The Audacity of Data Collecting - DTNS 4066

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

New owners of Audacity updated the audio editor’s privacy policy with language indicating it was collecting user data for analytics and legal enforcement. Nintendo announced a new version of the Switch game console with a 7-inch screen and 720p OLED display. And Norway passed a law requiring anyone being paid to post on social media to disclose if posts have been modified and how. The law is meant to reduce pressure put on people due to “idealized people in advertising”.

Starring Tom Merritt, Owen JJ Stone, Roger Chang, Amos, 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	Picture this.
0:34.0	Static cars.
0:36.0	Idling engines.
0:38.0	Angry horns.
0:40.0	Now.
0:42.0	Picture you.
0:44.0	Zooming past it all.
0:46.0	Light and breezy.
0:48.0	Ah.
0:49.0	The sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.
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