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Have you ever wondered about the technology behind the signs you pass by as you drive down the road?

Listen as Craig and Jim go into some detail about the billboards and road signs watching you and why you should be extra cautious now with your smart device because it is getting monitored.

Find out more on CraigPeterson.com

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Transcript:

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.

Airing date: 07/24/2018

Road Signs Watching You - Billboards Tracking You - Police Using You To Track Yourself

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey everybody Craig Peterson here. Have you ever wondered about those signs as you drive down the road while there is some technology we're going to talk about today with Jim Polito that goes into some detail about why you should be extra cautious now with your smart device because it is getting monitored. But also we talk about these new electronic licenses the ones for your cars as well as the ones for your smartphones. What are they going to be used for good or evil. You know are you going to get caught because you maybe went a little too fast last week. Wow all of that. More with Jim. So here we go stick around talking about Craig Peterson

[00:00:49] High tech talk to. This is a great one. Going to talk to us about the 10th anniversary of the app store but you should celebrate it by deleting most of your apps. But here's the one that caught my attention. New road signs can detect mobile phones are being used in vehicles. Joining us now our favorite Canadian and tech talker Craig Peterson. Good morning sir.

[00:01:20] Good morning Jim.

[00:01:21] Craig wait a minute. Now we've heard about red light cameras so they catch you running a red light.

[00:01:28] These are these devices can tell if fine texting when I shouldn't be texting.

[00:01:37] Good morning. Yeah I don't know. This is kind of concerning isn't it. You know we've got already billboards up that can detect a car an individual car. It reads the license plates and it knows hey you pass by this sign every day about this time. Now it also there's also tech out there that recognizes this type of car you're driving. So all the way down to the brand and model of the car. So for instance if there's a lot of high expense so high end expensive cars driving by the billboard will change because now they have a new audience that they can market something to. Wow. Which is. Yeah isn't that something. In the case of a car coming by the same time every day if it's like the only car on the road they can actually narrow it right down. You know I see this car coming so I'm going to show this ad that he comes by every day and they try and influence your behavior. Now think about tying a bunch of those billboards together. So they came and know where you go where you drive because the courts have ruled again and again there is nothing illegal with these readers. Right your driver's license right.

[00:03:00] Right so that's step one. It's the employees you know the next step is they are detecting your mobile phone. Now this is really kind of interesting because your phone is typically always giving out some information about itself and about you obviously being aware of who owns me. Yeah. Well the basics are with the phones all have an identifier that's built into them and that identifier is used by your Bluetooth device or your Wi-Fi device that unique identifier so you can connect to a Wi-Fi network. Now Apple made some real cool technology changes here a little while back then really led the field on this one so that if you if you walk into you walk into a store and you have never connected to their Wi-Fi network it uses a random number to identify itself. So every time you go into that store the store thinks hey this is a brand new phone. I've never seen before but if you do connect to the store's Wi-Fi your phone says oh I've seen this Wi-Fi before so it uses the same identifier used last time. Therefore a company like Wal-Mart if you use their Wi-Fi and I'm not real I'm not really picking on Wal-Mart.

[00:04:23] I understand. Yep.

[00:04:25] So you walk into the Wal-Mart store and now the Wal-Mart store says oh I've seen that phone before. And there is technology that is in some stores out there that will track your movements through the store based on your cell phone. So you connect to the Wi-Fi it knows where you are knows you posit a certain point in an aisle and then the analytics are already there where it looks at it all and says Oh what kind of a shopper is as a person. And then when Jim goes out to the cash register here to check out it knows oh ok. So now we can associate what you bought with where you were what you looked at. You know all of this sort of stuff and we we've talked a little bit before about Wal-Mart and how Wal-Mart has now got a patent because of a couple of weeks ago on listening devices. So it kind of could tie this all together. So what we're talking about. So now we move on to our roadsigns here and that type of technology moving over to the roadsigns. Now this is really kind of interesting. And they're looking at this in the U.K. right now because in the U.K. just like here it's illegal to use your cell phone when you're driving. So what these mobile phone doctors are doing that they're putting into some of these signs in the road and not just the big billboards but can be any sign is they're looking again at the signals from your cell phone. And if you're actively using your cellphone to send text messages or receive go online. You know we know the data packages and stuff in there. If you're actively using your phone that's easily detectable even though they're not necessarily monitoring what you're saying because your phones are encrypted to embrace encrypted so that right.

[00:06:20] Right. So they can tell if I'm doing that and then they're going to send me a warning kind of like the speeding sign that they have you know it says speed limit. And it sat up and says your speed. 75 miles an hour you know the speed limit is 45.

[00:06:39] It tells you that it's going to do the same thing.

[00:06:43] Yeah this is Norfolk County over there the UK and they are planning on doing this as of the road safety team. So run a bit more Stephanie on this which is where Californians are now. Yeah California is already experimenting with digital licenses on the cars themselves. So your car will report is a little act of device that there are in your life and your car will report your speed. Massachusetts has already got some work underway on your cell phone. Driver's license there's one state down south that already has that. So think about this for a minute. When you're talking about a driver's license on your smartphone. So you don't have to carry your wallet or credit card against people carrying those like they used to because everything is of no use Apple Pay to use.

[00:07:41] Right. Right.

[00:07:42] Yeah. So mean you've got an app issued by the state that the cop can come up and read and he's got all of your information. That app has access to your TPSAC your speed your travel history everything. So that app could also be reporting on your driving habits what you're doing on and on.

[00:08:06] Is speeding you know just the basics are you are you are you are you last week were you speeding last week.

[00:08:17] Know so we've got some interesting privacy concerns coming up right down the road at us and some of this tech is already there and it's already being experimented with excellent metaphor coming down the road at us folks.

[00:08:29] If you text my name to the number the Craig Peter sends about to give you you'll get this story and many others including the story about the 10 year anniversary of APS and why it's time of the App Store. It's time to clean out your apps. Craig Peterson will send all that information to you no charge and he will not annoy you. So text Jim 2

[00:08:57] 855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553 and standard data and tax rates apply.

[00:09:09] You'll get this information. If there's a major hack he will notify you he will not sell your name you will not try to sell you something he will just provide you with information like he does here every Tuesday every Tuesday. Craig Acción segment. Appreciate it. And we'll talk with you soon.

[00:09:28] Thank you sir. Take care. Bye bye.

[00:09:30] Thank you Craig Peterson everybody. Great guy. We will podcast that in case.

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Have you ever wondered about the technology behind the signs you pass by as you drive down the road?

Listen as Craig and Jim go into some detail about the billboards and road signs watching you and why you should be extra cautious now with your smart device because it is getting monitored.

Find out more on CraigPeterson.com

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Related Articles:

New road signs can detect mobile phones are being used in vehicles

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Transcript:

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.

Airing date: 07/24/2018

Road Signs Watching You - Billboards Tracking You - Police Using You To Track Yourself

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey everybody Craig Peterson here. Have you ever wondered about those signs as you drive down the road while there is some technology we're going to talk about today with Jim Polito that goes into some detail about why you should be extra cautious now with your smart device because it is getting monitored. But also we talk about these new electronic licenses the ones for your cars as well as the ones for your smartphones. What are they going to be used for good or evil. You know are you going to get caught because you maybe went a little too fast last week. Wow all of that. More with Jim. So here we go stick around talking about Craig Peterson

[00:00:49] High tech talk to. This is a great one. Going to talk to us about the 10th anniversary of the app store but you should celebrate it by deleting most of your apps. But here's the one that caught my attention. New road signs can detect mobile phones are being used in vehicles. Joining us now our favorite Canadian and tech talker Craig Peterson. Good morning sir.

[00:01:20] Good morning Jim.

[00:01:21] Craig wait a minute. Now we've heard about red light cameras so they catch you running a red light.

[00:01:28] These are these devices can tell if fine texting when I shouldn't be texting.

[00:01:37] Good morning. Yeah I don't know. This is kind of concerning isn't it. You know we've got already billboards up that can detect a car an individual car. It reads the license plates and it knows hey you pass by this sign every day about this time. Now it also there's also tech out there that recognizes this type of car you're driving. So all the way down to the brand and model of the car. So for instance if there's a lot of high expense so high end expensive cars driving by the billboard will change because now they have a new audience that they can market something to. Wow. Which is. Yeah isn't that something. In the case of a car coming by the same time every day if it's like the only car on the road they can actually narrow it right down. You know I see this car coming so I'm going to show this ad that he comes by every day and they try and influence your behavior. Now think about tying a bunch of those billboards together. So they came and know where you go where you drive because the courts have ruled again and again there is nothing illegal with these readers. Right your driver's license right.

[00:03:00] Right so that's step one. It's the employees you know the next step is they are detecting your mobile phone. Now this is really kind of interesting because your phone is typically always giving out some information about itself and about you obviously being aware of who owns me. Yeah. Well the basics are with the phones all have an identifier that's built into them and that identifier is used by your Bluetooth device or your Wi-Fi device that unique identifier so you can connect to a Wi-Fi network. Now Apple made some real cool technology changes here a little while back then really led the field on this one so that if you if you walk into you walk into a store and you have never connected to their Wi-Fi network it uses a random number to identify itself. So every time you go into that store the store thinks hey this is a brand new phone. I've never seen before but if you do connect to the store's Wi-Fi your phone says oh I've seen this Wi-Fi before so it uses the same identifier used last time. Therefore a company like Wal-Mart if you use their Wi-Fi and I'm not real I'm not really picking on Wal-Mart.

[00:04:23] I understand. Yep.

[00:04:25] So you walk into the Wal-Mart store and now the Wal-Mart store says oh I've seen that phone before. And there is technology that is in some stores out there that will track your movements through the store based on your cell phone. So you connect to the Wi-Fi it knows where you are knows you posit a certain point in an aisle and then the analytics are already there where it looks at it all and says Oh what kind of a shopper is as a person. And then when Jim goes out to the cash register here to check out it knows oh ok. So now we can associate what you bought with where you were what you looked at. You know all of this sort of stuff and we we've talked a little bit before about Wal-Mart and how Wal-Mart has now got a patent because of a couple of weeks ago on listening devices. So it kind of could tie this all together. So what we're talking about. So now we move on to our roadsigns here and that type of technology moving over to the roadsigns. Now this is really kind of interesting. And they're looking at this in the U.K. right now because in the U.K. just like here it's illegal to use your cell phone when you're driving. So what these mobile phone doctors are doing that they're putting into some of these signs in the road and not just the big billboards but can be any sign is they're looking again at the signals from your cell phone. And if you're actively using your cellphone to send text messages or receive go online. You know we know the data packages and stuff in there. If you're actively using your phone that's easily detectable even though they're not necessarily monitoring what you're saying because your phones are encrypted to embrace encrypted so that right.

