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| Kill this Bill | |
| Number | 2731 |
| Broadcast Date | APRIL 8, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 33:21 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Shannon Morse, Len Peralta |
Is Brave’s plan to replace ads in the browser and share revenue with publishers AND surfers Brave? or crazy? Shannon Morse and Tom Merritt discuss while Len Peralta illustrates!
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Headlines
- As expected the US Department of Justice filed a letter in Federal Court in Brooklyn saying it still requires Apple’s assistance unlocking an iPhone running iOS7 in a New York drug case. US Magistrate Judge James Orenstein ruled Feb. 29 that the All Writs Act did not provide the authority to order Apple to assist. Apple has until April 15 to file papers in opposition of the appeal.
- Thursday evening, US Senators Diane Feinstein and Richard Burr released a draft of the “compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016. The bill states that “all persons receiving an authorized judicial order for information or data must provide, in a timely manner, responsive, intelligible information or data, or appropriate technical assistance to obtain such information or data,” even if the data has been made unintelligible on purpose, aka, encrypted. The kicker is that no computing service or electronic communication service can make products that can’t comply.
- Quote from anonymous supporter, "As someone who used to have to break encrypted drives used by AQI fighters...I never once complained that I should have a backdoor. It didn't stop me from doing my job and getting the information."
- Microsoft Garage released its Hub Keyboard for iOS Friday. Hub Keyboard’s key features include faster copy and paste, text translation, contact access on the phone and Office 365 and search of OneDrive and SharePoint documents. Microsoft released the Android version in February. The keyboard is NOT related to Microsoft’s WordFlow keyboard for iOS.
- Techcrunch reports multiple sources and a leaked document, show Facebook is providing developers with API tools to build chatbots and Live Chat web plug-ins for business clients. The tools are expected to be announced at the F8 developers conference next week. Chatbots will be able to respond with “Structured Messages,” including a title, image, a description, a URL and calls to action.
- Open Whisper Systems’ Signal messaging app for the desktop is now available to all. Signal is in the Chrome Web Store and uses the Android app for logging in. You can send text, audio, images and video but there’s no way to set up a group on the desktop version yet.
- ER Doctors at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, New Jersey, used the heart rate history from a Fitbit Charge HR to guide treatment of a man who suffered a seizure. The Doctors noticed an irregular fast heartbeat. If it was a new thing they could use electricity to reset the heart’s rhythm, but if it was a chronic condition that could cause a stroke. The Fitbit history showed that the arrhythmia was a new thing and the doctors performed the electrocardioversion. The case was reported Friday in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Interrogation of Patient Activity Tracker to Assist Arrhythmia Management").
- Uber will pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit in California accusing the company of misleading customers about the thoroughness of driver background checks. Reuters reports Uber must pay $10 million in 60 days and rest will be waived if the company complies with terms of settlement for 2 years. The case was originally filed in Dec 2014.
- Ars Technica reports that leaked extracts from an assessment indicate that Europe’s Article 29 working party plans to say the proposed EU-US Privacy Shield does not provide adequate protection for European data in the US. Support from the group is not a requirement for the EC to implement the agreement. However the group can support legal cases against the implementation.
- Kenya Power and Safaricom have agreed to roll out more fiber connections to homes using existing infrastructure owned by Kenya Power. Safaricom has rolled out 3200km of fiber itself hooking up 7,000 homes. The partnership will allow it to add 12,000 more homes over the next 12 months in residential areas in and around Nairobi.
- Recode’s Kara Swisher reports sources tell her Yahoo has given potential bidders an extra week to make their proposals. The deadline now moves to April 18th.
Discussion
- Newspapers to Brave browser: Don't mess with our ads -- or else
- Brave's Payment Spec Out for Developer Input
- Brave Cease and Desist Final copy.pdf
Pick of the Day
- I want to suggest a tv show for potd.
The Code.
It's on Netflix (at least in Norway) and contains some suspense, some hacking, some conspiracy and it's Australian. I'm 4-5 eps in and like it very much so far.
Oh. And it has Xena in it 😉 - Submitted by Christian
- I want to suggest a tv show for potd.
Messages
- Hey Tom, on show 2729 you mocked the use of faxes in this modern age. In medicine however the fax is far from dead and remains the primary method of relaying information between doctors. In part this is likely due to a misperception of HIPAA standards when it comes to the privacy of communicating about patients. There is a general consensus that an email message about a patient is more likely to end up in the hands of an unintended recipient than a fax. Yes we are living in a world of Electronic Health Records with the intention of improving communication between health care providers...but guess what...there is still almost ZERO interoperability between all these systems. There are standards but alas too many of them so no EMRs talk with each other to relay patient information. One thing they all do though - they have built in fax capabilities!
- Sent by Rob from Hanover, NH Eye Surgeon (M.D.) and tech geek
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