Nov 20, 2018
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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 11/20/2018
The Ups And Downs Of Digital Privacy
Craig Peterson: 0:00
Hey, good morning everybody. Craig Peterson here. Massachusetts,
just this week on Monday it became legal to sell recreational
marijuana. Now I want you to listen to this interview with Jim and
tell me if you think he's well, I don't know. Maybe he's, I think
he visited a pot shop earlier this week
Unknown 0:27
Good old Jim Polito. Oh, we had a great discussion this morning
about online privacy. He brought up some really great issues it
talk more than I did today. So here we go with Jim Polito. Oh, by
the way, everybody have a great Thanksgiving and thanks to
everybody who responded to my email that I sent out to some of
those subscribers about trying to have a little get together have
friends to talk about this whole problem with small business and
computers and security and everything so
Unknown 1:00
Thanks to you, and if you haven't seen a response from me yet,
that's because I'm going through I'm sending individual responses
to everybody. So this is this is not just an in the blind to
everybody. So hey, anyways, here we go with Mr. Jim.
Unknown 1:14
He's the man, the myth, the legend. Hey, you know that he wrote
code that is still in use and the internet. I'm talking about our
good friend and Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson. Good morning, Craig.
How are you doing today, buddy? Always a pleasure to see you. Hey,
good morning, doing really well. What is no way
Unknown 1:39
the snow and the cold for you is nothing. It's like, like for you.
It's like you're back home. Which reminds me when his Canadian
Thanksgiving Mr. Peterson well in the US they call it Columbus Day.
So it's about a month earlier and with our family. We actually had
another session.
Unknown 2:00
You've been September because one of my daughters with along with
their husband was home from Norway and they just love Thanksgiving.
So I got three shots. This thing giving this year I love Listen, I
would take that I would take that it's my favorite holiday. And
what's interesting, Craig is that if the Canadians are celebrating
Thanksgiving around Columbus Day,
Unknown 2:24
the Canadians are probably more accurate or closer to the day the
actual first Thanksgiving took place because it would have been a
harvest festival and it was likely late September early October in
1621. So Craig I guess the Canadians have us beat on this one even
though we had the first Thanksgiving yeah it's interesting there's
all kinds of differences you know Canada they call all the
indigenous people First Nations I thought cool Yeah. First Nation
other words, there was a first or
Unknown 3:00
Establish a nation. I mean, they were here the whole time. But
yeah, I thought the whole thing of interest, I just love the story
of that first Thanksgiving and, you know, moving the Commonwealth
out of really being the Caitlyn, who else? yeah how people were
finally about starving to death. It's a great story. This is not
sold. And I know and I'm telling it and this is a chance for a
shameless plug. Even though there's no money involved in this one
on wt ag on Thanksgiving morning at 9am and on why. And on
Thanksgiving morning at 7am my Thanksgiving special I actually went
to you know, I'm a little bit of a history buff. I went to Plymouth
Plantation and produced a one hour special on it using the
reactors. They're
Unknown 3:47
like I'm interviewing them in in modern day because when you go to
Plymouth Plantation, they don't break character Craig. They stay in
character and they become
Unknown 4:00
Hey, there's and they represent actual people who were there in the
Plymouth Colony and historical people. So I interviewed them and
use them in it. And then I got someone from a what they call the
indigenous program there a native person who runs that program of
the whopping dog. And but they, they, when you see them there in
the dress of the period and working
Unknown 4:26
in the their homes of the period, but they they speak to you and
you know modern parlance you know, they don't, they don't play act
because they say, we don't have to play act. We're native people
when
Unknown 4:41
we were here. So with all that in mind, I want to ask you about
this thing with Google because it's kind of a
Unknown 4:49
it's a good bad situation. You sent me this information. So if you
don't want Google tracking you
Unknown 4:58
if you want your privacy better.
