WEBVTT - NFT's explained 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:14.800 Instagram might be bringing back chronological order Life three sixty 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:19.400 apparently selling user location data. Big time people are spending 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.799 how much on NFTs plus your tech questions answered? What's 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.920 going on? I'm Rich Tomiro and this is Rich on Tech, 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.640 the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:33.080 think you should know about. It's also the place where 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:37.160 I answer the questions you sent me. I'm the tech 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.519 reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. There's a 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.159 little bit of hesitation there, as if I didn't know, 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.920 as if I hadn't been doing that for eleven years. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.640 Now eleven years. Isn't that wild to be at one 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.920 place for eleven years? I mean I never really considered that. 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.960 I mean, it's just time fly, it really does. I 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.920 mean I've had two kids since I've been working there, 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:10.039 you know, bought a house, different cars. I mean, a 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.679 lot has changed, but not me. I mean, well, I 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.240 guess I have. But I feel like I'm the same person. 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:16.920 But I'm not. I mean, I know I'm not, that's 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.360 for sure. I Mean a lot changes in ten years, 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:23.160 but I've got to say, overall, it's been really fun 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:28.080 and gosh, now I sound like I'm stopping this I'm 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.120 just introing this show. I don't know why did I 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.480 get on that tangent. Anyway, So the holidays are in 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:38.160 full swing. I'm sure you've decorated at this point. Perhaps 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.240 I know I did, and I'm kind of one of 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.440 these people that I love once the decorations are up, 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.480 and I don't mind decorating. It's just the idea of 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.600 decorating that really really kind of scares me. It's like, okay, 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.040 it just gives me a little bit of anxiety, Like, Okay, 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.240 I've got to go out into the garage. I've got 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.480 to find all this stuff. I've got to organize it. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.560 I've got to clip it up. You know. The lights 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.360 I never really understand, Like every year I think I 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.120 throw out my lights, saying oh, I'm gonna get new 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.400 lights next year or new deck. I'm gonna throw out 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.120 this decoration and get a new one next year. And 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.480 then the next year I'm like, now where's that decoration? 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.240 And my wife is like, well, you threw it out. 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:17.200 Remember of course, you know when the next year comes by, 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.480 and it always comes by so fast, says remember, you're 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.080 gonna buy all the new lights in July. Well that 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.760 didn't happen. But once everything is decorated, I really do 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.560 enjoy it. And this year especially, I really like having 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.880 alex A controlling my lights. I've got all the outdoor 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.520 lights coming on at a certain time. I've got the 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.519 inside lights coming on. The only thing I really wish 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.000 I could do because when I come home, I say 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.200 alex A, Merry Christmas, and that flips on the lights. 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.280 I just wish I could have all my music come 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:47.799 on at the same time. And I know there's a 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.920 way to do it, but I can't seem to figure 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:51.280 out how to do it with my sonos. I can 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.720 do it with like the Amazon speakers, but not my sons, 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:56.720 and I think I could do it with like one sons. 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.560 But anyway, you know, little things. But my dad is 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.840 also in town, which has been really fun. And it's 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.960 funny because I asked my dad when he was you know, 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.520 when he's here, and I'm like, Dad, did you like 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.400 decorating for the holidays when we were kids? And I 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.320 fully expected him to be like, oh no, I just 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.880 did that for you guys, but he was like, oh no, 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.359 I loved it. It was the greatest. I always look 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.120 forward to that and I was like, oh, man, so 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.120 I guess, I guess. I just I don't have the 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.760 spirit as much. I don't know, but I do. I mean, 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.000 last night we watched one of those Hallmark movies, you know, 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.880 those cheesy movies, and it was it was fine. The 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.320 movie wasn't the best one, but you know, it's fun 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.360 to sit there with your tea and you know, we 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.400 have these little I don't know why, we like these 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:41.280 special little cookies. The are the uh oh, what are they? 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:45.680 The what's that brand? Pepperidge Farms. They're called Chessman cookies 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.520 and they're just simple, like little I don't even they're 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.040 not even sugar sugar cookies. They're just like cookies that 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.480 are so simple, but they're so fun with like tea 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.720 and watching your movie and you know, so we did 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.840 that and it was nice and it's just like that 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.040 cozy feeling you have right like once a year, like 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.880 let all the the issues and troubles in the world 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.240 drift away for like two hours while you watch this 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:09.000 show and it's just anyway, it was nice when all 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.480 the lights are on you're just sitting there and anyway, So, 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.680 by the way, Dad's in town, Like I mentioned, and 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.120 it's so funny the impact that I guess television and 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.440 movies have on a tourist when they come to Los 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.839 Angeles because and YouTube, by the way, So I mean, 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.960 my dad knew about everything in Los Angeles and wanted 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.800 to do it all. And I'm like, really, so they 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:36.520 want like Universal Studios, Paramount Studios, a tour of Dodger Stadium. 