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| #forsale | |
| Number | 2863 |
| Broadcast Date | SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 42:42 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Lamarr Wilson |
Twitter may be up for sale and Facebook has been fudging video numbers, accidentally. Plus Lamarr Wilson shares his thoughts ont he YouTube Heroes community effort and talks with Tom Merritt about why privacy matters.
Guest
Top Stories
- Bloomberg says Apple is testing a prototype smart-home device with Siri built-in similar to the Amazon Echo. Now here are some more Top Stories.
- CNBC reports Twitter is talking to Google and Salesforce among others about a sale. TechCrunch says Verizon and Microsoft are also interested. Twitter's revenue has been growing slower than analysts expect. Twitter’s head of TV Andrew Adashek, and its North American Moments curation team lead Marcus Mabry have both departed the company. Mabry is going to CNN.
- Facebook admitted a month ago that a discrepancy existed in a video number it reported to advertisers called "Average Duration of Video Viewed." Facebook defined the metric as “total time spent watching a video divided by the total number of people who have played the video.” However it only counted people who had viewed the video for more than three seconds. That significantly raised the average. Facebook has has renamed the metric "Average Watch Time" and apologized for the inconvenience.
- Uber is rolling out something called Real-Time ID Check Friday in order to prevent Uber driver account sharing or theft. The system periodically requires drivers to take a picture of themselves and submit it before accepting rides. Uber then uses Microsoft's Cognitive Services to match the photo to one on file. If they don't match the account is temporarily blocked. In a test of the program more than 99% of drivers were ultimately verified. Some mismatches occurred due to unclear profile photos.
- Tesla filed suit Thursday against three Michigan's Secretary of State, Attorney General and Governor for preventing Tesla from selling cars directly instead of through a dealer. Michigan code prevents auto manufacturers from selling cars directly unless it is a nonprofit or government agency. Tesla claims the code violates "the Due Process, Equal Protection, and Commerce Clauses of the Constitution." The state of Michigan rejected Tesla's application for licenses to sell and repair cars in the state.
- Google released an open source algorithm that can be trained to recognize objects in photos with 93.9 percent accuracy. That's up from 89.6 percent two years ago. When the algorithm is trained on human captions it can generate accurate new captions when presented with completely new scenes. Examples created by the algorithm include "A dog is sitting on the beach next to a dog" and "A blue and yellow train traveling down train tracks." The image captioning system is available as an open source model in TensorFlow.
- The Internet Archive and the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania will team up to track the coverage of US presidential debates. Archive.org will provide near real-time access to shareable video the debates for free. The video will be searchable through use of closed captioning. For the first debate, fact checking partners will have access but Archive hopes to go more widely public in subsequent debates. The Project will also use the open source audio fingerprint tech Duplitron to analyze which video segments are highlighted by national and broadcast cable news shows.
Discussion
- Growing our Trusted Flagger program into YouTube Heroes
- Getting Started with YouTube Heroes
- YouTube Heroes will help keep the website's comments clean
- YouTube enlists 'heroes' to fight against nasty comments and porn
Messages
- Hi Tom and all
I had a discussion with my elder brother today which made me realise that many people have no clear idea over why encryption matters.
He sent me a message using Google Allo and I replied to say that I didn't think I would try the app given the early nature of the assistant (it can be reportedly a bit 'hit and miss') and also some privacy concerns about them storing data.
His reply was that he didn't intend on sending anything 'top secret' using the app and when I pointed out that encryption and a third party storing your data wasn't just for 'top secret' and that i preferred to control who could see and potentially sell my data he came back with 'thats not in my top million concerns'
Is there a resource you could point me towards that can explain to a 'muggle' like my brother why encryption is not just for secrets and that privacy should be at least in his top million concerns if not even the top 1000!
Thanks for the great work you do on the show, I am a proud Patreon supporter and I love listening to the show on my commute to work (a day behind here in Scotland) - Sent by Ian
- Hi Tom and all
- 5 Reasons Why You Should Start Caring About Your Privacy
- Why You Should Care About and Defend Your Privacy
- Privacy 101 - Why we should care about protecting our personal data
- 1. Everyone has something to hide. Your address? Your income? Political leanings? Attractions? Tastes?
- 2. Surveillance makes you act differently. You don't search for certain things because yo don't want them to affect future search results or ads. You don't search for things because the NSA might see it.
- 3. They can find out more than you reveal. Everyone is collecting data about you. And when they share that data they can infer things about you that you didn't make public. Sexual orientation, political preferences etc. Visit one site and 30 may be tracking you.
- 4. Conditions may change. You may not care about companies knowing something about you now but what about later? A hack exposes things about you? Could lead to identity theft. Eating habits after disease. Drinking habits after DUI?
- 5. Your data is valuable. You should choose how it's used and have the right to be compensated.
- It's fine to exchange your data for "free" services as long as you know what is being collected and have control over it and the right to end the agreement.
You're judged by ALL your behavior and people do not display what is called "Cross-situational stability" You may never lie except at school. You may always be nice except on cloudy days etc.
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