"FREAKING PRIVACY? HOW DOES IT WORK?" We dig into the privacy impacts of advancements in facial recognition software and how it has vast impacts on Global Commerce. PLUS: Brian has a huge announcement! Listen now!

Brian said "Sayonara" to Amazon. Now he's allowed to say Amazon.

Amazon! Amazon! Amazon!

Amazon acquired online pharmacy PillPack

If your health food and supplements from Whole Foods don't work, now you can get your pills from Amazon too.

This will likely play into whatever power move Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon, and JP Morgan Chase are working on in healthcare.

In the future, are pharmacists just glorified phone operators?

Will physical pharmacies pivot and use their pickup windows for other purposes?

What will happen to our other shuttered retail spaces as ecommerce expands.

How will digital native brands utilizing these vacant spaces?

AKA How hard is trying to hard?

Capital One is opening locations that double as coffee shops.

Facial recognition is ineffective in identifying people wearing juggalo makeup

Whoop Whoop

Except it's real life. All our favorite electronics may or may not be watching us and recording our every move.

Amazon is piloting selling facial recognition to law enforcement.

Noveto is designing sound technology that beams sound directly to your ears, and your ears alone.

Seriously.

In the near future: You're walking through a store with no employees looking for an HDMI cable and you suddenly hear "Hi, can I help you find something?"

California has passed its own digital privacy law, similar to GDPR.

This could have a large domino effect for internet retail.

In the future, we might see service companies dedicated to manage privacy adherence for companies.

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