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.240 They knew places in the valley, they knew places at 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:40.760 the beach, and I'm like, how do you know all 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.760 these places? They knew Sunset Boulevard, some little like real 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.320 estate place that we passed on Sunset Bulevard, Like that's 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:50.320 selling Sunset I'm like what, and they just it's so 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.560 I see why the tourist industry in Los Angeles is flourishing. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.919 It's because Los Angeles is plastered across every movie and 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.800 TV show and YouTube video around the world, and so 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.120 when people come here, they just want to see it all. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.480 All right, let's get to the first story of the show. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:11.040 Instagram might be bringing back a chronological feed. This might 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.240 be happening in twenty twenty two. So I'm not sure 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:18.520 if you saw, but Instagram head Adam Mosei was he 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.640 was speaking before Congress. I guess speaking is a nice 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.920 way to put it, or this was the Senate rather 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.159 and I guess being grilled is a nicer way of 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.560 putting it, and or the real way of putting it. So, 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.680 you know, Instagram has come under fire, like Facebook and 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:38.160 like other social media for really having an effect on teens' lives, 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:42.240 not only the behavior, but also their habits and just 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.480 you know, they're also doing dumb things because of it. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.080 Not so much Instagram, but I feel like TikTok is 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:51.400 really an up and coming kind of source of interestingness. 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.160 Let's put it that way with these TikTok challenges. But anyway, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.160 it's funny because the way I see the laws and 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.960 kind of things happening, like right now, we're so fixated 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.039 on Instagram and Facebook, but the reality is TikTok is 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.240 having a very big impact in these young people's lives, 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:13.320 maybe even more so than Instagram, especially more than Facebook. 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.680 I mean, Facebook is now I hate to say this, 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.000 but it's for the olds, you know, It's for the 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:22.040 older generation who have stuck with it or found it 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.520 later than the younger generation. The younger generation moved on 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.000 to Instagram, and then the older generation found that and 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.440 now the younger generation has moved on to TikTok, and 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.400 that's just the way it is. I mean, there's always 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:39.040 going to be that element of the youngest people finding 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.160 the newest ways of doing things. That's kind of been 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:46.400 like that forever. But anyway, so Instagram, you know, the 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.800 whole thing about the hearing is just basically, do we 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.120 need regulation for these apps? And Instagram, of course and 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.240 Facebook want to have self regulation, kind of like the 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.960 Motion Picture Association. You know, they rate movies themselves. Nobody 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.120 there's no governing body from the government that rates movies. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.119 It's the industry association. And that's sort of the model 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:09.320 that Instagram and Facebook want, whereas the government says, I 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.200 think we need something that's more from the government. And 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.920 of course that's debatable, I mean, depending on how you 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.920 feel about this stuff. But the reality is that is happening. 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:23.560 It's actively happening. But during this Senate hearing, the head 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.840 of Instagram, Adam Moseerri, who's not one of the guys 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.880 who founded Instagram. The founders of Instagram left a long 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.840 time ago. They were pretty unhappy with how Instagram was 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.880 being changed. It started as just a place to share 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.200 beautiful pictures, and as you know, it's become kind of 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:41.760 a mini clone of Facebook and so anyway, but one 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.040 of the big changes over the years is this chronological feed. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:49.080 When you used to have Instagram, when you logged in, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.080 you would see pictures in the order of your friends 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.240 posted them from the oldest to or I guess the 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.600 newest to the oldest, and you know that went away 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:00.320 for an algorithm. An algorithm decides based on how likely 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.800 you are to interact with something, and because of course 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:04.320 these apps want you to stay on there as long 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.480 as humanly possible, they put stuff in front of you 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.080 that they think you will interact with. And you know, 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:12.680 a lot of people cry about that. They don't want 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.480 they want the chronological feedback. And now it looks like 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:20.119 Instagram is going to give people that option. It looks 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.200 like it's gonna be an option to see posts from 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.400 people you follow in a chronological order, and a favorites 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.040 