with it in all states like Minnesota mm-hm oh you gotta think still worth doing every other state where Comcast operates an is just chomping at the bit slow it's good any money I mean I don't think that most people I don't think most prosecutors cared but plus they would have been involved long before now let me rephrase that there are law offices calling up their buddies in the legislature who are like you know we need to get paid from this so they're talking about this is the old gambit where they sell you they lease you a modem and you're like I want to pay for that so you send it back and get your own modem and they continue building for it and then they also be like hey if you sign up for a full year I'm gonna give you these sweet gift cards you know yeah gift cards and I just don't give them to you yeah and you can't get out of the contract cause you're signing a contract also the fees like there was some complaints about the random fees like advertising one price and then that does you can't actually get that price so basically the worst kinds of business maneuvers that you can do and get away with except now maybe you can't get away with them 150th of the time actually Minnesota does not have a enough population to be 150th of the customers no meanwhile Apple has gobbled up more of the market they're using their trillion dollars wisely to invest in other winners wisely that was an intentional so don't innovate just consume but if you are a customer with one of these people that got gobbled up you're gonna suffer Apple's latest AI acquisition leaves some wise cameras without people detection that was a major selling point of wisest affordable cameras so there's these little cameras yes it all goes to the cloud Apple acquisition used to do face recognition and how it doesn't the feet really add a lot to that kinda looks like the this should be orange it's like a bird the Pixar man oh yeah they were animated although these guys in the back er don't have feet an orwellian screaming maybe why maybe you push you down you think yeah yeah that's cool yeah so if you have one of those there's a update that's probably already been posted but if it hasn't you may want to pull that off the network if you want to keep your people detection although did it take place in the cloud or on that ya know the cloud part of it is going yeah so everyone matter anyway hmm and Amazon the other big t only knows Microsoft wasn't them was that one of them yeah it was Ames on an apple for the trillion dollars I thought Microsoft is only one mm-hmm not yet oh wow Microsoft they're only eight or maybe six billion kiddo only Jesus struggling so yeah one of the other big T's has an interesting thing going on in court with the US government because as Trump said the government does a lot to help out these giant companies but sometimes when they snubbed them the hurt is real Amazon to ask the court to block the DoD's 10 billion early Valentine's Day with Microsoft Jedi not keen to let them hang solo ah so Amazon didn't get the the Jedi award contract for cloud services and it's like where Amazon we invented the cloud how could we possibly not get this contract its jointly ordered to what Microsoft and somebody else but I think the other person is was it Oracle now or goes out the other one is is just a side note it's all Microsoft pretty much so Amazon it's just like stop it I got a point I mean any of us is arguably better no it depends what you're doing but Microsoft's got the office cloud Amazon doesn't have that do we need that I think the DoD is scared to death of not having PowerPoint that's probably is like 90% of what they do I need the slide animation wait people stop I mean remember the snowden slides it's like this is stock PowerPoint animations look the terrible Orwellian algorithm is eating the globe that's a stock that's a stock PowerPoint animation I bet the guy keep this whoever was the author of that PowerPoint when he got leaked he's like I'm terrified that this was leaked but God look at those animations yeah audible has an interesting lawsuit that we talked out before talked about before and now here's the question and we'll rehash in case you didn't know what this is about if you make a recording and then I listen to that recording and transcribe it it's that the same as the written book the recording was based on it's an interesting question and we're really never gonna find out the answer unfortunately audible has settled the copyright lawsuit with publisher over audiobook captions seven publishers had sued the audiobook giant last July claiming that its audio to text service captions was unauthorized and in court things were not going well for audible because they had said hey this is not a reading experience and the judge said there's words that you read how is this not a reading experience but if you have the permission to read the text out loud why would you not have permissions their lawyers apparently did that argument if they did they were arguing something dumber it is a crazy argument no matter how you go because the publishers are saying hey we sell exactly the same text that you're gleaning from the audiobook and you're now going to sell that out from under us but it's you can get a little getting it if you're still getting like an audio recording like I would think you would have to buy the rights to the book before you do the audio recording no yeah the the audible has the the right to produce audiobooks from the thing that you didn't have the right to produce text and it's not the same text technically but it amounts to the same thing yeah it's such a that kind of feels like the publishers just trying to like draw blood from a stone because it's like oh we've already sold you the rights once but maybe we could do it twice like oh well I mean if you could export that then if you bought an audible book you could constantly steal and then publish I guess what if you use the AI on your phone running locally to do that for you well if I just gave you the app then make it part of the service scare so yeah it goes it's trying to lock down information which is never gonna work but they will not stop trying so we'll get this nonsense wasting the Court's time all right so we all know that Google is probably the best search engine some people argue about that but you do pay a price for using it and that promoter so all your data the ads are being tailored the search results are being tailored to you no trick you into thinking that the world agrees with you more than it might and so everyone is int have X yeah there's a high cost with using Google but it's so good so what's the alternative well there's one more that's entered the firm Verizon Media launches