[00:06:20] Right. So they can tell if I'm doing that and then they're going to send me a warning kind of like the speeding sign that they have you know it says speed limit. And it sat up and says your speed. 75 miles an hour you know the speed limit is 45.

[00:06:39] It tells you that it's going to do the same thing.

[00:06:43] Yeah this is Norfolk County over there the UK and they are planning on doing this as of the road safety team. So run a bit more Stephanie on this which is where Californians are now. Yeah California is already experimenting with digital licenses on the cars themselves. So your car will report is a little act of device that there are in your life and your car will report your speed. Massachusetts has already got some work underway on your cell phone. Driver's license there's one state down south that already has that. So think about this for a minute. When you're talking about a driver's license on your smartphone. So you don't have to carry your wallet or credit card against people carrying those like they used to because everything is of no use Apple Pay to use.

[00:07:41] Right. Right.

[00:07:42] Yeah. So mean you've got an app issued by the state that the cop can come up and read and he's got all of your information. That app has access to your TPSAC your speed your travel history everything. So that app could also be reporting on your driving habits what you're doing on and on.

[00:08:06] Is speeding you know just the basics are you are you are you are you last week were you speeding last week.

[00:08:17] Know so we've got some interesting privacy concerns coming up right down the road at us and some of this tech is already there and it's already being experimented with excellent metaphor coming down the road at us folks.

[00:08:29] If you text my name to the number the Craig Peter sends about to give you you'll get this story and many others including the story about the 10 year anniversary of APS and why it's time of the App Store. It's time to clean out your apps. Craig Peterson will send all that information to you no charge and he will not annoy you. So text Jim 2

[00:08:57] 855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553 and standard data and tax rates apply.

[00:09:09] You'll get this information. If there's a major hack he will notify you he will not sell your name you will not try to sell you something he will just provide you with information like he does here every Tuesday every Tuesday. Craig Acción segment. Appreciate it. And we'll talk with you soon.

[00:09:28] Thank you sir. Take care. Bye bye.

[00:09:30] Thank you Craig Peterson everybody. Great guy. We will podcast that in case.

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Did you know that it has been 10 years since Apple introduced its app store?  Today I will discuss app hoarding and how you can do a little "spring" cleaning on your iPhone.

Have you been hacked?  If not you are lucky! Today, I will talk about how 2018 has turned out to be a banner year for cyber breaches.

Did you know that small business is under attack?  I will tell you about why and some of the things I have uncovered.

A reminder.  If you have not already replaced your Router - You need to do so.  The malware is still out there and it is still causing issues with the lower end routers.

There was so much to cover this week -- I barely got started and time was up -- please read the related articles in this post to see what I thought was important this week.

Craig is putting up a new membership site (Yes, it is free, but you have to sign up)  On it will have all his special reports that he puts out and you will be the first to get them.

These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

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Transcript:

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.

Airing date: 07/21/2018

Small business security and breaches. Why delete old apps and how. Worst cyber breaches of 2018

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, everybody, Welcome to Tech Talk with Craig Peterson today. You know it's the 10th anniversary of the app store. Well not today, but just towards the 10th anniversary of the app store. So we're going to talk a little bit about apps today. Maybe it's time to do a little bit of, Well, it isn't Spring, either. but it may be some cleanup on your phone. We'll talk about why you should do that. We've got the worst cyber security breaches so far of 2018. This professor, we're going to talk a little bit about doxing, a New York University professor who is encouraging people to basically attack ICE agents. It's crazy, isn't it? Real Life Hacker reveals what you should stop doing an online DNA test. Did you buy one of these as Amazon Prime had them on special this week? We're going to talk about it shattering your identity. There have been some interesting stories about this new tech new road signs that can detect mobile phones being used in vehicles. 

[00:01:03] Now the director of National Intelligence. Dan Coats has a couple of words for us and I've got an article up on my site. If you have a Wi-Fi router you know we've talked about this many times, but have you done what you should do. I know a lot of people haven't because they haven't been calling me asking them to help fix it. 

[00:01:24] But, anyways how to make your Wi-Fi router as secure as possible. So here we go stick around. We've only got a half an hour

[00:01:38] On the front lines and ahead of the trends in business and consumer technology speaking with the top minds and creators behind the products and ideas that help to drive our everyday lives. 

[00:01:48] Dean Kamen is joining us now. He's the inventor of the Segway and the founder of us first Steve Forbes I appreciate what you do with Forbes magazine for all these years it's one of my first go to places or talk right now with the guys and gals behind Siri. We're joined right now by the director of Kindle technology. We're joined right now by the CEO of Ebates Kevin Johnson on air for more than 15 years.

[00:02:13] Over 20 million podcast downloads. This is Tech Talk with Craig Peterson.

[00:02:20] You know I keep talking about trying to change that intro. And I still haven't done it right. There's just too many things on the plate. It's kind of like the cobbler's kids. Well' I picked up to new clients this week, two new security clients. These are both companies, and because of some serious security problems, they have had. And, I've been working more closely with the FBI as you know because of a couple of things, one this whole InfraGard thing and a few are involved with critical infrastructure if you are responsible for security for business physical as well as some of the security for your computers and other things you might want to look at infragard, I-NFR-A-GARD dot Org. This is an FBI to the private sector organization and they do a little you know kind of a background check on you and then they will sign you up and you can attend some of the local meetings held all over New England, there are some 80 chapters nationwide and you can be kept up to date and that's kind of nice because you get briefings from the Secret Service from the FBI Ecetera. And you also get to attend the webinars that I put on for the infragard members for the FBI. So, check that out as well. But I've been working with them on a couple of different cases it's really kind of interesting the cases but the latest one is just this week. Wow. We had talked with this company last week and the last excuse me last year and the company a small company. 

[00:03:57] Right. That's obviously what happens at all small companies, being really big targets. They were targeted and there was what's called a whale attack against them, and they only found out because of some weird e-mails. Now, this has got to be a record here because I think the most recent clients we've picked up have all noticed a problem with their e-mail. Something weird is going on. So, we delved into this and it turns out that this company had been hacked, maybe. But in this case what had been happening is that they had the customer list which makes you think they've been hacked right. So, somebody has their customer list. They have their invoice format which also makes you think they've been hacked and they have their logo which of course you can get from their Web site, and they've been sending invoices to this company's customers. Now, this is a really big deal because in those invoices they said OK ACH the funds to this account. Now for those who don't know ACH is a way of sending money directly to a bank account or pulling money directly out of a bank account. We use it we use it to pay a couple of our providers and we use it for some of our customers to pay us. It's really handy but, it's also really actually rather dangerous because those guys have your bank account number. So, the bad guys were sending out invoices to the customers of this small business saying pay up and here's where I want you to wire the money. 

[00:05:41] Wow. And they did not hear about this from many of their customers. It's absolutely crazy. It's insane. So, we went in there. We reviewed everything that was happening and came up with a solution for them. We came up with a battle plan including tightening up all of their security, because they were running their own in the House e-mail server, which a lot of people do, and they did it because they wanted to be secure. They didn't want someone hacking a third party service or you know, there's so many ways that it could go wrong when you don't have your hands on it right. Well, it looks like it had been compromised. So, we're cleaning that up we're giving them a much better system that is much more secure. We're putting special clients on all of their machines, not just this normal anti-virus crap that doesn't work. Boy, if he didn't attend my last Webinar there's some serious news out there about like McAfee, saying McAfee is the worst product in the world. Norton saying, Yeah you know none of these products work, people. I keep getting called into business. They didn't work. I got another one. I've got to go to next week who has a major security problem, as well. So, it's been a very interesting, interesting week this week as I'm seeing more and more small businesses getting hacked and having money taken out. So, I'm talking to the FBI agent out of the Boston field office and talking with him about what we've found and what's going on and giving them account numbers and stuff and.

[00:07:21] He's talking. He's telling me about an indictment. I guess it just went out and about a company, very similar thing, and that bad guys got a half a million dollars from this small business. Five hundred thousand dollars. And, even though the FBI has indicted these people you can try and freeze bank accounts et cetera. But, the money's already gone, and I think well I know I've told you guys this is quite a while ago but a story about how doxing works, and how this lady over in the former Soviet Union had to use some of this data that she doxxed. It's an interesting story I should tell it again sometime. But, she was able to get almost 50 million dollars it was more than 45 million from this small-medium sized business, and it only takes 90 seconds for that money, once they have their hands on it. Once they have access to that account it only takes 90 seconds for it to be out of reach of U.S. law enforcement. That's how bad it is. So, you know welcome aboard to our newest customers this week as we try and straighten out the mess. I just wish people would do the right thing to start with. And, sometimes they do.

[00:08:41] And, you know Ron and Monica if you guys are listening, and you come to mind, you know growing the business you wanted to be safe. You're nervous because you didn't understand enough about it. Right. A small business. Somebody is responsible for the IT but there's not necessarily someone that knows enough about it. So, Ron and Monica came to us and they've been a happy client of ours here for a few months now. But, that's the exception right. Usually, people come to us when their whole world has fallen apart. That's a really, really, big problem. All right. So, we're going to get right now into the tenth anniversary and what you should be looking for. Now, it's my 10th anniversary its the 10th anniversary of the app store. I've been on the air now for over 20 years and I think that's about right. We're coming up on our nine hundredth show weekly show so 900 divided by 52. That's that's a lot of years and I appreciate everybody who listens to us and of course all of the sponsors of the radio show and you know without you listeners we would not be here so I appreciate that. Including the listeners of our podcast and people who are watching some of the stuff over on Facebook. Well, it is the 10th and well not today isn't the tenth anniversary as I mentioned earlier but of the App Store. And, I wanted you to look at your phone right now, your smartphone. 

[00:10:12] Open it up. I'm going to pull mine up here too and have a look and see on this app store, not the app store, but on your phone. How many apps do you have this screen? I bet you. Just guessing here I probably have a 1 2 3 4 5 6 times 4 is 24 per page and I have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 pages of apps. 

[00:10:55] How many you have? That is all lot. So let me see 24 times 15 that would be 300. I have 360 apps on my iPhone. Wow. How many apps do you have? Well, when the app store debuted 10 years ago there were 500 apps total out on that app store. This is the Apple App Store obviously. Now, it's grown to over 2 million apps and people like me, I probably have more. I will I know I have more than 360 because I like a lot of them I've deleted and frankly most of us could probably delete a lot. Here are the statistics and I want you to think about your phone your devices here. But, this is according to a study that was done by Nielsen. You know those guys and they found that the average person launches roughly 9 apps per day, 9 per day and interacts with roughly 30 apps over the course of a month. So, for me, that means I have 330 apps that I just plain don't use. Now I know most of these apps use from time to time and that's while they're still on my phone. Yeah, I'm making an excuse, But I do use a lot of them. OK.

