1 | TITLE: PayPal Forces Users to Accept Spam * 1273 | |||||
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2 | Tease: Accept PayPal robocalls and spam or get off their service. | Shownotes Link: | EDIT NOTES | |||
3 | 06/04/2015 : Dish and T-Mobile might merge, Apple was planning to unveil their next-generation Apple TV Monday, but now they're changing the channel, and more... | |||||
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7 | This is Tech News Today for Thursday, June 4, 2015 | |||||
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21 | PayPal Forces Users to Take Spam | |||||
22 | PayPal changed their user agreement to give themselves permission to spam you with robocalls and spam texts. By agreeing to the new PayPal terms of service, you're opting in. | http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/06/03/a-horrible-new-paypal-policy-opts-you-into-getting-robocalls/ | ||||
23 | Brian Fung is a reporter for the Washington Post. Q: Why is PayPal doing this? And why now? Q: You mentioned that they give themselves the right to call users with phone numbers not provided to PayPal. Q: What if PayPal users want to keep using PayPal but not agree to the new spam agreement. Can they? Q. Can users remove phone numbers from the database? Q. Can they stay opted in for security robo-calls and texts but opt out of ones that are ads? | Brian Fung Reporter, Washington Post @b_fung | ||||
24 | https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/upcoming-policies-full | |||||
25 | Brian Fung * washingtonpost.com * @b_fung | |||||
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28 | California Senate Upholds the Constitution | |||||
29 | The California state Senate yesterday approved a bi-partisan bill that would force police in California to get a warrant before searching anyone's smartphone, laptop or other electronic device or even gaining access to information stored on remote servers, including location data stored by the wireless carriers. | https://www.aclunc.org/blog/victory-california-senate-tells-cops-get-warrant | ||||
30 | Will Matthews is the Senior Communications Officer at the ACLU of Northern California. Q: The bill has the support of major Silicon Valley companies, including Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter. Who's against it? Q: Opponents say that the bill would require the destruction of evidence by law enforcement and that it violates the California Constitution. What is your response to that claim? Q: How would this law make California law different from Federal law? | Will Matthews Senior Communications Officer, ACLU NoCal @ACLUWill | ||||
31 | * Opposed by the California District Attorneys Assn., the California Police Chiefs Association and the California State Sheriffs Association. | http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB178 | ||||
32 | Will Matthews * aclunc.org * @ACLUWill | |||||
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57 | AD 1: Gazelle | Gazelle.com | ||||
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59 | The Wall Street Journal is reporting in an exclusive that Dish Network is currently in merger talks with T-Mobile. The piece says there is broad agreement between the two companies. They agree that Dish CEO Charlie Ergen would chair the combined company's board, while T-Mobile chief John Legere would be the new company's CEO. The two companies are roughly equal in size, with Dish's market cap just under 33 billion and T-Mobile's just around $31 billion. Dish is America's second-largest satellite TV operator and T-Mobile is the nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier. | http://www.wsj.com/articles/dish-network-in-merger-talks-with-t-mobile-us-1433383285 | ||||
60 | * Dish has 13.8 million satellite TV customers and 591,000 Internet subscribers. * T-Mobile has about 44.7 million retail customers * Deutsche Telekom owns 66% of T-Mobile * Experts agree the deal probably wouldn't be stopped by regulators | |||||
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62 | Nasa and Verizon are hatching a scheme to track civilian drones by using cell towers, according to an exclusive in The Guardian. The system would serve as a kind of air traffic control system. The project is taking place at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, which is managed by Google. NASA hopes that the technology they're developing would create automatic geo-fences around no-fly areas. Verizon reportedly hopes to finalize the technology within four years. | http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/03/verizon-nasa-drones-cellphone-towers | ||||
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65 | The California state Senate yesterday approved a bi-partisan bill that would force police in California to get a warrant before searching anyone's smartphone, laptop or other electronic device or even gaining access to information stored on remote servers, including location data stored by the wireless carriers. The bill has the support of major Silicon Valley companies, including Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter. And it's opposed by the California District Attorneys Assn., the California Police Chiefs Association and the California State Sheriffs Association. | http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVersionsCompareClient.xhtml | ||||
66 | OPPONENTS SAY: undermines critical efforts to stop child exploitation OPPONENTS SAY: mandates the destruction of evidence by law enforcement OPPONENTS SAY: violates the California Constitution | |||||
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77 | We told you previously that Apple cancelled plans to roll out its streaming TV service because of the difficulty of making content deals. Now, Recode is reporting that Apple has also canceled plans to unveil a new Apple TV set-top box. * * * | http://recode.net/2015/06/03/apples-new-apple-tv-box-will-also-be-a-no-show-at-wwdc/ | ||||
78 | Apple today announced two chunks of news about Apple Watch availability: First, the Watch will go on sale in seven new countries starting June 26: Italy, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan. Also on that day Apple says some models of the Apple Watch will be available in retail Apple Stores. * * * | https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/06/04Apple-Watch-Arrives-in-Seven-More-Countries-June-26.html | ||||
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81 | Periscope today added new features that make the live-streaming service more powerful to use. First, the company added a map browser for browsing streams by location. Second, recorded Periscope streams are now available immediately after they end. * * * | https://medium.com/@periscope/explore-the-world-fc3874a35bbe | ||||
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108 | AD 2: ZipRecruiter | Ziprecruiter.com | https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs/twit-llc-54a87912/video-editor-644d83bb | |||
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126 | 2.8 million * That's how many wearable devices were shipped in the first quarter of this year by -- wait for it! -- Xiaomi, which IDC says is -- or was in Q1, at least -- the world's second largest seller of wearable devices. Fitbit was number one with 3.9 million devices shipped. This is all pre-Apple Watch, of course. * * * | http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/04/report-xiaomi-now-worlds-second-biggest-seller-of-wearables-behind-only-fitbit/ | ||||
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130 | To celebrate World Oceans Day, which is June 8, Google has flooded Google Maps with underwater Street View images. The company partnered with the government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and specifically its XL Catlin Seaview Survey, as well as the Chagos Conservation Trust, to photograph in 360 degrees 40 underwater locations. * * * | https://www.google.com/maps/views/u/0/streetview/oceans | ||||
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173 | the possible Dish/T-Mobile merger | https://www.google.com/search?q=dish+%22t-mobile%22&num=30&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ei=-EhwVb2fIcb8yQTD5oOICw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1152&bih=644 | ||||
174 | the NASA/Verizon drone tracking scheme | http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/03/verizon-nasa-drones-cellphone-towers | http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/03/verizon-nasa-drones-cellphone-towers | |||
175 | California Senate's ban on warrantless gadget searches | https://www.google.com/search?q=California+senate+warrant+laptop+OR+smartphone+OR+search&num=30&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ei=YUlwVfWSMY2KyAS6r4OoAg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1152&bih=644 | http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVersionsCompareClient.xhtml | |||
176 | PayPal's new robocall change | https://www.google.com/search?q=PayPal&num=30&es_sm=119&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ei=N0xwVYzcH4n_yQSIt4LgDg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1152&bih=609 | https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/upcoming-policies-full | |||
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