onesearch a privacy focused search engine verizon privacy horizon I can't even read that headline say with a straight face let's not forget the Verizon and some people that introduced the super cookie which inserted markers into literally all of your unencrypted web traffic so you could be personally identified and uniquely identify a Verizon advocate would argue that's like hey who is better positioned to be anti tracking than us because we're the kings of tracking we know exactly how to defeat ourselves so they claim that they're going full privacy mode even to the point where your user agent and your search string and your IP address are logged to three unconnected servers they can never commit there's also a four we're not not logging them we're just not connecting them the fourth server that they don't talk about is the one that's storing your profile probably so do you trust Verizon no I don't there's several stories in in the theme of personal information as asbestos like it's the 21st century 2020 yeah 21st century asbestos because you know asbestos is an amazing technology it's naturally occurring it's everywhere it has great thermal properties a little bit of lung cancer you made a lot of jokes about asbestos did you find out some more bad news about the house no no nothing like that it's just that I thought like in reading all of the stories about PII this week it's like that's the new asbestos cuz it's like all these companies are like oh it's so good I want to hang on to it but it creates all these liabilities and like these compound problems and so Verizon's like we need to be privacy focused by tracking everything did you see all the clickbait articles yeah I didn't even tell you see yeah all of them The Wizard of Oz snow seen the snow was 100% pure asbestos I thought you were talking about the clickbait articles for like the privacy stuff where it was like he used this VPN that's privacy respecting cuz that's what I got on that story and it was like that's the VPN that like sells everything but it's funny cuz she was like you know looking up and dancing around in it and it literally is but this poisoning from the soundstage did anybody died from that I don't notice I've also learned that there's different like there's some asbestos that's much worse than other has but it was probably the worst yeah I was probably extra lethal extra tasty though well maybe some good news this week although this only counts toward the normies buying fully constructed units this is not a do-it-yourself measurement but hey still better than the alternative I guess annual global PC shipments grew for the first time in eight years Lenovo retains its title is the world's number one PC maker well computers didn't really get a lot faster for the last eight years until AMD came along so they blame Windows 7 as being the big driver here and they expect to continue because a lot of the world when a 7 is still being used so we'll see meanwhile the boring company which was kind of a joke and for a lot of years didn't accomplish much of anything seems to have found new life in good old Las Vegas the boring companies Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done so that there are only two months into this project and they've already completed a mile of tunnel and it's gonna be two miles total it's a 1 mile round-trip so two tunnels and it's half done that's very impressive where is it taking us from the airport to the strip and to a Convention Center ok I guess it's a loop I say that's not a bad little loop and they claim it's gonna move 4,400 people in an hour so it's very impressive there's also an this story Tesla Bharati there's a link to there's a live stream of the digging operation and I watched a loader put dirt and trucks for like 10 minutes last night you're so easily like seduced by strange videos like that you're like alright I'll watch this like the vending machine because when I started watching it the truck was like slowly backing in I'm like what's this track up to and then the loader started filling it up I was like how full is it gonna get it you had to know you think we could borrow one of the boring company machines here and just like start tunneling somewhere from somewhere to somewhere else I don't know where it would be useful no I don't think well I mean while Tesla's we haven't heard a lot about Tesla in terms of you know new car innovations since that god-awful truck but they are still working new features in one of them is a government mandated feature that is the alert tone how many is it thirty miles an hour thirteen or there's a certain mile per hour limit if it's under that your car needs to make a noise so that you don't run people over in parking lots and stuff like that and there seems to be some cool byproducts coming from there and being forced to put that technology Elon Musk shows how Tesla's will talk to pedestrians well don't just stand there staring hop in that's what a Tesla Model 3 says in the video that's linked in this article I think they really missed an opportunity to get that guy that's still alive for at least a little bit longer that was the voice of KITT from Knight Rider they could have just done that I was just thinking like screaming it does not stop so you know the cars coming with the Sun from Rick and more that's exactly what I was thinking uh so that's some one of the big things that people are speculating about is are you gonna be forced to use a preset series of noises or can you upload your own I'm not gonna pay a dollar for the Alexa samuel l.jackson voice but I totally would pay a dollar for the voice of the car from Knight Rider if I had a test I want like an old Eastern Kentucky lady voice from my Tesla yeah the other thing is will it just be like you say pre-recorded messages to other drivers or can you just like pick up a mic and start talking because that's gonna make road rage really interesting it was hard to hear on the video but it sounded vaguely text-to-speech ish yeah there's gonna be a lot of n words oh I get Microsoft Sam right Tesla speaking of search engines Wow should have put these two stories together I thought they were gonna be together than they weren't yeah well whose fault is that Krista yours no anyway Google had the EU ruled against them and said listen you sell these devices and you have all these apps you have this big search bar at the top of every Android phone and it uses your search engine and that's a monopoly sir and you must do something about it and they did do something about it something ingenious and a little bit evil Bing has lost out to DuckDuckGo and Google's new Android search ballot search engine ballot thing so Google is gonna start offering e users a choice of