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decisions in your life.

In today's episode, I want to talk about this weird thing where we buy devices that only work as long as the software

is still supported and allows the device manufacturer to gather data on you and me all the time.

It's crazy all the things that are tracking us.

How do you balance privacy and utilizing modern technology?

And later, we keep hearing from people with just terrible stories about enormous medical bills

that they're suffering from a hospital visit or hospital stay.

I want to talk about how you properly assert your rights after the

fact after you've received a crazy large bill. So we have very upset people from time to time who have bought some kind of

hardware and it comes to them without any monthly subscription or it comes with the monthly

subscription and later they raise the price a whole lot and you've already put the

money in for the hardware or the support for the product is discontinued and then

you have some electronic item that suddenly is useless. I mean, it's crazy how it's happening.

Then what's happening with our data?

You know, here I am wearing an aura fitness ring,

a Samsung smart watch, my Garmin fitness tracker. Little obsessive here, huh? And these

are collecting data on me around the clock and who controls that data. Where does it go? And think

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