Jan 8, 2019
Craig discusses with Jim the latest Facebook investigations and how the Apple Watch saves lives.
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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 01/08/2019
Latest Facebook Investigations - Apple Watch Saves Lives
Craig Peterson: 0:00
Unknown 0:01
Here he is. It's been too long. You know that holiday messed us all
up or both holidays. But here he is. He survived. Boxing Day our
good friend Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson. Good morning, Craig.
Unknown 0:18
Hey. Good morning. Yeah, I had a fun time. It was my mother's 80th
birthday. Great. Naples, Florida.
Unknown 0:27
Made a fancy video. Yeah, it's really weird. Canadian was
Unknown 0:31
down in Naples, Florida for Christmas.
Unknown 0:34
Well, she's a Snowbird You know, he lives in Montreal. She loves
Canada. She loves the health care up there. Yeah. But she spent
five months 30 days or 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds in the
United States. And she has us health insurance. Wow. I just don't
understand how someone can hold two completely conflicting ideas in
their mind at the same time, adjusting other words, she loves the
US and she'd rather be here in Canada. But she just thought
Unknown 1:09
well, I'll take Naples. My cousins are down there right now. I'll
take it.
Unknown 1:14
I'll take. Yeah. Well, we drove because I met with I have a what my
operations manager is actually in Florida.
Unknown 1:23
And and then we went and saw my one of my daughters and
granddaughters over in Kentucky. So we left it was 89 degrees. We
stayed in a hotel The next morning, they may be 1969 the next
morning. It was 14.
Unknown 1:41
Yeah. Flow. Right. Good news to it.
Unknown 1:44
Yeah, that's, that's a good way to ease into it. Like a like a hot
bath. All right. Let's, let's talk about Facebook. Kathy. And I
watched an interesting piece about Facebook, on PBS during the
holiday break. And about Mr. Zuckerberg. And you know, I want to
connect the world. But yeah, you want to connect the world. But you
had something else in mind. Now we're finding out that Facebook was
going into your Android, your mobile and when you weren't on
Facebook, you might as well have been because they were going
through all your data. Is that am I correct? Or am I going out too
far in this one?
Unknown 2:32
No. That's what they found Jim and and the UK is that a pretty darn
good job of looking into this investigator Facebook even went so
far as to provide a quote ESPN unquote, service. Now, I think you
and I have a basic idea of what a VPN is for those listeners. So
know what it is, it's a virtual private network. And if done
correctly, you can keep your because my status save like cetera,
from prying eyes for the most part. Because what happens is that
all the data when it computer, it's encrypted, and it's as though
you're connected to the network on the remote sites is use it. So
when you're at home or on the road, you can still get into all your
business stuff. But it's highly encrypted, and no one can see what
you're doing. So what Facebook was doing, they bought a company
that does VPN and the allocations are that they were actually
monitoring everything you did on the VPN that Facebook gave you for
free. So they say, We're going out of their way to find out what
you're doing, where you're going, what you're saying, who your
friends are, what your messages are. And on Android platform, you
just don't have the types of security that Apple has. In fact,
there's a funny little thing happening in Vegas right now with CES
and apple. But you know, Facebook, it's crazy what they've been
getting away with, and that they have been cutting back on some of
the information that providing to advertisers and marketers. But
it's they're losing customers every day. Wow.
Unknown 4:18
And that's not helpful. Because Wall Street has said, Hey,
Facebook, we're not so enamored with you. Now if I if I remember
correctly from yesterday's market close, Amazon was the company
with the highest value on the exchange passed over Apple right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And and Facebook was they're not anymore.
Unknown 4:52
Well, part of what came out here with what you were just talking
about, about Facebook here in the investigation in the UK but it
was came out was an instant messaging exchange between Zuckerberg
and another person and this was back when he first started Facebook
and he called Facebook user Tom room Yeah, we're trusting him with
their data yeah if this isn't new and if we had character really
investigate would have found out that there is a blockbuster New
York Times investigation about this company employee in shady PR
tactics they talk about Cambridge Analytica and how Trump got
information on millions of Facebook users. But no one mentions that
Facebook, Zuckerberg people gave the Obama in the Obama campaign
absolutely everything about everybody, right? And if they just
don't mention that this guy's not to be trusted. And then of
course, you've got the standard media. Thank goodness for the
gym
Unknown 6:02
to close the truth. But the standard media not mentioning hardly
anything. I was shocked at the gray lady investigation on
Facebook.