their default search engines when they set up their phone and the order that they appear in is based on popularity with this which is this ballot vote and so DuckDuckGo has moved up ahead of bing sorry you have to pay something to get on this bout it's not a lot though but they're like hey you're making this this is ridiculous so every country has their own order which is interesting everybody seems to love DuckDuckGo the best it works pretty well the only thing that I'm finding that I sometimes switch back to is I prefer Google Maps oh the UK they're not having it they like being there's a lone Bing holdout interesting so anyway you get that choice when you set up your phone for the first time or you can dig into the settings and change it so it's no longer just Google it's interesting that Google is not even in the running there well I think those were I think the big three after everywhere yeah okay yeah where's Ask Jeeves though web Carly AltaVista so patents we talk a lot about patents and patent trolling and the problems that come with modern-day patents now AI is getting into the fray of filing patents so when you think about them you wonder how hot is the the patent filing are we slowing down or speeding up well we have the answer and it's pretty surprising US patents hit a record three hundred and thirty three thousand five hundred thirty granted in 2019 IBM and Samsung lead the pack get a lobby an IBM and Microsoft have been patenting a lot of stuff per year since the dawn of time but IBM's patent war chest is insane and of course they will use those patents to destroy a small business like honestly surprised they're not they're not more litigious because like look at how like you know lawsuit Larry and Oracle I mean lawsuit Lee I mean that's what yeah well IBM's not competing as directly in the consumer space anymore I guess so maybe one day they will mmm and I'll have a nice little back-up plan if they don't succeed now this story is really really exciting because it's something this really does to me this seems like the future how we never we don't suppose don't have our flying cars the visions of the distant past of what the future should be we're not there now we do have little pieces of glass that show us all the world's knowledge that's kind of cool but we don't have the flying cars and we don't have this until now augmented reality in a contact lens it's the real deal startup mojo Vision unveils a working prototype of its AR contact lenses I didn't really get much of an impression as to what you're gonna see other than like maybe like ColecoVision remember how like the like the the Atari looked kind of like in the 80s not good well so the first iterations of this are admittedly not exciting although I think the coolest thing about it is you get a little pack to wear and it wirelessly powers gives you tumors I'd be more concerned so your your eye needs oxygen and that's why I like contacts have gotten better and better since they were first invented because they've gotten thinner and thinner you're putting like a very thick pieces I've seen plastic on your eye here and if you wear that for any like length of time how how I'm healthier your eyes gonna be well there's a there's a way more dystopian aspect of this but before I say that they are working on somehow getting a battery into that thing Oh now when that catches fire that's gonna be the first iterations of this are pretty simple so if you have poor vision and you can't like trace outlines very well it's actually gonna go in and trace all the outlines in a room for you so you can see well so like if you're driving and you see like halos or double vision or whatever it's gonna go in and fill in those blurry spots eventually they hope to have full AR with it now here's the dystopian part think about the horror that the advertising industry will use for this because this is powered and because it is driven by I assume some kind of diode you can see this when your eyes are closed that's why you take about your specific contacts out anyway even the day-night ones just take out after a while we had you didn't you have advertisements in your time fries oh we had them everywhere just not in their dreams exactly that isn't really chairman I should really make sure my glasses are up to date if they start sneaking that technology in all contacts see I don't I mean I mean okay contacts are fine but I would take a pair of glasses that looks like a normal pair of glasses that would be fine yeah not the giant yeah it seems like that would be more attainable your headset and more useful more quickly yeah but we can't advertise to you when you're sleeping there's no chance to monetize it beyond the initial sale of the device and that's not acceptable another big acquisition this week in the e-commerce world and visa who had already conquered tracking your payments in ways that are just horrific and great for building that advertising profile they said you know what the US dollar that's an asset that we can track pretty much to whatever point we want but what about all these other assets people have we need to know more about those visa is acquiring plaid for five point three billion dollars to X it's a final private valuation I think the reason that they are paying so much more for it is because the other bidder was Google which is even more scary than visa like what visa lacks in technical aptitude to be able to execute on this data set they're going to more than make up for for lack of morals and guidance so plaid tracks your you know like stocks and if you have bonds and stuff like that all those other kinds of asset all right it might do real estate it's an API for integrating with all of those aspects of your life so your visa profile can't contain all of those things and they're probably gonna give you a really cool website to put all that together and you're gonna be like oh it's so cool and it's they're gonna reap so much more of it yeah and then you ever will it's like oh you want to invest in bonds no we're gonna just take your money that's anti-american all I can think the whole time was what a lazy stock photo oh I'm like surely they have some sort of logo right but no you went with just literal like bolts of cloth that are plaid plaid does kind of fly under the radar because it's scary all the stuff that it plugs into I don't see they just found a stock photo of plaid fabric I probably would want it that way I don't want you to know so it's it's all the rage now to be woke and to be worried about the climate we've got to fix the climate and Microsoft has decided that now Microsoft is already carbon neutral which is impressive although they don't really manufacture a lot of stuff you think if