Wed. 01/30 - Facebook "Slaps Apple In The Face"
Tech Brew Ride Home
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🗓️ 30 January 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, January 30th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough. |
| 0:09.3 | Today Facebook decides to mix it up a bit. |
| 0:13.0 | What if they had a scandal that pissed off their business partners? |
| 0:17.0 | Apple's earnings are mixed, but you can see where they're going with this. |
| 0:21.0 | Why Americans no longer answer the phone and are you ready for 1 terabyte |
| 0:26.1 | smartphones? Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. You know how some people are always like, hey, Facebook should be paying us for all the data |
| 0:38.8 | they've collected about us. Well, it turns out, Facebook will pay you for your data, but you have to turn over all of your data. |
| 0:49.0 | This story was broken late yesterday by Josh Constein and Tech Crunch, who I'm going to quote from quite liberally in this segment, beginning now. |
| 1:00.0 | Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a Facebook research |
| 1:07.6 | VPN that allows the company to suck in all of a user's phone and web activity, |
| 1:14.5 | similar to Facebook's Onavo Protect app |
| 1:17.0 | that Apple banned in June, |
| 1:19.5 | and that was removed in August. |
| 1:22.8 | Facebook sidesteps the app store and rewards teenagers and adults |
| 1:27.5 | who download the research app and give it root access to network traffic in what may be |
| 1:32.2 | a violation of Apple policy so the |
| 1:35.2 | social network can decrypt and analyze their phone activity a Tech Crunch |
| 1:39.6 | investigation confirms. Facebook admitted to Tech Crunch, |
| 1:44.0 | it was running the research program |
| 1:46.0 | to gather data on usage habits. |
| 1:48.0 | Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages |
| 1:52.0 | 13 to 35, up to $20 per month |
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