EPISODE · Jan 8, 2011 · 30 MIN
P.I.D. Radio 1/7/11: Your Phone is Spying on You
from PID Radio · host Derek and Sharon Gilbert
WE LOVE technology, but we'd be naive not to recognize how it's being used against us. For example, Apple filed a patent application in August for a phone that monitors its user's voice print, heartbeat, and facial features — and compares pictures of its surroundings and recordings of a vehicle's engine with ones in memory! — to determine whether it's been stolen.While this sounds like a great security feature, it doesn't take much imagination to see how useful this is to a national security apparatus that doesn't need a warrant to download this data from your phone company.Also: a million pigs buried alive in South Korea; the son of the Shah of Iran commits suicide; and Ted Williams, the prodigal son with the golden voice, returns home.
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WE LOVE technology, but we'd be naive not to recognize how it's being used against us. For example, Apple filed a patent application in August for a phone that monitors its user's voice print, heartbeat, and facial features — and compares pictures of its surroundings and recordings of a vehicle's engine with ones in memory! — to determine whether it's been stolen.While this sounds like a great security feature, it doesn't take much imagination to see how useful this is to a national security apparatus that doesn't need a warrant to download this data from your phone company.Also: a million pigs buried alive in South Korea; the son of the Shah of Iran commits suicide; and Ted Williams, the prodigal son with the golden voice, returns home.
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P.I.D. Radio 1/7/11: Your Phone is Spying on You
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