feed from a posts that you designate from friends. Those 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:30.480 will be higher in the feed. And all of this 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.720 will be optional, of course, you know, and they won't 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.120 make it. They'll probably make it easy to switch, but 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.160 they won't make it apparent to switch. You know, they'll 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.840 they because they want the algorithm. That's really of course, 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:43.720 they want the algorithm because that makes them the most 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.600 money and it keeps you on there the longest, which 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.600 I guess makes them the most money. The other thing, 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.160 and I don't know, maybe I was on the test 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:54.240 of this, but they are doing suggested posts from accounts 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.280 you don't follow. I've been seeing this for a while 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:58.920 and I feel like I actually haven't seen it in 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.400 a little bit, but it was definitely there for a 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.560 couple of weeks and I was like, what are all 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.440 these posts from people that don't follow? Some were cool, 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.160 some were not. I might have found one or two 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.120 people that I've do I do follow, but again, it's 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.720 trying to be more of a place of discovery. If 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.560 you look at TikTok, you don't have to follow anyone 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.120 to use that service, and you can just swipe through 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.600 and swipe through. And that's how reels works on Instagram, 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.080 and that's how they want the main feed to work 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.040 as well. So lots of changes come into Instagram in 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.920 twenty twenty two, We'll see what happens with the time 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:31.480 limits and all that stuff. They said they're going to 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.920 give parents away to do time limits for their kids, 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.720 which I think is very very smart. All right, first 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.400 question comes from Lauren. I have a Samsung S eight 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:42.640 phone with the three G going away. I need a 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.880 new phone. I'm looking to switch to an iPhone since 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.640 most of my other devices are Apple. Will my data 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:52.840 transfer to the iPhone? Thirteen? Thank you, Lauren. Yes, all 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:57.920 of your information will transfer to the iPhone. It's actually 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:03.520 pretty amazing. There is an app called Move to iOS, 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.280 which is from Apple. But have they updated this in 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.480 a while. I feel like they haven't let me see, 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.440 and I'm not even sure you need it. Oh yeah, 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:16.000 they did November nine, twenty twenty one, so you know 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:20.280 you can do that. But I think yeah, Move to 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:24.040 iOS is Let's see. Everything about iOS is designed to 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.160 be easy. This includes switching. With just a few steps. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.120 You can migrate your content automatically and securely from your 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.280 Android with the Move to iOS. No need to save yourself, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:36.160 your stelf, your stuff anywhere before switching to Android. It 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.520 will transfer your contacts, your message history, camera photos and videos, 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:45.320 your bookmarks, your mail accounts, and your calendars. So yeah, Basically, 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.400 it says that your iPhone creates a private Wi Fi network, 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.280 it finds your Android device running Move to iOS and 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:55.600 it transfers all of your stuff, so pretty simple, and honestly, 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.520 all of the phone manufacturers have made it very easy 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:03.080 to swap between devices, whether it's Samsung to iPhone, iPhone 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:07.680 to Samsung Android. You know at large like one Plus, 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.480 also Google Pixel, they've all made it pretty easy to 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.840 kind of sucking suction up all your data from another phone, 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:20.559 and sometimes with the iPhone to iPhone it's very very easy. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.240 And you know, with these other cross carriers it's actually 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.679 pretty easy as well, or cross manufacturers, So yes, Lauren, 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:29.920 will be very easy. Download the move to iOS app 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.920 on your Samsung and then have your iPhone nearby. The 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:34.760 main thing you don't want to do is get rid 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.480 of your Samsung before you have your new phone, and 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.880 that's in general with any phone that you get. The 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:41.720 best way to do it is to have your old 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.880 phone physically there. That way you don't have to back 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:48.800 up everything to the cloud. It will pretty much directly 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.640 transfer things from your phone to phone, which is much 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.320 faster than going up to the cloud and then back 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.280 down to the new phone. Speaking of apps, this is 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.600 a popular app app called Life three sixty. A lot 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.920 of people rely on this app as a family safety app. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.079 It can show you where your family members are on 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.199 a map. I've recommended it many times. It also can 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.280 help in a car crash situation. There's just a lot 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.760 of family safety features built in, so a lot of 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.800 people rely on this. They've got like over thirty million users, 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.520 a lot of them kids and parents. But this website, 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.640 the Markup has a big kind of an expose on them, 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.280 saying that they are one of the biggest data brokers, 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.880 or they're not a data broker, but they're one of 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.120 the biggest data sources in the world. And this is 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.960 from two former employees who say they you know, they 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:46.080 worked at Location data brokers and the Life three sixty 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.400 people were one of the biggest sources of data for them. 