Unknown 5:00
back, you will have to give up some convenience. You're going to
tell us how you can do it with your smartphone and with with your
iPhone or with your Android, but
Unknown 5:10
you give up to get that privacy, the suggestions and things that
Google does for you that actually I prefer, because like when I go
to YouTube, I like when they suggest videos to me that are videos
I'd be interested in because they know what I watch. But why don't
we talk about that start with start there, Craig?
Unknown 5:30
Well, it is kind of interesting, because all the major
manufacturers, Google and Apple, certainly the real big ones are
interested in in the whole mobile assistance marketplace. Google
has something they call in a system and the idea is it really does
track you particularly if you're using an Android device. So let's
say for instance, that you go down to New York City and it notices
that the last couple of times you've
Unknown 6:00
down to New York City, you've always been in this one neighbor of
us. And it goes so far as to notice which restaurants you've eaten.
And in other words, which ones you went in. And you stay for a
while, right? So now you go to the north, and or you go somewhere
in Boston, who knows what you like, at least out in New York the
different areas yourself, too. And the idea is, the google
assistant will make recommendations to you based on what you've
done in the past, even in other city. Wow,
Unknown 6:33
that's really quite cool. It's very nice. But it's, it's the same
time. Yeah, so Google knows that at nighttime. Your phone resides
at 123 Main Street in Western Mass. And so now if his figured out
Well, that's probably worth gym lifts right there on Main Street.
Yep. And I seen his calendar that he has an appointment later on
today. Going
Unknown 7:00
But he has another one first. And so it figures out your route for
the day. The idea is, it will wake you up. It'll tell your fingers
working to do now. Here's what's going on. Yeah. How about I order
to Noli for you while you're in the north and you get up here?
That's where they're hoping to take this whole thing. And you know
what, it's already doing some of that already, because it will
Google Maps. I never assigned where home was, but it eventually
picked up okay, this is home free gym. This is where he lives and
eventually asked me Do you want to set this as home in your Google
Maps
Unknown 7:41
getting a little forward with you? Yeah, yeah. And I did only
because I like to hit one button. You know, I use my smartphone is
my GPS my car. I mean, these are all great things, Craig. But what
you're giving up for these is privacy I'm giving
Unknown 8:00
up all of the privacy and there's a part of me. I've always been
the type that has said, I don't care if what people do and what
people look at me look at for me because I'm not doing anything
wrong. I don't care. I mean, of course, I believe in the Bill of
Rights. But you know, in terms of the government, I don't care
because I'm not doing anything wrong. But there's another part of
me that says, Hmm, I don't know if I like this.
Unknown 8:28
Think about this. 510 years down the road. We're going to have
autonomous cars, fully autonomous cars. Yeah, and these things are
going to be driving around and it's going to tie into your system
and your system now is going to say you've got a meeting in you
need a car I'm going to have a car pick you off at 10am. If you're
not going to own a car. Certainly in 20 years. Most people won't
have a car anymore yeah, and and it's going to show up well, it's a
bad guy. nose mouth.
Unknown 9:00
That that Jim is going to this meeting. And let's say the bad guy
wants to frame the who, who's got everything they might need. Let's
say the bad guy wants to attack you. We have already cases in New
York City down in Central Park where bad guys put sensors on trees
and those sensors. He texted people's Fitbit as they went by and
those fit bits were then track and the bad guys were able to track
the specific women in order to attach them to rob them and the
other various things that might have been trying to do so all of
that data being there It's one thing for marketers to have it
because it might be a benefit right yeah there I think there's a
benefit I don't consider it annoying when you when you want to buy
a car that's when you want to see the car commercials all the time
right right and and the other side of it with the government is
well you know
Unknown 10:00
The government gets to have a quick look at my data and say yeah,
obviously Jim wasn't even he say or nearest he's not a suspect in
this white cast the net that's the benefit to because now you're
not getting harassed and getting pulled into the precinct
again.
