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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 23, 2025 is: bastion • BAS-chun • noun A bastion is a place or system in which something (such as an idea) is protected and continues to survive. // The restaurant is a bastion of the region's ancient culinary traditions. See the entry > Examples: “In 2017, Harlem residents took to the streets to protest Keller Williams after the real estate company began marketing the neighborhood's 15-block southern radius (between 110th Street and 125th Street) as ‘SoHa' (South Harlem) without their approval. The biggest worry? That newcomers would attempt to erase Harlem's history as a civil rights nexus and bastion of Black American culture. In response, then-New York Sen. Brian Benjamin introduced legislation that banned unsolicited name changes and fined real estate firms for using names like SoHa.” — Jake Kring-Schreifels, Spokeo, 26 Mar. 2025 Did you know? Bastion today usually refers to a metaphorical fortress, a place where an idea, ethos, philosophy, culture, etc. is in some way protected and able to endure. But its oldest meaning concerned literal fortifications and strongholds. Bastion likely traces back to a verb, bastir, meaning “to build or weave,” from Old Occitan, a Romance language spoken in southern France from about 1100 to 1500. Bastir eventually led to bastia, an Italian word for a small quadrangular fortress, and from there bastione, referring to a part of a fortified structure—such as an outer wall—that juts or projects outward. Bastione became bastion in Middle French before entering English with the same meaning. You may be familiar with another bastir descendent, bastille, which refers generically to a prison or jail, but is best known as the name of the Parisian fortress-turned-prison stormed by an angry mob at the start of the French Revolution; the Bastille's fall is commemorated in France by the national holiday Bastille Day.

You may have seen some news making the rounds about a new study that claims to have objectively ranked all the US States according to how friendly they are for singles. We were skeptical of this claim and dug into the data – believe it or not, there are issues. Join us to discussing the importance of accurate variable weighing, checking the sources of one's data, and covering up your classism a bit better. We also talk a little bit about what the uncritical coverage of this dreadful material says about the state of US media.Joel has been podcasting for 3 years and occasionally drops the ball when it comes to podcast setup. The content is great but the audio was recorded on his laptop microphone, not the high-quality Blue Yeti stand-alone mike that you all have grown accustomed to. DTG despises genocide and continue to support people fighting all forms of it. We're still making monthly donations to local trans funds and have now started doing the same for Palestine support. Send proof to our email that you made a donation to fight any kind of genocide and we'll send you some stuff in appreciation. Consider some of the following:UN Relief and Works Agency - Desperately needs money since the US and several Western nations cut off funding.Islamic Relief USAWorld Food ProgramHealPalestineWe are now recording through Zencaster and producing both video and transcripts of each episode. Find those on our Patreon when we remember to upload. Support the Show.

In this podcast episode, Harrison Tang, CEO and Co-founder of Spokeo, discusses Gen AI's role in data creation and the complexities of entity resolution. Spokeo is highlighted as a leading platform that organizes billions of records to resolve millions of entities for user verification. The conversation delves into the nature of identity in both the physical and digital worlds, the challenges of comparing vast amounts of data, and the criteria for establishing the truth within data sets. The discussion also covers the impact of generative AI on data creation, emphasizing the importance of data quality from inception and the evolving landscape of data privacy and security. The episode concludes with insights into the future of entity resolution technology and the ongoing need to discern truth in an era of increasing digital fabrication. Highlights 02:01 The Complex World of Entity Resolution 03:28 Challenges in Data Processing and Entity Resolution 05:20 The Role of Generative AI in Data Creation 16:02 Navigating the Future of Data Verification and Privacy Harrison Tang is a CEO, Co-Founder and President at Spokeo. Harrison Tang is the founder and president of Spokeo, which he created in 2006 with a group of four friends from Stanford University. They envisioned a new way to approach social networks by providing an easy user interface to keep track of friends' activities online. Since then, Spokeo has grown into a leading people search engine, reconnecting individuals to others all across the United States. As founder and president, Harrison is responsible for the overall direction and product strategy for the company. He leads the team focusing on building an easy-to-use system that can aggregate billions of records and return results within one second. Harrison grew up in the Silicon Valley. He attended Stanford University and received his Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Electrical Engineering and his Master's in Electrical Engineering in 2005. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tangtalks/ ---- Thank you so much for checking out this episode of The Tech Trek. We would appreciate it if you would take a minute to rate and review us on your favorite podcast player. Want to learn more about us? Head over at https://www.elevano.com Have questions or want to cover specific topics with our future guests? Please message me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand)

In this episode, we sit down with Harrison Tang, Co-founder and & CEO of Spokeo, which is a “people search engine”. Spokeo aggregates many sources of data about people and sells that data to verifiers. So at first blush, Harrison is an unlikely person to be a massive advocate for SSI and co-chair of the W3C Credentials Community Group.We dig in to why Spokeo cares about verifiable credentials, and how verifiable credentials represent the opportunity to deliver more trust to Spokeo's customers and how they allow Spokeo to participate in the next wave of digital identity innovation. We also explore complex concepts like negative reputation and how AI will impact the personal data landscape. We finish out by talking about what current IDtech companies can learn from Spokeo's early go-to-market and what it will take to get verifiable credential adoption.To learn more about Spokeo visit https://www.spokeo.com/ or follow Spokeo on social media (@Spokeo). You can find Harrison on social media as well (@tang_talks) and keep up with his latest thinking through his podcast ‘Tang Talks'.Reach out to Riley (@rileyphughes) and Trinsic (@trinsic_id) on Twitter. We'd love to hear from you.

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Harrison Tang, CEO, President, and Co-founder of Spokeo, joins this episode of AI, Government, and the Future by Alan Pentz to unveil the concept of truth in the age of AI and the challenges of privacy in the digital era. They dive into the Self-Sovereign Identity model, finding truth in a world dominated by misinformation and disinformation, ensuring content integrity in an AI-driven world, and the role of government and companies in providing reliable information.

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Join our resident business ninja, Andrew and Harrison Tang, President/CEO/Co-founder of Spokeo, as they talk about how the majority of searches online are people's first and last names, thus, 'People Search' is a really huge thing. Spokeo is a people intelligence service that helps you search, connect, and know who you are dealing with. You can use it to find old friends, identify unknown callers, or research your date. Professionals use it to find new customers or to prevent fraud. As they say: Knowledge is a quick search away, and that is what Spokeo specializes.Learn more about them at https://www.spokeo.com/---Do you want to be interviewed for your business? Schedule time with us, and we'll create a podcast like this for your business:  https://www.WriteForMe.io/-----https://www.facebook.com/writeforme.iohttps://www.instagram.com/writeforme.io/https://twitter.com/writeformeiohttps://www.linkedin.com/company/writ...https://www.pinterest.com/andysteuer/Want to be interviewed on our Business Ninjas podcast? Schedule time with us now, and we'll make it happen right away! Check out WriteForMe, more than just a Content Agency! See the Faces Behind The Voices on our YouTube Channel!

Welcome to the "Secrets of #Fail," a new pod storm series hosted by Matt Brown. In this series of 2023, Matt dives deep into the world of failures and lessons learned along the way from high-net-worth individuals.  Join Matt as he dives into the world of failures and lessons.Series: Secret of #FailHarrison Tang and his co-founders created Spokeo in 2006 while at Stanford University. As CEO, he is responsible for the overall direction and product strategy of the company. He leads the team focusing on building an easy-to-use interface that provides users with intelligence about people by accessing and aggregating more than 12 billion records.Get an interview on the Matt Brown Show: www.mattbrownshow.comSupport the show

In this episode of the Note Closers Show, Scott Carson answers a few questions from his previous episode on how to find information on vacant properties. Scott shares what websites he uses to find the information on the borrower, heirs, the underlying loan, and any other valuable info that he will need when it comes to getting in touch with the right party. Some of the websites that he discusses are Netronline.com, Spokeo.com, Whitepages.com, obituaries, social media, and county records.Book a call with Scott HERE!Watch the original video HERE!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join the Note Closers Show community today:WeCloseNotes.comThe Note Closers Show FacebookThe Note Closers Show TwitterScott Carson LinkedInThe Note Closers Show YouTubeThe Note Closers Show VimeoThe Note Closers Show InstagramWe Close Notes Pinterest

Harrison founded Spokeo in 2006. It's a people intelligence service with 15 million unique visitors per day. They had tens of millions of dollars in SVB.It's the 9th of March, 2023. The day that the Silicon Valley Bank collapsed.It was 12.52 pm. And Harrison got a Slack message from his team members about the 60% stock market drop with SVB. Harrison didn't feel that worried about it at first.But within hours, he went from continuing with his daily meetings to approving a plan B and taking action to withdraw their money from the bank. In this episode, Harrison shares the shock that was yet to come as he and his team tried to rescue their money before it was too late.We discussRemaining optimistic even in tough situationsTips for staying calm under pressureThe power behind preparationHarrison went from just another day of meetings to dealing with a financial crisis that could have resulted in not being able to make payroll. But he made it through quite easily. Tune in for all of the moving parts that made it happen.Want to know how Future Fit you are? Take 3 mins to benchmark yourself with our Founder Fitness Test on peer-effect.com. You might discover some surprising gaps! Or just follow James on LinkedIn for more thoughts around coaching and being future fit.

On this episode of Navigating Forward, Lisa Thee chats with Harrison Tang, the CEO and cofounder of Spokeo. Along with his college roommates, Harrison started Spokeo in his parents' basement in 2006. From those early days in the basement with parents as investors, the people search engine has now grown to serve 20 million people per month and half a million searches per day. Lisa and Harrison discuss Spokeo's mission to increase transparency in the way that identity data moves around and is utilized, along with the concept of self-sovereign identity. They also touch on the long tail aspect of the people search market, including how Search Angels uses Spokeo to help people find biological family members. As a startup cofounder, Harrison also shares what has kept him going through the ups and downs of the journey from the basement to the present — including some wise words about persistence from his dad.Find Harrison at https://www.linkedin.com/in/theceodad/Find Lisa at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisathee/Launch Consulting Navigators in the Age of Transformation

In April of 2022, a 38-year-old man died in his apartment due to an apparent medical condition. Without seeing the scene of his death, his parents had him cremated, fully believing the ruling. But later, when his ex-girlfriend entered the apartment to a horrific, bloody mess, his friends and family began to doubt his cause of death. And after seeing damning security footage and audio from his neighbor, they knew: he had been murdered. This is the story of Johnny Cashman. BONUS EPISODES patreon.com/goingwestpodcast CASE SOURCES 1. Arrin Stoner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv2J7WmpaSA 2. WSET: https://wset.com/news/local/johnny-cashman-death-investigation-police-negligence-steven-church-elizabethton-tennessee-gruesome-scene-family-questioning-lynchburg-police-department-murder-medical-emergency-bloody-crime-scene-surveillance-video-virginia-april-2022 3. WSET: https://wset.com/news/local/police-find-speak-with-witness-in-investigation-of-man-found-dead-in-lynchburg-apartment 4. Web Sleuths: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/va-johnny-cashman-jr-38-death-investigation-lynchburg-apr-2022.636773/ 5. Village Soup: https://waldo.villagesoup.com/2014/07/08/july-4-fight-ends-with-stitches-jail-time-for-belfast-man-1208648/ 6. Pen Bay Pilot: https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/belfast-police-department-beat-shoplifting-insurance-violations/26011 7. Sara's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-cashman-a9a289b4/ 8. Howard Cashman Obituary: https://obituaries.eagletribune.com/obituary/howard-cashman-771016101 9. Spokeo: https://www.spokeo.com/John-Cashman/Maine/Lincolnville/p356432521 10. Medical Examiner's Report: https://www.scribd.com/document/574955166/Johnny-Cashman-Medical-Examiner-s-Report 11. Lynchburg VA Police: https://www.lynchburgvapolice.gov/news-updates/update-2-attempt-to-identify-witness/ 12. WSET: https://wset.com/news/local/commonwealths-attorney-announces-no-charges-in-death-of-john-cashman 13. Mayo Clinic: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/esophageal-varices/symptoms-causes/syc-20351538#:~:text=Esophageal%20varices%20are%20enlarged%20veins,throat%20and%20stomach%20(esophagus). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Law, disrupted, John is joined by Norman (Norm) E. Siegel, partner at Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the lead plaintiffs' counsel in the $450 million settlement of a data breach class action against T-Mobile. Norm has been involved in many high-profile data breach cases, and served as lead counsel in the three largest data breach settlements reached to date: cases against T-Mobile, Equifax, and Capital One. Together, these settlements totaled over $2 billion in cash and other relief. Norm was recently named by Law360 as a “Titan of the Plaintiff's Bar” for his work in class action litigation.The conversation begins by discussing how data breach litigation has evolved in the past 10 years. John asks about the type of claims that are typically asserted in these nationwide class actions. Norm explains that plaintiffs typically assert common law tort claims in these cases, especially negligence, breach of confidence and invasion of privacy. He adds that when the plaintiffs have an express contract with the defendant, such as when they have accounts with the defendant, they will often assert claims for breach of an express or implied contract that the defendant would keep the plaintiff's information confidential. John and Norm turn their focus to recent California legislation establishing statutory damages for data breaches in general, as well as for breaches involving medical information. Because both acts are relatively new, the case law interpreting them is still developing. John and Norm discuss the role that expert testimony, California Attorney General's Guidelines, and FTC recommendations play in determining what data security measures the defendant should have implemented in these cases.  They also discuss how to navigate the complexities of having both a nationwide class and a subclass of California plaintiffs who have recourse under these statutes in the same case.The conversation then moves to legislation in other states, as well as the prospects for federal legislation establishing uniform national standards regarding data security similar to the standards in Europe under the GDPR. John and Norm discuss recent attempts at such legislation and the obstacles that have prevented it from passing this far.They then discuss standing issues in data breach cases, and the key decisions, including Spokeo and TransUnion, that have recently clarified how standing may be established. They also discuss the issue of whether a defendant owes a duty to protect confidential information if it has no contract with a plaintiff and how that issue impacted the Equifax and Capital One cases.  John moves the conversation to the issues that discovery tends to focus on in data breach cases. Norm explains that defendants' discovery has evolved from focusing on the measures they took to guard data to deposing plaintiffs about what damage they did or did not suffer because of a data breach. Norm adds that the plaintiffs' discovery focuses primarily on their damages, but also on the defendant's history of previous security breaches.This leads to a discussion of damages theories and how they have evolved in the past five years. John and Norm discuss alternatives to just compensating for out-of-pocket losses, including damages for the lost benefit of the bargain in contract cases, unjust enrichment, the time and effort spent to repair the breach, and nominal damages. They also explore the benefits to the plaintiff class of requiring the defendant to take specific measures to prevent future security breaches and to help plaintiffs to protect themselves when breaches occur.Finally, John and Norm discuss the settlement process, including how to allocate settlement amounts among the plaintiffs and the process to get a successful settlement for both sides. Norm believes that settlements result from always putting out high-qualit

