In This Episode: AI poisoning, YouTube privacy consequences, Vigilante apps, The Beatles
This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
- 1:00 LN: AI poisoning. Deep fake detection. A race.
- 6:00 GR: Using AI to fake crimes, and removing meta data
- 10:30 LN: A clever shield against photo fakery – MIT Tech Review
- 11:15 GR: Do ad-blocker blockers violate a user’s privacy? If so, then could it mean the eventual death of web content?
- 16:00 Paradox of issues
- 18:30 LN: Youtube Premium
- 22:00 Social Fixer / Fluff-Busting Purity for Facebook. 3rd party extensions
- 24:00 GR: Every website has checkboxes and uses cookies
- 26:30 LN: The risks of “Find My” technologies.
- 32:50 GR: If you find a lost phone? Good guys vs. Bad Guys.
- Use ‘Find My’ phone apps. But don’t trust them. – WaPo
- 34:00 Vigilante-ism in general.
- 41:00 LN: The Beatles – Now And Then (Official Music Video)
- Are they deep faking John Lennon or not? (from TEH 197)
Ain’t it Cool
- 51:00 LN: Bach Toccata and Fugue bwv 565 in d minor. – Constantini Music – An interesting take on my fav piece of music of all time: played on a Bandoneon (a type of concertina, which most people would incorrectly call an accordion).
- (My YouTube playlist of T&FinDm performances.)
- 54:00 GR: Beatles ’66: The Revolutionary Year, by Steve Turner
Re: your lost/stolen phone conversation: I found a phone in the ladies room at the mall, and when I saw it was on the T-mobile service, I just took it to the T-mobile store and told them I found this phone, and it was on their service, could they figure out whose phone this is?
About 10 minutes later, a mom and daughter come up to me, thanking me profusely for returning the phone to someone who could get the phone back to them.
Gary: Go Dragons!
Nice! -L
A common misconception about the European GDPR seems to be that websites are always required to display those pesky cookie options. The truth is that websites are “only” required to inform their visitors about non-essential (not technically required) cookies☝🏻This website summarizes it better than I ever could:
https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers/data-protection/online-privacy/
Feel free to check out their respective implementation of a NO COOKIE MESSAGE by visiting wikipedia.org, protonmail.com or – probably Gary’s favorite – apple.com
On none of those sites will you be molested with a stupid “Please agree to our cookie policy” notice 🙌🏻