Fri. 01/11 - Mooaaarrr... Cameras on Smartphones!

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 11 January 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Motherboard shames the telecom companies into not selling us out, shareholders are suing Alphabet’s board, the government shutdown claims more tech victims, Apple says, “We can add more cameras also!” and the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Go.Bitrise.io/ride Metalab.co Links: I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone (Motherboard) AT&T says it’ll stop selling your location data, amid calls for a federal investigation (Washington Post) Google Board Sued for Hushing Claims of Executive Misconduct (Bloomberg) Government shutdown: TLS certificates not renewed, many websites are down (ZDNet) Apple Plans Three New iPhones This Year, Plays Catch-Up on Cameras (WSJ) Amazon Developing Game Streaming Service (The Information) The Smart Touch Weekend Longreads: Demon Underneath: John DeLorean and the Invention of the Future (The Outline) The Rise and Demise of RSS (Motherboard) Pitchfork’s Ryan Schreiber shaped Internet music journalism and now leaves it behind (Los Angeles Times) Inside look at modern web browser (part 1) (Developers.Google) The Race to Diagnose Cancer With a Simple Blood Test (2069 - Medium) Lasers vs. Microwaves: The Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage (ieee Spectrum) PREPARING FOR Y2038 (ALREADY?!) (blogs.akamai) VOTE FOR THE RIDE HOME FOR BUZZFEED'S 2019 PODCAST LIST Or: email scott.bryan@buzzfeed.com and make sure "podcast" is in the subject line. Thx! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, January 11th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:11.0	Motherboard shames the telecom companies into not selling us out.
0:15.0	Shareholders are suing Alphabet's Board of Directors.
0:19.0	The government shutdown claims more tech victims.
0:22.0	Apple says we can add more cameras and the
0:26.1	weekend long reads suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of
0:30.3	tech. It's a story that fell through the cracks this week and I apologize for that.
0:37.8	But maybe you saw it anyway.
0:38.8	I've got a link to it in the show notes.
0:41.3	Earlier this week, Motherboard did an investigative piece where they gave a bounty
0:45.6	hunter some money to try to see if that bounty hunter could locate them just via their smartphone.
0:53.1	And for a mere $300, the Bounty Hunter was successful,
0:57.6	no problem.
0:59.2	The reason was, as the piece highlights,
1:01.2	it's simply been super, super easy to find anyone because U.S. Telecom
1:06.5	carriers routinely sell customer location data to third parties.
1:11.4	It is something that we have spoken about on here before. It's egregious that
1:15.7	this business even exists and even though there are legitimate uses for things like location
1:20.9	data selling for, I don't know, like roadside assistance, there's all sorts of good use like Roadside
1:23.3	Side Assistance.
1:23.7	There's all sorts of good use cases.
1:26.6	We should still pass a law that at the very least makes it harder
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