Chess Moves for Control over Your Sensitive Data

August 11, 2020 00:45:10
Chess Moves for Control over Your Sensitive Data
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Chess Moves for Control over Your Sensitive Data

Aug 11 2020 | 00:45:10

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James Keys Tunde Ogunlana

Show Notes

Governments and large companies around the world are making high stakes, chess style moves over control of who has access to your sensitive data, and James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss the President’s executive order that seeks to ban TikTok in the U.S. (01:20) and the discomfort some have expressed following Blackstone’s acquisition of genealogy company Ancestry (21:14).  The guys also discuss their takeaways from recent findings on how dogs process and understand human language (35:11).

Trump issued an executive order effectively banning TikTok if it doesn’t sell in the next 45 days
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/7/31/21350072/trump-tiktok-executive-order-ban-microsoft-sale-bytedance-china-security-concerns

A Private Equity Firm Bought Ancestry, and Its Trove of DNA, for $4.7B
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akzyq5/private-equity-firm-blackstone-bought-ancestry-dna-company-for-billions

Dogs understand praise the same way we do. Here's why that matters. ​
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/08/dogs-praise-brains-human-language/

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Episode Transcript

TikTok, executive order, ban, Trump, China, Bytedance, Microsoft, social media, Blackstone, private equity, Ancestry, genealogy, Ancestry.com, DNA, family tree, dogs, pets, speech, language

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