you took into account whoever is actually building the parts that go into the surfaces that would still be true probably probably not but they just really consume electricity and you know whatever their campus consumes but they said that's not enough they're gonna go harder Microsoft pledges to be carbon negatives by 2030 and recapture all of its past emissions they're gonna be fully on renewables by 2025 and then they're gonna be so hardcore on renewables that they're going to outpace anything that they did previously of course part of what makes that easy is the juggernaut that is a sure because a sure is producing far more carbon emissions than Microsoft ever did through the 80s and 90s and remember this doesn't mean you can't buy Microsoft products please continue to buy and consume them as much as possible this is we're gonna be carbon neutral all those surface 5s they just throw those away because buy a new one don't worry about the battery just put it in the garbage we've got a couple of interesting crypto stories this week and it has to do with these RI cos in a way but more creative than the old eye cos I think the icy O'Connor got a bad rap there for a while yeah because we didn't really hear about them a lot of more scams a lot of people lost a lot of money but it seems like you know the collective memory we've cycled into the news that's a new year so let's get some new scams going and this gentleman is an NBA player who's looking to do something like that Spencer Dinwiddie good decentralized pro sports if accredited investors want in so he's doing his own coin that has something to do with his basketball career I don't know his so he's got a guaranteed contracts and the coin is based on that salary and something about the last year is optional and so that's a gamble for coin holders if he were to option out of that last year and get a better contract like if he's not injured and his play continues the way that it is then somehow that we've been official mm to the coin a bruise and the the the NBA was saying that that's some form of gambling the NBA is not happy about this in fact they've gone so far to say they will throw him out of the league if he does this which how does that affect a guaranteed contract well if it's not against the rules then they're gonna have a lawsuit on their hands we'll see but you can get in on that if you want I don't really know much about the basketball but I understand that he's good you know who really would have had a field day with this if it was available it should have been a Michael Jordan oh yeah Michael Jordan coin well he could probably do that just based on his passive income he's a rich man they still sell the Air Jordans right yeah they do actually I forgot I think they still do those shoes I think all the basketball players have their own like shoe line though I think well not all of them yeah no really good yeah and perhaps the greatest of all time could certainly before download I don't even know he's the greatest of my time when I cared at all about basketball he was in Space Jam that's what matters there you go and so that's in the US but now if you want to go global and get on the hot new coin it's the a coin oh it actually happened a con that just founded his own crypto and a city in Africa so he got 2,000 acres in Africa to found a city it's gonna be a con city but they're gonna use a new cryptocurrency to power the city full of pudding yeah he's got these great pictures and it's only 20 minutes from the airport so that's good so this is in Senegal I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly and there was apparently some argument about like he wanted that 2,000 acres and the people of Senegal was like that's our land and he's like I could buy and sell you and in fact probably that's what he did so he wants to create a whole 2,000 acre city and the only kind of payment that goes down there is the a coin and that's gonna pay the workers and it's gonna be everything and you can buy in and visit that city if you want this feels like super dystopian like just really bizarre does he think like everything's gonna collapse he's like I want to be basically make my own little country before that happens or but it's also you got something neither of you really hey Khan fans not busy work no seams oh yeah yeah he he sings he doesn't rap he sings but you know how like rappers want somebody singing the hook on all their songs yeah so he's like really popular for singing the hook on some hard gangsta rap and so he's always rapping about like hard gangsta star singing about hard gangsta stuff and he went from that to running a city I could have just bought Detroit it would have been cheaper yeah but nobody wants to go there it's bizarre cuz I feel like 2,000 acres you know he could have gotten that kind of land here and had less issues with the locals but no it's you're thinking about this all wrong Kristen because this is gonna be like every other resort this is gonna be a really well in his mind at least I don't know if it'll work out but I assume he's looking for like a Dubai type of experience beautiful futuristic city that's gonna require oil money not Chris crypto money and all those people from Senegal will be working there and then they'll go home at the end of the day to the slums while all the rich people luxuriate in the in the Akon city see also the red river gorge resort coming soon Oh Star Trek Picard Thursday after you hmm is it come on you're gonna watch it same reason I'll watch the Lord of the Rings series even if it's bad because I need to know I know they have a dog yeah yeah has a dog oh oh that's even better nice what what's the can intake on animals in the Star Trek universe they had any honest I don't know if data had the cat you know yeah some of them some people I pet so Picard had a pet fish it seemed like from the trailer it seems like Picard and running his vineyard was run it was like just robots completely automated plus the dog and it's like it's just him and the dog what happens when the dog dies in this season how do you make money running a vineyard in the space communist future I think he just does it because that's what their family did for like hundreds of years that's how they made it out to be in it is he on that Starfleet pension yeah well the the intro makes it seem like it's like no you're retired you need to go away now and he's like I am Starfleet or they're just like no you think he made some like really smart investments done insider information got traveling the stars well that's not what the stories about suicide yeah what we're talking about is Google stadia now Google Stadium made a lot of promises and it kept about four of them I think so people are