The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Instagram Debuts Reels, TikTok Competitor, Facebook Changes & Other Tech News Nov 12, 2019

Episode Date: November 12, 2019

Instagram Debuts Reels, TikTok Competitor, Facebook Changes & Other Tech News Nov 12, 2019

Hi folks, Chris Voss here from thechrissvossshow.com, the Chris Voss Show Podcast. Hey, welcome to the show. Another day, another dollar. It is, what day is it today? It's November 12th, 2019. We're going to cover some of the tech news, some of the things that are going on in your world and my spin on it. So thanks for tuning in.

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But you got to do it now because it's only free for an unlimited time. So make sure you get on that. Just get on it now. Just go ahead. Grab your friend's phone and say, I want to show you a really cool podcast. Check this out. This guy's crazy, man. All right. So what do we got at the top of the news world here? It's kind of the Monday. It was Veterans Day yesterday. So thanks to all our wonderful veterans out there who've given so much to our country and made us who we are, actually,

and helped reinforce our freedoms. So a wonderful day for them. Hope they had a great day. So today is like a Tuesday, but it's like a Monday because of the holiday. And, yeah, lots of catching up to do and all that good stuff. This is kind of interesting. Instagram debuts an app called reels it's a tiktok style video remix feature which lets you make 15 second video clip sets uh into music and share them as stories now it's only been launched in brazil if you try and go you're like i'm running to the this now um it's

only available in brazil they're obviously running out as a test case to see how it works. And maybe if it catches on, I'm not sure why they picked Brazil, but maybe they know something we don't. But according to TechCrunch, they've got a whole story on it. You can read the story as well. I've been kind of wondering what Facebook is going to do to try and go after TikTok. Because certainly TikTok is becoming quite popular me and more pop in the Facebook and you know what it usually happens when Tom thinks or Todd Todd Zuckerberg Tom Zuckerberg the mark mark Zuckerberg boy it really is a

Monday morning isn't it Wow okay all right. All right. Todd Zuckerberg. Yeah. Uh, you know what Mark Zuckerberg does when he wants to take him by something, he just, uh, buys it and then he owns it and then it becomes part of Facebook and then no, no one's ever heard from again. No, something like that.

You know what I mean? So, um, kind of interesting to see what they're doing. It would be a little hard to buy Tik TOK. It's a Chinese company. It's starting to come under some Chinese scrutiny from legislators and other people because they're concerned about the Chinese ownership of TikTok,

which is interesting because they're like, well, we shouldn't trust the Chinese apps, but we should trust Mark Zuckerberg. Okay. So watch for that. There will probably be a whole mess of tick-tock ripoffs that I've already seen a couple that are merged in the market tick tocks pretty amazing we're we've been on it we posted a couple dog videos that are getting a few hundred likes and then what am I up to now I got a few hundred followers and stuff. Um, I don't know, 145 followers in just

like a couple of weeks, uh, 1,737 likes, 15 people follow me. And one of my videos got, Oh wow. It's 38,000 views. Um, the, most of the other ones are kind of smaller in their view size, but Hey, that was pretty cool i'll take 38 000 views uh and all that good stuff is one of my cute puppies so that helped a lot uh so you know tiktok's pretty cool if you get a chance to follow me over there on tiktok you can find me under my name and you'll see my husky puppies and stuff let's see what it's under Chris Voss I believe is my account so you can find me over there under Chris Oh Chris Voss one is what it's under Chris Voss one no spaces so if you want follow me in tick-tock but it's gonna be kind of

interesting to see where this goes they're getting some heat because they're trying a relationship and maybe that gives an edge so that mark can zing in and be like hey dude according to CNET users have noticed that Facebook's iOS app accesses the camera as they do unrelated things like scrolling their feeds one workaround is to revoke the camera apps position permissions I'm sorry but they noticed their cameras were turning on while they were looking through facebook's app hmm who's watching you mark's just like i want to see what bob jones is doing today bob's scrolling through his facebook let's take a look at bob oh damn he's fully dressed today okay uh wouldn't that be wouldn't that be something if like it came out