Spokeo 成立於 2006 年，總部位於美國加州，是畢業於史丹佛大學經濟、電機雙學士與電機碩士的臺灣留學生湯京曄 Harrison Tang 和三位大學朋友一同創立的公司，目前是全美前三大尋人搜尋引擎公司中排名第二的網站。 湯京曄因經營Spokeo的成功經驗，榮獲安永（Ernst & Young）大洛杉磯地區顧客服務類傑出企業家獎， Spokeo 則在2015年及2016年連續兩年，被知名會計師事務所Deloitte ，評選為成長最快的前500名科技公司，是繼雅虎（Yahoo）創辦人楊致遠、Youtube創辦人陳士駿後，來自台灣最成功的網路創業者之一。 Spokeo 在創業兩年後就達到損益兩平，並逐年成長，2015 年的年營收更達到7千8百萬美元；公司也從最初的4人發展到200餘人，成長到現在每個月約1800萬用戶。 你也好奇 Harrison 是如何取得如此亮眼的創業成績嗎？或是你想了解他如何在美國市場努力的過程呢？歡迎收聽《矽谷為什麼》！ 討論大綱: ✅ 具備完美學歷，卻放棄高薪選擇創業的理由？ ✅ 如何募集到最初的創業夥伴？ ✅ 當個人隱私越來越受到重視，尋人網站該如何突破？ ✅ 在 Web 3 的時代，有甚麼新的機會？ ✅ 如何掌握企業用戶，維持產品的穩定訂閱？ ============ 講者介紹： 湯京曄 Harrison Tang 畢業於史丹佛大學經濟、電機雙學士與史丹佛電機碩士，也是 Spokeo (https://www.spokeo.com/) 的 Co-founder 與 CEO。Spokeo 是個人資訊搜索平台，協助將近 1500 萬名用戶搜尋很久不見的朋友或是家人的資訊，讓人能夠避開詐騙訊息。Harrison 對於打造企業版使用的商用軟體也充滿熱情。 ============ 主持人介紹： 詹益鑑 IC 工程加商管背景。2004-2019 在台灣經歷三次創業、四種產業、五家創投，曾任 AppWorks 合夥人、BioHub Taiwan 助執行長、Startup Genome 台灣新創生態系大使，2020年初旅居矽谷，並於 2021年加入互貴興業擔任策略長，從事數位醫療與生醫產業的投資併購和國際市場開發。 Dr. IC 粉絲頁: https://www.facebook.com/dr.ic.page/ 謝凱婷 KT (矽谷美味人妻) 「矽谷影響力基金會」執行長, 亦是天使投資人, 創業家和料理作家，目前定居在矽谷，社群媒體追蹤數超過100萬人以上。「矽谷影響力基金會」有計畫的推動台灣人在矽谷科技界的活動和新創投資。 以慈善為目的，幫助台灣和矽谷連結，推動更多台灣人在美國的發展。創辦的美味生活HowLiving是全球華人料理家居網站，製作超過三千集的料理影音和直播節目，在華人料理圈有廣大影響力和知名度。曾擔任長榮集團媒體公關，國際企業產品經理，並接受過百家中外國際媒體專訪。 擅長社群行銷、數位內容、KOL孵化，協助許多台灣和美國公司進行數位轉型計畫。 矽谷美味人妻 FB: https://www.facebook.com/kthu1031 美味生活 全球華人料理家居平台 www.how-living.com ============ 歡迎與我們討論 「矽谷為什麼」 FB粉絲頁 bit.ly/39xLlDR 「矽谷創新趨勢交流平台」社團 bit.ly/3oBAFvM ============ 在這邊也能收聽到我們的最新節目唷！ Apple Podcast→ meetstartup.pse.is/QEX8Y Spotify→ meetstartup.pse.is/RFBKL Firstory→ meetstartup.pse.is/3fzp96 SoundOn→ meetstartup.pse.is/QQX2G Youtube→ meetstartup.pse.is/3e6f38 Castbox→ meetstartup.pse.is/QHQL6 ============ 感謝 #國發會 Startup Island TAIWAN 和 #數位時代 #創業小聚 Meet Startup 獨家贊助本節目！ Powered by Firstory Hosting

Please join Consumer Financial Services Partner Chris Willis and his guests and colleagues Dave Gettings and Mary Kate Kamka as they discuss recent trends in class-action consumer finance litigation, including:The long-term impact of Spokeo and Ramirez;Key considerations in discovery;When it's appropriate to move to strike class allegations; andHow to structure a class settlement.Consumer Financial Services Partner Dave Gettings defends clients in consumer class actions and complex commercial litigation nationwide, particularly cases involving a variety of federal and state laws and regulations. Associate Mary Kate Kamka's nationwide litigation practice includes extensive class-action experience and a deep understanding of consumer financial and privacy law.

Discussing content moderation on Twitter. A Blockbuster documentary recommendation. Troubleshooting legacy email connections. Changing the default search engine for Windows. Troubleshooting and disabling WiFi Protected Setup. Upgrading to wired ethernet in every room. Finding a way to video chat with pets while you're away from home. Understanding ad tech. Syncing a local Outlook account with Outlook online. Plus, conversations with Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick Debartolo. You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results – Krebs on Security Remove your personal information from Google - Google Search Help Spokeo - People Search | White Pages | Reverse Phone Lookup Why Netflix Is the Worst Performing Stock in the S&P 500 - The New York Times FY22 Q3 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf Meta Earnings: Facebook Parent's Profit Drops 21% - The New York Times Spotify — Spotify Technology S.A. Announces Financial Results for First Quarter 2022 The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover - WSJ Framework | The Framework Laptop is now in stock! Thanks for Joining Us at the 2022 NAB Show - 2022 NAB Show ATSC 3.0 - Wikipedia CNET: Free 4K from an antenna - These 2021 TVs from Samsung, Sony and LG can get it - ATSC : NextGen TV $200 NextGen TV Tuner Now Available on Amazon | TV Tech Features - ZapperBox The Last Blockbuster (2020) - IMDb Prodigy.net - Is Prodigy Down Right Now? Configure Gmail to Pull Mail from prodigy.net | Red Stamp Mail Windows 11: How to set Google as your default search engine instead of Bing - CNET The Internet's Most Unique Clock Uses Google Earth - JohnnyJet.com Earth Clock This man is trolling his airline with PowerPoint presentations to find his missing bag. | CNN Travel SCOTTeVEST: It's not Rocket Science. It's Pocket Science! theoriginalmusclebeach.com Furbo Dog Camera | Treat Tossing Pet Camera with Barking Alerts Alexa's most underrated feature: Why you should 'drop in' on Amazon Echo more often - CNET Interactive Pet Camera • Best Dog Camera 2020 • PetChatz® High-Speed, Secure & Anonymous VPN Service | ExpressVPN NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad content blocker. Insects Like Your Skin? Here's A Way To Take The "Bite Away" | Giz Wiz Biz Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy/episodes/1889 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy Sponsor: wealthfront.com/techguy

Discussing content moderation on Twitter. A Blockbuster documentary recommendation. Troubleshooting legacy email connections. Changing the default search engine for Windows. Troubleshooting and disabling WiFi Protected Setup. Upgrading to wired ethernet in every room. Finding a way to video chat with pets while you're away from home. Understanding ad tech. Syncing a local Outlook account with Outlook online. Plus, conversations with Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick Debartolo. You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results – Krebs on Security Remove your personal information from Google - Google Search Help Spokeo - People Search | White Pages | Reverse Phone Lookup Why Netflix Is the Worst Performing Stock in the S&P 500 - The New York Times FY22 Q3 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf Meta Earnings: Facebook Parent's Profit Drops 21% - The New York Times Spotify — Spotify Technology S.A. Announces Financial Results for First Quarter 2022 The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover - WSJ Framework | The Framework Laptop is now in stock! Thanks for Joining Us at the 2022 NAB Show - 2022 NAB Show ATSC 3.0 - Wikipedia CNET: Free 4K from an antenna - These 2021 TVs from Samsung, Sony and LG can get it - ATSC : NextGen TV $200 NextGen TV Tuner Now Available on Amazon | TV Tech Features - ZapperBox The Last Blockbuster (2020) - IMDb Prodigy.net - Is Prodigy Down Right Now? Configure Gmail to Pull Mail from prodigy.net | Red Stamp Mail Windows 11: How to set Google as your default search engine instead of Bing - CNET The Internet's Most Unique Clock Uses Google Earth - JohnnyJet.com Earth Clock This man is trolling his airline with PowerPoint presentations to find his missing bag. | CNN Travel SCOTTeVEST: It's not Rocket Science. It's Pocket Science! theoriginalmusclebeach.com Furbo Dog Camera | Treat Tossing Pet Camera with Barking Alerts Alexa's most underrated feature: Why you should 'drop in' on Amazon Echo more often - CNET Interactive Pet Camera • Best Dog Camera 2020 • PetChatz® High-Speed, Secure & Anonymous VPN Service | ExpressVPN NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad content blocker. Insects Like Your Skin? Here's A Way To Take The "Bite Away" | Giz Wiz Biz Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy/episodes/1889 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/all-twittv-shows Sponsor: wealthfront.com/techguy

Discussing content moderation on Twitter. A Blockbuster documentary recommendation. Troubleshooting legacy email connections. Changing the default search engine for Windows. Troubleshooting and disabling WiFi Protected Setup. Upgrading to wired ethernet in every room. Finding a way to video chat with pets while you're away from home. Understanding ad tech. Syncing a local Outlook account with Outlook online. Plus, conversations with Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick Debartolo. You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results – Krebs on Security Remove your personal information from Google - Google Search Help Spokeo - People Search | White Pages | Reverse Phone Lookup Why Netflix Is the Worst Performing Stock in the S&P 500 - The New York Times FY22 Q3 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf Meta Earnings: Facebook Parent's Profit Drops 21% - The New York Times Spotify — Spotify Technology S.A. Announces Financial Results for First Quarter 2022 The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover - WSJ Framework | The Framework Laptop is now in stock! Thanks for Joining Us at the 2022 NAB Show - 2022 NAB Show ATSC 3.0 - Wikipedia CNET: Free 4K from an antenna - These 2021 TVs from Samsung, Sony and LG can get it - ATSC : NextGen TV $200 NextGen TV Tuner Now Available on Amazon | TV Tech Features - ZapperBox The Last Blockbuster (2020) - IMDb Prodigy.net - Is Prodigy Down Right Now? Configure Gmail to Pull Mail from prodigy.net | Red Stamp Mail Windows 11: How to set Google as your default search engine instead of Bing - CNET The Internet's Most Unique Clock Uses Google Earth - JohnnyJet.com Earth Clock This man is trolling his airline with PowerPoint presentations to find his missing bag. | CNN Travel SCOTTeVEST: It's not Rocket Science. It's Pocket Science! theoriginalmusclebeach.com Furbo Dog Camera | Treat Tossing Pet Camera with Barking Alerts Alexa's most underrated feature: Why you should 'drop in' on Amazon Echo more often - CNET Interactive Pet Camera • Best Dog Camera 2020 • PetChatz® High-Speed, Secure & Anonymous VPN Service | ExpressVPN NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad content blocker. Insects Like Your Skin? Here's A Way To Take The "Bite Away" | Giz Wiz Biz Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy/episodes/1889 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/radio-leo Sponsor: wealthfront.com/techguy