not really enthusiastic about Google stadia but they're like no no listen more games Google stadia promises more than 120 games in 2020 including ten exclusives what I need to know what the ten exclusives are but I don't know if they said like I just they said this to get a headline but the service still isn't there it's not there it's not working it's like Tetris like reskin it's still like a super beta like you know how Google betas are it's not even that it's like pre-beta they do not mention extra mega beta what would be or go here we go here we go what if it was cyberpunk how many people do you think would buy it oh there was coming in 2020 these not necessarily exclusives though do you know if it separates the exclusives I don't think it does these are all existing games yep I'm in the next one coming over 2020 okay cyberpunk 2077 it's not exclusive gods monsters watchdogs that it does don't sound exclusive and doom eternal which doesn't sound exclusive either I don't know I don't know what the exclusives are even though this link promised me that information okay yeah man sir Chris says who cares yeah I'll pay now cares for 800 Alex often Japan we talked about Toyota and their city of the future where you will be a good Toyota servant and for that you'll be rewarded with fair points literally a sir so so either they have these big plans like we're not just selling cars this is a lifestyle in fact this is your life you will purchase it from Toyota or you will be destroyed and they're coming up with all these new kinds of services these are in Europe that are not the traditional car purchase Toyota quinto combines leasing and car sharing and other services in Europe as part of Toyota's plan to become a full-service mobility company so we kind of had some of this stuff in cities here in the US cities like Seattle which is kind of kind of a ride-sharing thing but this is gonna combine self-driving with that so it's like you need a car to go to the grocery store you can just have it pick you up and do stuff and it's gonna be a Toyota kinto well there's there's three different versions of it I think kento is the or no kento's all of them so they have one where you lease the car but you get insurance and all of the service as part of that lease so they're gonna call you up and be like hey take it here and get the service done or it's gonna drive itself to the service center eventually sure and you just pay a monthly fee and you don't think about any of it the other one was more of what you're talking about which was ride-sharing I don't really understand how that works but like it's a subscription and you buy a part of a car or availability of several cars I'm sharing essentially yeah and then the last one was just straight-up like basically carpooling but like the uber was that what we call the multiple people was just ride-sharing yeah yeah so you get all these different options and Europe on how you want to enjoy your Toyota well I say your Toyota not on here ty you didn't own the software anyway so I mean it's fine although this would be a fun thing to look at slate or no I'm sorry dice has come up with the 16 top programming skills now a lot of you are in this industry or thinking about getting into this industry so maybe need to think about looking into these 16 top programming skills focusing on how data is the key for jobs SQL Java software development engineering then Python JavaScript at Linux which is sort of generic Oracle c-sharp get C++ net blah blah blah well you say Linux is generic don't you think software development is pretty generic I don't understand how that fits the top one should be people skills and then watch everyone just like oh I think it's funny that SQL is currently like what's the like that business care for it's like the early adopters and then the trial of disappointment and then you know like reasonable expectations we're for SQL for like the whole data science think is the whole like PII is asbestos we're like the peak of of hype and it doesn't do any of the things that people think that it does and so by the time people actually get out of school this it's probably gonna be like down here in terms of like data handling also XML is on the list are they're just pure XML it's like listen I don't know anything but XML I'm not God at it we're gonna translate this kind of XML into this other kind of XML it's just continuously yeah until we die no no interesting if you're getting into this business or perhaps you're just uh you know hopping jobs which they tell you to do the streaming services have been proliferating there are so many of them and we just keep getting more more and more confusing to watch what you want to watch because you never know where it's gonna be the card is the CBS one right yeah yeah so hmm if you want to watch that better get it by Thursday and NBC has entered the fray ABC's new peacock of streaming service is just one big ad injection machine so basically any cable there was a shareholder call and the people from NBC it was a long shareholder call and the people from NBC were basically like we're gonna have a free five and ten dollar tears but look we don't actually want anybody to sign up for the pay-for tears we want them on the free tier because then we will have no remorse about shoving ads into literally every orifice they have but also the five dollars here is still ad driven you just get more stuff yeah so there's like the super pleb and then the one they're gonna teach you to go up to and then the one for ten dollars that they really don't want you to get yeah but they have to give it to you because otherwise people gonna see what this is really about that's basically Hulu's pricing model yeah Kulu does the same thing they don't do it I don't think they do a completely free service but like they have that entire yeah and it's like here's the version where you can just watch it but with ads and there's a version without ads but it's way more expensive Hulu gives you all kinds of distributor's content yeah it's not just one but this is just NBC which but the they own several movie companies too so you get probably be on there now the like you say this was a conference call and we've said this before if you really want to know what a company's about listening on the conference call go buy one share stock if you have to and listen to that conference call because it's incredible the truth that will come out to the investors and they just it's like there was a gavel with the word ads on it and they just hit it the entire call okay but it makes the squeaky noises it's like a child's gavel the whole business model is they're gonna be so a TV show that is all one company maybe even one product so it's