2020 is here and with it, new laws and other rules that might make life as a technology consumer a little easier. After a quick recap of the recent headlines by J.D., El Kaiser shares his adventures as both an impulse buyer of a brand new iMac Pro, and as the custodian of a trusty old 2008 Mac Pro tower that still has some life in it. Happy New Year, Pop Tech listeners, and here’s Episode 324!

Links to News Stories on This Week’s Show

• Wrapping up CES 2020: Anxiety, cats and yet another streaming service, called Quibi (The Washington Post)
• Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen (The Verge)
• Enforcing Against Manipulated Media (About Facebook)
• Facebook bans deepfakes, but new policy may not cover controversial Pelosi video (The Washington Post)
• Facebook Ad Library
• Spotify brings streaming ad insertion technology to podcasts (TechCrunch)
• Why you’re getting so many privacy update emails this week (USA Today)
• California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA): What you need to know to be compliant (CSO)
• California Consumer Privacy Act
• What California’s new privacy law really means for you (Fast Company)
• ‘We have a huge problem’: European regulator despairs over lack of enforcement (Politico)
• President Trump signs robo-call bill into law (CNNPolitics)
• New Free File agreement signed to strengthen program, help taxpayers (Internal Revenue Service)
• Microsoft takes court action against fourth nation-state cybercrime group (Microsoft on the Issues)
• Pentagon Warns Military Personnel Against At-Home DNA Tests (The New York Times)
• The 2010s were supposed to bring the ebook revolution. It never quite came. (Vox)

El Kasier’s Big Upgrade

• iMac Pro (Apple)
• SoftRAID
• Mac Pro, 2008 Edition (Apple History)
• Computer vs. Smartphone (Computer Hope)
• Americans favor mobile devices over desktops and laptops for getting news (Pew Research Center)