Warpath Tv: Transmission Protocol

In a blog post Facebook platform partnerships head Konstantinos Papamiltiadis revealed around 100 developers accidentally had access to Facebook Group member data that was thought to have been cut off. Is this failure a continuation of Facebook's missteps? Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Patrick Norton shares his experience with mobile internet while on the road.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Norton  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We share our thoughts on the slew of new Microsoft and Adobe products and services.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Australia's government is mulling over facial recognition technology to age verify internet users before allowing them to view porn online.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Peter Wells  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Twitter's Jack Dorsey recently announced policy changes on Twitter banning political ads on the platform. This is in stark contrast to Zuckerberg's Facebook policy of not interfering with political posts.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

HBO Max will launch in May for $14.99 a month, the same price as HBO Now. Customers who pay HBO for an HBO Now subscription or who get HBO from an AT&T service will be able to log into HBO Max. What will this mean for current HBO subscribers and the streaming landscape?Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Electronic Arts announced it is publishing games on Steam for the first time since 2012, starting with a pre-order page for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Why has EA's strategy for online game distribution come full circle back to Steam and will it be the only one?Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nvidia updates its venerable Shield TV set-top box, Apple announces the launch of its AirPod Pros, and Harvard University researchers have found a way to simulate real meat by growing muscle cells on a gelatin scaffold.Starring Tom Merritt, Nicole Lee, Roger Chang  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Facebook is rolling out a News product in a limited test in the US as a home screen tab and bookmark in the Facebook app. What is Facebook trying to accomplish with this roll-out and will it succeed?Starring Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Len Peralta.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Is TikTok a national security threat or just electioneering hyperbole?Starring Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

McDonald's, the fast-food giant, has invested substantial resources into developing AI to help automate portions of its business. We take a look at the progress the Golden Arches has made in the tech sector.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ed Both at ZDNet has an article up called "How to replace each Google service with a more privacy-friendly alternative." We take a look at Ed's suggestions and add a few of our own.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Scientists at the University of Bristol and Sorbonne University have developed a skin-like input interface for use with phones and computers. Twitch is testing "watch parties", which would allow streamers to screen Amazon Prime video content to viewers, provided they also have an Amazon Prime subscription. NordVPN says one of its VPN servers at a data center it was renting in Finland, was accessed without authorization.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We examine the phenomenon that prevents people from picking up new habits and ways of doing things preferring established methods instead even if new behavior would simplify tasks.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Blair Bazdarich, Len Peralta, Roger Chang.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Netflix earnings for the quarter are in and things look good. Earnings are up but subscriber base in the US missed targets. CEO Reed Hastings said that new streaming services from Apple and Disney would provide "modest headwinds" and that the bigger threat is linear TV. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Twitter published a post titled "World Leaders on Twitter: principles & approach" explaining that in "cases involving a world leader, we will err on the side of leaving the content up if there is a clear public interest in doing so." In it the company laid out its policy towards world leaders using the platform.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Google announces new products and services including Ambient Computing and Pixelbook Go. Plus the company shares updates to the Google Home, Stadia and Pixel 4.Starring Tom Merritt, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Five new companies leave the Libra Association, Apple now lists Tencent Safe Browsing as part of the Fraudulent Website Warning in Safari, and San Francisco proposes an Office of Emerging Technology.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Data privacy. There's a lot of misinformation and overreaction when it comes to data privacy but that's in large part to the fact that there's a lot of lack of data privacy. People are rightly concerned. In this episode Tom describes very simply and generally what differential privacy is, and what you need to know about how it's used.On DTNS we try to balance the idea that companies do definitely need to improve data protection with the idea that sharing data at all isn't a bad thing in fact when done right can be a very good thing.Not just for companies but academic research and nonprofits benefit from research on datasets. However just taking data, even when names are stripped off, can lead to trouble. As far back as 2000, researchers were showing that the right analysis of raw data sets could deduce who people were even when the data was anonymized. In 2000, Latanya Sweeney showed that 87% of people in the US could be identified from ZIP code, birthdate and sex. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/200

Earbuds have become the latest front in the ongoing ecosystem war between large tech giants with Microsoft, Amazon and Google hoping to cut into Apple's AirPods marketshare. What should consumers expect in the coming years?Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annie Gaus, Len Peralta, Roger Chang.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.