Google’s Chokehold on the Web
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🗓️ 23 May 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about about a privacy invasion that’s arguably scarier than Cambridge Analytica, and why it’s not getting nearly the same amount of attention. It involves your cellphone, and its ability to track where you are at all times.
The hosts are then joined by Luther Lowe, the senior VP of public policy for Yelp, a company that has had some major beef with Google’s allegedly anti-competitive behavior. They’ll talk about how Google got so big, and whether or not federal regulators might start taking action.
Podcast production by Max Jacobs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm April Glazer. And I'm Will Oremus. |
| 0:33.3 | Hey, everyone, welcome to If Then. We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. We're recording this on the morning of Tuesday, May 22nd. |
| 0:42.7 | On today's show, we'll talk about a privacy invasion that's arguably scarier than the Cambridge Analytica scandal and why it's not getting nearly the same amount of attention. |
| 0:47.2 | It involves your cell phone and its ability to track where you are at all times. |
| 0:54.4 | We'll also be joined by Luther Lowe, the senior public policy walk at Yelp, a company that has had some major beef with Google's allegedly anti-competitive behavior. We'll talk about how Google got so big and whether or not federal |
| 0:58.5 | regulators might start taking action. All right, another show approaching the end of May. Will, |
| 1:04.7 | how's it going? It's going well. How's life in Oakland, April? It's fine. It's always |
| 1:09.8 | fine. But there's some big news on April? It's fine. It's always fine. |
| 1:14.4 | But there's some big news on the tech scene this week. |
| 1:16.4 | No surprises if there ever isn't. |
| 1:23.9 | GDPR, which is the European privacy regulations, go into effect on May 25th. |
| 1:26.1 | We'll expand GDPR for us. |
| 1:30.2 | It's general data protection rule regulation. |
| 1:31.2 | Okay. |
| 1:31.9 | There we go. |
| 1:33.8 | Let's just keep it to GDPR. |
| 1:34.5 | It's a lot easier. |
| 1:39.3 | But yeah, if you've been seeing a lot of your various online services that you subscribe to this week, emailing you to say, hey, we've updated our privacy policy. |
| 1:43.7 | Well, there's a reason for that |
| 1:45.0 | is because everybody's getting ready to comply with the EU's big new set of privacy rules. |
| 1:51.9 | And even though it applies to the EU, it definitely affects all the big American tech companies |
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