Discussing content moderation on Twitter. A Blockbuster documentary recommendation. Troubleshooting legacy email connections. Changing the default search engine for Windows. Troubleshooting and disabling WiFi Protected Setup. Upgrading to wired ethernet in every room. Finding a way to video chat with pets while you're away from home. Understanding ad tech. Syncing a local Outlook account with Outlook online. Plus, conversations with Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick Debartolo. You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results – Krebs on Security Remove your personal information from Google - Google Search Help Spokeo - People Search | White Pages | Reverse Phone Lookup Why Netflix Is the Worst Performing Stock in the S&P 500 - The New York Times FY22 Q3 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf Meta Earnings: Facebook Parent's Profit Drops 21% - The New York Times Spotify — Spotify Technology S.A. Announces Financial Results for First Quarter 2022 The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover - WSJ Framework | The Framework Laptop is now in stock! Thanks for Joining Us at the 2022 NAB Show - 2022 NAB Show ATSC 3.0 - Wikipedia CNET: Free 4K from an antenna - These 2021 TVs from Samsung, Sony and LG can get it - ATSC : NextGen TV $200 NextGen TV Tuner Now Available on Amazon | TV Tech Features - ZapperBox The Last Blockbuster (2020) - IMDb Prodigy.net - Is Prodigy Down Right Now? Configure Gmail to Pull Mail from prodigy.net | Red Stamp Mail Windows 11: How to set Google as your default search engine instead of Bing - CNET The Internet's Most Unique Clock Uses Google Earth - JohnnyJet.com Earth Clock This man is trolling his airline with PowerPoint presentations to find his missing bag. | CNN Travel SCOTTeVEST: It's not Rocket Science. It's Pocket Science! theoriginalmusclebeach.com Furbo Dog Camera | Treat Tossing Pet Camera with Barking Alerts Alexa's most underrated feature: Why you should 'drop in' on Amazon Echo more often - CNET Interactive Pet Camera • Best Dog Camera 2020 • PetChatz® High-Speed, Secure & Anonymous VPN Service | ExpressVPN NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad content blocker. Insects Like Your Skin? Here's A Way To Take The "Bite Away" | Giz Wiz Biz Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy/episodes/1889 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy Sponsor: wealthfront.com/techguy

Discussing content moderation on Twitter. A Blockbuster documentary recommendation. Troubleshooting legacy email connections. Changing the default search engine for Windows. Troubleshooting and disabling WiFi Protected Setup. Upgrading to wired ethernet in every room. Finding a way to video chat with pets while you're away from home. Understanding ad tech. Syncing a local Outlook account with Outlook online. Plus, conversations with Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick Debartolo. You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results – Krebs on Security Remove your personal information from Google - Google Search Help Spokeo - People Search | White Pages | Reverse Phone Lookup Why Netflix Is the Worst Performing Stock in the S&P 500 - The New York Times FY22 Q3 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf Meta Earnings: Facebook Parent's Profit Drops 21% - The New York Times Spotify — Spotify Technology S.A. Announces Financial Results for First Quarter 2022 The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover - WSJ Framework | The Framework Laptop is now in stock! Thanks for Joining Us at the 2022 NAB Show - 2022 NAB Show ATSC 3.0 - Wikipedia CNET: Free 4K from an antenna - These 2021 TVs from Samsung, Sony and LG can get it - ATSC : NextGen TV $200 NextGen TV Tuner Now Available on Amazon | TV Tech Features - ZapperBox The Last Blockbuster (2020) - IMDb Prodigy.net - Is Prodigy Down Right Now? Configure Gmail to Pull Mail from prodigy.net | Red Stamp Mail Windows 11: How to set Google as your default search engine instead of Bing - CNET The Internet's Most Unique Clock Uses Google Earth - JohnnyJet.com Earth Clock This man is trolling his airline with PowerPoint presentations to find his missing bag. | CNN Travel SCOTTeVEST: It's not Rocket Science. It's Pocket Science! theoriginalmusclebeach.com Furbo Dog Camera | Treat Tossing Pet Camera with Barking Alerts Alexa's most underrated feature: Why you should 'drop in' on Amazon Echo more often - CNET Interactive Pet Camera • Best Dog Camera 2020 • PetChatz® High-Speed, Secure & Anonymous VPN Service | ExpressVPN NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad content blocker. Insects Like Your Skin? Here's A Way To Take The "Bite Away" | Giz Wiz Biz Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy/episodes/1889 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/all-twittv-shows Sponsor: wealthfront.com/techguy

Discussing content moderation on Twitter. A Blockbuster documentary recommendation. Troubleshooting legacy email connections. Changing the default search engine for Windows. Troubleshooting and disabling WiFi Protected Setup. Upgrading to wired ethernet in every room. Finding a way to video chat with pets while you're away from home. Understanding ad tech. Syncing a local Outlook account with Outlook online. Plus, conversations with Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick Debartolo. You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results – Krebs on Security Remove your personal information from Google - Google Search Help Spokeo - People Search | White Pages | Reverse Phone Lookup Why Netflix Is the Worst Performing Stock in the S&P 500 - The New York Times FY22 Q3 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf Meta Earnings: Facebook Parent's Profit Drops 21% - The New York Times Spotify — Spotify Technology S.A. Announces Financial Results for First Quarter 2022 The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover - WSJ Framework | The Framework Laptop is now in stock! Thanks for Joining Us at the 2022 NAB Show - 2022 NAB Show ATSC 3.0 - Wikipedia CNET: Free 4K from an antenna - These 2021 TVs from Samsung, Sony and LG can get it - ATSC : NextGen TV $200 NextGen TV Tuner Now Available on Amazon | TV Tech Features - ZapperBox The Last Blockbuster (2020) - IMDb Prodigy.net - Is Prodigy Down Right Now? Configure Gmail to Pull Mail from prodigy.net | Red Stamp Mail Windows 11: How to set Google as your default search engine instead of Bing - CNET The Internet's Most Unique Clock Uses Google Earth - JohnnyJet.com Earth Clock This man is trolling his airline with PowerPoint presentations to find his missing bag. | CNN Travel SCOTTeVEST: It's not Rocket Science. It's Pocket Science! theoriginalmusclebeach.com Furbo Dog Camera | Treat Tossing Pet Camera with Barking Alerts Alexa's most underrated feature: Why you should 'drop in' on Amazon Echo more often - CNET Interactive Pet Camera • Best Dog Camera 2020 • PetChatz® High-Speed, Secure & Anonymous VPN Service | ExpressVPN NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad content blocker. Insects Like Your Skin? Here's A Way To Take The "Bite Away" | Giz Wiz Biz Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy/episodes/1889 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/radio-leo Sponsor: wealthfront.com/techguy

This episode of The Jake Dunlap Show features Harrison Tang, Founder and CEO of Spokeo. Moving to the US from Taiwan as a teen was the biggest shift in Harrison's life. Not only did he need to learn an entirely new language, but he had to adjust to the people and culture all while gunning for the best education he could get.Harrison would eventually make it to Stanford, a validation of he and his family's efforts, where he would graduate with a double major in Economics and Electrical Engineering. He continued down the path with his masters and, deciding against working for behemoths like Google and Facebook, started his own company in his parent's basement.The trials began during the first years, during the product market fit years, when Harrison and his partners almost went bankrupt and needed another round of funding from their parents. These years instilled perseverance in Harrison to last until the end and to outlast all competition.Through the obstacles, Spokeo entered its crazy growth phase. It was also during this time when Harrison started to dig deeper to ask questions of why they are being successful. For him, not knowing why you are successful makes the success very hard to replicate.This was when Spokeo and Harrison entered the dig back into the why years. Not only did they start to get their data gathering correct, they also started to look deeper into their company fabric. Harrison learned the big difference between trust and blind trust with the defining factor being transparency.As Harrison and his company grow, he has put a premium on providing transparency. This translates into the major changes the company has gone through, and the mission, vision, and strategy they now employ to provide their users with epistemic transparency. With tools rooted in transparency, they provide users the ability to determine what information is true and what is not. QUOTES: 19:10 "Success is actually not about whether you gone to Stanford or Ivy League or how smart you are. It's actually whether you can last till the end, whether you can last longer than your competition."21:14 "So I think when things are going well, I think the key thing is you have to ask why. So that's the difference between growth and blind growth and and the same thing with trust and blind trust."25:26 "If running a business is so easy, why do you need humans? Robots can't do it. Data, at the end of the day, represents the voice of the people. Data, at some point, comes from a person or device or some kind of entity... You really have to dig deep into what people are saying."31:02 "I think blind trust is one that you just say but you don't do. If you don't really care about somebody, you spend time working with them to help align the objectives between you and that person. Blind trust is the case where you don't care enough to do that."35:53 "One little lesson I've learned is the importance of recognizing other people's work. Whether you agree with it or not, the importance of listening and acknowledgement, because that's the very first step of getting everyone on the same page." More about HarrisonHarrison is originally from Taiwan and he moved to the US when he was 13 years old. He experienced a culture shock but this did not dissuade him from learning the language and pursuing the best education possible.He graduated from Stanford University with a double major in Economics and Electrical Engineering. Harrison then got his MS also from Stanford for Electrical Engineering specializing in optical systems and optoelectronics.He has helped pioneer communications technologies and has been featured in PC Magazine for a Skype mouse concept. He, together with his roommates in Stanford, started their company Spokeo in Harrison's parent's basement. The company went off to a rocky start and their first round of funding would get depleted, threatening them with bankruptcy. However, with some more help from their parents, they were able to refine their product market fit and keep developing their business.From trying to create a social network aggregator, they had evolved their product into a search engine where users can look up people's contact information such as phone numbers, email addresses, and social media platforms.From a four person company, the company has grown significantly and now serves 18 million visitors per month. Spokeo won the 2015 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Consumer Services category and posted 159 percent growth over the past three years, with $78 million in revenue for 2015Find out more about Harrison and connect with him in the following links:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/theceodad/Website (Spokeo) - https://www.spokeo.com/Twitter - https://twitter.com/theceodadFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheCEODad/Learn more about Jake Dunlap and Skaled by visiting the links below:Jake Dunlap:Personal Site - http://jakedunlap.com/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakedunlap/Twitter - https://twitter.com/JakeTDunlapInstagram - http://instagram.com/jake_dunlap_Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JakeTDunlap/Skaled:Website - https://skaled.com/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/skaledYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsw_03rSlbGQkeLGMGiDf4Q

Can data & privacy co-exist? with Harrison Tang, CEO @ Spokeo View the full video interview here. Harrison Tang is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Spokeo. He started Spokeo with his college roommates Mike Daly (CTO) and Eric Liang (CIO) in 2006 in his parents basement in 2006. and serves as Spokeo‘s Chief Executive Officer. Harrison guides Spokeo‘s product vision to build an experienced team that helps the company realize its mission of making the world around us more transparent. Under his leadership, He Harrison has helped build and scale Spokeo 's user base from zero to serving tens of millions of users. He is passionate about building products that help customers get their jobs done.

In this episode of Commitment Matters, Mary speaks with Steve Gottheim, General Counsel for ALTA, whom you can contact via email at steve@alta.org. As a reminder, as with all our podcast episodes, this interview should not be considered as legal advice. During their conversation, Steve or Mary mentioned:In May of 2020, ALTA conducted a survey covering various digital closing options and adoption. Here is a recap of their findings. Plus, this November, 2019 ALTA survey indicates a growing interest in offering digital closings throughout the industry.Steve mentioned his article unpacking why you can't “just slap an eSignature on a pdf…”Remember back when the CFPB first debuted the idea of a “whack the stack” initiative?ALTA offers an informational pdf on the Secure Notarization Act and here is its official summary on the Congress website. Several articles, like this one from DLA Piper and JDUSPRA, offer more on its reintroduction in 2021.Steve and Mary touched on how creative title agencies had to become to conduct closings in the early days of COVID-19. Here are two great episodes from agents on the front line about this very thing; listen to Erin Tracy Jenner and Brad Jones tell of their experiences back in season one!Check out this industry brief from Docusign to learn more about its benefits.Freddie Mac has created this helpful checklist to implement eClosing and Fannie Mae has developed this learning center on the topic. Plus, as Steve and Mary noted, the GSE's have issued new guidance on RON. The ALTA Title and Settlement Agent Registry now offers a RON-ready self-identifier icon for agents!Mary and Steve reminisced on the readiness of the title industry during the run up to TRID. Were you active in the ALTA TRID Forum?Keep an eye out here for future ALTA Advocacy Summit information.Steve speaks of two goals playing in tension with the new administration: a desire for bipartisanship versus a democratic, progressive push. This article indicates most voters believe Biden wants bipartisanship but there's some question as to how it's defined.Meet Marcia L. Fudge, the newest United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Janet Yellen, United States Secretary of the Treasury.Here is a bit more on President Biden's initial remarks on the bipartisan infrastructure deal. The White House also offers these fact sheets on the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan.Steve mentioned the National Defense Authorization Act “always passes” in a bipartisan move. Here's a quick overview of this series of laws. And, here's a look at the latest authorization of the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 2021.The LA Times offers this look at the “tight rope act” for the widely-varied democratic caucus. Steve and Mary talk about the possible elimination or capping of 1031 Exchanges. To learn more about this issue, check out our episode with Ted C. Jones, Chief Economist – Senior Vice President at Stewart Title Guaranty Company, plus this article originally linked in that episode's show notes.As noted, after a 50/50 vote, the confirmation of current director nominee, Rohit Chopra to the CFPB was first stalled because of an FTC vacancy and then due to allegations of partisan employment practices.Steve noted the Supreme Court ruled last June the structure of the CFPB was unconstitutional.Want to read what ranking Senate member, Patrick Toomy asked in his letter to Rohit Chopra?The acting CFPB director, David Uejio outlined priorities and announced plans for more aggressive enforcement and supervision.Here's more on the outlook of fair homeownership opportunities for all.Steve quotes this forecast from the Pew Research Center, which states there will not be ethnic majority in US by 2055.Steve notes block chain can't replace Title Agents. This Bisnow.com article agrees!Get to know Chief Justice John Roberts, whom Steve praises for his institutional concern against partisan ruling.Here's more on the Supreme Court's ruling of No Concrete Harm, No Standing and the two cases mentioned in this episode: Spokeo, Inc. v Robins and TransUnion LLC v Ramirez.Read up on OFAC Sanctions.Former CFPB Director, Kathy Kraninger is credited for creating these RESPA FAQs. Join the Title Action Network (TAN) to participate in ALTA's advocacy actions.Learn more about the ALTA Good Deeds Foundation!Steve recommends connecting with ALTA's SVP of Public Affairs Christopher Morton, or VP of Government Affairs Elizabeth Blosser and ALTA's Director of Grassroots and Political Affairs, Leah Shimp Vass for industry political actions.If you'd like to contact the Commitment Matters podcast, email podcasts@ramquest.com. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts, or visit RamQuest.com/podcast to download the latest episode. Lastly, we love to see when and how you're listening. Share our posts, or create your own and tag them: #CommitmentMattersPodcast

After reviewing the facts and holding in Ramirez, we discuss how the decision clarifies the concrete harm requirement established by SCOTUS's Spokeo decision, Ramirez's implications for class action and individual lawsuits alleging violations of federal consumer financial protection laws, and the potential impact on state court litigation. Chris Willis, Co-Chair of Ballard Spahr's Consumer Financial Services Group, hosts the conversation, joined by Dan McKenna, Practice Group Leader of the firm's Consumer Financial Services Litigation Group.