Unknown 6:10
Yeah, yeah. Well, one, they're either afraid they're afraid or, you
know, there's that agreement in politics, even though Facebook is a
big business. And a lot of the Silicon Valley businesses are big,
you would think, well, they're they're obviously conservative.
Know, they lean left, let's look at Amazon. And let's look at Jeff
Bezos and he in the Washington Post.
Unknown 6:40
Yeah,
Unknown 6:43
Alexandria, or whatever
Unknown 6:45
we call her Alexandria, occasional cortex.
Unknown 6:53
She's saying about businesses and how that the republicans are
supporting big business. No, in this day and age, all of those
companies that you mentioned, are extreme left leaning companies,
you know, and, and it's a shame because, you know, I promote Apple
because of charity. An Apple has an app put that up on a website
today. But Apple doesn't go to the Consumer Electronics Show, but
this year, they rent it the whole side of a hotel. I mean, like all
20 plus stories of it, and they put out by banner, and they're
promoting something I've said apples or promote for decades, which
is that Apple does not sell your data, they should not make money
from your data. Apple makes money by selling you hardware and
software and they keep your data safe. It's the insecurity or the
number one thing but all of these big corporations giving you money
to political campaigns nowadays, guess what, it's the democrats
that are the party of big business, right. And
Unknown 8:08
casual cortex obviously isn't firing again.
Unknown 8:11
No. And
Unknown 8:13
our our guys who do a show the financial exchange from 10 to noon
on ta G and H y. And they were talking about this the other day
that they were talking from a financial perspective, apple, this
was a big deal for them. And it is something that they can go to
the marketplace and sell, hey, we don't sell your data. We don't do
any of that. You sure yeah, pay through the nose for one of our
phones or our other devices. But we that's a good niche to have
right now in the marketplace.
Unknown 8:52
And it works. It's a play on Vegas's thing with a member Telly
Savalas, it says what happened on your iPhone, they
Unknown 9:06
I like that we're talking about Greg Peterson, our tech talk guru,
and we're going to give you a number at the end of this segment so
that you can get the information that he's providing here and a lot
of other stuff and he won't hound you, he won't pester you. It's
all good stuff. He even gives you warnings when there's a big data
breach and standard data and tax rates apply. Now speaking of
Apple, Apple is going to tell me if I have a hard problem,
right?
Unknown 9:34
Yeah, this is really interesting. This is a new feature that's part
of the Apple Watch. And it's designed for people who are a little
bit older. Basically, the Apple Watch Series for now does have
built into the ability to monitor cardiac rhythms. Now there's only
so much to do with the signals that have watched can pick up it is
absolutely phenomenal for people who are a little bit older that
have atrial fibrillation, which, by the way, is being number one
heart arrhythmia that's out there. Now, it's not designed to really
watch for heart attacks or other things, but it will detect them.
In fact, there's already some reports of people out there that had
their Apple Watch, warn them of a dangerous resume out that their
hearts were have got themselves immediately to the hospital. And
these reports are saying that it saved their lives. They've done
clinical trials on this already. This is approved. Apple didn't
want to mention it until they had them a proper testing and
certifications. But it can distinguish between the mo heartbeat,
which would be called typically to sinus rhythm and atrial
fibrillation.
Unknown 10:54
Yes, all it's officially doing, but it can do a lot more. And, you
know, thank goodness for this sort of technology. And it's going to
come a long way very, very quickly. It can send your ECG to your
doctor, this is going to save some lives. Yeah, I mean that a fib
is one of the leading causes of stroke, stroke, you know, if not
detected in time or prevented, I mean, can be debilitating and it's
just incredible that they can do that and get that kind of
information that's important. I think that's incredibly worthwhile
for people because if you don't get a regular EKG or you know you
don't get regular testing something like that slips through the
cracks and then you have a devastating stroke and then it's too
late and then you're dealing with okay how much of this person's
mobility and and other issues can we bring bring back and
unfortunately, sometimes you cannot have a complete recovery. Craig
that great stuff and I know you sent me so much more, but we don't
have time to get through all of it. So folks, I want you to text My
name Jim to this number
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855-385-5553. That's Jim to 855-385-5553.
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not bother you, Craig, happy
Unknown 12:33
great for us to be back together. We missed you through the
holidays. And we'll talk to you next week.
Unknown 12:40
All right. Hey. Thanks, Jim. Take care.
Unknown 12:42
Bye bye. Craig Peterson. Alright. A final word when we return.
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