TWiG 544: Impermeable!

Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 12:40 a.m.

This Week in Google (Audio)

This Week's Stories:

  • Google I/O coming May 12th
  • Why Facebook's 'Off-Facebook Activity' privacy tool isn't transparent enough
  • Is Amazon sending people stuff before they ask for it?
  • Are you being remotely controlled?
  • Do Google's ads look like search results?
  • Google's tenth attempt at unified messaging (and second Slack clone) will surely succeed
  • iRobot CEO: privacy doesn't sell
  • An open letter to Google on privacy and crapware
  • Google wants to make you cry at the Superbowl
  • What your Ring doorbell really shares
  • Avast anti-virus sold all your data to Home Depot
  • Google wants to charge the cops for your data
  • US Interior Department makes Chinese drones illegal
  • Nunavut tracks ransomware bitcoins
  • UK will not implement EU meme ban
  • Ben Smith moves from Buzzfeed News to the New York Times
  • Tech in 2020 slide deck: Benedict Evans lays out the trends
  • Samsung's next folding phone leaks

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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