like mark zuckerberg uses everyone's cameras to take and find out who's naked and tweeting and facebooking and then he gets off on it that'd be creepy that'd be really weird. We don't want to have any of that go down. So there's that. Thanks. So I don't know what's going to go on with that. It'll be interesting. You can read the article on CNET. Up next, according to The Verge, Facebook has unveiled Facebook Pay, which will work on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp to let users shop, donate to causes, and send your money to friends. So there's that. Facebook Pay will arrive just weeks after payment companies dropped out of Libra. And they're launching a new payment system today called Facebook Pay because that's what

you wanted. And if anybody wants to test out Facebook Pay, try sending me 20 bucks and I will confirm for you that, uh, that I got the 20 bucks. So I don't know, this guy will be kind of interesting. It's going to start rolling out, uh, Facebook play on messenger and Facebook in the U S this week. It'll be initially available for fundraisers, person to person payments, event tickets and game purchases, and some purchases from pages and businesses that operate on Facebook's market. Over time, they're going to bring it to more people and be able to use it in Instagram and WhatsApp.

So I guess, I don't know, man. There's a lot of stuff to go on with this. It's a new revenue stream for Facebook webcam escorts that are always sending you friend ads like hey add me and then you add them and they're like come to my porn chat room and you're just like I don't have Facebook pay to pay you with yet but now I do anyway I'll be interesting you know that works out yeah um I can see some wife walking her husband. Honey, why do we have all these bill payments for credit cards from Facebook?

Oh, those are just from Facebook ads, honey. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not paying the webcam girl through Facebook. No, those are ads for my business. Okay. Up next on the news, according to Gadadget, Snap Spectacles 3 are out, and Engadget's giving their review on them. They claim they are stylish design, sturdy build, comfortable fit,

clever and fun 3D filters, convenient video capture, but they're expensive and they're not water resistance. Probably don't want to sweat in those things. So, I don't know. If you really want them, get them. It's hard to bank on these babies because the first two iterations were such garbage. Didn't do well and had zero resale value. Of course, they were pretty cheap, but still, though.

I mean, Google Glasses were pretty darn good. I still miss my Google Glasses, actually. I wish I still kind of had them. I wish I hadn't sold them. I don't know if they'd still be working at this point in time, but I do miss them. So there you go. Anyway, it's a major improvement.

They're getting better. You know, if you want to throw your money to them, well, knock yourself out. So here's the next up on the news. Reuters has a story that Microsoft says it will honor California's digital privacy law throughout the U.S. sources the CCPA offers special treatment to service providers like Microsoft. And basically what this is doing is, well, let's dig into some more of what this is about and what it means. It's a strict set of rules that's been established through California to protect consumers and their data. And so what they're going to do is roll this out through the country. Maybe they see that, you know, usually California and New York kind of set the standard for changes in laws.

They were one of the first people to ban smoking in restaurants, etc., etc., and then the rest of the country followed suit. So it is widely expected to harm profits of a long term for technology companies retailers and advertising firms and other business depend upon collecting consumer data to track users and increase sales uh the law basically uh tells companies they must be transparent about collection data and use and provide people with an option to prevent their personal information from being sold. And they're still working on the development of how that's going to roll out. But Microsoft says they're going to stick with it.

I think it's good. I think we need more control over our data personally. And also we need more protections from the yada, yada, yada. So there's that. Disney Plus spokesman acknowledges they've had service issues on the launch day. Saying consumer demand exceeded high expectations as consumers complained they can't connect. They overwhelmed the system. Do they know that they're Disney and they're popular?

