Juul Heist
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss news news that the french government has fined Google close to $57 million for violating the new European privacy laws that went into effect in 2018. This comes as news that the Federal Trade Commision here in the US is considering levying a record-breaking fine against Facebook for violations to their users privacy following the Cambridge Analytica mess. Corporate fines may well be a theme this year following the great clean up after the 2016 election went awry
And then we’re going to talk about Juul, the multibillion dollar e-cigarette company that is dominating the new industry. It’s been quite the year for Juul. Their offices were raided by the FDA. They at least provisionally agreed to stop selling certain fruity flavors of tobacco clearly popular with kids. They accepted a $12.8 billion dollar investment from Altria, the tobacco company that owns Marlboro. And most recently, announced, the vaping brand launched a new $10 million national TV marketing campaign.
To help make sense of the company that controls an estimated 70% of the e-cigarette market we’ll be joined by Nitasha Tiku, a senior writer for Wired.
Don’t Close My Tabs:
April: Bloomberg: Corporate America Is Getting Ready to Monetize Climate Change
Will: The Huffington Post: Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants
Podcast production by Max Jacobs
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Will Aramis. |
| 0:14.2 | Hey, everyone, welcome to If Then. |
| 0:16.0 | We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. |
| 0:21.5 | We're recording this on the afternoon of Tuesday, January 22nd. |
| 0:24.8 | On today's show, we'll talk about news that the French government has fined Google around $57 million for violating the new European privacy laws that went into effect last year. |
| 0:34.8 | This comes as news that the Federal Trade Commission here in the United |
| 0:37.5 | States is considering levying a record-breaking fine against Facebook for violations to their |
| 0:42.2 | user's privacy following the Cambridge Analytica mess. And corporate fines may well be a theme this |
| 0:47.0 | year following the great cleanup after the 2016 election went awry. And then we're going to |
| 0:52.0 | talk about Jewel, not the Alaskan folk singer, but the |
| 0:55.8 | multi-billion dollar e-cigarette company that's dominating that new industry. It's been quite a year for |
| 1:00.5 | Jewel. Their offices were rated by the FDA. They at least provisionally agreed to stop selling |
| 1:05.5 | certain fruity flavors of tobacco, clearly popular with kids. They accepted a $13 billion investment from Altria, |
| 1:12.4 | the parent company of Marlborough. And most recently, this month, they announced a new $10 million |
| 1:16.8 | national TV marketing campaign. To help make sense of the company that controls an estimated |
| 1:21.7 | 70% of the e-cigarette market and the vaping trend in general, will be joined by Natasha Tiku, |
| 1:29.5 | senior writer for Wired, who's been covering the company. |
| 1:34.6 | And as always, we'll end with Don't Close My Tabs, some of the best things we saw on the web this week. |
| 1:36.5 | That's all coming up on if then. |
| 1:39.0 | Hey, Will, how's it going? |
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