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Speaker 1: It is time for teck it out the latest tech
Speaker 1: news here on JR. Are not quite sure where Taco
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Speaker 1: the water in the restroom. All right, Let's begin with
Speaker 1: the situation with TikTok, which is set to well go
Speaker 1: dark here in the United States as of Sunday as
Speaker 1: a legislation that was passed on a bipartisan basis dictating
Speaker 1: that Bite Dance, the Chinese company that owns the US
Speaker 1: version of TikTok, divests themselves and sell to a non
Speaker 1: Chinese entity, will no longer be able to do business
Speaker 1: here in the United States. As of right now, no
Speaker 1: sale has been announced, and we're a Thursday. Yes, there
Speaker 1: are a couple things in play right now. The Supreme
Speaker 1: Court is looking at this legislation and should render their view.
Speaker 1: By tomorrow, it's thought that they'll probably uphold the legislation. Again,
Speaker 1: this was a bipartisan thing on the basis of national
Speaker 1: security concerns with the Chinese potentially just vacuuming up all
Speaker 1: of our data and using it as they see fit, which, look,
Speaker 1: you can't trust trust China. They're an adversary. So that's
Speaker 1: why this was put through. As it stands right now,
Speaker 1: TikTok will go dark on Sunday. But last night, and
Speaker 1: this is the latest development. Trump some doing Trump Right.
Speaker 1: Mike Waltz, who is the incoming National Security Advisor for
Speaker 1: the new administration. He's from right here in Florida, did
Speaker 1: two different interviews last night on National News and basically
Speaker 1: said the same thing. Let me let me just read
Speaker 1: you from the interview last night. He says that President
Speaker 1: elect Trump is considering ways he could preserve TikTok once
Speaker 1: he takes office if the Supreme Court upholds the US
Speaker 1: ban on the Chinese owned social media platform. Trump has
Speaker 1: been very clear about what he'd do. This is coming
Speaker 1: from Representative Mike Walts, who will be the National Security advisor.
Speaker 1: He said, Number one, TikTok is a great platform that
Speaker 1: millions of Americans use and has been great for not
Speaker 1: only his campaign and getting his message out, but number two,
Speaker 1: he's gonna protect US user's data. That's his goal in
Speaker 1: the end, as is the legislation's goal. He went on
Speaker 1: to say, look, he's a deal maker. I don't want
Speaker 1: to get ahead of our executive orders, but we're going
Speaker 1: to create this space to put the deal in place.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like they're at work on something that
Speaker 1: will preserve TikTok for users here in the United States.
Speaker 1: What exactly form is that going to take. My best
Speaker 1: guess would be they'll extend the deadline for the sale.
Speaker 1: They're still probably gonna make them sell to a non
Speaker 1: Chinese entity. But it sounds like they're fully well aware
Speaker 1: that they don't want to piss off one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy million users here in the United States.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, when you have a guy like.
Speaker 3: The Facebook dude on your side, and you have Elon Mudd,
Speaker 3: and you have all these great minds, somebody can figure
Speaker 3: out how to protect our info. I would think, wouldn't you.
Speaker 1: But I mean, at the end of the conversation, they're
Speaker 1: still going to demand that bite dance, get out of
Speaker 1: the mix here, so we'll see where it goes. If
Speaker 1: you're worried about TikTok going dark on Sunday, I want
Speaker 1: to get too too concerned. Yet it definitely sounds like something.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some movement on this one way or another.
Speaker 1: The State of Texas is suing All State Insurance for
Speaker 1: collecting driver data to raise premiums on drivers.
Speaker 2: Get this.
Speaker 1: An investigation revealed that All State, in a company called Arity,
Speaker 1: paid mobile apps millions of dollars to install All States
Speaker 1: tracking software. The personal data of millions of Americans was
Speaker 1: sold to insurance companies without their knowledge or consent, in
Speaker 1: violation of the law. All State developed the Arity Driving
Speaker 1: Software Development Kit, a package of code that the company
Speaker 1: allegedly paid mobile app developers to install in their products
Speaker 1: in order to collect a variety of sensitive data from
Speaker 1: consumers' phones.
Speaker 2: That's us.
Speaker 1: The software gathered phone geolocation data accelerator you could tell
Speaker 1: how fast you were going in a vehicle, gyroscopic data,
Speaker 1: details about where the phone owners started and ended their trips,
Speaker 1: in information about driving behavior, such as whether phone owners
Speaker 1: appe to be speeding or driving while distracted. According to
Speaker 1: the lawsuit, now there are you know, insurance companies will
Speaker 1: offer you the chance to be monitored in hopes of
Speaker 1: keeping your premiums lower. But Texas is alleging they were
Speaker 1: able to get this same data through different apps that
Speaker 1: users had no idea.
Speaker 2: It's like gas Buddy or ways maybe.
Speaker 1: No, I'm going to give you the actual apps that
Speaker 1: are named here, Gas Buddy, Fuel Rewards, and Life three sixty,
Speaker 1: the popular family monitoring app. The complaint points out that, look,
Speaker 1: you know, not only do drivers not know this was
Speaker 1: being used in this matter, but who's to say they're
Speaker 1: actually driving a car that they're now being assigned to
Speaker 1: a driving score to, or much less not on a
Speaker 1: bus or some other form of public transportation where erratic behavior.