It's according to CNN if you want to catch this story and a few other websites but I guess it launched and their biggest problem is Disney's popular this just in probably probably with all them damn kids trying to get on the internet I'm damn kids get off my Disney Plus loan so there you have it Disney Plus has been launched It'll be interesting to see the impact it has on Netflix And other streaming providers And does it steal business from them? Does it take business from them?

Does it become the new Netflix power thing? If anything I'd bet on it to become a new power Play and streaming It would definitely be Disney They own everything And, you know, I'd bet on to become a new power play in streaming. It would definitely be Disney. I mean, they own everything, including me. They own this podcast. No, they don't own me and this podcast.

But, you know, I'm just telling jokes here, people. But that's the way it goes. So next up on the story, New York Times looks at Baller Busters. It's an Instagram account that calls out people who pretend to be wealthier than they are to hawk dubious mentorship or online classes. So that's kind of interesting. This is a story from the New York Times. And I guess what they do is they call out Instagrammers to people that have been successful on Instagram.

They call them out, and they say, no, this is the real story behind this person. So that's kind of interesting. On the internet, no one knows you're not rich except for this account. So, yeah, they just do these baller busters starting in February, and they go after the flashy Instagram entrepreneur community. And the goal of it is to expose phony entrepreneurs using a mix of screenshot of receipts, memes, and crowdsource information from followers. The account seeks out people who don't act their wage. Wage. Do not mispr act their wage. Wage. I did not mispronounce that.

Wage. Often these people call themselves entrepreneurs and brag about their money, cars, or watches, or influence, but seem as if they don't have the cash to back it up. So kind of interesting there. I'm actually going to follow this because I want, you know, it looks like one of those things where there's a car crash I can watch. They've got 38,000 followers right now and about 96 posts. And they've got a New York Times article about how the Ball Busters

blow out online scams. So, oh, you have to follow them to their accounts private. So I'm following their photos and I wonder if they went, I wonder if they went private because of the New York times article. Uh, but basically they just call out people who, uh, pretend to be a scam and stuff. You know, the one thing I've been seeing on Twitter, that's really disturbing to me is I keep seeing these people now that claim to be rich and they post these, uh, what appear to be Photoshopped PayPal accounts and they claim to be, you know, worthless money. And they're like, I'm going to give away $500 to each follower for the next hour. So everyone

follow me and then DM me so that I can tell you how to get your money. And I don't know what that scam is, but I keep seeing it everywhere. I haven't bothered to DM anyone to get my money, uh, et cetera, et cetera. I'm not down to fall on anybody who does that sort of noise, but they do it ad nauseum, which eventually you just look at how often they do it on Twitter and you're just like, you should be out of money by now. So, yeah, it's going to be kind of weird. What else do we have? According to TechCrunch, researchers find 5G flaws that will let an attacker track phone locations,

spoof emergency alerts, and via a malicious radio-based station. Some of it may also affect a 4G signal too. So it looks like the hackers are already getting the jumpstart. The 5G isn't even fully here and they're already figuring out ways to hack it. So that should be interesting. It's faster and more secure than 4g but new research shows it has vulnerabilities that could put phone users at risk so we're gonna get new technology that's faster better speedier for our phones for hackers to break into so that hackers can break in faster

and download our data and steal it faster. Good for them. Way to go. According to TechCrunch as well, automatic. And that's automatic with two Ts. If you're familiar with automatic, they're the people who own and run WordPress and a few other different investments they have. They have partners up with Stripe to debut reoccurring payments for WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered sites that content creators collect repeat contributions. That might be nice. It'd be great if I could turn my WordPress

into like a subscription site. And I could be like, yeah, if you want to read my stuff, you got to pay, man. I can be like the New York Times and Washington Post and crap. According to OneZero, they talk about how police departments in the U.S.

are conducting facial recognition searches on behalf of other jurisdictions, boosting access to the tech and evading local laws. So over the last decade, these large police forces in Washington State are taking and conducting facial recognitions and using outside services do it to circumvent the privacy laws that they take and have this is a real big problem then it's crazy what's going on with it but definitely the definitely it will be something that impacts our future privacy.

