Mar 26, 2019
Is Tuesday and Craig is back on the Jim Polito Show. This morning, Craig and Jim talked about Craig's travel to Europe. They also talked about why people should delete WhatsApp now.
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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 03/26/2019
Why Delete Whatsapp - Travel In Europe
Craig Peterson: 0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. This morning I
was on with Jim Polito. He just came back from quite the tour of
Europe. And oh there's my puppy. Hi, Velma. I got a Great Dane name
Velma.
Craig 0:15
She wants to say hi. Yes. Anyhow, he had a great tour of Europe,
particularly Italy. And I also had some time going around Europe.
We talked a little bit about that. And very quickly, we hit the
WhatsApp story for this week. And there's of course, a whole lot
more that you'll find online on my website. today. I'm also putting
together the last module for this current course a bonus module on
website security, how to secure your website, or if you make
websites for other people how to secure their websites as well. So
all of that man, what a week this week. I'll be back of course
every other day this week, except maybe Sunday. But the real
there's always news when it comes to tech and security. So here we
go with Jim.
Jim Polito 1:06
He's our good friend, and he's been patiently waiting. And that's
why we love him. We just can't get enough of them. I'm talking
about our Tech Talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, Craig.
Craig 1:19
Hey, good morning, Jim. It sounds like you had a great trip. I've
been to Europe before but it was focused on Belgium and France. My
wife and I, we rented a car. And we had a data plan for our phones.
And all we did is for one month. We drove around. It was random.
Where do we want to go today? And we used Hotwire to find good
hotels. I was shocked that Hotwire worked over there. We found good
hotels based on the ratings right? You have to ignore the stars,
right? A five star one star whatever. And but these are rated
hotels by people who use Hotwire. We drove around and we went
everywhere. The castle that they had from Beauty and the Beast it
was based on down in southern France. And of course, he went to
Provence and we went down to the Met. And that was the first time I
ever saw one of these toilets. That's basically a piece of
porcelain in the floor.
Jim 2:21
Yeah. Lovely. Lovely.
Craig 2:25
That's it. How could you ask for anything better? And there was
stalls and you know how stalls here, the you know, the toilets, or
the stalls around the toilets. They're like a foot or 18 inches,
whatever off the ground. And you can kind of see if someone's in
there. Like the airflow. They had the same thing. And they're like
18 inches off the ground. Oh my gosh. But Jim, that was the best
time I think my wife and I have had just taking the time. Yeah, I
could still feel do work. I called in to your show from France.
Jim 2:55
Oh wait a minute. Yeah.
Craig 3:04
I don't think I mentioned that.
Jim 3:04
No, no. But I remember when you were away because Danny will give
me a heads up. Like when you're traveling for business. And when
you're traveling for pleasure, he always gives me a heads up like,
you know, like bear in mind. Craig's away. Okay.
Craig 3:12
On the road, yeah.
Jim 3:13
So careful.
Craig 3:15
It was it was just so cool. The good news is I can still speak
French after 40 years. Because I remember my education was in
French schools. Right? My high school.
Jim 3:31
Right. Your High School was French.
Craig 3:34
Yeah, exactly. So I, you know, I stumbled a little bit of man is it
come back fast. But what a trip and we went right to Italy, just
barely, right there. And then, you know, in the Alps and stuff. But
we didn't make it down. But we've got to do this. You have to look
into going with you all and in March.
Jim 3:54
We're going on Ireland, Craig, we're going on. it's Gaelic and
garlic. Now look, before I run out of time.
Craig 3:53
Oh sorry.
Jim 4:01
No, no, no, it's not your fault. I could go on for hours, and I did
about the toilet. But I want to hear this from you because I use
WhatsApp. And you sent me this information. And by the way, folks,
this is going to be an abbreviated version with Craig. But you're
not going to miss out because if you text him my name, and he'll
give you the number at the end of the segment, you'll get all this
information plus a whole lot more. And I was getting updates while
I was in Europe, which was great. Standard data in text rates
apply. So the WhatsApp co founder says Mark Zuckerberg, is trading
privacy for revenue. What What is what's going on? Is this just a
fight between two Silicon Valley giants? Or is there some truth to
this?
Craig 4:57
Yeah, there is truth to this. It's amazing to me now it's two
faced, right. And we certainly seen that a lot in the news lately,
especially in the political arena. But here's this guy who sold
WhatsApp to Facebook. And he made I don't remember what was the
sales over a billion dollars, I remember that much. It was not
exactly pocket change. And so he sold it to Facebook. And he had
always wanted to keep the basically your information private to
allow you to enjoy you know, the conversations and stuff you have
with friends without having advertising. Yeah, in the middle of it
and everything being really obnoxious. Well, he's warning right
now, because of some things that have happened at Facebook. And
Facebook. Of course, they allowed over 150 companies, including
Netflix, Spotify, and Bing in December of last year came out to
access this crazy amounts of user data, private messages, even all
of this right. So if you think your messages on WhatsApp are
private, it allowed Bing for Microsoft search engine to see the
name of all the Facebook users friends without their consent.
Amazon, Facebook, allow them to obtain users names, contact
information, their friends, their posts. Yahoo could view streams
of friends post. And as of last year, Sony, Microsoft, Amazon could
all get user's email addresses through the frenzy, you know, and it
goes back and back right things that happened in September, etc. So
now he's coming out after he made his billion dollars. And he's
saying, Hey, listen, guys, I founded WhatsApp with a certain
corporate sense that we wanted to keep our users information safe
and secure, and not have you nailed with advertising all of the
time and not giving your information away. And he's saying Mark
Zuckerberg is doing the exact opposite in the values that WhatsApp
was founded under.
Jim 6:47
And WhatsApp you use in Europe, because as long as you have WiFi,
you can do you know, talk, if you don't want to go get a data plan
or something you can use that to talk to people.
Craig 7:04
Yeah, you can. And nowadays, most carriers, Verizon T-Mobile, etc.
They will allow you to make calls over Wi Fi as well. So you can
use your regular phone, you can receive calls while in Europe, if
you are on a Wi Fi hotspot of some sort. WhatsApp is great about
that. iOS just came out with a release yesterday and their Facetime
application that group calling fixed and is now working again. So
you could use that over there except for the fact that they had
disabled it because of a bug. So.
Jim 7:45
Yeah, I saw that I was getting those updates a while while I was
over there. But excellent. Craig, I'm sorry, this is short. And
we'll make it up to you next week. But we can make it up to
everybody right now. Because Because everything else we were going
to talk about, including Michael Cohen, all of these different
things. He's got some great, great info for you. And all you have
to do is text my name to this number.
Craig 8:13
855-385-5553. Just text Jim to 855-385-5553.
Jim 8:22
That's right, standard data and text rates apply and Craig will not
annoy you. Not in the least. Craig Thanks so much, buddy. We'll
catch up with you next week.
Craig 8:26
Take care Jim.
Jim 8:27
Take care. All right, Craig Peterson everybody and final word when
we return. You're listening to the Jim Polito Show.
Craig 8:42
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