Speaker 2: Is now being reported and used as a penalty against that.
Speaker 3: Think if you were on that right line, this guy,
Speaker 3: mister Lynch is doing one hundred and eighty miles. No,
Speaker 3: so this is in Texas specifically, you're gonna tell me, Lynch,
Speaker 3: look at me. You're gonna tell me that other states
Speaker 3: aren't doing this as well?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, I bet it's a Texas just happens to
Speaker 1: be the state that's filing against all state that is
Speaker 1: doing this across there there.
Speaker 2: Yes, all of them. Yes.
Speaker 1: So, so they're just the first to bring this to light.
Speaker 1: And uh, this just doesn't sound real good.
Speaker 3: This is a class action right here, baby, that's gonna
Speaker 3: that's one I'll sign up for.
Speaker 2: I don't have all state though, huh uh.
Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, Texas is also in the news the Tech
Speaker 1: News over these age verification law for adult sites that
Speaker 1: are in place now in twenty six states, including as
Speaker 1: of the first of this year in Florida. You know
Speaker 1: where you have to verify your a certain age.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court is or heard arguments on that yesterday
Speaker 1: whether these laws are legitimate or not, and the initial
Speaker 1: response from the questions that the justices were asking in
Speaker 1: the inquiry yesterday seemed to indicate that they're probably not
Speaker 1: going to have a problem with age verification laws in
Speaker 1: the name of trying to restrict access to minors make
Speaker 1: it more difficult for minors.
Speaker 2: So that's not.
Speaker 1: Good news for the adult entertainment industry. Again, the decision
Speaker 1: on that case probably not until the spring. Microsoft announcing
Speaker 1: they will not support office apps on Windows ten after
Speaker 1: October fourteenth. I've already told you in this segment that
Speaker 1: Windows ten is the support for the program in general,
Speaker 1: also ending in October. Now, the Office Suite of Apps
Speaker 1: also will not have support as of October. They'll still work,
Speaker 1: but they may not be as reliable as if they
Speaker 1: were receiving regular updates and patches. Microsoft is trying to
Speaker 1: force everybody onto Windows eleven is what's happening here and
Speaker 1: the issue, and I'm really hoping they extend this. A
Speaker 1: lot of people just are not switching because Windows ten
Speaker 1: is perfectly fine, works great, and if you have a
Speaker 1: working computer, a lot of the unfortunately, a lot of
Speaker 1: the computers that are in great working shape right now
Speaker 1: and can accommodate Windows ten don't have the support to
Speaker 1: accommodate Windows eleven.
Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: There is a way if you've got a newer computer
Speaker 1: and you're running Windows ten, you can easily transition it
Speaker 1: to to Windows eleven. But if you're running an older one,
Speaker 1: most cases, your software is not going to support the
Speaker 1: new Windows. So they got a new computer, your damn
Speaker 1: computer right kind of put you in a rock in
Speaker 1: a hard place there.
Speaker 3: Somebody was talking about with the insurance companies and monitoring it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so if you're on a roller coaster, right exactly, Yes,
Speaker 3: some bitch's going up down and so are your rates.
Speaker 1: And finally, there's this told you last week about the
Speaker 1: Venue Sports you know that was going to be that
Speaker 1: collaborative sports streaming effort between uh, you know, Warner, ESPN, Fox,
Speaker 1: and you know, multiple companies that offer sports. Venue now
Speaker 1: is not going to happen after the.
Speaker 2: News of.
Speaker 1: Fubuu now being parts you know, being purchased. So we
Speaker 1: talked about a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, Direct tv
Speaker 1: was threatening the lawsuit, I guess, so that was enough
Speaker 1: for ESPN and the others involved to say, we're just
Speaker 1: gonna bench Venue.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna happen. With that.
Speaker 1: Direct TV now is launching their own sports streaming plas.
Speaker 2: Try to tell us when it finishes, tell us what's done? Somebody?
Speaker 2: Sports is what.
Speaker 1: Causes all these issues with costs for watching content and
Speaker 1: what what it is getting down to here is it's
Speaker 1: like you got people who mainly watch sports when they
Speaker 1: have some you know, a service, right, and then there's
Speaker 1: people who don't care about sports yet are still charged
Speaker 1: for the cost of the sports channels. Eventually, hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: get to the point where if you're a sports person
Speaker 1: in sports is what you want, go get that and
Speaker 1: just pay for that. Everybody else if you don't want that,
Speaker 1: won't have to have that. Are we there yet? No?
Speaker 2: It could be soon at some point hopefully somebody somebody
Speaker 2: text in.
Speaker 3: Had to verify on my age with a pic, had
Speaker 3: tissue and lotion in my hands.
Speaker 2: In the pica.
Speaker 1: You try to go to an adult site here in Florida. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're not on a VPN.
Speaker 2: We tried it last week during this segment.
Speaker 1: You gotta do age verification. So it's not that you
Speaker 1: can't get to the material hoop you got to jump
Speaker 1: through now.
Speaker 3: So be ready to take care of that then.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, it'll be okay, It'll all be okay. All right,
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