Mon., 03/04 - USB 4 Wishes and Password-Free Dreams

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Facebook lets randos look you up by your phone number; Huawei is about to sue the U.S. government; a Vermont law exposes more than 100 data brokers; USB 4 is announced; Facebook offers a way to log in with your face...kind of; and the W3C has a new standard that promises to do away with passwords forever. Sponsors: Keeps - https://keeps.com/techmeme MetaLab - https://metalab.co Links: Facebook won’t let you opt-out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting (TechCrunch) Scammers abused Facebook phone number search (BBC News) Huawei Said to Be Preparing to Sue the U.S. Government (New York Times) Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information (Fast Company) With USB 4, Thunderbolt 3’s benefits become open to all (The Verge) USB Promoter Group Announces USB4 Specification (AP News) Harry McCracken's Facebook tweet (Twitter) Facebook explains how it’ll review nude photos to stop revenge porn (The Verge) Facebook’s New CAPTCHA Test: ‘Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face’ (Wired) W3C approves WebAuthn as the web standard for password-free logins (VentureBeat) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home from Monday, March 4th, 2019.
0:07.0	I'm Chris Higgins in for Brian McCullough.
0:10.0	Today, Facebook lets Randos look you up by your phone number.
0:14.3	Wawa is about to sue the US government.
0:17.0	A Vermont law exposes more than a hundred data brokers.
0:20.8	USB4 is announced that I am overly excited about it.
0:24.9	Facebook offers a way to log in with your face, kind of, if you have to.
0:30.2	And the W3C has a new standard that promises to do away with passwords forever.
0:35.0	Let's go.
0:37.0	Another day, another Facebook Privacy Scandal. Tech Crunch reports that after Facebook implemented two-factor authentication and encouraged the use of phone numbers for it, they then exposed those phone numbers through a friend look-up mechanism.
0:53.4	Oops.
0:54.4	This happened even though Facebook claimed they were only using those phone numbers to
0:58.6	improve security.
0:59.6	The news originally broke after a mojopedia maven, Jeremy Burge, noticed the issue and his
1:04.5	tweet about it went viral.
1:07.2	After you have provided your phone number to Facebook, the site has a setting that asks,
1:10.8	who can look you up using the phone number you provided.
1:13.7	And the default setting is everyone. Everyone, meaning literally anyone can go fishing for
1:21.4	phone numbers and tie them to specific accounts.
1:24.0	Cool, super cool. Okay, and what are the other options for who can look you up by your phone
1:28.8	number? Well, you can choose friends of friends or friends. There is no way to opt out of the future entirely.
1:37.0	I actually checked my own account for this and found that, of course, it was set to the
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