[00:12:14] Here's why you might not want to engage in the kind of digital hoarding that I've tried not to do as I said I've deleted some of the apps. The bottom line is, that there are some serious security flaws with some of the older apps particularly if we're talking about Android apps here. The iPhone apps, iOS not so much. But you cannot get updates for a lot of these apps. There are servers that are behind the apps may be where the security flaws are. So, for instance, you're using an app lets just use Dropbox as an example we use Dropbox with a lot of our client Dropbox app. Isn't just a standalone app just like so many of them behind Dropbox app you have Dropbox servers, you have Dropbox data storage right. The same thing with email apps almost any app is going to use some sort of cloud device to do storage in order to pull it all together, Right. It's not storing everything on your phone although some apps certainly do. Well, the security flaws could be behind the app and could be sitting there in the cloud and they're never reviewed by Apple. 

[00:13:29] All Apple is doing is looking at most is looking at some of the code and looking for some major mistakes or them doing stuff that would really, you know, drop your security level and you could lose data. So, that's frankly that's the biggest reason to get rid of these older apps. Yeah, they can slow down your computer or your iPhone really or your Android device that's out there. But, it is a security issue. Now, of course, you also have the issue of using space up but when we're talking about space nowadays it's just so cheap to get cloud space from Google. Or from Google or from Apple. You know we're talking about 99 cents a month for a pretty serious upgrade in cloud storage. But the iPhone now has an automated way to kill apps that you're not using anymore. And what it does is if it's getting low on space and it needs to free some up it can go in an automatic magically delete apps that you're not using, regularly. 

[00:14:40] It saves the documents and data that go with them but it gets rid of the app. See here I'm going to pull up on my iOS device, you're going to go unlock your phone. So, you're in this is true of any iOS devices to have your iPad as well and go to settings. And, this, by the way, is only in the more recent versions of iOS. So, go to Settings General and then under general go to iPhone storage and it's going to give you an option called offload unused apps. Now that's going to automatically delete the apps you don't use, regularly. But, as I said it's going to say the documents are going to save the data. And frankly, it's going to save you gigabytes of storage on your device. Now you can also look at the apps that are hogging your storage because some of them take up a lot of space so if you've done that already so we went to settings General iPhone storage and made sure to offload unused apps is turned on. So, now I want you to go to settings general iPhone storage again and you'll notice there is a running tally of how much space each app is taking up.

[00:15:55] Now if you have a lot of apps it might take a minute or so for it to go through. Find out how much each one's using and sort it in numerical order by clicking into a specific app. You know how much storage is dedicated to the app itself and if it's the app is automatically removed that storage you are going to come right back to you. But it's also going to tell you about the data it's accumulated in some apps are accumulate a lot. Like I use iPod type apps right. Streaming apps listen to podcasts. Those are going to use a lot. I use video apps from Amazon from Netflix from Plax etc. and any movies that I've downloaded are gonna be sitting in there too so that's really going to get you on the right track, again. It's under settings. Both of these settings general iPhone storage. That'll help to clean things up now for Android users.

[00:16:51] The process is, of course, a little different if you are running Android Oreo. 

[00:16:57] You can not get a running tally of your apps and sizes instead you have to click through the categories and find the apps by their usage. There's another apps category for those that don't fit the top level category so, it's not as simple. As over on the app Apple's side. Now again, ten years ago 2008 much different time for app users. 

[00:17:20] Most people didn't consider that a simple flashlight app or social network or maybe an app that just gives you a nice background on your phone might do everything in its power to try and track you and gather up information. But all of those types of apps, historically. All of those types of apps could have done it. Not that they all did, but many people downloaded a free flashlight app or downloaded a free wallpaper and what those apps actually ended up doing was grabbing all their contacts taking that contact information and sending it on out. So you might want to delete those as well. Good time. The 10th anniversary of the App Store to go through and do a little bit of cleanup on your iPhone iPad or Android devices as well.

[00:18:17] Our let's move on to the worst cybersecurity breaches of 2018 so far. Now, I have seen in 2018, one of the worst breaches of small businesses I have ever seen. In fact, it wasn't one of the worst. It was the worst and other security professionals I've worked with have agreed it was the worst one, they had ever seen. Just a small business, talking about eight computers. It is nuts what's going on out there right now. But here we go. The year is only half over and let's see which one of these you can remember the Russian grid hacking.

[00:18:59] We know the Russians were infiltrating and probing our power companies, here in the United States. Remember, they are not run by the government they are private businesses. There is evidence that the Russians, apparently had direct access to all of the control systems in one major U.S. utility. I'm not going to name names here. The not Petya malware has been going out there. Grid hacking guide is just crazy. US universities in March this year the Department of Justice indicted nine Iranian hackers over an alleged breach of attacks on more than 300 universities in the U.S. The suspects are charged with infiltrating the 144 U.S. universities in and 176 and 20 other countries 47 private companies and targets like the United Nations, US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the states of Hawaii and Indiana. Apparently, they stole 31 terabytes worth of data. Who wouldn't notice that data going out of their systems exfiltration something you have to watch for, estimated to be worth three billion dollars. Man, we got rampant data exposures. Data breaches of course, continued just crazy in 2018. But their quiet cousin, I liked the way wired worded, this data exposure has also been prominent this year. I've got a link to this Wired article up on my Web site. Craig Peterson dot com if you want to read the whole thing I'm just kind of commenting as I go through it here. But, the data exposures when data is stored and is not defended properly. So, is not encrypted at rest Etcetera Etcetera So data aggregation firm exact Exactis, talked a little bit about the 340 million records exposed publicly accessible it's two terabytes of very personal information about hundreds of millions of US adults. Under Armour breach, This is their my fitness pal app and a lot of people that were using it using names email addresses passwords from 150 million users. VPN filter. This one's still going on warned about it. At the end of May beginning of June but it has impacted more than a half a million routers worldwide.

[00:21:26] This was spying and it was just like a siphon, right too. You've seen these massive siphons that they use to suck up water for firefighting.

[00:21:39] And are there like two feet in diameter. These huge things and they can suck up thousands of gallons a minute. Well, that's the sort of thing VPN filter can do and it sends it all to Russia. And once it's in Russia they have your information, everything you've been doing online. It's just crazy. Which, is why and we're not going to get to any of these other articles, unfortunately, we have run out of time but that's why I have put up on my Web site you'll find Craig Peterson dot com in today's show note make sure you check your e-mail. My show notes for today but talking about how to make your Wi-Fi Router as secure as possible. You've got to do it. This is very dangerous stuff. The FBI had been warning people worldwide and unfortunately, very few people have put the patch in place. The FBI has slowed it down by blocking the command and control. But, this is a very very big deal. So make sure you pay attention to that and we're starting up a few other things. We've got some other recordings we're going to be posting. We're putting stuff up on YouTube and Facebook, soon. So, I will let you know. But make sure you are subscribed to my regular weekly show notes, so I'm going to check in make sure that's up.

[00:23:00] But, if you go to Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. It should pull up a little subscription page for. And once you're there. Go ahead and subscribe to my weekly newsletter and you'll get these articles, all of the details. You'll also be able to get, this is a very good thing. Any warnings about immediate breaches that are underway. I have master classes that I'm giving for free on a bunch of topics so its based on what you're telling me you want to hear about. And I do these things absolutely free is not a pinch and the only way you can find out about that is making sure that you get my weekly e-mails, again. Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. I'll be back on the air next week same time. And you can also find me online, go to Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes, please subscribe. It really helps to get those subscriber numbers up. Those are the ones that count. I want to make sure people listen in and they understand these the most important topics of the week and of the day have a great weekend. We will talk again next week. Take care. Bye-bye. 

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Did you know that it has been 10 years since Apple introduced its app store?  Today I will discuss app hoarding and how you can do a little "spring" cleaning on your iPhone.

Have you been hacked?  If not you are lucky! Today, I will talk about how 2018 has turned out to be a banner year for cyber breaches.

Did you know that small business is under attack?  I will tell you about why and some of the things I have uncovered.

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Airing date: 07/21/2018

Small business security and breaches. Why delete old apps and how. Worst cyber breaches of 2018

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, everybody, Welcome to Tech Talk with Craig Peterson today. You know it's the 10th anniversary of the app store. Well not today, but just towards the 10th anniversary of the app store. So we're going to talk a little bit about apps today. Maybe it's time to do a little bit of, Well, it isn't Spring, either. but it may be some cleanup on your phone. We'll talk about why you should do that. We've got the worst cyber security breaches so far of 2018. This professor, we're going to talk a little bit about doxing, a New York University professor who is encouraging people to basically attack ICE agents. It's crazy, isn't it? Real Life Hacker reveals what you should stop doing an online DNA test. Did you buy one of these as Amazon Prime had them on special this week? We're going to talk about it shattering your identity. There have been some interesting stories about this new tech new road signs that can detect mobile phones being used in vehicles. 

[00:01:03] Now the director of National Intelligence. Dan Coats has a couple of words for us and I've got an article up on my site. If you have a Wi-Fi router you know we've talked about this many times, but have you done what you should do. I know a lot of people haven't because they haven't been calling me asking them to help fix it. 

[00:01:24] But, anyways how to make your Wi-Fi router as secure as possible. So here we go stick around. We've only got a half an hour

[00:01:38] On the front lines and ahead of the trends in business and consumer technology speaking with the top minds and creators behind the products and ideas that help to drive our everyday lives. 

[00:01:48] Dean Kamen is joining us now. He's the inventor of the Segway and the founder of us first Steve Forbes I appreciate what you do with Forbes magazine for all these years it's one of my first go to places or talk right now with the guys and gals behind Siri. We're joined right now by the director of Kindle technology. We're joined right now by the CEO of Ebates Kevin Johnson on air for more than 15 years.

[00:02:13] Over 20 million podcast downloads. This is Tech Talk with Craig Peterson.

[00:02:20] You know I keep talking about trying to change that intro. And I still haven't done it right. There's just too many things on the plate. It's kind of like the cobbler's kids. Well' I picked up to new clients this week, two new security clients. These are both companies, and because of some serious security problems, they have had. And, I've been working more closely with the FBI as you know because of a couple of things, one this whole InfraGard thing and a few are involved with critical infrastructure if you are responsible for security for business physical as well as some of the security for your computers and other things you might want to look at infragard, I-NFR-A-GARD dot Org. This is an FBI to the private sector organization and they do a little you know kind of a background check on you and then they will sign you up and you can attend some of the local meetings held all over New England, there are some 80 chapters nationwide and you can be kept up to date and that's kind of nice because you get briefings from the Secret Service from the FBI Ecetera. And you also get to attend the webinars that I put on for the infragard members for the FBI. So, check that out as well. But I've been working with them on a couple of different cases it's really kind of interesting the cases but the latest one is just this week. Wow. We had talked with this company last week and the last excuse me last year and the company a small company. 