Unknown 10:17
So, so there's some benefits there. But the, the negative parts of
all of this, ours is that data essentially gets out. Look at the
about 30 million Facebook accounts. Right? You reach the goal,
right, right. And big data is taking all of that is selling it it's
putting this together knows and it's going to be yeah and and and
that's the that's the worry. You know, it's funny, you talked about
the Fitbit thing because you had a few weeks ago told us about how
the government didn't want members of the military when they're
deployed to put on their Fitbit because the same thing could be
done the bad guys in the park who were looking to attack women by
tracking their shipping.
Unknown 11:00
Bad guys in Afghanistan and Iraq would do the same thing to try to
track our soldiers. So if I want to get off that, and I know at the
end of this segment, folks we're with Greg Peterson, we're going to
give you a number you'd be text My name to, he'll send you this
information. But in standard data in text rates apply. But Craig,
it's not that hard in the settings of your smartphone.
Unknown 11:23
To stop this know there's a few things that you're going to need to
do. And it does obviously varies from Android, iOS, and which
version of Android you're on a better etc. But basically, you go to
my activity, and that's where it shows you how you're being tracked
online. And once you're in there, you're logged into your Google
account online by the ways what you're doing so yes, you're going
to the web Google my activity. It's showing how your tracked online
and you can open that button you can set it up and change it.
There's six sections in there that you're going to find it
Unknown 12:00
And you can also control your Android phone tracking from there.
Your phone's track tied into Google account, which probably is.
Yeah, if you're an iPhone user, you can toggle off web and act as
app activity, location history, there's a bunch more, this gets a
little bit complicated, but we're talking about three to five
minutes worth of work. Yeah, you can turn that off. And I think
that's the big positive now, you should just, you know,
Unknown 12:31
expect that you're not going to get all those conveniences after
you do that. And by the way, folks will get you this
information
Unknown 12:39
in in from Craig Peterson, but you should expect to knock and have
the convenience anymore, a lot of that will go away, no doubt about
it, it's still going to track you if you're using the map
application dapp obviously it needs to but other than that, the
features the assistance and other things that you might like are
really as he says it's going to go away.
Unknown 13:00
Alright let's go on to something else which is getting rid of your
personal information online and and you were talking about Apple
CEO Tim Cook talking about need for digital privacy reform I don't
know that's kind of like him talking about it's like the chicken I
mean the fox guarding the chicken coop but I mean how do you will
send the information but but what's possible What are you able to
do well again the Apple iOS platform is your least monitor a
randomized everything but it's hard to reconstruct Apple can even
give it to the government okay they don't have it bottom line but
as you know over time it's going to become impossible Jim you know
I think we are on a ship that's been scuttled yeah and the odds
were going to survive this are almost zero.
Unknown 14:00
You know, from a standpoint of our privacy, it's going away. People
are giving it up. We're using our credit cards all time was using
Apple Pay, et cetera. And all of this is just a little bit of the
time. Right? As you move from a cashless society, to an all digital
society, yeah. And who knows where from man, it's To me, it's, it's
scary. Tim Cook. Typing has some great ideas. And I'm glad to hear
Apple really is concerned about privacy. They haven't been the best
in the world about privacy, but they're nowhere near as bad as
Facebook or obviously our friends at Google. All right, let's find
out how to get this information. So what you do is you text My name
to this number.
Unknown 14:52
855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553.
Unknown 15:00
Standard data and text rates apply. Craig Peterson will not pester
you. He'll send you this information so that you'll be able to do
it yourself. Or at least you'll be able to have the information.
Should you decide you want to do it. And don't forget Craig
Peterson will be back here on Friday in the seven o'clock hour.
We're going to talk Black Friday, we're going to talk Cyber Monday.
We're going to talk buying online with Craig Peterson. Craig, thank
you so much. And Happy Thanksgiving to you, sir. Hey, thank you.
Take care. Take care. Speaking of Thanksgiving, the turkey is our
final word. You're listening.
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