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Kim Komando Today

Tech Refresh: Facebook data breach, PC vs. Mac, display photos on your TV

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Tech News, Technology

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. government is buying up phone, power and water records. If you have smart devices in your home, you need to hear this. More bad news from Facebook: Half a billion user records were leaked. Plus, the best ways to display photos on your TV. And can Allie fool Ben and Mike in this week's Brand New or Not True?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Tech Refresh with Kim Commando and friends from Commander.com with a K.

0:07.0

That's K-O-M-A-N-D-O.

0:09.0

The gang is all here.

0:10.0

Kim, Ali, Ben, I'm Mike.

0:12.0

And on today's show, we've got a deep dive topic for you where we're going to talk about Mac versus PC.

0:18.0

It's always a heated debate.

0:20.0

And we've got a new scam to tell you about on Instagram.

0:23.5

So what you need to watch out for coming up.

0:26.1

We'll start the news.

0:27.0

Here's Kim.

0:27.8

Well, I ran across this story at the Washington Post.

0:30.2

It was this little tiny story that didn't get a lot of traction.

0:33.8

And it was about all these documents that researchers found from the Georgetown School of Law.

0:39.0

I know.

0:39.3

It sounds kind of boring.

0:40.2

But just listen to this.

0:41.6

What they found is that the U.S. government, yes.

0:44.6

Our government is buying, in their words, hundreds of millions of phone, water, electricity,

0:51.9

and other utility records while pursuing immigration violation.

0:54.9

So that smart device that you have, that smart speaker, that smart television, whatever it may have,

1:01.3

is that it's putting out a whole bunch of data.

1:03.9

So now U.S. immigration and customs enforcement, they're actually getting that data.

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