The Factual Dispute Method is a great way to work on your credit to restore it. Learn more about this concept in this episode!  Look up these to court cases: Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins" and "Transunion vs Ramirez"  The results of the cases aren't important.  It's the information within the case that's most important.Need credit help?  Let's get you back on track to the best credit ever! Schedule a consultation:  Financial Champion Credit ConsultationI look forward to connecting with you.Coach MTSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/coachmt)

While it’s well known that consumer data can help B2B businesses, consumers can also benefit from having access to B2C data that will give them greater confidence in making decisions in their everyday lives. CEO Harrison Tang of Spokeo (people search engine) speaks to Cameron D'Ambrosi host of the State of Identity podcast about the various B2C use cases that empower consumers with actionable insights about the digital identities of the people in their lives. Spokeo’s people data allows consumers to know more about who they’re dealing with and to have greater confidence, whether it’s connecting with others online while protecting themselves from potential fraudsters & scammers.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://tcpaworld.com/2021/05/03/heres-whats-wrong-with-hunstein-heres-the-simple-and-obvious-spokeo-error-that-lead-to-the-scariest-fdcpa-case-ever/

Jonathan Kidder - the "Wizard Sourcer" is back! He's published two books since we last spoke - "Top Talent Sourcing Tools for Recruiters" and "A Guide to Diversity Talent Sourcing”In this episode of Recruiting Trailblazers - Marcus quizzes Jonathan on Top Talent Sourcing Tools for Recruiters - the tools he recommends for different aspects of the job.Episode Highlights1:25- Introduction2:07- The inspiration and reason behind Jonathan’s book4:08- Evernote as a great tool for LinkedIn 5:30- Evernote and its integration on LinkedIn6:32- Top few ATS tools recommended for an agency or in house6:39- Loxo and its different integrating features 7:23- Airtable, a great personal ATS tool for in-house, plus Greenhouse, Jobvite and Salesforce8:57- People search engines - PeoplePro, Spokeo, ZoomInfo 11.30- Free tools: Free People Search Intellus Peoplesmart 12.00- Contact finding extensions: Hiretual, Seekout purchase from PeoplePro and Spokeo13.00 Lusha, Nymeria, Improver, Swordfish (get the book - there are loads!)14:20- LinkedIn and how they view these tools15.25 - Connectifier, TalentBin16:43- Candidate outreach tools and email automation - primer on outreach18:00- Take the time to personalize emails!19.50- What percentage of messages are personalized?21:43- Gem and its features as a top candidate outreach tools22:19- Intersellar and its integration24:34- Sourcewhale and its integration25:03- The power of InMails - great for follow ups.27:35- Recommendations of things for people to automate in order to save time and remain safe on LinkedIn28:44- Tools to reach 1st degree connections MyRobot.works, Machinesourcer, PhantomBuster)30:20- PhantomBuster and the meaning of web scraping and how it works32:01- Recommended Boolean Generators-Recruitin.net33:39- Email tracking tools- Saleshandy35:00- Writing tools -Textio, Joblint, Gender Decoder, Graammarly36:50- Scheduling tools -Calendly, Mytime, Setmore, Appointlet38:44- How to get the book (Top Talent Sourcing Tools for Recruiters)40:00- An overview of the second book “A Guide to Diversity Talent Sourcing”42:26- Conclusion

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * John * Biker Chicks Tier List. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1591151119 * Jesse * https://twitter.com/thefringthing Topics: * Canadian Heritage Minutes * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadarm * YouTube playlist of Heritage Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWANopglXI&list=PL1848FF9428CA9A4A * List of Heritage Minutes on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Minutes * What are your tips for collaborating with people with a higher or lower skill level than you? * Are we allowed to talk yet about how for decades all 3D games were incredibly ugly * https://twitter.com/BlazeHedgehog/status/1247200134057717760 * The website I build in high school & college is lost to the ages, or: how to reconstruct memories of your past without external records * The lost Willie Brown records * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellac * Willie Brown - Future Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An9rC8olaVY * "Grandma Blues" cover (prank?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F9xhKLJbXs * PBS History Detectives episode about Paramount Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKQbZV4lQk4 Microtopics: * Being a playable character in Frog Fractions 2. * Ranking every Biker Chick from worst to best. * Regretting not having more Canadian Lords on the show. * Still making your TV PSAs even though nobody watches TV any more. * The big robotic articulating arm on the space shuttles. * That time Quebec was going to quit Canada. * A group shot with one teen of every ethnicity and gender configuration. * Reenacting the time someone told the creator of Superman that nobody will care about Superman. * Canada's revolting safety PSAs. * Hanging maple syrup for treason. * The biggest man-made explosion prior to the invention of nuclear weapons. * Celebrating the people who people who became successful after leaving your country. * Trading on the low-key anti-Americanism that is part of the Canadian national identity. * Taking a 45 minute break to worship the military. * Deciding that an idea is important and jamming it into the brain of millions of people. * Doing your best to enjoy yourself even though you are the worst musician at this particular jam session. * The high pressure world of game jamming. * The anxiety of waiting to be picked for a sports team. * Trusting your collaborators. * Not being a mentor so much as a friend who is around to answer questions. * Feeling like you failed your tutoring student but he was pleased and passed his course, so probably it was fine. * The ongoing war between R programmers and Python programmers. * Making your favorite programming language tolerable by totally replacing the syntax. * The smoke effect in Super Mario 64 looking like the MS Paint graffiti tool. * Goldeneye slappy hands. * The difficulty of going back to the video games of the Ugly Period. * Playing old video games on an unreasonably large CRT TV that you can't move by yourself. * Using modern technology to remove the texture filtering from Nintendo 64 games. * Conditioning gamers to desire the next step in graphical realism. * An epic story with three CDs full of cutscenes. * The old movie connoisseurs who want to see only the best examples of terrible stilted 1940s acting. * Making a video game in the mid 00s and having to support both SD and HD aspect ratios. * Moving your web site from Geocities to a cooler hosting provider in France who then stops hosting web sites because of a change in French law. * A gap in your personal history where no written records exist because they were on the early internet. * Letting a web site expire because you built it on old technology that your hosting provider now charges extra to support. * A government form asking you to remember every place you've lived for the past fifteen years. * The threshold for memory sticking. * What we would do with our missing histories if we had them. * Allowing yourself to remember a period in your life and then putting it in deep storage. * The object as a record of a moment. * Dredging the river near the defunct Paramount Records factory in Wisconsin, in hopes of finding pre-war blues records. * Old blues music now being exclusively the province of rich white boomers. * Writing and recording a fake Willie Brown song to prank record collectors. * Recording blues albums so you can sell phonograph cabinets to Black folks who can finally afford nice things. * Your record company being unable to obtain shellac during World War 2, so you go back to making chairs. * Training a neural network on old blues records to recreate a song using the single shard of the shattered shellac record you found. * Finding shards of different shattered shellac records that happen to fit together, and mashing them up. * Digitizing LPs by putting them on a flatbed scanner. * That time a news broadcast showed the QR code of someone's Bitcoin wallet on screen and someone immediately emptied it. * Cutting a new key based on a photograph of someone's key ring, when it's way easier to just break a window. * Recovering ancient room ambience by analyzing the striation on ancient pottery. * Breaking a code by beating the decryption key out of somebody and not having to read any cryptanalysis white papers. * Putting fake information about yourself on Spokeo as part of your personal ARG.

On Today's episode, we are going to be talking with Harrison Tang of Spokeo. Harrison and I are going to be talking about self-funding your start-up, knowing when to pivot your business model, and surviving a financial downturn (lessons from 2008) that you can apply to the 2020 recession. Harrison is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Spokeo. He started Spokeo with his college roommates Mike Daly (CTO) and Eric Liang (CIO) in 2006 in his parent's basement in 2006. and serves as Spokeo's Chief Executive Officer. Harrison guides Spokeo's product vision to build an experienced team that helps the company realize its mission of making the world around us more transparent. Under his leadership, Harrison has helped build and scale Spokeo's user base from zero to serving tens of millions of users. He is passionate about building products that help customers get their jobs done. Monster VoIP | Your #1 VoIP Provider Website www.monstervoip.com Address 1730 E Holly Ave #749, El Segundo, CA 90245, United States Phone Phone: +1 877-818-9696 Email hello@monstervoip.com Hours: Open 24 hours

In this episode, Jonathan interviews Will Brown on his incredible path to Real Estate. It all started in high school when he went to a Real Estate seminar with his mom and that opened his eyes to the incredible possibilities of Real Estate. He became laser focused on educating himself and figuring out his ONE thing to build a successful Real Estate Business at just 20 years old. This episode will uncover how he first got started wholesaling in college, his wholesaling process, fear of rejection and more. Top Takeaways: Educating Yourself and getting started: - Educate yourself beyond a reasonable degree - Figure out the purpose of why you are doing what you are doing - Learn how the ONE Thing changed his whole life and focus on Real Estate Working with Systems: - You don’t need a system for something you don’t know how to do yet - Systems are made to simplify things - Every system has been used out of a necessity - You have to have a need for systems Process of getting data: - From Will’s website email brian.chesla@natimark.com and mention keyword BP2020 for a great discount - Criteria for getting data below: - 30% equity (0-70% LTV) - Year built before 1995-2000 - Homeowner age 50+ - Property value

Harrison Tang, CEO of Spokeo, the people search engines, opens the curtain to explain the benefits of re-selling our personal data, on Talking Tech.

Sites like MyLife, Spokeo and BeenVerified showcase our personal data online and try to sell us reports about it. How to opt-out? Jefferson Graham has some ideas.

In Part 1 of this 2-part episode, Ela becomes the interviewer as she introduces a special guest onto the show, Patrick Munoz. Patrick is an internationally recognized Voice & Speech Coach based in Los Angeles who Ela has worked under as a student.  Patrick has coached executives and leaders in public speaking for the United Nations, Wells Fargo, Southern California Edison, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, CO Architects, Luxottica, Pharmavite, The Agency, Spokeo and Turner Classic Movies. He is the Voice & Speech Coach for Disney’s top television shows and television and film coaching include: Without a Trace, KC Undercover, Hostage and Van Helsing.  Patrick is in private practice in West Hollywood and works with clients all over the world. Students include Penelope Cruz, Andie MacDowell, Eva Longoria, and New York Times’ Bestselling Author Alan C. Fox. Join this fascinating conversation about the importance of our voices and how Patrick helps his students use them positively.  Links:  Patrick Munoz  Patrick Munoz on Yelp Patrick Munoz on Youtube

On March 20, 2019, the Supreme Court decided Frank v. Gaos, a case raising the question whether, or under what circumstances, a cy pres award that provides no direct relief to class members fulfills the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 23(e) requirement that a class action settlement be "fair, reasonable, and adequate."In a class-action suit with three named plaintiffs, Google was accused of violating the Stored Communications Act by sharing user search terms and other information with the server hosting whatever webpage that user clicked to via Google Search results. A settlement was reached that would require Google to include certain disclosures on some of its webpages and would distribute more than $5 million to cy pres recipients, more than $2 million to class counsel, and no money to absent class members. The district court approved the settlement over the objections of several class members, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed. The Supreme Court then granted certiorari to address petitioners’ challenge that this cy pres settlement did not satisfy the Rule 23(e) requirement that class action settlements be “fair, reasonable, and adequate,” but did not ultimately reach the merits of that question.In a per curiam opinion, the Court vacated the judgment of the Ninth Circuit and remanded the case for further proceedings to determine whether the class action plaintiffs even had standing to bring their class action in light of the Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in Spokeo v. Robins. That case held that “Article III standing requires a concrete injury even in the context of a statutory violation.” Here, the Court indicated, the lower courts needed to resolve “whether any named plaintiff has alleged [Stored Communications Act] violations that are sufficiently concrete and particularized to support standing.” If not, the lack of standing would deprive the federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction in this case. Justice Thomas dissented. To discuss the case, we have Theodore "Ted" Frank, Director of Litigation and Senior Attorney, Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute - and one of the named petitioners in this case.

