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  • Bing mobile app database left open to hackers, millions of user data sets compromised

    leavingthebiggleavingthebigg
    Remember not so long ago, Microsoft said it would secure the data of US citizens using the TikTok app. 
    BeatsFileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • Entire Apple Watch Series 6 package must be returned if Solo Loop, Braided Solo Loop don't...

    leavingthebiggleavingthebigg
    Requiring the Watch and band be returned  lessens the opportunity for scammers to profit from returning only the band.. it also forces customers to pay more attention to what they are purchasing. 
    ronnpscooter63

  • China would prefer TikTok shut down in US instead of sold to domestic company

    leavingthebiggleavingthebigg
    Fatman said:
    Facebook, Google use personal data maninly for profitable marketing and advertising purposes. But TikTok is a Chinese Government Trojan horse app that uses personal data and access to seek out ways to breach companies, governments, and schools for the purpose of spying on specific individuals and for stealing intellectual property. There is no other way China could have advanced so quickly from having very little to now being on par with the same military, space and computing capacity and technologies as the US. We’ve spent many decades developing concepts, testing & refining them, so they can steal in minutes of downloading. They do not want another US company to see the code used in TikTok because it will prove the truth. I don’t like Trump, but actions against China are critical to the survival of the US. I hope Biden has enough! Intelligence, energy and strength to continue and even amplify these efforts.
    You gave Facebook a pass on getting paid for using the data it has collected and categorized to target people who will most likely be persuaded by...

    - Ads that contain lies promoted by US politicians.
    - Hate groups that promote violence and division of US citizens. 
    - People who spread disinformation. 
    - People who say school children were not slaughtered by gunfire minutes after children were slaughtered by gunfire. 
    - US politicians who try to strip healthcare from US citizens while granting themselves guaranteed lifetime healthcare. 

    On top of that don’t forget that Facebook allowed entities to target people for manipulation during the 2016 election year.

    Facebook has admitted to testing subliminal messages on people to manipulate them into feeling happy or sad. 

    Facebook has access unfettered access to data of approximately two billion people around the world and has shown multiple times it will allow suicide videos, rape videos, propaganda videos, murder videos and more videos to be shown for hours and days before taking them down. 

    China can be a threat. Facebook is a threat. 

    Instead of looking at China shutting down TikTok’s US operations as China hiding secrets, look at US companies being denied a golden opportunity of surveillance and manipulation of over 100 million US citizens. 

    For those people who think a US company can create a successful version of TikTok, look beyond the veil of US patriotism. Microsoft has been a failure at creating anything successful for the TikTok generation outside Xbox. Walmart and Oracle would not stand a snowflake’s chance in hell of maintaining TikTok’s users. 

    Last but not least, people who think China is a threat to the US while ignoring or denying the US is a threat to its Very own citizens need to wake up. Governments around the world can pay US citizens who will not hesitate to manipulate or harm their fellow US citizens.  

    GeorgeBMacwatto_cobra

  • 'Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special' coming exclusively to Apple TV+

    leavingthebiggleavingthebigg
    Wow! The original first comment to this article mentioned an error in the article. The error in the article has been corrected and the comment has been deleted. I know this to be true because I clicked the Like button for the comment. This was not expected at all.

    Moving on...

    I am looking forward to the Apple TV+/Mariah Carey collaboration. Her first Christmas CD is 25 years old and continues to top the charts during the Christmas season. Her second Christmas CD is forgettable. I own both CDs.

    Apple has had Christmas commercial hits for a few years. I am hoping the “heartwarming story that brings the world together” is on the level of those commercials. 
    watto_cobra

  • Dark blue 'iPhone 12' could help Apple sell up to 68 million 5G models in 2020

    leavingthebiggleavingthebigg
    How are Android 5G smartphones selling? Around this time last year there was much angst written by AppleInsider that iPhone 11 would not have 5G, Apple would be one or more years behind Android smartphones, Apple would have to play catch up, Apple could lose customers to Android who want 5G. A year later there is barely any mention of Android 5G much less 5G. 
    StrangeDaystmaywatto_cobra