[00:03:57] Right. That's obviously what happens at all small companies, being really big targets. They were targeted and there was what's called a whale attack against them, and they only found out because of some weird e-mails. Now, this has got to be a record here because I think the most recent clients we've picked up have all noticed a problem with their e-mail. Something weird is going on. So, we delved into this and it turns out that this company had been hacked, maybe. But in this case what had been happening is that they had the customer list which makes you think they've been hacked right. So, somebody has their customer list. They have their invoice format which also makes you think they've been hacked and they have their logo which of course you can get from their Web site, and they've been sending invoices to this company's customers. Now, this is a really big deal because in those invoices they said OK ACH the funds to this account. Now for those who don't know ACH is a way of sending money directly to a bank account or pulling money directly out of a bank account. We use it we use it to pay a couple of our providers and we use it for some of our customers to pay us. It's really handy but, it's also really actually rather dangerous because those guys have your bank account number. So, the bad guys were sending out invoices to the customers of this small business saying pay up and here's where I want you to wire the money. 

[00:05:41] Wow. And they did not hear about this from many of their customers. It's absolutely crazy. It's insane. So, we went in there. We reviewed everything that was happening and came up with a solution for them. We came up with a battle plan including tightening up all of their security, because they were running their own in the House e-mail server, which a lot of people do, and they did it because they wanted to be secure. They didn't want someone hacking a third party service or you know, there's so many ways that it could go wrong when you don't have your hands on it right. Well, it looks like it had been compromised. So, we're cleaning that up we're giving them a much better system that is much more secure. We're putting special clients on all of their machines, not just this normal anti-virus crap that doesn't work. Boy, if he didn't attend my last Webinar there's some serious news out there about like McAfee, saying McAfee is the worst product in the world. Norton saying, Yeah you know none of these products work, people. I keep getting called into business. They didn't work. I got another one. I've got to go to next week who has a major security problem, as well. So, it's been a very interesting, interesting week this week as I'm seeing more and more small businesses getting hacked and having money taken out. So, I'm talking to the FBI agent out of the Boston field office and talking with him about what we've found and what's going on and giving them account numbers and stuff and.

[00:07:21] He's talking. He's telling me about an indictment. I guess it just went out and about a company, very similar thing, and that bad guys got a half a million dollars from this small business. Five hundred thousand dollars. And, even though the FBI has indicted these people you can try and freeze bank accounts et cetera. But, the money's already gone, and I think well I know I've told you guys this is quite a while ago but a story about how doxing works, and how this lady over in the former Soviet Union had to use some of this data that she doxxed. It's an interesting story I should tell it again sometime. But, she was able to get almost 50 million dollars it was more than 45 million from this small-medium sized business, and it only takes 90 seconds for that money, once they have their hands on it. Once they have access to that account it only takes 90 seconds for it to be out of reach of U.S. law enforcement. That's how bad it is. So, you know welcome aboard to our newest customers this week as we try and straighten out the mess. I just wish people would do the right thing to start with. And, sometimes they do.

[00:08:41] And, you know Ron and Monica if you guys are listening, and you come to mind, you know growing the business you wanted to be safe. You're nervous because you didn't understand enough about it. Right. A small business. Somebody is responsible for the IT but there's not necessarily someone that knows enough about it. So, Ron and Monica came to us and they've been a happy client of ours here for a few months now. But, that's the exception right. Usually, people come to us when their whole world has fallen apart. That's a really, really, big problem. All right. So, we're going to get right now into the tenth anniversary and what you should be looking for. Now, it's my 10th anniversary its the 10th anniversary of the app store. I've been on the air now for over 20 years and I think that's about right. We're coming up on our nine hundredth show weekly show so 900 divided by 52. That's that's a lot of years and I appreciate everybody who listens to us and of course all of the sponsors of the radio show and you know without you listeners we would not be here so I appreciate that. Including the listeners of our podcast and people who are watching some of the stuff over on Facebook. Well, it is the 10th and well not today isn't the tenth anniversary as I mentioned earlier but of the App Store. And, I wanted you to look at your phone right now, your smartphone. 

[00:10:12] Open it up. I'm going to pull mine up here too and have a look and see on this app store, not the app store, but on your phone. How many apps do you have this screen? I bet you. Just guessing here I probably have a 1 2 3 4 5 6 times 4 is 24 per page and I have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 pages of apps. 

[00:10:55] How many you have? That is all lot. So let me see 24 times 15 that would be 300. I have 360 apps on my iPhone. Wow. How many apps do you have? Well, when the app store debuted 10 years ago there were 500 apps total out on that app store. This is the Apple App Store obviously. Now, it's grown to over 2 million apps and people like me, I probably have more. I will I know I have more than 360 because I like a lot of them I've deleted and frankly most of us could probably delete a lot. Here are the statistics and I want you to think about your phone your devices here. But, this is according to a study that was done by Nielsen. You know those guys and they found that the average person launches roughly 9 apps per day, 9 per day and interacts with roughly 30 apps over the course of a month. So, for me, that means I have 330 apps that I just plain don't use. Now I know most of these apps use from time to time and that's while they're still on my phone. Yeah, I'm making an excuse, But I do use a lot of them. OK.

[00:12:14] Here's why you might not want to engage in the kind of digital hoarding that I've tried not to do as I said I've deleted some of the apps. The bottom line is, that there are some serious security flaws with some of the older apps particularly if we're talking about Android apps here. The iPhone apps, iOS not so much. But you cannot get updates for a lot of these apps. There are servers that are behind the apps may be where the security flaws are. So, for instance, you're using an app lets just use Dropbox as an example we use Dropbox with a lot of our client Dropbox app. Isn't just a standalone app just like so many of them behind Dropbox app you have Dropbox servers, you have Dropbox data storage right. The same thing with email apps almost any app is going to use some sort of cloud device to do storage in order to pull it all together, Right. It's not storing everything on your phone although some apps certainly do. Well, the security flaws could be behind the app and could be sitting there in the cloud and they're never reviewed by Apple. 

[00:13:29] All Apple is doing is looking at most is looking at some of the code and looking for some major mistakes or them doing stuff that would really, you know, drop your security level and you could lose data. So, that's frankly that's the biggest reason to get rid of these older apps. Yeah, they can slow down your computer or your iPhone really or your Android device that's out there. But, it is a security issue. Now, of course, you also have the issue of using space up but when we're talking about space nowadays it's just so cheap to get cloud space from Google. Or from Google or from Apple. You know we're talking about 99 cents a month for a pretty serious upgrade in cloud storage. But the iPhone now has an automated way to kill apps that you're not using anymore. And what it does is if it's getting low on space and it needs to free some up it can go in an automatic magically delete apps that you're not using, regularly. 

[00:14:40] It saves the documents and data that go with them but it gets rid of the app. See here I'm going to pull up on my iOS device, you're going to go unlock your phone. So, you're in this is true of any iOS devices to have your iPad as well and go to settings. And, this, by the way, is only in the more recent versions of iOS. So, go to Settings General and then under general go to iPhone storage and it's going to give you an option called offload unused apps. Now that's going to automatically delete the apps you don't use, regularly. But, as I said it's going to say the documents are going to save the data. And frankly, it's going to save you gigabytes of storage on your device. Now you can also look at the apps that are hogging your storage because some of them take up a lot of space so if you've done that already so we went to settings General iPhone storage and made sure to offload unused apps is turned on. So, now I want you to go to settings general iPhone storage again and you'll notice there is a running tally of how much space each app is taking up.

[00:15:55] Now if you have a lot of apps it might take a minute or so for it to go through. Find out how much each one's using and sort it in numerical order by clicking into a specific app. You know how much storage is dedicated to the app itself and if it's the app is automatically removed that storage you are going to come right back to you. But it's also going to tell you about the data it's accumulated in some apps are accumulate a lot. Like I use iPod type apps right. Streaming apps listen to podcasts. Those are going to use a lot. I use video apps from Amazon from Netflix from Plax etc. and any movies that I've downloaded are gonna be sitting in there too so that's really going to get you on the right track, again. It's under settings. Both of these settings general iPhone storage. That'll help to clean things up now for Android users.

[00:16:51] The process is, of course, a little different if you are running Android Oreo. 

[00:16:57] You can not get a running tally of your apps and sizes instead you have to click through the categories and find the apps by their usage. There's another apps category for those that don't fit the top level category so, it's not as simple. As over on the app Apple's side. Now again, ten years ago 2008 much different time for app users. 

[00:17:20] Most people didn't consider that a simple flashlight app or social network or maybe an app that just gives you a nice background on your phone might do everything in its power to try and track you and gather up information. But all of those types of apps, historically. All of those types of apps could have done it. Not that they all did, but many people downloaded a free flashlight app or downloaded a free wallpaper and what those apps actually ended up doing was grabbing all their contacts taking that contact information and sending it on out. So you might want to delete those as well. Good time. The 10th anniversary of the App Store to go through and do a little bit of cleanup on your iPhone iPad or Android devices as well.

[00:18:17] Our let's move on to the worst cybersecurity breaches of 2018 so far. Now, I have seen in 2018, one of the worst breaches of small businesses I have ever seen. In fact, it wasn't one of the worst. It was the worst and other security professionals I've worked with have agreed it was the worst one, they had ever seen. Just a small business, talking about eight computers. It is nuts what's going on out there right now. But here we go. The year is only half over and let's see which one of these you can remember the Russian grid hacking.

[00:18:59] We know the Russians were infiltrating and probing our power companies, here in the United States. Remember, they are not run by the government they are private businesses. There is evidence that the Russians, apparently had direct access to all of the control systems in one major U.S. utility. I'm not going to name names here. The not Petya malware has been going out there. Grid hacking guide is just crazy. US universities in March this year the Department of Justice indicted nine Iranian hackers over an alleged breach of attacks on more than 300 universities in the U.S. The suspects are charged with infiltrating the 144 U.S. universities in and 176 and 20 other countries 47 private companies and targets like the United Nations, US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the states of Hawaii and Indiana. Apparently, they stole 31 terabytes worth of data. Who wouldn't notice that data going out of their systems exfiltration something you have to watch for, estimated to be worth three billion dollars. Man, we got rampant data exposures. Data breaches of course, continued just crazy in 2018. But their quiet cousin, I liked the way wired worded, this data exposure has also been prominent this year. I've got a link to this Wired article up on my Web site. Craig Peterson dot com if you want to read the whole thing I'm just kind of commenting as I go through it here. But, the data exposures when data is stored and is not defended properly. So, is not encrypted at rest Etcetera Etcetera So data aggregation firm exact Exactis, talked a little bit about the 340 million records exposed publicly accessible it's two terabytes of very personal information about hundreds of millions of US adults. Under Armour breach, This is their my fitness pal app and a lot of people that were using it using names email addresses passwords from 150 million users. VPN filter. This one's still going on warned about it. At the end of May beginning of June but it has impacted more than a half a million routers worldwide.

