Tech News Weekly - TWiT

by **bdahm** Thu Dec 20, 2018 5:20 pm

This edition of Tech News Weekly has a number of interesting stories. The first person interviewed is the woman who wrote the previous piece about How the Stop Apps from Tracking Your Location.

https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly/episodes/61

Listening to Tech News Weekly (TNW 61: Data Exhaust):

- 1:35 What it means when companies track our phones and sell our location data. Jennifer Valentino-DeVries walks us through her investigation for The New York Times.
- 20:31 How the Apple Watch ECG app compares to other at-home ECG. John Timmer from Ars Technica talks about his personal experience monitoring his heart health.
- 34:52 Ellen Huet from Bloomberg Businessweek tracks the downfall of a company called We Roam that lefts its customers stranded all over the world and hasn't paid its debts yet.
- 47:45 Sundar Pichai testified before Congress this week. Recode's Kurt Wagner explains what we learned about search engine bias, politics, and the Monopoly Man.

-Bill