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.199 Now let me explain how this works. So number one, 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.600 they are not doing anything that's personally identifiable. So yes, 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.400 they're sharing location of all their users and where they are. 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.760 And this can be very valuable because think about it, 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.000 if they've got thirty three million users, they can tell 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.920 which restaurants are hot, they can tell where people are going, 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.520 they can see trends there's a lot of information that 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:14.200 can be gleamed just from location data. And again it's 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:18.480 these Life three sixty is not necessarily selling that trend data. 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.120 They're just selling the raw data to a data broker 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.200 who then sells it to marketers. So it's kind of 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.360 a one to two process to get this into someone 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.760 else's hands. And so you know, Life three sixty has 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.480 said that they actually emailed a response from the CEO 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.360 to the markup saying that we see data as an 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.880 important part of our business model that allows us to 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.719 keep the core Life three sixty services for free for 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.840 a majority of users. And that's probably true. I mean, 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.160 there's this old adage in the tech world that you know, 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.520 if you're not paying for something, you are the product, 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.880 you know, especially if it involves data. And we've seen 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.160 that with Google, We've seen that with Twitter, We've seen 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.720 that with Instagram, We've seen that with Facebook. I mean, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:05.960 these are giant platforms YouTube that we rely on for information, 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.560 data services, and they're all pretty much free. Yeah, there 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.280 might be some paid level to them, but the basics 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.160 are free. And so they're free because they are either 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:20.840 selling us ads or they are gathering our information and 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.720 using that to sell us ads, or they're selling that location, 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.520 or they're doing a combination of both. So Life through 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.080 sixty I don't think you necessarily need to stop using it, 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.520 but it probably would have been nicer if it was 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.640 a little bit clearer that they were using data in 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.160 this way. Now, if you dive into their terms and 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.720 conditions the privacy policy, it does say that they use 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.560 the user data that it sells. It does say it 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.040 sells the user data, and it also may share your 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.080 information with third parties in a form that does not 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:55.080 reasonably identify you directly. And so they're saying it in 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.680 the privacy policy. But who reads that, no one? But 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.080 I think the big takeaway here is you just have 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.800 to realize that your information is being taken in many, 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.360 many different ways, take advantage of the ways to fight back, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.680 and that the main thing is that when you are 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:13.000 downloading an app on your phone, there are a couple 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.480 questions that asks you when it comes to user location. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.760 Number one, it will ask you if you want to 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:24.520 give precise location or a general location. So always always 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.520 always go with general location, unless it's an app that 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.600 requires specific location, and that would be an app like 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.280 Life three sixty, which is why their business is so brilliant. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.640 People don't want to see that their kids are in town. 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:37.800 They want to see that their kids are in their 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.480 specific school. And so if you did precise location, you 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.320 would see their school. If you said, oh, I'm only 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.920 going to give you the general location, yeah, that would 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.520 not be very helpful with an app like this. Now 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.800 with an app like uh Uber, yeah you got to 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.520 give specific location. But there's another way you can do 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.440 it too, is say only while using app. So ninety 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.440 nine percent of the time these apps want to trick 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.880 you into giving your data up twenty four to seven 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.280 so they can always just siphon this off and sell it. 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.640 But again, you got to fight back with some of 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.480 these things. Don't give more permissions than they need, and 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.280 don't give them those permissions for a longer time than 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.920 they require, and really think about it with apps, do 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.360 they need your precise location? No? If they don't, then 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.960 just give them your general location. If you can give 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.640 them one time access to your location, that's even better, 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.120 so that when that app closes out, that's it. They 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.440 don't have access to your location anymore, and they're going 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.280 to nag you the next time. That you open up 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.520 that app. But that's fine. Next time you need to 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.560 use an app, you can just say okay, like a 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.760 you know, even something as simple as a weather app, 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.600 you can say, yeah, just one time use like I 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.800 just want to check the weather right now, close it out. 