gonna be like you know 30 rock brought to you by Dawn dishwashing liquid which is what the soap operas used to be you know we've circled all the way back around them so you're watching this show and instead of seeing all these different commercials they're just pounded into your head one single product go and buy it and you don't there might not be season to think about that play it 30 rock actually made a joke about Snapple where they had like some sort of vertical integration with it and literally the main character looks at the screen is like we love Snapple can we have our money now well that's the other thing they want to do a lot more ads like that where it's like you're not seeing the same ad over and over it's very unique or it's just in the show it's yeah it's a new show man I can't wait to do the know dad on the Friday episode yeah let's try think about come up with a good we'll put it at the beginning of Friday it's fine we'll try something different now we've been talking a lot about Google's inability for the the brass to stop banging each other they just can't do it I got all that power and it's you know that power goes to your head it makes you horny and lusty on the boardroom they're just all over each other but it turns out they are not alone best pod board investigating CEO Corey Barry for alleged misconduct and there she is that slide choose a flattering image never dude she's like literally mid talk in other news best buy one a longer price match B&H photo and Newegg so this was an anonymous letter I don't know who pointed this out was it a spurned lover we don't know but they're gonna investigate and she says that she welcomes the investigation she's eager to have it concluded mm-hmm that's not all she's eager for it's late this is the story I was thinking about before when I looked at the programming job slate has ranked the the most evil companies of the decade they say by say crowdsource that though now before we before we go into this you make your own guess for number one in the comments some surprising entries we will look at all of them let's look at the you wanna start at five or ten let's start at five seven interesting mentioned that you might not think about number fourteen Tesla we're not uncritical of Tesla here so much scrolling here hang on I apologize it's like watching my mom right now when you could just have the keyboard and hit end all right coming in at number seven Microsoft uh Microsoft top seven that's surprising hmm you do you you don't you are aware of their of the decade tracking right yeah yeah spying and super mosquitoes number six is no shock to anyone Apple and it's because of apples duplicitous behavior with regard to things like tracking and taking down apps and the VPN stuff from the whole China regime so we need to do whatever to do business in China you got it that's Miller this was not surprising although it's rank kind of surprises me yeah I would think it'd be further down the list yeah uber is number five there's definitely companies that are lower ranked that should be like should trade with uber cuz ubers solving problem but they had all that like sexual harassment sexual assaults they make money on high they can't put the genie back in the bottle as far as like what the services but in terms of like their implementation of it the only thing keeping them going is very wealthy investors back it in itself being evil though right to the shareholders yeah number four is not a surprise although this is not a name that you think about when you think about big tick and they like they like that yes exactly but they've put with it to you it's very good oh that's fantastic Pawlenty R so plenty of technologies is the one that they're a government contractor and they work on literally everything and we're proud we're working with the US government including like all of the really scary things the US government is doing like oh look at all that stick man violence there was there was another Lord of the Rings company on this list as well alphabet as number three come on we all knew it was gonna be top three right yeah well somebody is not there anymore some of your editing your comment right now cuz you're like oh I guessed alphabet but no you're wrong how about this one Chris do you like this one you know I like the other one better with the police beating the people in the streets I thought that one was better it's weird but what's the white glove spray-painting and I think they're moving the earth maybe like adjusting the world around them maybe I'm not sure number two shocks no one but once again some of you are regretting your guesses now yes this one facebook facebook is number two the second most evil company in the world yeah I mean don't need to explain that one I don't think I don't oh these are like button see I thought that was the Twitter icon in the illustration up top so that's kind of cool and finally number one general the Dark Lord Himself Amazon yeah and the slate is ranked Amazon the most evil company ever just because of their dominance in literally everything well they're destroying the climate with their fleets their workers are subjugated to the point of neo feudalism being in a bottle oh yeah he's soaking up you know that's like the 1% taking advantage of the world basically everything bad they should have been played Sauron slight is very left-leaning and you know they they hate Bezos obviously a lot so maybe some personal animosity there but we certainly can't defend them much can we you still get those one-day packages though don't you I love them they're so good what's the last thing you ordered cat trees oh that's right my god tore you up my cats are in Saint greenies dental cat treats I'm pretty sure that they would call my eyes I didn't know that really like the dog ones I had this big tub because the tub was on sale they're usually like twelve or thirteen dollars it was on sale for 6 1 and toast like I was holding the tub and toast actually jumped up and like wrapped his arms around it hung there and it's so funny because toast doesn't even chew we just inhales I know these big and they were like super crunchy because that's how it cleans your teeth I don't hear crunches when he eats I don't know I'm worried but croutons the opposite he just like sits there in the crunch crunch crunch crunch it takes him forever to eat one so what I do is I'll drop one for crouton and then I'll throw toast as far as I can through the house and toast can go and get it and eat it and be back before crouton is done with his crazy for the ROO likes them but she's not insane for them like that's not her favorite treat wish you've got an Amazon affiliate link in the wall for that turner greenies very