Episode 104 - Connected Cars, Coronavirus, and Communication: Privacy under assault in Digital Age
Today’s news update covers issues related to big data and privacy. We start with how big data from public information is being used to track and fight coronavirus, followed by the possibility that the car of the future will be spying on you. Finally, we get into a proposal in Congress to criminalize encryption technology, which will make our data less secure. Finally, the New York Times puts out another Bitcoin hitjob, complete with inaccurate links about criminal activity.
Links
Statnews: AI a useful tool in Corona Outbreak
Gizmodo: Your Next Car will be Watching You
IMDB: Horrible Bosses (2011)
CNET: Congress warns Tech Companies to Take Action on Encryption
Beaumont Enterprise: Lindsey Graham Proposal could Expose Apple
YouTube: Naomi Brockwell on Congress’s plans to ban Encryption\
Borepatch: Articles on Weak Encryption and RSA
Tim Medin: The more I use AWS [Amazon Web Services] the more I’m surprised everyone isn’t leaking data.
Wikipedia: Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
New York Times: Here’s a Dumb Article about Bitcoin
Linked graph on Venezuela Bitcoin use - does this look negative to you?
Chris Burniske: Calls out on Twitter
Related Episodes
Episode 92 - Self Driving Car Drama
Episode 43 - Self Driving Cars and the Cycle of Adoption
Episode 33 - Our first mention of Gell-Mann Amnesia