[00:21:26] This was spying and it was just like a siphon, right too. You've seen these massive siphons that they use to suck up water for firefighting.

[00:21:39] And are there like two feet in diameter. These huge things and they can suck up thousands of gallons a minute. Well, that's the sort of thing VPN filter can do and it sends it all to Russia. And once it's in Russia they have your information, everything you've been doing online. It's just crazy. Which, is why and we're not going to get to any of these other articles, unfortunately, we have run out of time but that's why I have put up on my Web site you'll find Craig Peterson dot com in today's show note make sure you check your e-mail. My show notes for today but talking about how to make your Wi-Fi Router as secure as possible. You've got to do it. This is very dangerous stuff. The FBI had been warning people worldwide and unfortunately, very few people have put the patch in place. The FBI has slowed it down by blocking the command and control. But, this is a very very big deal. So make sure you pay attention to that and we're starting up a few other things. We've got some other recordings we're going to be posting. We're putting stuff up on YouTube and Facebook, soon. So, I will let you know. But make sure you are subscribed to my regular weekly show notes, so I'm going to check in make sure that's up.

[00:23:00] But, if you go to Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. It should pull up a little subscription page for. And once you're there. Go ahead and subscribe to my weekly newsletter and you'll get these articles, all of the details. You'll also be able to get, this is a very good thing. Any warnings about immediate breaches that are underway. I have master classes that I'm giving for free on a bunch of topics so its based on what you're telling me you want to hear about. And I do these things absolutely free is not a pinch and the only way you can find out about that is making sure that you get my weekly e-mails, again. Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. I'll be back on the air next week same time. And you can also find me online, go to Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes, please subscribe. It really helps to get those subscriber numbers up. Those are the ones that count. I want to make sure people listen in and they understand these the most important topics of the week and of the day have a great weekend. We will talk again next week. Take care. Bye-bye. 

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Airing date: 07/18/2018

Facebook Facial Recognition, Walmart Privacy Concerns, Apple USB Restricted Mode

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Craig Peterson, here this morning we talked about a couple of things now. One of the subjects I kind of talked with Jim Polito about yesterday is your Facebook privacy but we always take a little bit of a different angle especially with Ken and Matt and we went into some more detail on the privacy that you can get in a Wal-Mart store. What's new patent about? And of course iPhone's right. With the new software update from Apple how much privacy are you going to get from that and who are they trying to protect your information from, anyway. 

[00:00:35] So, here we go with Ken and Matt. We are back again 738 and the WGAN Morning News on Wednesday which means it's time to Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday. Craig, how are you this morning? 

[00:00:49] Hey, I can't believe you guys were talking about Dr. Pimple Popper. Did You ever watch that show, man? 

[00:00:57] No, he did not have to look it up.  Did you see the view count on some of those videos? There's definitely some sick people out there as well.

[00:01:05] It's absolutely amazing and it's showing that something to talk about the fact is sex but Instagram is where she started in 2014 it said in the YouTube in 2015 and they are talking about 4 million people. 

[00:01:20] So she gets picked a crazy.

[00:01:24] Now, she is a reality TV show. Can I point out that I know nothing about this woman nor do I want to. I'm showing this man I'm going to I'm going.

[00:01:32] I don't what I'm going to trick you into watching this. Why am the way I hate it? I was just hearing about it. I mean, realistically all you got to see is about two seconds worth of that video. I can make you see I can fool you and you can think Look get cute puppies or something you can click on and you're like oh my god, no. 

[00:01:48] So of course is calm as we go. When he got all his valuable information. 

[00:01:54] Let's talk about Facebook are they still abusing me, abusing my privacy.

[00:01:59] Was that a big faces type thing you know a nice segue pimpled. 

[00:02:06] Yeah.

[00:02:08] Very clever, very clever, Yeah. Here is the problem. I remember when the Zuck went and sat before Congress three months ago and Congress kind of drilled him and said, hey privacy what's going on. And, he continually said well I'm going to have to get back to you on that. Do You remember that? Well, he finally got back to Congress and told them kind of what they wanted to hear. Well, that's kind of the bottom line here because he did answer their questions and basically he goes he goes on and on and on for dozens. I think it's more than 100 pages long answering the questions about privacy. But, now we've got another problem with privacy and it's something that we've mentioned a little bit on the show that I know Matt's been concerned about and that is our faces no Ken has a phone and an iPhone 10. And in order to unlock his phone, he has to have his face in front of the phone right.

[00:03:06] Yes that's correct. I mean this in fairness since I have been critical of the Apple, Apple cult. You know my face also unlocks my Galaxy Note. So,

[00:03:15] There you go. Same sort of thing. But, it's concerning right because I know, Matt, you've expressed concerns. Do you really want Samsung or Google or Apple to have your face on file?

[00:03:28] No, no I really don't. Yeah, Yeah exactly.

[00:03:31] Now with Apple the face does not leave the phone, none your fingerprint does not leave the phone it's kept in this enclave that sharing passwords. 

[00:03:43] But, the bottom line is you really don't know. Well, if you're on Facebook and I know Ken doesn't use Facebook he uses what was my face space, exactly. But over on Facebook if you post a picture you can take someone in that picture, and the way that works is now you say yeah right here's a picture of Matt and I. And, so you post that picture up there on Facebook and you tag Matt. And, now it tells Matt, Hey listen Ken tagged you in a picture and it's kind of cool because wow, ok I remember there that being there you share your picture with your friends Etcetera, Etcetera. It's really kind of a cool feature. Well, have you guys noticed that Facebook is now suggesting people to tag in the US with their facial recognition software. Yes, exactly that's exactly what's going on. And, Facebook has now got this massive database of faces that it's been using and it built it over the years, as kind of an interesting technology, Using basically a kind of, logical deduction, as to who it is in the picture. But, now people are getting concerned because we already know that Facebook, isn't, well you know all big on privacy. That's not their business. And, we know that they are doing this and some people are alleging that, in fact, what actually happened here is that Facebook is not telling people what it is doing.

[00:05:19] In fact, there's a number of people that are talking about lawsuits. Congress has gotten involved now because Facebook's core business model of course built around advertising. And I have to mention Tom Cruise here, Minority Report. Remember him without somebody else's eyes walking past a billboard and the billboard yeah changed and offered him a deal. Right. It's just incredible what can happen to expect that in the future. Expect that it's going to recognize you. There are already billboards. That will change based on your car or the predominance of a certain model car on the road and you're going to see that more and more of. The technology is just incredible. But, combine having pictures of people's faces making it easy to find those pictures online. So, let's say Facebook ends up with a face search function and 3D printing where you can now 3D print a mold of maps face. The legal ramifications for this is starting to get really kind of crazy. And, even though we know Apple has done a lot to make sure that you cannot unlock it with a just a picture. Someone Samsung's worked on that too you know the future here it's getting kind of terrifying. Frankly speaking of terrifying surveillance oriented future, is Wal-Mart listening in on their employee's conversations, yes they have filed a patent to do just that.

[00:06:54] Are they monitoring their people and why are they doing it.

[00:06:57] Why they're doing it? Well. Wal-Mart, of course, in a battle for its life against a company that cannot keep its Web site up. What are Prime specials? Of course, we're talking about Amazon and Amazon, of course, had their big prime day yesterday with all these prime deals. I took advantage of a couple myself. There were a couple of good ones but Wal-Mart is trying to figure out how can we make their stores more efficient. Because Amazon doesn't have cash registers. It doesn't have to keep the air conditioning on, in the whole place. It doesn't have to stock the shelves like Wal-Mart does. You know they can have millions of Skew's Amazon can. So, don't have to be selective about what they carry. So, how can Wal-Mart compete? Wal-Mart was just awarded a patent for technology that listened in to the employees and the people's shopping in the stores. So, it's called listening to the front end, this technology. We don't know if Wal-Mart ever going to build it, but they did get this patent and it will provide them with some performance metrics for employees. It will tell them how many people are up there that front end of the checkout registers it leaves and it's even able to tell how many bags an employee uses to package your goods that you just bought. So, you know all the efficiencies are what they're aiming for. And some employees are kind of concerned as, Matt, just indicated that maybe this is going a little bit too far. And, of course, there's a number of people that agree with that including the professor over Cornell's industrial labor and relations school.

[00:08:47] We are happy when Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us. Everyone's here Craig Peterson speak to my apple 10 so is my apple Ten now more secure from prying eyes like police officers or NSA or the government.

[00:09:04] Yeah. There's concern about those guys and there's also concern about bad guys. So, for instance, you can go and you can buy a machine for about 30 thousand dollars from a company and all you have to do is plug an iPhone into it. And supposedly it will crack any iPhone. Now, it might take a few months. It seems to depend on how many digits you have in your passcode or whether you use in your face or your thumbprint. But, they can break into them, apparently. They are certainly getting paid for it. And, the government is getting the information. But, how about somebody that just grabs your iPhone off a table at the local coffee shop? How about if you go to China for a business trip? Or you go to Russia? China is known for getting their hands on your devices even while you're sleeping in a hotel room and copying the devices. So, Apple has come up with a new feature. If you just upgraded your iPhone you've got it so if your phone has not been unlocked for one hour they cannot plug one of these devices in order to copy your iPhone. So, I think it's a good idea. This is not just an anti-law enforcement thing. This is a privacy thing. Bad guys in this country, as well as, around the world are using it to unlock the iPhone and now there are some ways around this and we will discuss those right now. But bottom line, if your phone has been locked for an hour your phone, is pretty safe. But if you're in a coffee shop you probably just used it and that bad guys get to have access anyway.

[00:10:41] Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us every Wednesday at this time to give us an eye on technology around the world. Craig thank you very much. We will talk to you again. Thank you, gentlemen. All right so we're going to take a quick break here and we'll come back on the other side maybe call.

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Has Facebook ever suggested that you tag a person in a picture you posted? Craig joins Ken and Matt to discuss what Facebook is doing with Facial Recognition and why you should be concerned. 

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Airing date: 07/18/2018

Facebook Facial Recognition, Walmart Privacy Concerns, Apple USB Restricted Mode

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Craig Peterson, here this morning we talked about a couple of things now. One of the subjects I kind of talked with Jim Polito about yesterday is your Facebook privacy but we always take a little bit of a different angle especially with Ken and Matt and we went into some more detail on the privacy that you can get in a Wal-Mart store. What's new patent about? And of course iPhone's right. With the new software update from Apple how much privacy are you going to get from that and who are they trying to protect your information from, anyway. 

