On this week’s show. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss Google and Twitter’s current wave of privacy-policy changes and data-sharing with advertisers (all taking place before Facebook’s latest flap). Also in the news this week: patent trolls, resolution motion-sensor camera, Russian hackers actually hacking Russians and Iris, the data-sniffing dog. Buffer up and have a listen to Episode 236 of Pop Tech Jam!
Links to Stories in This Week’s Episode
- Revealed: Facebook’s internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence (The Guardian)
- U.S. top court tightens patent suit rules in blow to ‘patent trolls’ (Reuters)
- Apple and Nokia settle patent dispute with new licensing agreement (MacRumors)
- Nokia and Apple sign patent license and business cooperation agreement, settle all litigation (Apple Newsroom)
- Google now knows when its users go to the store and buy stuff (The Washington Post)
- The most important announcements from Google I/O 2017! (Android Central)
- Exclusive: Nest is working on a 4K camera with advanced smart features (Android Police)
- Hackers hit Russian bank customers, planned international cyber raids (Reuters)
- DISH Debuts Hands-Free TV on Hopper DVR with Amazon Alexa (About DISH)
- Meet the new Surface Pro (Windows Blog)
- Hackers defeat Samsung Galaxy S8 iris scanner (Security Week)
- Meet Iris of the FBI’s canine force who has a nose for data (NBC News)
- Building new data controls and updating our privacy policy (Twitter blog)
- Twitter’s updated privacy policy, effective June 18th, 2017 (Twitter)
- How to opt out of Twitter’s new privacy settings (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- If you have a Twitter account, change these privacy settings now (CNET)