On March 20, 2019, the Supreme Court decided Frank v. Gaos, a case raising the question whether, or under what circumstances, a cy pres award that provides no direct relief to class members fulfills the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 23(e) requirement that a class action settlement be "fair, reasonable, and adequate."In a class-action suit with three named plaintiffs, Google was accused of violating the Stored Communications Act by sharing user search terms and other information with the server hosting whatever webpage that user clicked to via Google Search results. A settlement was reached that would require Google to include certain disclosures on some of its webpages and would distribute more than $5 million to cy pres recipients, more than $2 million to class counsel, and no money to absent class members. The district court approved the settlement over the objections of several class members, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed. The Supreme Court then granted certiorari to address petitioners’ challenge that this cy pres settlement did not satisfy the Rule 23(e) requirement that class action settlements be “fair, reasonable, and adequate,” but did not ultimately reach the merits of that question.In a per curiam opinion, the Court vacated the judgment of the Ninth Circuit and remanded the case for further proceedings to determine whether the class action plaintiffs even had standing to bring their class action in light of the Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in Spokeo v. Robins. That case held that “Article III standing requires a concrete injury even in the context of a statutory violation.” Here, the Court indicated, the lower courts needed to resolve “whether any named plaintiff has alleged [Stored Communications Act] violations that are sufficiently concrete and particularized to support standing.” If not, the lack of standing would deprive the federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction in this case. Justice Thomas dissented. To discuss the case, we have Theodore "Ted" Frank, Director of Litigation and Senior Attorney, Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute - and one of the named petitioners in this case.

This week we have the opportunity to speak with Harrison Tang, who is now the CEO and Co-founder of Spokeo. According to an article from Hyperlush, the company has achieved significant milestones to be where they are now. Harrison gave us many insights on how his upbringing helped him where he is now. He attributed much of the success to the support of his family and words of wisdom. However, what he said made a significant mark on his life was when he immigrated here from Taiwan. He went from the top of his class to the bottom of the class due to the language barrier. His father also told him that going back to Taiwan is not an option. Even if the job is washing dishes, Harrison's father said that it would be in the United States, not Taiwan. Guess what did Harrison do? He started to copy dictionaries to perfect his vocabulary as he realized he has no way out to go back to Taiwan. Throughout his endeavors, he succeeded in going to one of the top universities in the US (Stanford) and founded the company. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Find My Friends, Facebook ads, spam calls… They’re always watching you! Today we talk about how to find that perfect sweet spot between technology and privacy (if it even exists).*NOTES*16:13 “websites where you type in your name and address comes up” - Spokeo is one of the more well-known sites that store such information. 18:55 Facebook scandal is referring to what started with the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and has grown into a whole debacle over what companies can and can't do (and what they actually are doing) with our individual information. Now Facebook is tied up in various controversies and more scandals, honestly we can barely keep up now too.32:55 "use that voice" meaning the spam callers record your voice on the phone.37:25 If you want to see the videos of people hacking the spam callers' computers,YouTuber Kitboga has a collection of spam caller revenge videos.38:35 "receiving a gift card from spam callers" was remembered slightly wrong here; what happened was people would use the scam caller's tactics right back at them. Kitboga once again has an example of this.44:20 "deep fakes" are referring to convincingly doctored videos/images/audio using artificial intelligence (and often, an NVIDIA graphics card).

Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org.  David shares news of the identification of a casualty of Pearl Harbor whose remains have finally been returned home. Next, the guys talk about the 125th anniversary of Ellis Island and tell you where to find a quick video history of the place that many our ancestors passed through in coming to America. Fisher then shares a fun and wonderful obituary written by the deceased herself… a great way to be remembered! Following up on last week’s show, Fisher and David tell you about how to opt out of sites that share way too much of your personal information, including FamilyTreeNow.com, Spokeo, and Instant Checkmate. Next, Fisher visits with Zachariah Fike, founder of PurpleHeartsReunited.org, an organization that seeks out, buys, researches, and returns these medals of honor to the vets themselves, or their surviving families. Zachariah gives the background on the medal, and some amazing recovery and return stories. Then, Fisher visits with Oscar Hammerstein III (who goes by “Andy”) whose grandfather was half of the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein, who redefined Broadway.  Andy is quite the “genie” and is the go-to guy in his family when it comes to the Hammerstein family history. Andy will be a part of this year’s RootsTech Family History Conference in Salt Lake City, presenting background on his grandfather’s songs as they are sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. In Preservation Time, Tom Perry of TMCPlace.com talks with Fisher about the most common (and most easily cracked) passwords. Do you use any of them? Listen and find out. Tom then tells you what to expect in the tech world at this year’s RootsTech. That’s all this week on Extreme Genes, America’s Family History Show.

We continue our conversation with cyber and tech attorney Camille Stewart on discerning one's appetite for risk. In other words, how much information are you willing to share online in exchange for something free? It's a loaded question and Camille takes us through the lines of questioning one would take when taking a fun quiz or survey online. As always, there are no easy answers or shortcuts to achieving the state of privacy savvy nirvana. What's also risky is that we shouldn't connect laws made in the physical world to cyberspace. Camille warns: if we start making comparisons because at face value, the connection appears to be similar, but in reality isn't, we may set up ourselves up to truly stifle innovation. Choosing Convenience over Privacy Camille Stewart Hi, I'm Camille Stewart. I'm a cyber and technology attorney. I am currently at Deloitte working on cyber risk and innovation issues, so identifying emerging technologies for the firm to work with. Prior to that, I was a senior policy advisor at the Department of Homeland Security working on cyber infrastructure regarding to foreign policy in the Office of Policy. I was an appointee in the Obama Administration. And then prior to that I was in-house at a cybersecurity company. So I've worked in both the public sector and the private sector on cyber issues. Cindy Ng Thanks, Camille. Can you talk a little bit about privacy conceptually? Everybody wants privacy, it seems like a good thing, but why aren't people picking privacy over convenience? Convenience, yes, it's easy but what about privacy is not getting through to people? Camille Stewart I don't think people are looking at the long-term ramifications, right? I know very recently we had the genetic testing case that helped lead to a killer, which is wonderful in that specific instance. But I doubt that anybody who sends in their genetic information, had it tested and figured out their heritage has thought about how that data might be used otherwise, has read the disclaimer that tells you how your data will be used whether it's for research, whether it will be used by the police, whether it will be used to create new things. And if anybody remembers Henrietta Lacks, her data was used to create all of these things that are very wonderful but she never got any compensation for it. Not knowing how your information is used takes away all of your control, right? And a world where your data is commoditized and it has a value, you should be in control of the value of your data. And whether it's as simple as we're giving away our right to choose how and when we disburse our information and/or privacy that leads us to security implications, those things are important. For example, you don't care that there's information pooled and aggregated from a number of different places about you because you've posted it freely or because you traded it for a service that's very convenient until the moment when you realize that because you took the quiz and let this information out or because you didn't care that your address was posted on like a Spokeo site or something else, you didn't realize that all of the questions to your banking security information are now all easily searched on the internet and probably being aggregated by some random organization. So somebody could easily take and say, "Oh, what's your mother's maiden name? Okay. And what city do you live in? Okay. And what high school did you go to? Okay." And those are three pieces of information that maybe you didn't post in the same place but you posted and didn't care because you traded it for something or you posted it and you didn't think it through and now they can aggregate it because you use those two things for everything and now someone has access to your bank account, they've got access to your email, they've got access to all of these things that are really important to you and your privacy has now translated into your security. Cindy Ng I was just talking to my coworkers about this that it doesn't come naturally to know not to answer these questions because you can online somewhere and let's say you’re a part of a community you trust and you answer these innocuous questions and then you won't necessarily have the foresight to know that it's gonna come back and hurt you. How did you come up with the reasoning behind, "Oh, I probably shouldn't answer those questions?" Because you kinda have to be a little skillful and have a bit of foresight or some knowledge to even think in the way that you do. Camille Stewart No, you're right, there is a level of savvy that has to happen for you to think that way and a level of, like you said, foresight or a level of reaction, right? Most people aren't thinking that way because they knew it before it happened but now that the information's out there, they're taking action. And I think there are a lot of people who are neglecting that. So we all, just like organizations, just have to press it, have to make this vision become their appetite for risk. We as individuals have to do the same. And so if you are willing to risk because you think either, "They won't look for me," or, "I'm willing to take the hits because my bank will reimburse me," or whatever the decision which you are making, I want you to be informed. I'm not telling you what your risk calculus is but I wanna encourage people to understand how information can be used, understand what they're putting out there and make decisions accordingly. So your answer to that might be like "Look, I don't wanna give up taking Facebook for this or sharing information in a community that I trust on some social site but what I will do is have a set of answers that I don't share with anyone to those normal questions that they use for password reset that are wrong but only I know the fake answers that I'm using for them." So instead of your actual mother's maiden name, you're using something else and you've decided that that's one of the ways that you will protect yourself because you really wanna still use these other tools and that might be the way you protect yourself. So I challenge people not to give up the things that they love, like I mean, I would assess whether or not certain things are worth the risk, right? Like a quiz on Facebook that makes you provide data to an external third party that you're not really sure of how they're using it, not likely worth it. But the quizzes where you can just kinda take them, that might be worth it. I mean, the answers you provide for those questions still are revealing about you but maybe not in a way that's super impactful. Maybe in a way that's likely just for marketing and if you're okay with that, then take that or you go resilient the other way. Artificial Intelligence and Legal Protections Cindy Ng I wanna talk about an article that an attorney wrote, Tiffany Li, she wrote about how AI will someday eclipse the intelligence of the human and whether or not AI will have legal protections and then she juxtaposed it with the case with the monkey and how a monkey took a photographer's camera and took a selfie and there was a lawsuit with how we can use the monkey's lawsuit as precedent for future cases such as AI and recently, the monkey lost the lawsuit. Not the monkey but PETA. I just wanna hear from your perspective, as a lawyer, how to think about it moving forward. Camille Stewart I mean, it remains to be seen how things like AI will translate, especially in terms of creative spaces. It will be hard to determine ownership if a machine creates a work. And I mean, they'll come down to a final decision. We'll have to decide that things that are created by a machine and solely by a machine, right, like if there are human's input we might make one decision versus if it's solely created by a machine, we might say that that is in the public sphere and anybody can use it and is not as anything that has any kinda attributable protection. Versus if there is human input, we would decide that that is something that they can then own the production of, right, because they contributed to the making of whatever the end product is. It's hard to speculate but there will have to be a line drawn and it's likely somewhere in there, right? The sense that there is enough human interjection, whether that is from the input from whatever creative process is happening by the machine or in the creation of the process or program or software that is being used and then spit out some creation on the end, there will have to be a law or I guess at least case law that kinda dictates where that line is drawn. But those will be the things that's fun, right? Tiffany, and other lawyers like myself, I think those are the things that we enjoy most about the space is that stuff is unclear. And as these things roll out you get to make connections with the monkey case and AI and with other things that have already happened and new processes, new tech, new innovations and try to help draw those lines. Cindy Ng Is there anything we need to look out for that we're not aware of? Or certain connections that are sorta in the legal space that people in the tech space aren't aware of? Camille Stewart So I was gonna say, I don't actually think it is safe to on a broad scale without some level of assessment, connect laws made in accordance with the physical world to cyberspace, I think it's dangerous, because usually they're not one for one. It is the place where most people start because it's the easiest proposition to compare something that we've seen before with something in cyber. But they don't always compare or don't always compare in the way that we would think that they would. And so it's dangerous to make those comparisons without some level of assessment. And so I would tell people to challenge those assessments when you hear them and try to poke holes in them, because bad facts make for bad law. And if we take the easy route and just start making comparisons because on their face they seem similar, we may set up ourselves up to truly stifle innovation, which is exactly what we're trying to prevent. Cindy Ng Can you provide us with an example of why it's dangerous, because it feels like the natural thing to do? Camille Stewart No, you're right, it does feel natural. I'm trying to think of something...I'm thinking more along the lines of likening something physical to something cyber. So let's think about borders, right? So borders in a physical sense are very clear limitations of authority and operation. You can't cross a physical border without being able to use a passport, a Visa, things like that and they can control physical entry and exit at a border, a different country can. That is not the same as cyber-based. And to liken the two in the way that you use rules is not smart, right? It's your first inclination to wanna try to stop data flow at the edge of a country, at the edge of some imaginary border, but it is not realistic because the internet by its very nature is global and interconnected and, you know, traverses the world freely and you can't really stop things on that line, which is why things like GDPR are important for organizations across the world because as a company that has a global reach because you're on the internet, you will be affected by how laws are created in different localities. So that's a very big example but it happens in very discreet ways too when it comes to technology, cyberspace, and physical laws. Or the physical space and laws that are operated in that way and so I would challenge people that when you hear people make a one for one connection very easily without some level of assessment to try to question that to make sure it really is the best way to adapt some things to the given situation. The reason for example, Tiffany's likening of AI to this monkey case, it's an easy connection to make because in your head you think, "Well, the monkey is not human, they made a thing, and if they can't own the thing then when you do that online and a machine makes a thing, they can't own a thing." But it very well may not be the same analysis that needs to be made in setting, right? The lines may become very different because none of us could create a monkey. So if I can't create a monkey, then it's harder to control the output of that monkey. But I could very well create a machine that could then create an output and shouldn't I be the owner of that output if I created the machine that then created the output? Cindy Ng Mm-hmm. Camille Stewart But that was my point is that likening things that on their face being the same, the lines therein might be different or they just might be different altogether because cyberspace and the physical space are not a one for one.