[00:00:35] So, here we go with Ken and Matt. We are back again 738 and the WGAN Morning News on Wednesday which means it's time to Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday. Craig, how are you this morning? 

[00:00:49] Hey, I can't believe you guys were talking about Dr. Pimple Popper. Did You ever watch that show, man? 

[00:00:57] No, he did not have to look it up.  Did you see the view count on some of those videos? There's definitely some sick people out there as well.

[00:01:05] It's absolutely amazing and it's showing that something to talk about the fact is sex but Instagram is where she started in 2014 it said in the YouTube in 2015 and they are talking about 4 million people. 

[00:01:20] So she gets picked a crazy.

[00:01:24] Now, she is a reality TV show. Can I point out that I know nothing about this woman nor do I want to. I'm showing this man I'm going to I'm going.

[00:01:32] I don't what I'm going to trick you into watching this. Why am the way I hate it? I was just hearing about it. I mean, realistically all you got to see is about two seconds worth of that video. I can make you see I can fool you and you can think Look get cute puppies or something you can click on and you're like oh my god, no. 

[00:01:48] So of course is calm as we go. When he got all his valuable information. 

[00:01:54] Let's talk about Facebook are they still abusing me, abusing my privacy.

[00:01:59] Was that a big faces type thing you know a nice segue pimpled. 

[00:02:06] Yeah.

[00:02:08] Very clever, very clever, Yeah. Here is the problem. I remember when the Zuck went and sat before Congress three months ago and Congress kind of drilled him and said, hey privacy what's going on. And, he continually said well I'm going to have to get back to you on that. Do You remember that? Well, he finally got back to Congress and told them kind of what they wanted to hear. Well, that's kind of the bottom line here because he did answer their questions and basically he goes he goes on and on and on for dozens. I think it's more than 100 pages long answering the questions about privacy. But, now we've got another problem with privacy and it's something that we've mentioned a little bit on the show that I know Matt's been concerned about and that is our faces no Ken has a phone and an iPhone 10. And in order to unlock his phone, he has to have his face in front of the phone right.

[00:03:06] Yes that's correct. I mean this in fairness since I have been critical of the Apple, Apple cult. You know my face also unlocks my Galaxy Note. So,

[00:03:15] There you go. Same sort of thing. But, it's concerning right because I know, Matt, you've expressed concerns. Do you really want Samsung or Google or Apple to have your face on file?

[00:03:28] No, no I really don't. Yeah, Yeah exactly.

[00:03:31] Now with Apple the face does not leave the phone, none your fingerprint does not leave the phone it's kept in this enclave that sharing passwords. 

[00:03:43] But, the bottom line is you really don't know. Well, if you're on Facebook and I know Ken doesn't use Facebook he uses what was my face space, exactly. But over on Facebook if you post a picture you can take someone in that picture, and the way that works is now you say yeah right here's a picture of Matt and I. And, so you post that picture up there on Facebook and you tag Matt. And, now it tells Matt, Hey listen Ken tagged you in a picture and it's kind of cool because wow, ok I remember there that being there you share your picture with your friends Etcetera, Etcetera. It's really kind of a cool feature. Well, have you guys noticed that Facebook is now suggesting people to tag in the US with their facial recognition software. Yes, exactly that's exactly what's going on. And, Facebook has now got this massive database of faces that it's been using and it built it over the years, as kind of an interesting technology, Using basically a kind of, logical deduction, as to who it is in the picture. But, now people are getting concerned because we already know that Facebook, isn't, well you know all big on privacy. That's not their business. And, we know that they are doing this and some people are alleging that, in fact, what actually happened here is that Facebook is not telling people what it is doing.

[00:05:19] In fact, there's a number of people that are talking about lawsuits. Congress has gotten involved now because Facebook's core business model of course built around advertising. And I have to mention Tom Cruise here, Minority Report. Remember him without somebody else's eyes walking past a billboard and the billboard yeah changed and offered him a deal. Right. It's just incredible what can happen to expect that in the future. Expect that it's going to recognize you. There are already billboards. That will change based on your car or the predominance of a certain model car on the road and you're going to see that more and more of. The technology is just incredible. But, combine having pictures of people's faces making it easy to find those pictures online. So, let's say Facebook ends up with a face search function and 3D printing where you can now 3D print a mold of maps face. The legal ramifications for this is starting to get really kind of crazy. And, even though we know Apple has done a lot to make sure that you cannot unlock it with a just a picture. Someone Samsung's worked on that too you know the future here it's getting kind of terrifying. Frankly speaking of terrifying surveillance oriented future, is Wal-Mart listening in on their employee's conversations, yes they have filed a patent to do just that.

[00:06:54] Are they monitoring their people and why are they doing it.

[00:06:57] Why they're doing it? Well. Wal-Mart, of course, in a battle for its life against a company that cannot keep its Web site up. What are Prime specials? Of course, we're talking about Amazon and Amazon, of course, had their big prime day yesterday with all these prime deals. I took advantage of a couple myself. There were a couple of good ones but Wal-Mart is trying to figure out how can we make their stores more efficient. Because Amazon doesn't have cash registers. It doesn't have to keep the air conditioning on, in the whole place. It doesn't have to stock the shelves like Wal-Mart does. You know they can have millions of Skew's Amazon can. So, don't have to be selective about what they carry. So, how can Wal-Mart compete? Wal-Mart was just awarded a patent for technology that listened in to the employees and the people's shopping in the stores. So, it's called listening to the front end, this technology. We don't know if Wal-Mart ever going to build it, but they did get this patent and it will provide them with some performance metrics for employees. It will tell them how many people are up there that front end of the checkout registers it leaves and it's even able to tell how many bags an employee uses to package your goods that you just bought. So, you know all the efficiencies are what they're aiming for. And some employees are kind of concerned as, Matt, just indicated that maybe this is going a little bit too far. And, of course, there's a number of people that agree with that including the professor over Cornell's industrial labor and relations school.

[00:08:47] We are happy when Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us. Everyone's here Craig Peterson speak to my apple 10 so is my apple Ten now more secure from prying eyes like police officers or NSA or the government.

[00:09:04] Yeah. There's concern about those guys and there's also concern about bad guys. So, for instance, you can go and you can buy a machine for about 30 thousand dollars from a company and all you have to do is plug an iPhone into it. And supposedly it will crack any iPhone. Now, it might take a few months. It seems to depend on how many digits you have in your passcode or whether you use in your face or your thumbprint. But, they can break into them, apparently. They are certainly getting paid for it. And, the government is getting the information. But, how about somebody that just grabs your iPhone off a table at the local coffee shop? How about if you go to China for a business trip? Or you go to Russia? China is known for getting their hands on your devices even while you're sleeping in a hotel room and copying the devices. So, Apple has come up with a new feature. If you just upgraded your iPhone you've got it so if your phone has not been unlocked for one hour they cannot plug one of these devices in order to copy your iPhone. So, I think it's a good idea. This is not just an anti-law enforcement thing. This is a privacy thing. Bad guys in this country, as well as, around the world are using it to unlock the iPhone and now there are some ways around this and we will discuss those right now. But bottom line, if your phone has been locked for an hour your phone, is pretty safe. But if you're in a coffee shop you probably just used it and that bad guys get to have access anyway.

[00:10:41] Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us every Wednesday at this time to give us an eye on technology around the world. Craig thank you very much. We will talk to you again. Thank you, gentlemen. All right so we're going to take a quick break here and we'll come back on the other side maybe call.

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Do you tag people in pictures on Facebook?  Listen in as Craig talks with Jim Polito about Privacy, Facebook and Facial Recognition.

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Airing date: 07/17/2018

Facebook Abusing Your Privacy Again, Facial Recognition, Russian Hacking

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi everybody. Today, we talked about Apple just a little bit but mostly about Facebook. We talked about Imran Awan, you remember the I.T. staffer there was working for the Democrats and with a tie in to the Russians. Wow, it gets kind of crazy but it's all about privacy today with Jim Polito, so here we go.

[00:00:26] If he was running Amazon they wouldn't have crashed yesterday. 

[00:00:30] I'm talking about our tech guru and good friend Craig Peterson, Good morning, sir.

[00:00:36] Hey good morning. I noticed that too. I was on, and yeah I was getting all kinds of errors trying to do the one day deal that they had. I don't know if I can extend it or not. But, yeah they had problems. 

[00:00:49] Well they didn't have Craig Peterson on their side. No they don't. 

[00:00:54] I built some of the biggest Web sites in the world with the biggest databases. Long before Jeff Bezos got involved with the whole Amazon thing, and yeah there's something I've done for decades, now. It's scary to think back. I said the other day to someone yeah you know I've been doing professionally computer networking since 1975 and all of a sudden I did the math and felt old. That would be worse. 

[00:01:25] Is that a young person said and not that you're not young. In relative terms said they had computers in 75 

[00:01:35] Weird, eh? 

[00:01:38] Tell me about Facebook still abusing my privacy. Are you telling me that Mark Zuckerberg wasn't completely honest with me.

[00:01:50] Did you notice the Zuck said in an answer to a lot of the questions said Hey, I'll get back to you on that, and fact he did. Oh he did. He did. He sent them a document that was hundreds of pages long as I recall, and it got no press because of course by then the news cycle was over and people move on.

[00:02:16] Yeah they move on then and they he said Yeah well we kind of do keep everything and everyone possibly that we possibly can, and that reminds me of Debbie Wasserman Schultz who is I.T. guy to you has just made it into the news have you guys talked about this one. 

[00:02:35] I've talked about him but in family and everyone else but he seems like the mainstream media doesn't want to talk about him.

[00:02:46] He just came out I guess this week that you know they were supposed to turn over a server for the FBI to finally examine as near as I can tell. They're saying the Russians hacked right the Russians hacked the DNC. If you look at the charges that are just brought against the Russians there's no mention of the fact that the Russians were trying to hijack the Republicans as well. Did you know that. Yes. It was completely left out of the indictment. Well it turns out now apparently this server that they were supposed to turn over, they were starting to look at it and then they checked the serial number. The server that was turned over for investigation was not the server because they gave them something else. 

[00:03:32] Isn't that interesting. And didn't we learn that somebody. Took a whole bunch of information, off of that DNC server in question. And that the forensic folks figured out that the speed with which all of the data was downloaded indicated that it would have been impossible to do it remotely that somebody who had access to the DNC server put in a Zip drive and downloaded stuff. Now that says to me you well wait a minute. I don't think that was a Russian. 

