Welcome back to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future.

I'm April Glazer.

And I'm Will Oremus.

Hey, everyone, welcome to If Then.

We're coming with you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America.

We're recording this on the afternoon of Tuesday, January 8th.

On today's show, we'll discuss startling new revelations about some of the major phone carriers.

The story broke this week in Motherboard titled I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300, and then he located our phone.

It details how T-Mobile Sprint and AT&T are selling access to customers' location data

to shady characters like landlords and collection agencies.

Lovely.

And speaking of phones, could we finally be witnessing an end to the iPhone's dominance of the technology industry?

Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook warned about a shortfall in global iPhone revenue.

We'll talk about why that is what it might mean for Apple's future.

And if you work even remotely adjacent to the tech industry, then you know to your chagrin or delight that this week is the Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, the mega- Ultra, biggest in the world,

annual Tech Expo held in Las Vegas. We'll be joined by Dieter Bone, the executive director of the

verge from the floor of the conference. We'll ask him about what's getting buzz right now,

the overall vibe of the year following Cambridge Analytica and all these privacy

snafus across the tech

industry. And if that robot can finally do a decent load of laundry. I love that laundry robot.

It seems to come back to CES every year. And of course, we'll end with Don't Close My Tabs,

a couple of our favorite stories that we read online this week. That's all coming up on if then.

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