insane for those what flavor greenness we're talk about that the other day - no one knows - no okay Arlie - oh they get different flavors no not for the dog ones oh they're just green there's no mention of what flavors then rue seems to like it but they're too calories so the tuna flavor can't be real I don't know what it is but whatever it is cats love it my cat slow its vaporized tuna I mean while switching to security news oh it's bad the citric servers have had some problems and it was a well publicized problem not everybody upgraded and we have something of a Batman out there but not quite the same as Batman a little different a hacker is patching Citrix servers to maintain exclusive access fireEye believes that this is a bad guy hoarding Citrix servers rather than a good guy vigilante looking out for organizations so there's a vulnerability in Citrix and there's they're actually no patch they were super late with the patch coming but there were things you could do to mitigate it and so nobody was patching their citrix servers and it's very bad so this guy will infiltrate your server remove all the other malware and then do nothing except leave his dropper in there so is he a force for good who's just leaving a way in in case he needs to come back and clean up again or is he waiting and biding his time I like to imagine I want to believe he's a good guy but he probably is it I will see probably not interesting a talented guy although I think that the security was pretty easy to exploit which is why there was such a huge rush to attack the citrix servers and Wendell's favorite company is by far Oracle God he just won't stop talking about how good they are on to the stock so Oracle has a bit of a history with their own vulnerabilities as they're not patching them and there's kind of a lot of them so when you see a headline like this you might think oh that's a good thing but really it's more about like you know sticking your finger and one hole while the spillway it's just coming over your head Oracle tiles previous all-time patch high with January updates so yeah the January updates from Oracle are just off the charts everything is gonna be broken you're gonna deploy these updates and this is gonna be a mess but hey at least Oracle's patching that's better than they were doing curse do you like this one I did actually like it kind of I feel like it should make a noise like like a every time a band-aid comes down on it should be animated anyway listen how are you Jimmy that so much better well dashcams I've a dashcam I love it and everyone thought that was mad it wasn't I really if I ever get in a car accident though I'm gonna be really embarrassed I think of it from you the stuff I like give to the cops because of the horrible things I say when I'm driving look at this idiot but hey it's better than not having that security blanket right because people are terrible drivers but you might have to worry about which webcam you choose or in the webcam dashcam this app lets us see everywhere people drive black view has an app that shows the location of drivers that opt in the creators say it should be possible to track users in bulk but they found otherwise yet again don't send your data to the cloud why would you do that that's a terrible idea so if you have the app you can actually share your location on this exciting little map here that's an opt-in you don't have to do it right no problem except when they reverse engineered the app I found out that even the people who weren't opted in we're still sending their location data ah the old we're gonna store your data but we're also gonna store the state of a checkbox that says I have not opted in because that counts right so they chose at random a couple of them that were near them in New York tracked them for four or five days and I said yeah we can say pretty confidently that we know where these people live we could probably find their car on any given day that would be a really great counterintelligence thing because you could you know do some terrible crime and then set up some person that uses this app is being in the wrong place at the wrong time and then they would be a plausible suspect for whatever terrible thing it is that you did you're counting on the investigative powers ain't good enough to unravel your scheme yeah I mean you gotta have to commit a high enough level crime to make sure the investigators go to that length so if you're just robbing like a bodega or something no they're never gonna do that well we there's a lot of white hat hacking right you can do penetration testing and you can submit bug bounties and stuff like that and you can even use your machine learning skills and stuff like that and competitions to try to figure out ways to do things but then you can also cheat in horrible horrible ways in some of the best meaning ones of these competitions data science community rocked by pet adoption contest cheating scandal so basically I forgot the name of the website raggle taggle okay they had a contest that was like hey we need help making sure that all these pets get adopted how can we write an online profile that makes sure that the pets are more likely to get adopted versus euthanized and so that sounds like a job for AI right so they had a contest where the best team would be paid a thousand dollars and their algorithm doesn't for ten thousand dollars and it'll be implemented on the website well the winning team may have scraped the test data set from the kaggle website which meant that their algorithm was built for the criteria that the judges would use for evaluation so that was perhaps not good so one in ten of their pets had a perfect profile guaranteed adoptable and that caused them to get an insanely high score it was between zero and one they got like a point nine something yeah so one of the so everybody got involved with the pet thing and they were like oh we're gonna motivate the community and everybody's excited about getting pets adopted so all these people entered and then these people won and then everybody was just like alright we're done see you later like wait oh no we need somebody to help us actually implement this on the actual website no no don't leave and there was one guy one of the losers he's like alright I'll help and when he started installing this he was like wait terrible and that's why you don't expect work or you don't hire they've been banned scientists don't work this is very ironic what this story is about considering that they're throwing up this paywall blocker and you know if you say yes to all these things you're gonna get a bunch of cookies cookies track you across the internet Google wants to phase them out but you know the Google really want