[00:04:19] Oh he goes it goes on and on. Anyway, that story is going to continue to give us all kinds of entertainment because this whole thing is just completely nuts. What happened what they let happen to do is back to Zuck. Yeah. So he did three months ago sit in front of Congress. He came up and said yeah we're going to have we're going to make it so everything's transparent. And you know maybe when you were thinking about transparent maybe he was thinking of it like looking through a window or maybe a camera lens. Because as it turned out the Zuck is using specialized facial recognition technology. 

[00:05:01] That people just aren't aware of when you are on Facebook. Now. You know if you post a picture you can Tag someone in a way that you tagged me before I've tag you in pictures, of course. 

[00:05:14] So, it was that's kind of cool and it brings pictures and things to peoples attention and you can find the people were when you were tagging people in those pictures did you realize that Facebook was using that to say oh let me see complete within this picture.

[00:05:32] And simply those in that picture simply those in the other picture. Let's see which one do we think is Jim Polito via a process of elimination Facebook has apparently been very busy building facial recognition software to the point right now where if you post something and you go to tag someone some people have noticed that over on the site. Now Facebook or just people to say oh yeah well it tells you who it is.

[00:06:06] It says even when they don't know I put up a picture and it says Do you want a tag Cathy Polito in this picture and I haven't tagged my wife in the picture. 

[00:06:18] Well he is same as last time. Well. The poor thing for probably the best reason.

[00:06:24] But it says Do you want to put up other people. And it says Do you want to tag them. And I'm thinking I didn't tell you who that is. Well Facebook Knows. 

[00:06:36] Well the New York Times reported last week that more than a dozen different privacy and consumer groups and some government officials are arguing that the company's use of the facial recognition is once again now violating people's privacy because they did not remain appropriate user consent. So, it's scanning photos anything uploaded to their social network. Now what would think about this for a minute. It's kind of cool that you want to take Cathy this picture it makes life a little easier. But you take this to the next level. And now Facebook has the ability to identify you. 

[00:07:16] Now, I don't know why this is but man, Minority Report we keep calling a great movie and enemy of the state.

[00:07:24] Despite Tom Cruise it was a great movie. It really was. 

[00:07:28] And you remember when he had somebody else's eyeballs and he walked by like by a sign and the sign now changed and offered him a special deal on what he had bought at the store before, right. Right. Guess what Facebook could do with this data 

[00:07:45] Yeah they just walk into the place and it says that's Jim Polito. You know what Jim Polito likes such and such bourbon why don't we tell him it's on special. 

[00:07:58] Yeah, Well and he likes that friends of burbon. So let's go ahead and let's get the competitor bourbon to advertise and pay us to promote to Jim Polito.

[00:08:08] Yeah exactly. Exactly. You can live with some of that. Right. 

[00:08:16] But, it might be good right because it knows you're trying to buy a car when you want to see the car. 

[00:08:22] You can put some of that but there's a part of me that always makes the extra little leap and I always say to myself hey I'm never doing anything wrong. I'm never sure I shouldn't be I'm never doing things I shouldn't be doing I really I lead a nearly monastic life. So, I'm not worried about it. But, I always think to myself. But, do I really want people to know that much about where I am now worried about I'm worried about when a hacker gets that information or somebody else. Exactly right, because I think what can happen here. 

[00:08:59] If Facebook sells this data or the nation's stolen or even as simple as doing Facebook's search for Jim Polito pictures and now we've got Apple next year all of their phones are going to have the facial recognition software right now. You can get it you can go to a local U.P.S. store and use their 3-D printer. So now I can make a 3D version of Jim's head. I know to unlock any door. OK.

[00:09:27] You're going to need the extra large printer to do that one the one with the double double triple chin option that one Yeah exactly. Its scary the state is being collected in a lot of people don't know about it. 

[00:09:43] Pay attention. Craig. This is great stuff and I could go on and on. Craig Peterson is a great guy who will provide this information to you. Plus other great information about the iPhone about Wal-Mart eavesdropping on workers. All of that you can get that information for free. He will not pester you. He will not try to sell you things. Here is what you do. You text my name to. 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 that's 8 5 5 3 8 5 5 5 5 3 standard data and tax rates apply and you'll get other information say there's some big hack some national or international hack. Craig Petersen will send you the information that you need. He will not sell your name he won't do anything like that and he won't pester you. And he's always here every Tuesday after the 8 30 news. Craig thanks so much, buddy. That was very informative always a pleasure. Thanks Jim. Take care. You too. Craig Peterson, everybody. Yeah I don't mind being recognized here and there. I just don't want it.

[00:10:58] You know what I really don't care if Facebook has it at a certain point I just don't want a hacker to get it and then do something else with it. We have a final.

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Do you tag people in pictures on Facebook?  Listen in as Craig talks with Jim Polito about Privacy, Facebook and Facial Recognition.

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Transcript:

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.

Airing date: 07/17/2018

Facebook Abusing Your Privacy Again, Facial Recognition, Russian Hacking

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi everybody. Today, we talked about Apple just a little bit but mostly about Facebook. We talked about Imran Awan, you remember the I.T. staffer there was working for the Democrats and with a tie in to the Russians. Wow, it gets kind of crazy but it's all about privacy today with Jim Polito, so here we go.

[00:00:26] If he was running Amazon they wouldn't have crashed yesterday. 

[00:00:30] I'm talking about our tech guru and good friend Craig Peterson, Good morning, sir.

[00:00:36] Hey good morning. I noticed that too. I was on, and yeah I was getting all kinds of errors trying to do the one day deal that they had. I don't know if I can extend it or not. But, yeah they had problems. 

[00:00:49] Well they didn't have Craig Peterson on their side. No they don't. 

[00:00:54] I built some of the biggest Web sites in the world with the biggest databases. Long before Jeff Bezos got involved with the whole Amazon thing, and yeah there's something I've done for decades, now. It's scary to think back. I said the other day to someone yeah you know I've been doing professionally computer networking since 1975 and all of a sudden I did the math and felt old. That would be worse. 

[00:01:25] Is that a young person said and not that you're not young. In relative terms said they had computers in 75 

[00:01:35] Weird, eh? 

[00:01:38] Tell me about Facebook still abusing my privacy. Are you telling me that Mark Zuckerberg wasn't completely honest with me.

[00:01:50] Did you notice the Zuck said in an answer to a lot of the questions said Hey, I'll get back to you on that, and fact he did. Oh he did. He did. He sent them a document that was hundreds of pages long as I recall, and it got no press because of course by then the news cycle was over and people move on.

[00:02:16] Yeah they move on then and they he said Yeah well we kind of do keep everything and everyone possibly that we possibly can, and that reminds me of Debbie Wasserman Schultz who is I.T. guy to you has just made it into the news have you guys talked about this one. 

[00:02:35] I've talked about him but in family and everyone else but he seems like the mainstream media doesn't want to talk about him.

[00:02:46] He just came out I guess this week that you know they were supposed to turn over a server for the FBI to finally examine as near as I can tell. They're saying the Russians hacked right the Russians hacked the DNC. If you look at the charges that are just brought against the Russians there's no mention of the fact that the Russians were trying to hijack the Republicans as well. Did you know that. Yes. It was completely left out of the indictment. Well it turns out now apparently this server that they were supposed to turn over, they were starting to look at it and then they checked the serial number. The server that was turned over for investigation was not the server because they gave them something else. 

[00:03:32] Isn't that interesting. And didn't we learn that somebody. Took a whole bunch of information, off of that DNC server in question. And that the forensic folks figured out that the speed with which all of the data was downloaded indicated that it would have been impossible to do it remotely that somebody who had access to the DNC server put in a Zip drive and downloaded stuff. Now that says to me you well wait a minute. I don't think that was a Russian. 

[00:04:19] Oh he goes it goes on and on. Anyway, that story is going to continue to give us all kinds of entertainment because this whole thing is just completely nuts. What happened what they let happen to do is back to Zuck. Yeah. So he did three months ago sit in front of Congress. He came up and said yeah we're going to have we're going to make it so everything's transparent. And you know maybe when you were thinking about transparent maybe he was thinking of it like looking through a window or maybe a camera lens. Because as it turned out the Zuck is using specialized facial recognition technology. 

[00:05:01] That people just aren't aware of when you are on Facebook. Now. You know if you post a picture you can Tag someone in a way that you tagged me before I've tag you in pictures, of course. 

[00:05:14] So, it was that's kind of cool and it brings pictures and things to peoples attention and you can find the people were when you were tagging people in those pictures did you realize that Facebook was using that to say oh let me see complete within this picture.

[00:05:32] And simply those in that picture simply those in the other picture. Let's see which one do we think is Jim Polito via a process of elimination Facebook has apparently been very busy building facial recognition software to the point right now where if you post something and you go to tag someone some people have noticed that over on the site. Now Facebook or just people to say oh yeah well it tells you who it is.

[00:06:06] It says even when they don't know I put up a picture and it says Do you want a tag Cathy Polito in this picture and I haven't tagged my wife in the picture. 

[00:06:18] Well he is same as last time. Well. The poor thing for probably the best reason.

[00:06:24] But it says Do you want to put up other people. And it says Do you want to tag them. And I'm thinking I didn't tell you who that is. Well Facebook Knows. 

[00:06:36] Well the New York Times reported last week that more than a dozen different privacy and consumer groups and some government officials are arguing that the company's use of the facial recognition is once again now violating people's privacy because they did not remain appropriate user consent. So, it's scanning photos anything uploaded to their social network. Now what would think about this for a minute. It's kind of cool that you want to take Cathy this picture it makes life a little easier. But you take this to the next level. And now Facebook has the ability to identify you. 

[00:07:16] Now, I don't know why this is but man, Minority Report we keep calling a great movie and enemy of the state.

[00:07:24] Despite Tom Cruise it was a great movie. It really was. 

[00:07:28] And you remember when he had somebody else's eyeballs and he walked by like by a sign and the sign now changed and offered him a special deal on what he had bought at the store before, right. Right. Guess what Facebook could do with this data 

[00:07:45] Yeah they just walk into the place and it says that's Jim Polito. You know what Jim Polito likes such and such bourbon why don't we tell him it's on special. 

[00:07:58] Yeah, Well and he likes that friends of burbon. So let's go ahead and let's get the competitor bourbon to advertise and pay us to promote to Jim Polito.

[00:08:08] Yeah exactly. Exactly. You can live with some of that. Right. 

[00:08:16] But, it might be good right because it knows you're trying to buy a car when you want to see the car. 

[00:08:22] You can put some of that but there's a part of me that always makes the extra little leap and I always say to myself hey I'm never doing anything wrong. I'm never sure I shouldn't be I'm never doing things I shouldn't be doing I really I lead a nearly monastic life. So, I'm not worried about it. But, I always think to myself. But, do I really want people to know that much about where I am now worried about I'm worried about when a hacker gets that information or somebody else. Exactly right, because I think what can happen here. 

