Dec 13th 2018
Tech News Weekly 61
Data Exhaust
Hosted by
Megan Morrone,
Jason Howell
Location Privacy, iOS ECG
Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
- 1:35 What it means when companies track our phones and sell our location data. Jennifer Valentino-DeVries walks us through her investigation for The New York Times.
- 20:31 How the Apple Watch ECG app compares to other at-home ECG. John Timmer from Ars Technica talks about his personal experience monitoring his heart health.
- 34:52 Ellen Huet from Bloomberg Businessweek tracks the downfall of a company called We Roam that lefts its customers stranded all over the world and hasn't paid its debts yet.
- 47:45 Sundar Pichai testified before Congress this week. Recode's Kurt Wagner explains what we learned about search engine bias, politics, and the Monopoly Man.
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Links
- Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
- How to Stop Apps From Tracking Your Location
- A look at the Apple Watch’s ECG, from someone who needs it
- What is atrial fibrillation, and why is your watch telling you about it?
- This Startup Stranded Customers Overseas With No Refunds
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s testimony to Congress today
- Republican lawmakers still think Google is biased against conservatives. Google still claims that it’s not.
- Taylor Swift used facial recognition to track her stalkers at a concert