Debt collectors that accept recurring payments over the phone know that Federal laws – specifically Regulation E, the Electronic Funds Transfer Act and the E-Sign Act – provide guidelines for consent and disclosures.  insideARM first featured an article on those issues in January 2013: https://www.insidearm.com/news/00003889-legal-headaches-of-check-by-phone-payment/ Since that time, the CFPB issued guidance on these issues in November 2015, stating:  Regulation E may be satisfied if a consumer authorizes preauthorized EFTs by entering a code into their telephone keypad, or, Supervision concluded, the company records and retains the consumer's oral authorization, provided in both cases the consumer intends to sign the record as required by the E-Sign Act.  http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201511_cfpb_compliance-bulletin-2015-06-requirements-for-consumer-authorizations-for-preauthorized-electronic-fund-transfers.pdf The CFPB guidance follows common sense and tracks consumer expectations: if a consumer consents verbally to recurring payments, and the debt collector records and maintains that consent, the law is satisfied.  Despite the clear CFPB directive allowing verbal consent for recurring payments, consumer attorneys continue to bring lawsuits against debt collectors asserting that verbal consent violates the law.  In the absence of guidance from a Court of Appeals on the issue, the lawsuits against debt collectors – with uncertain outcomes in the Courts -- will continue.  Further, these lawsuits undermine the ability of both consumers and debt collectors to rely upon interpretations of the law from the CFPB.   In this episode of the Debt Collection Drill podcast, Moss & Barnett attorneys John Rossman http://www.lawmoss.com/john-rossman/ and Mike Poncin http://www.lawmoss.com/michael-s-poncin/ are joined by special guest Mike Etmund http://www.lawmoss.com/michael-t-etmund/ to discuss a recent case  addressing whether verbal authorization for recurring payments is sufficient.  Also discussed in this episode are newer cases on the Spokeo requirement that a Plaintiff must suffer a “concrete injury in fact” to maintain an FDCPA case and the status of the CFPB arbitration rule.

It's a busy time in the US for legal issues around privacy and data security, with major developments in both the Robins-Spokeo privacy and Yahoo data breach cases. Listen in as MLex Chief Digital Risk Correspondent Mike Swift and Privacy & Data Security Correspondent Amy Miller discuss these cases and their ramifications from our San Francisco bureau.

The FCC is currently considering whether it will overturn the long-fought net neutrality rules enacted under the Wheeler FCC. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia subsequently upheld the rules. If the Ajit Pai FCC undoes the rules, as it is likely to do, there will be, as always, winners and losers. Who will they be? Further, ISPs are arguing that they too believe in net neutrality principles. But does their purported support of net neutrality principles align with the original definition of net neutrality that was first advanced by their opponents? Bio Christopher Lewis (@ChrisJ_Lewis) is Vice President at Public Knowledge. He leads the organization's advocacy on Capitol Hill and other government agencies. Prior to joining Public Knowledge in 2012, Chris served at the Federal Communications Commission as Deputy Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs. At the FCC, Chris advised the FCC Chairman on legislative and political strategy. He is a former U.S. Senate staffer for the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Chris also has over 15 years' worth of advocacy experience. Previously, Chris worked as the North Carolina Field Director for Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign. Chris serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Local Self Reliance. He also represents Public Knowledge on the Board of the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG). Chris graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelors degree in Government. He lives in Alexandria, VA where he loves working on local civic issues and is elected to the Alexandria City Public School Board. Resources Public Knowledge Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle by Jeff Flake News Roundup Trump's manufacturing council disbands After he made insensitive remarks following racial unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia the weekend before last, Trump was forced to shut down his manufacturing advisory council. Several CEOs had decided to resign from the council after Trump failed to denounce the KKK and White Nationalists, saying instead that there had been "hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides." He then backtracked reading a prepared statement, only to go back to saying all sides were at fault for the violence.  Intel CEO Brian Krzanich was among the CEOs to resign from the council.  Steven Musil reports in CNET.  But the American Tech Council remains intact, although the CEOS of Google, Apple and Microsoft wrote internal memos distancing themselves from the administration. That's in next.gov. Tech companies ban extremist websites and causes Both Google and GoDaddy last week announced that they would not host sites like Daily Stormer that espouse white supremacist ideology. First Amendment advocacy groups, however, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, argue that the move could backfire and set a bad precedent for civil rights groups. Andrew Morse reports for CNET. Sites like GoFundMe and Paypal are also banning white supremacists from raising funds on their platforms. Abbey White reports in Vox. But the LA Times reports that these groups are forming their own corporate ecosystem in defiance of Silicon Valley. DOJ seeks user info from Anti-Trump website Dreamhost wrote a blog post last week disclosing that the Justice Department has been demanding, for months, site visitor information from the anti-Trump website distruptj20.org. The warrant seeks all files from the site. Colin Lecher reports in the Verge. Trump bolsters U.S. Cyber Command President Trump is bolstering the U.S. Cyber Command making it a full combatant command. Now, administration officials will need to decide whether to spin out Cyber Command from the NSA. Jordan Fabian reports in The Hill. The cozy relationship between Sinclair Broadcasting and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai The New York Times reported last week on Sinclair Broadcasting's enormous influence on current FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. Sinclair, known for its right-leaning content, currently owns or operates 175 television stations nationwide. But it has also proposed to merge with Tribune Media, which would bring that number up to 215 stations. The deal would also give Sinclair a much larger presence in cities, including New York City, where it would own WPIX Channel 11.  When he was an FCC Commissioner, Pai even ripped language, almost verbatim, from Sinclair's own filings. Pai used the language to bolster his official legal arguments in support of Sinclair's opposition to the Wheeler FCC's crackdown on joint sales agreements. Then, just 10 days after he became FCC Chairman, Pai relaxed those restrictions. Since becoming Chairman, Pai has also relaxed some TV ownership limits.  Cecilia Kang, Eric Lipton and and Sydney Ember report in The New York Times. Trump orders China IP practices investigation President Trump has ordered an investigation into China's alleged theft of U.S. intellectual property. The administration estimates the alleged theft may have cost U.S. businesses some $600 billion. You can find the story in Fortune. Federal Judge: LinkedIn must allow startup access to data--for now U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen in San Francisco has ordered Microsoft's LinkedIn to open up its public data to a third-party startup. The startup, hiQ Labs, scrapes data LinkedIn users post publicly and uses it to predict which employees are likely to leave their jobs. Microsoft argues that hiQ's practices violate the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. But Judge Chen isn't buying it. He says that law doesn't apply to publicly available data. Jacob Gershman reports for the Wall Street Journal. Ninth Circuit says Spokeo is liable for posting wrong info In a 3-0 decision, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a man who sued Spokeo for posting the wrong picture and saying he was a married father, affluent, employed, in his 50s and with a graduate degree. The central issue was whether publishing this wrong information carried some particular harm. The Court ruled that it did . The case had already been up to the Supreme Court, which sent it back down to determine the degree of harm caused by the wrong information. While the damages in this case are minor, only around $1,000, it is seen as having significant implications for large tech companies like Facebook and Google that publish a variety of different types of consumer information. Uber agrees to FTC privacy audits Finally, Uber will now be subject to FTC privacy audits for the next 20 years. The company settled with the FTC last week after failing, in 2014, to prevent the theft of over 100,000 names and drivers license numbers. Anita Balakrishnan reports for CNBC.

When is an alleged injury “concrete and particularized” under Article III of the U.S. Constitution? Spokeo, a self-proclaimed “online people search” site, was sued by Thomas Robins for publishing false information about him, which he claimed damaged his employment prospects. After being dismissed by the District Court and the Ninth Circuit for failing to state an injury “in fact,” the case was appealed to the Supreme Court where, one year ago, a 6-2 decision saw the Court vacate and remand the case. Legal experts Jeffrey Jacobson and Alan Raul joined us as we discussed the lasting implications of this decision on its first anniversary. -- Featuring: Jeffrey S. Jacobson, Partner, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP and Alan Charles Raul, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP.

Garth Moulton. He’s invested and has advised a number of technology startups and was responsible for revenue growth for the channel for Pipl Inc.  After 11 years of sales experience in the Bay area, Mr. Moulton had the perfect startup journey with Jigsaw, which was drawn up from 2 guys with a whiteboard to a $175M exit, in 2010, to Salesforce. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Speed of Trust What CEO do you follow? – Tim Ferris Favorite online tool? — LinkedIn How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – “That time is not boundless”   Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:18 – Nathan introduces Garth to the show 01:58 – Garth didn’t get depressed after Jigsaw’s exit 02:23 – Garth and Jim stayed at Salesforce for a year and a half, after the acquisition 02:43 – Pipl was running together with Jigsaw 02:48 – Garth met Pipl’s CEO during the early days of Jigsaw and they partnered together 03:03 – Pipl would drive traffic to Jigsaw 03:51 – Pipl was a typical search engine, driving traffic to partners 04:31 – In the last 3 years, Pipl was more of a data company that sold API access and basic search tools to access data and profiles to 3 channels 04:46 – First channel is a search app like Spokeo and Instant Checkmate where Pipl supplies them the data 05:19 – Second channel is fraud alert and ID validation 05:44 – Pipl checks if the email is real 05:56 – Garth overlooked the companies that were going to use the data for sales and marketing 06:18 – Pipl is partners with Full Contact 06:39 – Nathan has been trying to find the mother of data sources 06:52 – “Jigsaw was the source of the data” 07:12 – LinkedIn is still the biggest source of data for B2B 07:50 – There’s a LinkedIn private channel 08:26 – LinkedIn has gotten more and more aggressive in making the data available 08:58 – There have been CEOs who received a cease and desist order from LinkedIn 09:24 – Some of the companies are wholly dependent on LinkedIn 09:56 – Garth shares the same sentiment as Nathan that there’s no mother data source 10:31 – The Data Dinosaurs’ data accuracy is horrendous 12:30 – An average of a hundred corporations have bought the API access of Pipl 13:14 – Pipl’s business solution average price point 13:21 – $1200 a year for unlimited searches, per person 13:37 – Team size is 40 13:47 – Team location 14:15 – Pipl is bootstrapped 14:27 – Garth became interested in Pipl, because it was completely bootstrapped 15:15 – Garth had an agreement that he would come on for a couple of years and expand the channel for Pipl 15:37 – Garth is on the cap table 17:00 – The Famous Five   3 Key Points: Data sources are sharing each other’s data to grow and verify their own data—there is no mother of data sources. A company that is bootstrapped definitely has more freedom and control of their company. If you can start your business as early as you can, do it.   Resources Mentioned: The Top Inbox – The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens, and follow-up with email sequences Organifi – The juice was Nathan’s life saver during his trip in Southeast Asia Klipfolio – Track your business performance across all departments for FREE Acuity Scheduling – Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments Host Gator– The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible Audible– Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books Freshbooks – Nathan doesn’t waste time so he uses Freshbooks to send out invoices and collect his money. Get your free month NOW Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives

Årets upplaga av Grävseminariet ägde rum i Uppsala 7-8 april. Sveriges Radios Robert Jacobsson var där och pratar i denna podd med Medieormens Cecilia Djurberg om vad han fick med sig hem. Robert Jacobsson bloggade även från Gräv, och här finns hans blogginlägg om grävande journalistik, där du hittar länkar till de tips han pratar om i podden. Vardagsgräv tips och trix för att granska makten i vardagen Marja Grill visar hur du kan arbeta metodiskt i vardagen för att kunna gräva. Du får tips om alltifrån arbetsbok till saker du inte får missa till ansvarsutkrävande intervjun. Hur du blir grymt bra på research på nätet Brittiska BBC-grävaren Paul Myers föreläste om användbara verktyg, som Truecaller, sync.me och Spokeo  och om hur man gräver på Facebook och Twitter. Hur du hittar och kartlägger människor på nätet Paul Myers andra föreläsning kretsade runt personkartläggning där du fick tips om allt ifrån hitta unika identifikationsmarkörer till verktyg som ger dig privata mailadresser och telefonnummer. Förbättra din intervjuteknik tips och trix Julian Sher från The Fifth Estate hade en bra modell för att planera och strukturera en ansvarsintervju samt dos and donts vid svåra intervjuer. Granska internationell korruption Miranda Patrucic var en väldigt inspirerande grävare ifrån Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Här får du konkreta verktyg där du kan hitta dokument från företag och databaser där du kan skrapa data. Mobilapparna som varje journalist måste ha Fredrik Laurin från Uppdrag granskning gick igenom appar för att messa och maila säkert, banda samtal och ljud samt hur du skyddar kollegor. Så gräver du via Darknet Researchspecialisten My Vingren berättade om hur konkret kan gräva via Darknet, steg för steg hur du kommer in och gav tips om hur du kan genomföra granskningar här. Grunderna i kriminaljournalistik krimgrävets ABC Evalisa Wallin och Kina Pohjanen visar här konkreta checklistor för vad du inte får missa när det kommer till nu har det hänt något, personen grips och hur du överklagar när du inte får dokumenten du behöver.  Dramaturgi i det långa formatet Dramaturgen Michael Hancock visar här hur du bygger upp din historia i en dramaturgisk modell, för att få publiken att sitta klistrade mysteriet, huvudpersonen, avslöjandet och kronologin.

Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org.  David shares news of the identification of a casualty of Pearl Harbor whose remains have finally been returned home. Next, the guys talk about the 125th anniversary of Ellis Island and tell you where to find a quick video history of the place that many our ancestors passed through in coming to America. Fisher then shares a fun and wonderful obituary written by the deceased herself… a great way to be remembered! Following up on last week’s show, Fisher and David tell you about how to opt out of sites that share way too much of your personal information, including FamilyTreeNow.com, Spokeo, and Instant Checkmate. Next, Fisher visits with Zachariah Fike, founder of PurpleHeartsReunited.org, an organization that seeks out, buys, researches, and returns these medals of honor to the vets themselves, or their surviving families. Zachariah gives the background on the medal, and some amazing recovery and return stories. Then, Fisher visits with Oscar Hammerstein III (who goes by “Andy”) whose grandfather was half of the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein, who redefined Broadway. Andy is quite the “genie” and is the go-to guy in his family when it comes to the Hammerstein family history. Andy will be a part of this year’s RootsTech Family History Conference in Salt Lake City, presenting background on his grandfather’s songs as they are sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. In Preservation Time, Tom Perry of TMCPlace.com talks with Fisher about the most common (and most easily cracked) passwords. Do you use any of them? Listen and find out. Tom then tells you what to expect in the tech world at this year’s RootsTech. That’s all this week on Extreme Genes, America’s Family History Show.

At Spokeo, we are running a fast, big data, and high-traffic website providing people search services. But at our scale, we started to reach limitations to how fast our conventional web stack could do things and concluded that a Ruby on Rails–only solution simply couldn't keep up. In this session, we cover some of the options we had to solve this problem and why we chose Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) as a central part of our solution with metrics and benchmarking. Using EFS, we were able to take response times down from 250 ms to below 70 ms. We look into the architecture of the solution and lessons we learned along the way. In the end, we find that faster response times are just the beginning of the benefits that we see.

In our 132nd episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Markham Erickson, and Meredith Rathbone discuss: EU proposal on surveillance software exports; Gmail privacy suit trimmed, but Spokeo ruling keeps it alive; California passes law requiring removal of actor ages by database sites on request; and FCC pulls set-top box plan from meeting agenda. Our interview is with Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

Sep 29th - Stormy Morning, Shootings, Hillary's Signals, Spokeo, Dark Web, Supper, Brandon Lang, Angela Sarafyan, HBO, WestWorld, Charlie Barnett, ABC, Secrets and Lies

Sep 29th - Stormy Morning, Shootings, Hillary's Signals, Spokeo, Dark Web, Supper, Brandon Lang, Angela Sarafyan, HBO, WestWorld, Charlie Barnett, ABC, Secrets and Lies

This week's episode wraps up the 2015/2016 term, where Brett and Nazim almost come to blows over Spokeo v. Robbins, guess Thomas' complaints with Green v. Brennan, share a laugh over Nichols v. US, vet out the appellate process over Welch v. US, and ruminate about the government over McDonnell v. U.S.   Law starts at (6:22).

Do Consumers Need to Show "Concrete" Injury to Sue Debt Collectors?  By John K. Rossman The Supreme Court decision in Spokeo v. Robins was expected to provide clarity to debt industry defendants facing FDCPA and related consumer lawsuits where the Plaintiffs' allege no actual harm.   Unfortunately, the case did little to specify exactly what type of “concrete” harm a consumer must allege to pursue a claim, but did provide some excellent language that can be used to refute consumer lawsuits where no actual harm is or could be alleged. In this episode of the Debt Collection Drill podcast, attorneys John Rossman and Mike Poncin focus on the Supreme Court ruling in Spokeo and how it may (or may not) help in defeating the seemingly never ending FDCPA and related lawsuits alleging violations of the law where no consumer is harmed.  

In our 117th episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Michael Vatis, and Alan Cohn discuss: Home Depot data breach ruling; Supreme Court decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins; New rule requires government contractors to adopt basic cyberseucrity measures; Court rejects Mozilla's bid to intervene in FBI-child porn case; Google appeals French privacy ruling; Senators call on Congress to stop massive expansion of government surveillance and hacking; SEC recognizes cybersecurity threat to financial systems. In our second half we have an interview with Patrick Gray, host of the Risky Business podcast. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

Spokeo is a search engine for people. But unlike your phone book, Spokeo claims to glean its information from public databases, such as social media profiles. So when the site allegedly posted false info about Thomas Robins, he sued. On May 16, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Spokeo v. Robins, the latest in a line of cases where the Court tries to flesh out when a plaintiff is allowed to sue in federal courts — that is, whether the plaintiff has "standing." Evan is joined by Adam J. White, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and of counsel at Boyden Gray & Associates. They discuss the case and its implications for tech policy. Why are big players like Google and Facebook so interested in the outcome?

On November 2, 2015, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins. Robins sued website operator Spokeo, Inc. under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, complaining that Spokeo had published inaccurate personal information about Robins. The district court determined that Robins had failed to allege an injury-in-fact and dismissed the case for lack of standing. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed, concluding that Spokeo’s alleged violations of Robins’ statutory rights constituted sufficient injury, and that Robins satisfied the other requirements for Article III standing. -- The question Spokeo raises before the Supreme Court is whether Congress may confer Article III standing upon a plaintiff who suffers no concrete harm, and who therefore could not otherwise invoke the jurisdiction of a federal court, by authorizing a private right of action based on a bare violation of a federal statute. -- To discuss the case, we have Erin Hawley, who is Associate Professor of Law at University of Missouri School of Law.

This episode is sponsored by the CIO Scoreboard In this episode I interviewed Tyler Cohen Wood who has an impressive amount of experience in Cyber security, and Digital Forensic Security - in addition to helping the White House, the Department of Defense, The Intelligence Community, Federal Law enforcement and even NASA. In our discussion on security, we talk about the different protections available on Social media and the different types of cookies and how to ensure that you are protecting yourself and your family to the maximum. Read further for more information as we discuss the following important points: The best protection is knowledge of how things work Super cookies, zombie cookies, flash cookies The importance of turning off Exit data on photos that will be uploaded to social media sites Downloading Apps - Understanding what you are doing and what you are potentially giving away to companies How do others perceive you online? How to research yourself online and see how others perceive you Be aware of your individual personal “brand” Executive Travel - posting your travel plans and location of working from home or working from a coffee shop How to understand online deception and vette people. How to become a human lie detector with statement analysis Teach your kids how to use a checklist to keep themselves safe online As a business leader who wants to be fluent on the impact of current privacy and security challenges, you will find Tyler’s message educational on both the personal, work, and family areas of your life. Tyler Cohen Wood is an expert in social media and cyber issues. She was a senior officer and a Senior Leader and Cyber Branch Chief for the Defense Intelligence Agency. She was a cyber branch chief for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) within the Department of Defense (DoD) where she makes decisions and recommendations significantly changing, interpreting, and developing important cyber policies and programs affecting current and future DoD and Intelligence Community policies. She previously worked for the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center as a senior digital forensic analyst, using her expertise in intrusion, malware analysis, and major crimes to bring about many successful prosecutions.  Before joining the DoD Cyber Crime Center, she was employed at IBM and NASA as a senior forensic analyst. She wrote the book Catching the Catfishers, where she explores the digital footprints that we all leave behind, whether we realize it or not. The book sheds light on a comprehensive set of online security components and teaches readers how to best protect their personal information from being put out and circulated on the web.  She co-authored the textbook Alternate Data Storage Forensics and was featured in Best Damn Cybercrime and Digital Forensics Book Period. How to contact Tyler: Website LinkedIn Twitter Facebook You Tube Vimeo Books: Catching The Catfishers: Disarm the Online Pretenders, Predators and Perpetrators Who Are Out To Ruin Your Life Alternate Data Storage Forensics Resources Mentioned: Spokeo EU regulations Rogue Base stations Stingray Statement Analysis Exif Data Cyber Dust Summarized Show Notes: “The best protection is knowledge of how things work”. You don’t have to become a coder, but think outside the box and how things can be a threat to you, your family and corporation. Understanding the impact of a company like Spokeo. Thoughts on personal privacy – do we have any anymore? Even if you never go on Social media or don’t use a smart phone. But there are other people posting things about you. You have a digital presence. When you read the Terms of service on apps, they will tell you what they are collecting and how they are collecting. We should try to secure companies with data like Spokeo. The book is about what we can do individually to take control. EU regulations - will be interesting to see what happens to see how companies can work around data. Photos - takeaways regarding privacy settings on this. Exif data. Pinpoints the exact geographic location from where the photo was taken. When you are dealing with a predator after your child, you don’t want too much information being taken from your child. Bad guys - are really good at what they do. But you can turn it off. Knowledge is empowerment. Understanding what you are doing and what you are potentially giving away to companies. Decisions can be made on what you want to do to use it. Cookies - obscuring identity through proxy systems. Super Cookies, Zombie Cookies and Flash Cookies. Cookies have a format - you can delete cookies. Usually used to auto-login to a site. But now - different companies are getting smarter and using zombie cookies that are harder to remove. To find out more about you to sell you stuff. Things you can do if you want to protect yourself. Don’t use applications as much, try to use the websites. Sometimes the cookies are polymorphic. Insurance companies and health companies - building profiles on us, with automated tools. Powerful tools - building up a story about us online.   Sometimes people are more realistic about who they are on social media, sometimes not. IRS - utilizing this technology. This is stuff we have chosen to put out. When you take the posts from the perspective of an HR person would to find out about you - you might find out a lot about you to find out who you are. If you never post things, but you like a certain persons posts. That will tell us a lot about who we are as people. How do we assert some sovereignty over our life? What would an observer see about ourselves? You want to research yourself online. Sometimes privacy settings change. Do you want employers seeing this and a bunch of strangers seeing this? It’s a perception. Perceptions become reality. Think about it as your brand. When you post about your children and how your children are doing. Privacy settings can and will change. If you are posting things which you think is private. Someday that information might be available to college boards or recruiters. Set up a private group if you want to talk to a private group. As an executive, it’s very easy to find your address. Very easy to set up things like man in the middle attacks targeting that particular person. Rogue Base Station, Stingray, IMSI catcher. Those people can put updates through malware that given them control of your device. Base station you put in that your phone will connect to as the strongest signal that may be in a coffee shot. You will go through the rogue base station instead of the actual provider signal. People learning your pattern of life. Catching the Catfisher - what does it mean? What is purpose of the book? Teach people how to understand Wild West domain and empower themselves in ways that are easy to understand. To read deception in the online domain. Understand if those you are talking to are really who they say they are. Value in the book from purely understanding deception and becoming a human lie detector. Statement analysis. Deception techniques are important. Having a checklist is a way to engage your kids in the security instead of them feeling attacked Browsers can take control – Tyler personally uses Chrome. Added security features. Depends on what you want to use. Instant messaging - cyber dust. IMs. Context of messaging versus transport of messaging. Cyber dust - it disappears. If traversing through a network and network is keeping those packets it can always be re-constituted. There are low tech solutions to high tech issues. Someone can take a photograph of what you sent and send that around. As society we have to be aware of what we are putting out there because we don’t know where we’ll be 5-10 years from now. If there’s something that you want to do, don’t let anybody tell you that you can’t. If there’s something you want to do and you know it’s right, go for it, because you can do it. This episode is sponsored by the CIO Scoreboard All methods of how to access the show are below: Listen on iTunes (for iPhones etc.) Listen to it on Stitcher (This is for Android Phone Users. Download the Stitcher app here) Stream it on Libsyn Listen to it on Soundcloud (This is for listening via PC/Mac Browser) Please subscribe here to Bill Murphy’s Redzone Podcast on iTunes Subscribe to my RSS Feed here LinkedIn blog post Leave a podcast review here How do I leave a review? Bill Murphy is a world renowned IT Security Expert dedicated to your success as an IT Business Leader. Follow Bill on LinkedIn and Twitter. Subscribe below for weekly podcast, CIO Mastermind and CISO Mastermind updates delivered to your inbox easily and effortlessly.  

This week covers Spokeo v. Robbins, a case where one intrepid, mischaracterized plaintiff attempts to take down Big Credit Report under an poorly-written Congressional statute (stop us if you've heard this before).  The key legal concept here is Standing, which covers who can bring claims in our judicial system, and Brett and Nazim use an example which deals directly with someone's poor spelling.

Dalié Jiménez, a Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, and Scott Vernick, a partner at Fox Rothschild, discuss whether the Supreme Court will put limits on consumer lawsuits. It’s the case Spokeo v. Robins. They speak with June Grasso on Bloomberg Radio’s “Bloomberg Law.”

Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins | 11/02/15 | Docket #: 13-1339

October 5th will mark the first day of the 2015 Supreme Court term. Thus far, the Court's docket includes major cases involving the death penalty, affirmative action, unions, civil asset forfeiture, and more. -- Notable cases include Campbell-Ewald Company v. Gomez, which concerns pre-certification mootness; Tyson Foods v. Bouaphakeo, which concerns class certification where statistical methods are used to establish liability and damages; Spokeo v. Robins, which concerns Article III standing and statutory damages; Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which concerns affirmative action in admissions; Evenwel v. Abbott, which concerns redistricting law; Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which concerns teacher unions; and Kansas v. Gleason, Kansas v. Carr, Montgomery v. Louisiana, Foster v. Humphrey, and Hurst v. Florida, which all concern the death penalty. -- In addition to these cases and others, which may include abortion and contraceptive mandate questions, the panelists will discuss the current composition and the future of the Court. -- Featuring: Prof. Gail Heriot, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law; Mr. John Elwood, Partner at Vinson & Elkins; Mr. Neal K. Katyal, Partner at Hogan Lovells; Prof. John F. Stinneford, Professor of Law and Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center at Levin College of Law, University of Florida; and Mr. Ed Whelan, President of Ethics & Public Policy Center. Moderator: Mr. Adam Liptak, The New York Times.

