Please Regulate Me - DTNS 4054
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
A bipartisan group of US Senators Brian Schatz, John Thune, Raphael Warnock, and John Kennedy proposed a bill Wednesday called the Unsubscribe Act. Companies would be required to make terms and conditions more transparent when offering a free trial. US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has revamped the Data Protection Act she introduced last year. Co-sponsored by Senator Sherrod Brown, it would establish a federal agency to oversee data privacy in the country.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young , Roger Chang, Joe.
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| 0:00.0 | A tech demo shows off the usual tech things. |
| 0:04.0 | Then I'm going to jump to a link. |
| 0:05.0 | Using the usual tech devices. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a plane device called our mouse. |
| 0:09.0 | Doing the usual tech productivity tasks. |
| 0:11.0 | Now we're connected audio. |
| 0:13.0 | You can see my work. You can point at it. |
| 0:15.0 | And I can see your face and we can talk. |
| 0:17.0 | Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda |
| 0:20.0 | for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored. |
| 0:24.0 | The mother of all demos on no a little more. |
| 0:27.0 | Get it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Coming up on DTS, tricked into paying after a free trial. |
| 0:33.0 | There ought to be a law in a bipartisan group of US senators |
| 0:36.0 | want to pass one. |
| 0:37.0 | Plus, another attempt at making nuclear fusion work. |
| 0:40.0 | And do we need a blockchain for our mobile phone bill? |
| 0:43.0 | This is the Daily Tech News 4 Thursday, June 17th, 2021. |
| 0:50.0 | In Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 0:52.0 | And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lee. |
| 0:54.0 | From Austin, Texas, I'm Justin Robert Young. |
| 0:58.0 | And I'm Roger Shane. This shows pretty soon. |
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