In fact, there's another article we're going to get to as well. Let's talk about that right now because this was kind of a surprise that came across to me. I've always been kind of expecting it. But yeah, so let's talk about this article that just came out today. This is according to the ACLU.org. So you know they've kind of done their homework because they're filing a lawsuit and they've got to have discovery and proof for it. But the ACLU.org has put out a thing today. I'm sorry, this is October 31st. I guess it just made it to my box.

The FBI is tracking our faces in secret and the ACLU is suing over it. Anyway, what they found is that the facial recognition surveillance technology that's made a frightening reality in Hong Kong and China is quickly becoming a possibility in the U.S. The FBI is currently collecting data on our faces, our irises, our walking patterns and voices, permitting the government to pervasively identify, track and monitor us. The agency can now match or request a match of our faces against at least 640 million images of adults living in the U.S. and it's reportedly piloting Amazon's flawed face recognition service

technology. So anyway, they're asking the ACLU is asking for a federal court to intervene and order the FBI and related agencies to turn over all records recording their use of facial recognition. Look, some of this may be

applicable, some of this may be applicable some of this may be useful but here's what we want we we want to um we want to take and know what's being uh how this technology is being used i watched a lot of videos recently from interviews with edward snowden um he appeared on a few podcasts that are very popular. I'm trying to remember the ones. There's the one guy who had the Fear Show. It's a real popular podcaster. But I watched a few videos of him, and it's interesting, the details and what he was trying to tell us. And I don't think a lot of us have still even got it, if you will. Get it?

Got it? All that good stuff. So, yeah, I mean, we definitely, I mean, if they're going to use this technology, it's kind of like planes. Look, if you're going to, if you're going to make me go through security lines and planes and jump through this little dance and play this game, you got to tell me what's going on. You can't just do it. And you're like, what are you doing?

You're like, nothing to your business. You got to tell me what's going on. And if you tell me what's going on, we all kind of come to this agreement where we go, oh, so we do this whole line thing. We get frisk and felt up and people go through our luggage to make it safer to plane because we don't want to have them blow up in the sky. Okay, you have a deal. Okay, that's cool.

That's, I mean, it's not the greatest thing in the world, but that's, you know, as long as we know how our stuff is being used and why we're being used for it and we can come to an agreement, that's great. That's how this democracy and freedom are supposed to work. And so, you know, in the end, there you are. We need to get back to that wherever that's at, if it's even possible to get back there. So there you go next up on the news feed uh buzzfeed news uh according to a source twitter suggests it will allow political ads that spread awareness like issues like climate change not uh

ads mentioning a specific policy or candidate boy that kind of opens the door for people to squeeze all sorts of shit through when it comes down to it that's the only problem with that it squeezes the you know people people are like well no my message about white supremacy was uh spreading awareness about issues not uh a policy or a candidate you're like you a KKK member, you're a racist. They're like, no, we're not. We're doing a special issues awareness thing. Okay, buddy, whatever you want to say. So I don't know, man.

It'll be interesting to see if they stick through it and where they go with that. We're still waiting to see more data coming out of facebook and what they're going to do they're certainly not making any friends with their attitude towards the uh other stuff according to tech crunch facebook is rolling out a new option called shortcuts bar setting that lets users remove certain taps in the app's navigation bar and silence notification dots uh here's an idea hey facebook yes here's a new option for you the the uninstall app function you press a button it gets it off your phone wipes your shit cleaned your account and puts you on match or myspace.com so there's that anyway guys that's kind of the rundown of some of the news and some of the thoughts i have on it today we certainly

appreciate you guys tuning in i'll watch for other segments of the show we might do a product hunt here today or tomorrow uh watch for all the other stuff we'll be doing on the show and all that good stuff thanks for tuning in go to the cvpn.com and tell chris fossing and we'll see you next time