On this week’s episode, El Kaiser and J.D. discuss the current legal heat on Facebook over data privacy and misuse of its customer’s personal information. Google’s delivery drone program and Samsung’s woes with its Galaxy Fold smartphone are also in the mix. And, on the heels of Avengers: Endgame taking over cineplex screens, PTJ 307 looks down the list of other geekworthy movies headed to theaters this summer.
Links to News Stories on This Week’s Show
- Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5 Billion by F.T.C. Over Privacy Issues (The New York Times)
- Facebook’s role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy (Carole Cadwalladr TED Talk)
- New York Attorney General to Investigate Facebook Email Collection (The New York Times)
- Regulators Around the World Are Circling Facebook (The New York Times)
- Tim Cook calls for regulation of tech industry with serious issues (9to5Mac)
- Google Employees Say They Faced Retaliation After Organizing Walkout (The New York Times)
- How Nest, designed to keep intruders out of people’s homes, effectively allowed hackers to get in (The Washington Post)
- Google Drone Delivery Gets First FAA Clearance (Bloomberg)
- Wing becomes first certified Air Carrier for drones in the US (Medium)
- Wing (Google X)
- Samsung Galaxy Fold launch delayed by breaks (CNBC)
- Samsung Galaxy Fold teardown (iFixit)
- EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database (ZDNet)
- Russian Twitter bot activity increased in the wake Mueller report release (Cyberdefense magazine)
- Twitter Q1 flies past estimates with sales of $787M and EPS of $0.25, but MAUs drop to 330M (TechCrunch)
- Scooters hacked to play rude messages to riders (BBC)
Geek Summer Movie Preview 2019
- Summer Movie Calendar 2019(Rotten Tomatoes)
- The Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2019 (Esquire)
- iTunes Movie Trailers (Apple)