October 5th will mark the first day of the 2015 Supreme Court term. Thus far, the Court's docket includes major cases involving the death penalty, affirmative action, unions, civil asset forfeiture, and more. -- Notable cases include Campbell-Ewald Company v. Gomez, which concerns pre-certification mootness; Tyson Foods v. Bouaphakeo, which concerns class certification where statistical methods are used to establish liability and damages; Spokeo v. Robins, which concerns Article III standing and statutory damages; Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which concerns affirmative action in admissions; Evenwel v. Abbott, which concerns redistricting law; Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which concerns teacher unions; and Kansas v. Gleason, Kansas v. Carr, Montgomery v. Louisiana, Foster v. Humphrey, and Hurst v. Florida, which all concern the death penalty. -- In addition to these cases and others, which may include abortion and contraceptive mandate questions, the panelists will discuss the current composition and the future of the Court. -- Featuring: Prof. Gail Heriot, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law; Mr. John Elwood, Partner at Vinson & Elkins; Mr. Neal K. Katyal, Partner at Hogan Lovells; Prof. John F. Stinneford, Professor of Law and Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center at Levin College of Law, University of Florida; and Mr. Ed Whelan, President of Ethics & Public Policy Center. Moderator: Mr. Adam Liptak, The New York Times.

Host Brian Wesolowski first chats with Matthew Shears on what is IANA, shedding light on the "multistakeholder community" that it's transitioning into, and explaining why the U.S. government is transitioning out of it. Plenty of moving parts, but we swear – Matthew knows his stuff. Then Gautam Hans joins to give us the scoop on his first Supreme Court brief, Spokeo vs. Robins, and how it impacts everyday Americans' rights via the Fair Credit Reporting Act. He explains how this case could, by limiting private claims, lead to an increase in inaccurate data, + more. (Oh, and he bakes cookies – isn't Gautam awesome?) Attribution: sounds used from Psykophobia, Taira Komori, BenKoning, Zabuhailo, bloomypetal, guitarguy1985, bmusic92, and offthesky of freesound.org.

I had a healthy debate with Mr. Boettcher this week about the merits of doing recon for a pentest. Mr. Boettcher is a heavy duty proponent of it, and I see it as a necessary evil, but not one that I consider important.  We hash it out, and find some common ground this week. People search links: Spokeo - http://www.spokeo.com/ Pipl - https://pipl.com/   Sec Filings site: http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm   Intro "Private Eye", transition "Mining by Moonlight", and Outro "Honeybee" created by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

It's about finding love on this week's EHG, as we're joined by @midnight writer and Frasier superfan Matt Mira to try to answer burning questions about Catfish: how much of it is fake? what exactly did Carmen do to make her cousin fall in love with her 'Tony' over the phone? why...is Max? We went around the dial with 'pitiless tear-extraction machine' Call The Midwife, the revamped American Idol, and Dave's nomination for the Pierce of Bob's Burgers; considered a fifth-season Star Trek: TNG episode for the Canon, declared a Winner and Loser, and went to the bitter end of Game Time. Remove your personal information from Spokeo and join us! GUESTS

It's about finding love on this week's EHG, as we're joined by @midnight writer and Frasier superfan Matt Mira to try to answer burning questions about Catfish: how much of it is fake? what exactly did Carmen do to make her cousin fall in love with her 'Tony' over the phone? why...is Max? We went around the dial with 'pitiless tear-extraction machine' Call The Midwife, the revamped American Idol, and Dave's nomination for the Pierce of Bob's Burgers; considered a fifth-season Star Trek: TNG episode for the Canon, declared a Winner and Loser, and went to the bitter end of Game Time. Remove your personal information from Spokeo and join us!Special Guest: Matt Mira. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Published July 21, 2011 Git yer lasso and git ready for the Genealogy Records Roundup in this episode. Then I'll show you how to improve your online security, introduce you to family history blogger Becky Jamison, and share my own person story of genealogical serendipity. Records Round Up The Library and Archives Canada has announced the launch of an updated version of its finding aid to locate electoral districts in its federal voters' lists collection from 1935 to 1980. This updated version provides for each of the 892 microfilm reels of the collection, the electoral year, the province, the exact name of the electoral district and the page numbers for each microfilm.  You can find it at The Library and Archives Canada also recently announced the release of a new version of the online database Lower Canada Land Petitions (1626-1865).    This version includes digitized images of the actual petitions for all individuals listed in the database. Corrections to entries, including suggestions received from users, have also been integrated into this updated version. You can find the database at .  has added Free Records for 10 Countries. And their U.S. collection additions include records from Iowa, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Collections covering several countries were updated.  Germany and Mexico church records were the two largest collections added.  You'll also find 25 million new images of historic records for 16 countries including records for Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, England, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Wales AND over 8 million civil registration records for the Netherlands.   The 1930 U.S. Census indexing project is also coming to a completion.  They will now start some new U.S. projects that you might want to consider helping out with as a volunteer. They have plans to building a nationwide marriage index. There are several projects already underway, and many new marriage projects are coming. They have started a Civil War era initiative that will include record collections expanding before and after the Civil War, which should come in very handy.  Archives.com.  While they are newcomers to the genealogy records field, they are getting new records out there as well.    Archives.com recently announce that there are 17 million new U.S. vital and military records available on Archives.com! These new birth, death, marriage, and military records make up 30 unique collections. Here is a quick summary of the new records: Military Personnel Records - including personnel records from the Vietnam War and Gulf War eras. They boast nearly 16 million in all, and say that these records cover individuals who served in the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and National Guard.   In the Vital Records category they have added Texas Birth, Death, and Marriage Records - dating anywhere from 1800 to 2011 and cover the following counties: Fort Bend, El Paso, Cooke, Montgomery, Tarrant, Burnet, Hood, Denton, and Kaufman. There are 1.4 million new Texas records in total. They have also added Colorado Marriage and Death Records from Delta County, located in the western part of the state. Over nine thousand new records have been added. South Carolina Marriage Records - a collection of four thousand early South Carolina marriages covers years 1641 to 1799.    Future U.S. Records: 1940 Census Here in the U.S. we are already talking about records that aren't due for another year.  Yep, we're talking the 1940 US Population Census Schedules. It's still more than 9 months away, but in the time it takes to bring a new descendant into the world the National Archives will be delivering the 1940 US Population Schedules to the public. And there are a couple of guys who have been on the forefront of this event, none other than Steve Morse and Joel Weintraub.  And Joel has been my special guest on a past Premium episode.  Of course we are all chomping at the bit to dig into the 1940 census even though there won't be an index when it's first released. However, the guys have put out a press release about what you can do to get ready to search, so let me give you the scoop here: It says: “It will not be name indexed, so it will be necessary to do an address search in order to find families.  Address searching involves knowing the ED (enumeration district) in which the address is located..   The National Archives (NARA)  earlier this year indicated they had plans to make available in 2011 the 1940  ED maps of cities and counties, and ED descriptions,  but their recent move to consider having a 3rd party host all the images may have appreciably set back this timetable. The only website that currently has location tools for the 1940 census is the Steve Morse One Step site ().  There are several such tools there, and it could be overwhelming to figure out which tool to use when.  There is a tutorial that attempts to clarify it () and an extensive FAQ ().  We are announcing the opening of another educational utility to help people learn about the different 1940  locational search tools on the One Step site, and information about the 1940 census itself.  It is in the form of a quiz, and should help many, many genealogists quickly learn how to search an unindexed census by location.  The new utility is and is called ".  Not only is it informative, we hope it is entertaining.” 1940 Census Training is Now Online But there's still another way to prep for the big release, and that is to learn more about the 1940 enumeration process and the national Archives has released four short videos created by the US Census Bureau prior to 1940 that were used to train enumerators on their general duties and responsibilities, as well as the correct procedures for filling out the 1940 census.   at the national Archives channel at YouTube.    Newspapers   The British Library is one year into its plan to digitize 40 million news pages from its vast 750 million collection, housed in Colindale, north London. According to their recent press release, this Fall, the library will reinvent its cavernous vaults as a website, where amateur genealogists and eager historians will be able to browse 19th-century newsprint from their home computer.”  Also recently announced by The British Library in conjunction with Google is their partnership to digitize 250,000 out-of-copyright books from the Library's collections.    Once digitized, the collection will be available for full text search, download and reading through Google Books, as well as being searchable through the Library's website and stored in within the Library's digital archive.  Selected by the British Library and digitized by Google, both organizations will work in partnership over the coming years to deliver this content free through and the British Library's website (www.bl.uk). Google will cover all digitization costs. The project will digitize a huge range of printed books, pamphlets and periodicals covering a large time span - 1700 to 1870. It will include material in a variety of major European languages, and they will be particularly focusing on books that are not yet freely available in digital form online. Deceased Online website is sporting some new records: 313,000 records for Edinburgh's Seafield Cemetery and Crematorium and for Warriston Crematorium. Also, by early August www.deceasedonline.com will have added another 1.25 million burial and cremation records from the north of Scotland to South Devon.  MAILBOX GEM:  Citing SourcesSean writes:  “One strategy that I have recently begun when posting data to my genealogy blog is to include footnotes and reference lists showing what sources were used to find the data.  This isn't a difficult task at all, since all of the data and the source citations are in my local RootsMagic database.  So, all I need to do is to copy/paste the source information when I paste the data into a blog post.  An example of this strategy is in my about our Curtis line that I posted. If more genealogy research blogs listed their sources with the data, we would all benefit from the shared research even more.”  GEM: Supporting this Free PodcastRichard in California wrote in to ask if the new so-called Amazon Law is impacting Genealogy Gems. Good news: You can still support the free podcast by clicking our Amazon icons and links GEM: Getting off Spooky Spokeo In this gem I'm going to explain how to get off Spooky Spokeo   You remember earlier this year that I told you about a new website called Spokeo, a people search engine that organizes vast quantities of white-pages listings, social information, and other people-related data from a large variety of public sources. They say that their mission is to help people find and connect with others, more easily than ever.  And that they certainly do.  In fact I remember calling the site a bit spooky they way it so readily gave not only information but photos and all kinds of their data on people that you search.   But of course, that makes it a go to site when it comes to finding long lost relatives.   Della wrote in about her experience with Spokeo and a few questions about online security. She writes:   “I do not want my name and all my personal information showing up on any site where someone has evidently gathered the information from the public domain and is offering it to the public either for free or for a charge…How do I opt out of my name even appearing on this site?”   It is no wonder that identity theft occurs and that the occurrence is rising. Della is obviously concerned about her privacy and in this technological age, managing our online presence has become an issue that all of use should keep in mind.    In reality it's not really that Spokeo is reaching into areas that were previously forbidden.  Here in the U.S. we have always had public information.  I think the real difference is that the Internet offers information vendors a hugely accelerated method for delivering that information.  It used to have to be compiled in books and updated at a very slow pace.  Or even more difficult you had to make a personal trip to the location where the information was held, and of course back in the day, few people would have ever bothered.  But the information has always been available.    The one exception that comes to mind is Facebook, Google+, Twitter and other social media websites.  These didn't exist in the past, however, the only reason personal information, photos or what have you are there, is because WE put it there.   And putting info out there isn't necessarily bad.  It's just that with that freedom comes responsibility to manage and protect it appropriately.  Tweaking the security settings can make a huge difference in what's available publicly.  And the new Google+ seems to really have made that quite a bit easier.  Facebook could learn a few lessons about making it easier for folks to manage their security.  The features are there, but it can take a bit of digging to find them and change them.   But let's get back to Spokeo.  I 100% agree that if you don't want all your data so easily searched on the site, there should be a way to manage that, and I've done a bit of research on this and you can.   To request that Public Information about You be removed from Spokeo.com people searches, you'll need to use their “Remove A Listing” tool at .  This page also contains information about sending written requests for removal.  This process is only intended to remove information available through Spokeo.com and cannot remove the information from the third-party public sources, such as phone books, and government websites.  And as I said, information is public from a wide range of sources and it's computer databases and Internet search and delivery that makes it seem like there's so much more than there used to be.  In that respect Spokeo is the messenger.  Julie also wrote in about Spokeo to say “Yes, that is spooky-o, because I found myself, address, and even a Google earth picture of where I live, and I'm a survivor of domestic violence still unable to escape my ex-husband after 30 years of divorce.” And Julie's concern is totally understandable!  These types of sites are a double edged sword to be sure, and the emphasize the fact that information has always been public - it's just now they make finding it much easier. To learn more about Spokeo's privacy policy visit their . You can also contact the folks at Spokeo, which is located in Pasadena, CA through their TIP:  If you have a camera with a GPS setting then your photos have geographic location tags attached to them. When you post those photos online, strangers will not only see your photo but they will also see exactly where you were at the time you took the photo.  This is especially important to remember if you are posting photos you took at home on Facebook or other sites.  Check your camera instruction manual for information on how to turn off that feature when it's not needed, and you'll have taken an important step toward taking responsibility for your online presence.  GEM:  Interview with Genealogy Blogger Becky Jamison GEM: Winthrop Cookbook App Users Bonus Content:  Whip up a batch of sour cream cookies yourself with the recipe PDF download!

This is the 23rd episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded February 25th, 2011.  This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast: New changes to Facebook and security implications Facebook now supports full SSL browsing (optional), social authentication improvements Facebook rolls […] The post Social Media Security Podcast 23 – Recent Changes to Facebook, Enterprise Social Media Tools, Spokeo appeared first on The Shared Security Show.

The $100 digital camera that was predicted a decade ago has arrived but it somewhat exceeds expectations. I'd like to show you around a delightful site that contains audio and video that will bring back memories. Spokeo has a lot of information about you and some of it is probably correct. In Short Circuits, the end of the check and a series of short notes.