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.120 It doesn't do anything in the background. Next time you 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.320 open up that app, you can give it the information 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.720 again or location access again. So just you know, these 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.520 little things, these little menus that you kind of go 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.680 past really quickly on your phone, just take a second 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.320 to read them, because there is some important stuff, important 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:05.080 choices inside these menus or inside these I guess they're 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.960 what would you call them, like a pop up box, 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:09.760 Like you know, when you're first setting up the app, 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.440 that's when you see it. Okay, Lama Locks says, what's 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.600 the best Android cell phone? Uh? I would say the 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:24.600 best Android cell phone is the Pixel six. Pixel six 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:26.960 is going to be your best phone of the year. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.440 There are many Android phones out there. I absolutely love 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.720 the Pixel six. Now I've been using the Pixel six Pro, 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.240 so I actually don't really have hands on time with 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.720 a Pixel six, But I'm just saying Pixel six because 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.240 it's three let's see six eight hundred. I think it's 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:46.960 two to three hundred dollars cheaper. How much is it? 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:52.200 Let me say so. The let's see, the Pixel six 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:56.120 is six hundred. The Pixel six Pro is I thought 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.080 it was eight ninety nine. Hold on, hold on, I 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.920 gotta see something here. I'm right. I actually just did 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:05.160 my review of the Pixel six Pro, and yep, I've 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.720 got to I've got to change that. I don't know 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.120 why I said eight hundred dollars. It's it's actually nine 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.800 hundred dollars. I gotta I gotta redo that. But yeah, 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:18.680 nine hundred dollars uh for the Pixel six Pro, six 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.400 hundred for the Pixel six. So great, great value there 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.280 for either one of them. But I think that the 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.160 Pixel six is probably gonna be best for most people. It's 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:32.440 got a great camera, it's got great software, it's got 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.960 good processor, it's got that tensor, it's got a great 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.879 voice to text. The main thing you don't get with 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.359 the Pixel six versus the Pro is the telephoto lens 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.399 and a little bit less ram, which means your phone's 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.240 gonna be a little bit slower than the other one, 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.080 than the higher end. But I think for that three 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.119 hundred dollars you're you're doing just fine, and plus you 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:57.560 get the nice Google software and it's just a great 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.000 all around phone. I can't I can't speak highly enough 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.879 of it, and it's really challenged me with the iPhone 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:05.919 because I love the iPhone, but this, this Android Pixel 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:10.000 six Pro, it's one of those phones like I can't 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:11.840 really put down. I really really like it. I'll have 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:15.600 my full review soon on TV. But I've just, yeah, 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:17.520 really fall in love with this thing. The funny thing is, 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.600 you know, Pixel is supposed to have a monthly update 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.000 on the first Monday of every month, and so I've 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.800 been waiting for that for the Pixel six Pro because 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.200 there are some little things that I wish were fixed, 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:33.439 like the fingerprint reader is really slow. But it's funny 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.600 because the one time that I've been waiting for an update, 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:38.840 of course they don't do the update on the schedule, 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:40.479 and they said, oh, we're going to do that update 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.400 in the middle of the month, and so I've been 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.439 waiting for that update and it's still not here. But 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.840 I did my review anyway, and it's still a fantastic phone. 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.520 The only the only main thing, the only main issues 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:55.439 I have is that the phones are big and the 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:58.080 fingerprint reader is really slow, but otherwise I think it 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:03.280 is excellent. Uh okay, Oh, speaking of Android, if you 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.800 have one, you need to know about this. Google is 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:12.240 confirming an Android bug that prevents people from dialing nine 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:14.800 to one one. So here's what you need to know. So, 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:17.840 there was a Reddit user that tried to dial nine 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:22.520 one one for his grandmother and his Android Pixel three 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.199 got stuck it like wouldn't dial it. Now, that is 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:29.480 a horrible, horrible scenario. Can you imagine not being able 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:31.639 to dial nine one? And I've thought about this because 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:34.240 I test a lot of phones, and you know, sometimes 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:35.880 I've been out and about with like a test phone. 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:37.760 I'm like, oh my gosh, do I have a you know, 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.280 working simcard in this? Like will this let me dial 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:42.480 nine one? Like, I've thought about this, and it's a 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:44.919 bad scenario to be in if you need help. So 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.800 this redditor said that it was a Pixel three running 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.600 Android eleven on Verizon tried to dial nine one one. 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.920