[00:08:59] If Facebook sells this data or the nation's stolen or even as simple as doing Facebook's search for Jim Polito pictures and now we've got Apple next year all of their phones are going to have the facial recognition software right now. You can get it you can go to a local U.P.S. store and use their 3-D printer. So now I can make a 3D version of Jim's head. I know to unlock any door. OK.

[00:09:27] You're going to need the extra large printer to do that one the one with the double double triple chin option that one Yeah exactly. Its scary the state is being collected in a lot of people don't know about it. 

[00:09:43] Pay attention. Craig. This is great stuff and I could go on and on. Craig Peterson is a great guy who will provide this information to you. Plus other great information about the iPhone about Wal-Mart eavesdropping on workers. All of that you can get that information for free. He will not pester you. He will not try to sell you things. Here is what you do. You text my name to. 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 that's 8 5 5 3 8 5 5 5 5 3 standard data and tax rates apply and you'll get other information say there's some big hack some national or international hack. Craig Petersen will send you the information that you need. He will not sell your name he won't do anything like that and he won't pester you. And he's always here every Tuesday after the 8 30 news. Craig thanks so much, buddy. That was very informative always a pleasure. Thanks Jim. Take care. You too. Craig Peterson, everybody. Yeah I don't mind being recognized here and there. I just don't want it.

[00:10:58] You know what I really don't care if Facebook has it at a certain point I just don't want a hacker to get it and then do something else with it. We have a final.

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Airing date: 07/15/2018

The Future of jobs with Automation and TV vs Radio vs Newspapers

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi everybody, Craig Peterson, here. I spoke this morning with Jack Heath and we talked about a couple of things. You know Jack's been in the news business for a lot of years, television news. So we talked about that specifically what is happening with the news and is there any legitimate source, anymore. Frankly, where's it all going, and jobs what's happening with jobs? You read an article in the paper this morning. So, I went into a little bit of detail about the future of jobs with technology. They're going to get better they're going to get worse. All of that, and more, so, here we go. 

[00:00:36] Joining us now on the Autofair listener line a regular contributor, the host of Tech Talk heard here on the weekends and Saturday on News Talk stations, Craig Peterson. Craig, good morning.

[00:00:48] Hello hello. Hi. How are you? Good. Doing good. 

[00:00:52] You know I saw a story this morning, thinking of you coming on and I saw it on one of the national news outlets. You think about technology and all the change with entertainment and information, and how we get stuff, and how fast or where we get it. There is one Blockbuster Video store left open in the country one and you wonder about some other retail changes because of technology that could be coming.

[00:01:19] Yeah, it's going to be a very very different world in another 10 years from now. Absolutely guaranteed. This week we've got Wal-Mart, who just obtained a patent that kind of concerning people. It's all designed to listen in to where you are and it's using the sounds to figure out how many people are in the store at the checkout. The whole retail space is going to change. And you know Walmart's got to compete. Think about Amazon, and how many small businesses Amazon has hurt? How many small businesses Wal-Mart just completely put out of business? Those guys are now at work against each other, and Wal-Mart is trying to find ways to cut their costs down because they've got stores, all of the overhead of workers, and the air conditioning and everything you have to do. It's going to be just a totally different world out there. Jack, you're absolutely right. 

[00:02:18] All right what else is going on in your tech talk world.

[00:02:21] Well, we've got concerns too right along the same lines as what you thinking of. What's going to happen with workers as these jobs disappear and basically any job that can be automated will be automated here in the near future. Especially with a shortage of workers. But, as these jobs disappear where are people going to end up at. And of course we've had this problem throughout history, when we have the Teamsters, say you know what's going to happen to us now that we no longer have horses and carriages, and of course, there have been other jobs that are followed on. But the big concern right now is, that these new jobs that are going to come about these new jobs that people are going to take as they are replaced by automated systems. These new jobs are going to be lower skilled even than they are now and lower pain. So, we could be in for some real trouble. But other economists are saying you know bottom line we ended up historically, with better jobs than we ever had before. So, maybe that's what's going to happen to, Jack. We're going to have to keep our eyes open our ears to the ground and continue to train ourselves. Everyone needs to remember, you're responsible for your career. You can't rely on your employer, you can't rely on the government, you need to improve yourself, continually. 

[00:03:46] Good stuff good stuff. And, you know I also think of you mentioned the changing work. And I just seems to me that the last few years technology more from a consumer behavioral point of view has really impacted how people get information. You know you look at the look at the media for a moment and you could argue that news talk radio has really married up well with the Web in terms of handheld phone and I Heart Radio the app and how many people can easily access that but you look at television news a traditional evening television newscast. It's already feeling and I had many years of my life that was the profession you know news throughout the day that is becoming as different ages of Americans consume differently. I don't know how many younger people watching television news. Certainly, I still like to hold a newspaper and look at it, but that's archaic to many people and they don't have the budget either, Jack you know you're in TV for so long.

[00:04:48] Look at what happened with WBIN TV and they did investigative journalism. They had people who were assigned to that to find the stories. Nowadays, we don't have I haven't any more places don't have the local news department. The all-day news that you were talking about back when you were in TV. There's not the budget forward anymore because the eyes have moved everywhere out and you're right about radio I think radio absolutely works. Obviously, the ears are down a little bit because again people are paying attention to way more things, but it's still there. Talk radio, you can have people on the radio, Experts that think about this stuff and that you don't have the budget problems that the newspapers have for instance because newspapers have to hire people to write these stories to do the background to do the investigations. On the radio, it's interactive. People love that it's more like what's been happening in social media frankly where the interaction is what's getting people's attention. So I love Radio, always have. But we're not getting the news like we used to. 

[00:06:02] You can sit down and watch the evening news with your favorite anchor and actually count on it being true even. You know and you'll get the morning newscast what used to be you know morning news, nationally. It's become a combination of an entertainment reality TV show just to kind of hold on to ratings and very little news, anyway. All right. It's not locally I do think of them WMUR to be as great.

[00:06:27] Does a great job and they're doing it. But budgets aren't like they used to be.

[00:06:32] Well let you go. Thank you, Craig Peterson, on New Hampshire today on this Monday morning. 

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Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi everybody, Craig Peterson, here. I spoke this morning with Jack Heath and we talked about a couple of things. You know Jack's been in the news business for a lot of years, television news. So we talked about that specifically what is happening with the news and is there any legitimate source, anymore. Frankly, where's it all going, and jobs what's happening with jobs? You read an article in the paper this morning. So, I went into a little bit of detail about the future of jobs with technology. They're going to get better they're going to get worse. All of that, and more, so, here we go. 

[00:00:36] Joining us now on the Autofair listener line a regular contributor, the host of Tech Talk heard here on the weekends and Saturday on News Talk stations, Craig Peterson. Craig, good morning.

[00:00:48] Hello hello. Hi. How are you? Good. Doing good. 

[00:00:52] You know I saw a story this morning, thinking of you coming on and I saw it on one of the national news outlets. You think about technology and all the change with entertainment and information, and how we get stuff, and how fast or where we get it. There is one Blockbuster Video store left open in the country one and you wonder about some other retail changes because of technology that could be coming.

[00:01:19] Yeah, it's going to be a very very different world in another 10 years from now. Absolutely guaranteed. This week we've got Wal-Mart, who just obtained a patent that kind of concerning people. It's all designed to listen in to where you are and it's using the sounds to figure out how many people are in the store at the checkout. The whole retail space is going to change. And you know Walmart's got to compete. Think about Amazon, and how many small businesses Amazon has hurt? How many small businesses Wal-Mart just completely put out of business? Those guys are now at work against each other, and Wal-Mart is trying to find ways to cut their costs down because they've got stores, all of the overhead of workers, and the air conditioning and everything you have to do. It's going to be just a totally different world out there. Jack, you're absolutely right. 

[00:02:18] All right what else is going on in your tech talk world.

[00:02:21] Well, we've got concerns too right along the same lines as what you thinking of. What's going to happen with workers as these jobs disappear and basically any job that can be automated will be automated here in the near future. Especially with a shortage of workers. But, as these jobs disappear where are people going to end up at. And of course we've had this problem throughout history, when we have the Teamsters, say you know what's going to happen to us now that we no longer have horses and carriages, and of course, there have been other jobs that are followed on. But the big concern right now is, that these new jobs that are going to come about these new jobs that people are going to take as they are replaced by automated systems. These new jobs are going to be lower skilled even than they are now and lower pain. So, we could be in for some real trouble. But other economists are saying you know bottom line we ended up historically, with better jobs than we ever had before. So, maybe that's what's going to happen to, Jack. We're going to have to keep our eyes open our ears to the ground and continue to train ourselves. Everyone needs to remember, you're responsible for your career. You can't rely on your employer, you can't rely on the government, you need to improve yourself, continually. 

[00:03:46] Good stuff good stuff. And, you know I also think of you mentioned the changing work. And I just seems to me that the last few years technology more from a consumer behavioral point of view has really impacted how people get information. You know you look at the look at the media for a moment and you could argue that news talk radio has really married up well with the Web in terms of handheld phone and I Heart Radio the app and how many people can easily access that but you look at television news a traditional evening television newscast. It's already feeling and I had many years of my life that was the profession you know news throughout the day that is becoming as different ages of Americans consume differently. I don't know how many younger people watching television news. Certainly, I still like to hold a newspaper and look at it, but that's archaic to many people and they don't have the budget either, Jack you know you're in TV for so long.

[00:04:48] Look at what happened with WBIN TV and they did investigative journalism. They had people who were assigned to that to find the stories. Nowadays, we don't have I haven't any more places don't have the local news department. The all-day news that you were talking about back when you were in TV. There's not the budget forward anymore because the eyes have moved everywhere out and you're right about radio I think radio absolutely works. Obviously, the ears are down a little bit because again people are paying attention to way more things, but it's still there. Talk radio, you can have people on the radio, Experts that think about this stuff and that you don't have the budget problems that the newspapers have for instance because newspapers have to hire people to write these stories to do the background to do the investigations. On the radio, it's interactive. People love that it's more like what's been happening in social media frankly where the interaction is what's getting people's attention. So I love Radio, always have. But we're not getting the news like we used to. 

[00:06:02] You can sit down and watch the evening news with your favorite anchor and actually count on it being true even. You know and you'll get the morning newscast what used to be you know morning news, nationally. It's become a combination of an entertainment reality TV show just to kind of hold on to ratings and very little news, anyway. All right. It's not locally I do think of them WMUR to be as great.

[00:06:27] Does a great job and they're doing it. But budgets aren't like they used to be.

[00:06:32] Well let you go. Thank you, Craig Peterson, on New Hampshire today on this Monday morning. 

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