367: The SnuggieNet
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Microsoft is listening too, but are we really surprised; 8chan goes peer-to-peer; we need to revisit safe harbor; the techlash has come; a potentially bigger Facebook class-action lawsuit; Amazon warehouse workers do PR; Uber lost billions; ride sharing makes traffic worse; Yelp & Grubhub play dirty; new MacBook & subscriptions; smart lights; hiding from gadgets with gadgets; group sex app leaks location; PacMan Ghosts are AI?
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Privacy.com. |
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| 0:30.2 | Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks. |
| 0:31.3 | I'm Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:32.4 | And I'm Brian Schelmeister. |
| 0:33.6 | Got a little follow up on the people in a tube thing that's been going on. |
| 0:38.8 | This at Microsoft has jumped into the fray now with being found out that they are |
| 0:44.4 | listening to some of your Cortana activity. |
| 0:47.6 | But the one that's really scary is Skype. |
| 0:50.8 | That there are people out there who are listening to Skype calls. |
| 0:53.4 | Now, as a caveat to this, this is only for when you're making calls that use the automatic |
| 0:58.4 | translation. |
| 1:00.1 | So they're trying to figure out if the translation is working. |
| 1:03.4 | Yeah, you know, it's funny. |
| 1:04.5 | I had some thoughts about this because I was out the episode that you and Christopher |
| 1:09.2 | Lockhead really talked about the first wave of this sort of stuff. |
| 1:13.1 | Which I mean, we've been talking about it for a while, but you guys got really into it |
| 1:16.3 | about people listening to Siri and people listening to the ladies in the tubes, basically. |
| 1:20.9 | And I've just thought, well, of course they are. |
| 1:25.1 | Of course they are because we know there is no AI. |
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