that well see know this is that the article I think misses it a little bit but yeah Google actually does want to phase it out because they want you to use their tools for doing all that because yeah well I mean that's exactly right because between Android and mobile browsers that even the unknown Android platforms plus chrome plus everything else Google can actually do a reasonable job tracking everything without cookies so if they eliminate cookies then competing platforms have a harder time doing the same level of tracking I mean Google was wanting your credit card history they already mined your email for receipts so they can incorporate that into your profile why not this so Google's alternative is something called client hints so what's gonna happen Krista and you can be very trustful about this process if you think about it I have a deep trust for Google Google is gonna take this information about you and they're gonna protect it and they're just gonna let out little bits and pieces to the websites that you visit so they can know who you are and some of these other things kind of but not in any way that where they can actually violate your privacy that's reasonable yeah they're gonna put the asbestos in a ziploc bag I'm just gonna stop using DuckDuckGo and switch back to Google and continuing on that same path that was not the only thing that they're looking to phase out and blue of their client hints they're also going after the user agent Google to phase out user agent strings in Chrome's one of the things that advertisers currently use for end-user fingerprinting so even though we've disabled our ad blocker and don't really track cookies advertisers will often use a fingerprinting technique which incorporates the user agent string and a whole bunch of other data points about your browser things like screen resolution etc etc and that can be used to uniquely identify a visitor even when they clear the cookies even when they're using you know different browsers on the same device or any number of other things so chrome is longer in a report the standard user agent although it will for legacy reasons till some unknown time and that's not a thing anymore but they're gonna offer this new thing which is it's not gonna tell them their operating system or anything else like that it's gonna be very generic hints more hints hint don't trust Google they ought to do the thing like like Apple is doing where it shows you what is being requested so the website you can get a thing like in the corner just an icon not a pop-up not like to look not like the notification thing but you get a thing at the top that's like hey the website would like to know your browser resolution because there might be a legit need for that and this that and the other and you can be like okay yeah that's cool you can use that I'm cool with that I'm cool if like Pizza Hut knows my location so they can show me the closest Pizza Hut I feel like the normies would be overwhelmed by that well you say and so the the message here and both these articles is that we need to trust Google because they have our privacy in mind they would never invade the most intimate parts of our lives that's not what they're about they're here to help us Google can view millions of patient health records in most states well that seems contradictory to what I just said no does how are they doing this oh they're helping people organize their medical they have partnerships I don't remember the names of the companies but they have several put into winter mountain oh wow that sounds like a an ascension so Google is doing business with both those companies and I'm sure it's anonymized but how anonymous can medical data be the Google III is like I heard them talking about this once a long time ago you've probably written some gmail emails about that tumor and its location we'll just put those together oh that's who you are and bad news for security this week as we kind of already knew this yeah but you know you say that the old phrase nail in the coffin this is more like these sawed-off shotgun to the head exploit fully breaks sha-1 and lowers the attack bar so if you are application depends on the sha-1 hash i've got some bad news for you in the threat post article here so they can literally take their own data set and make it whatever they want it to be and cause it to be a perfect collision with the real data set that you're trying to send so you can imagine how that might be bad would you call this the breach of the week that's not really this mormon exploit this will lead to several reasons breach of the weeks to come this is I like this key crystal what you think it's okay it's fine you that has this underwater isn't in space I don't that's the thing with like stock photos like this it's just like oh I need a picture of a key and it's not enough that you just use a picture of kids like make it look digital yeah it's like oh man we finally figured out the formula for finding prime numbers now we can search for prime numbers super quickly uh well you know Kristin you mentioned the breach of the week and this is not really a breach it's a breach of trust but this is something that not everybody knew about and now that we find out about it it is terrifying records on clear view AI reveal new info on police use so clear view that sounds innocent what is that that is the database of all public profile information of faces and names like imagine a terrible search engine that has crawled the internet to find your picture in your name it's been stuffed into a private database and now it's available for police use now you're saying ah we already knew about this we know that cops are using facial recognition why this is not a big deal but this graph is really nice so remember that Los Angeles did some facial recognition and there was controversy about that then there was Florida which was the plant ear test and the Amazon test they were using both and plant ear was like oh this is fine don't worry about this and then there's the FBI we know the FBI is definitely farming our driver's license photos and etc and so mm you know what let's let's scroll down here we go la not a big deal eight million Florida FBI well that's your a little bit oh okay well it's more than the FBI what oh and this is open to police yeah you can use this if you're a cop the genie is out of the bottle so yeah your face our face everybody's face it's in a database would you say it's in a book Reading Rainbow so think about that while you wait for Friday's episode or they'll surely be more bad news so you kind of a downer note to end on just just put your head between your knees and just you know rock back and forth and protect your facial idea see you Friday\n"