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ABC's Mike Dobuski reports on the latest tech news including Ford presenting some type of electric product this coming Monday
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Number one Texas taking a number two Ohio State Buckeyes
at the Horseshoe, and the coach's poll came out yesterday
and it is that's never happened with the coaches pole before,
number one, number two to start the season. And you know,
if you're a TV executive, are you are you kind
of second guessing your decision to put that game on
(00:21):
at noon? Aren't you going? You know, should this be
a primetime matchup? Hard to argue against that, but it
is what it is with the big noon kickoff and
Gush Johnson and Joel Klatt with the call. But again,
I gotta tell you can't be if you're looking at
(00:43):
the schedule this year, that's going to be a huge day.
I mean, college football has started number one, number two
Ohio State Texas. But look ahead to the weekend of
September twenty seventh and twenty eighth. Okay, first of all,
it's my birthday.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Second of all, you look good for sixty years. You've
got give you fifty something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ohio State
travels to Washington, YEP.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Okay, so that'll be that's an away game, but it'll
be great TV watching. Sure, you've got the Ryder Cup.
Oh both days, Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Saturday, the twenty seventh, you've got Bama and Georgia, lsu Ole,
Miss Oregon, Penn State, numb And then Sunday you've got Eagles,
Tampa Bay, Ravens, Chiefs, Packers, Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'm gonna have to find a way too to get food,
like to shuttle to my spot.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
On the couch. It's called door dash. No, I mean literally,
not from them. I mean because I'll have to get
up to go get it. I'm saying it's got to
be like a shoot. I think you need to buy
a second TV is what you need? Or three or four?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, and so you can have the Ryder Cup on
over here, have football on over here.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And there's no don't think there's a game time set
yet for Ohio State.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
For Washington, No, there is no. That'll be I guarantee
you that'll be a three thirty. Feels like a three
thirty in Washington.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, could be a night it could be depending on
how it goes, could be a night game.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But I'd say it's going to be a later game
three day.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
But that's that is a weekend to circle on the
calendar for sure. Absolutely all right, over the Legacy Retirement
Group dot com phone line. Let's check in with our
tech reporter. It's Tech Tuesday from ABC. Mike Tbusky, Michael,
good morning. So over the weekend in the UK, the
Online Safety Act went into effect.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
What does that mean? What do they do?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, So this is a new piece of legislation in
the UK that is aimed at protecting younger users from
inappropriate content online. Ostensibly that means pornography, but it could
also mean things that are a little bit more gray. Right,
violence content online, things like stunts on YouTube, even harsh
language could conceivably be considered inappropriate content. Right. And there
(03:03):
are pretty hefty fines for internet providers internet platforms if
they're found to be in violation of this law, up
to ten percent of their global revenue in fact, so
the stakes are really high here for tech companies. So
that has resulted in many of these tech companies basically
going to third party age verification providers and having them
(03:26):
implement their technology into their websites. That means that when
you visit popular websites like Spotify, Reddit, Blue Sky, you
will be prompted to upload a picture of your ID,
so a driver's license, a bank statement of passport or
a selfie and essentially they're going to use age estimation
technology there to basically evaluate whether you look old enough
(03:49):
to enter that website. As you can imagine, this has
sparked fierce debate in the UK over things like privacy.
We've seen a number of high profile data breaches in
the private sector when people upload their government IDs or
their personal information. Obviously that hangs over this in a
pretty big way, and a number of companies in the UK,
even just for fear of potentially breaching this law, have
(04:13):
essentially closed up shop. They've geo fenced to the UK
and said, hey, we're just not going to operate here
because you know, one thing leads to another. We could
conceivably be considered inappropriate content. We don't want to risk
that fine. Probably the most prominent of them, maybe not
the most prominent, but the most interesting of them is
the r cighter subreddit dedicated to hard cier in the UK. Well,
(04:35):
that promotes drinking content and that could be considered inappropriate
in the UK. That's a very thorty issue that they're
trying to solve over there, and one that's still it seems,
you know, is being fiercely debated.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, that's I think that's happening here in Ohio towards
the end of next month. There is a requirement to
upload your photo ID or some sort of age ver
verification to access adult websites. And that's so that's happening
here in the state of Ohio in a little more
than a month. And I there's a lot of people
that are a little leary about uploading a picture of
(05:08):
their photo ID, and as you point out, for security
and privacy issues.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, absolutely. And you know, we talked recently about the
t app, which was ostensibly a place for you know,
women online to discuss their dating lives and men online
that to a degree did require like your you to
upload your driver's license, your personal government information. And of
course that that app was found to have some pretty
(05:35):
shoddy security producols and all that information was just out
on the internet available for anyone to collect. That was
interesting because it wasn't even really a hack, it was
just sort of carelessness on the part of the company.
This concern hangs over this in a pretty big way,
especially when you widen it out to the scale that
the UK is going through right now. This isn't just
(05:57):
one app, this is pretty much the entire of the
Internet that is employing technologies like this, though there are
seemingly some holes in this system. So VPN use, for one,
skyrocketed over the weekend about one thousand percent. VPNs of
course virtual private networks. They are technologies that make it
seem like your computer is somewhere else, maybe in a
(06:18):
different country, So that is something that people have their
eye on in the UK. It seems like in addition
to that, other people have tried to fool the selfie
upload component of this using video game character creation tools
to essentially make a face that looks a little older
than they are. Perhaps even one person on Reddit says
they were able to fool the system by taking a
(06:39):
picture of a doll that they had a David Lynch
that that was able to fool the system. So some
things to be worked out there.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I was going to say, what is to prevent somebody
who's underage and should not be accessing this content from
using a different picture you know, you are using like
an age filter on and uploading that to make themselves
look older. It seems like like there's always going to
be a way to subvert those age detectors, but we
shall see. Speaking with Mikebuski, ABC News Tech reporter, I
(07:08):
wanted to ask you about Ford. They're doubling down on
some new technology and they're calling it a Model T moment.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, so on Monday, Ford is going to make a
big electric vehicle announcement. We don't really know what it
means necessarily, but we think it could be a new
electric vehicle platform, meaning they can build multiple vehicles off
basically the same chassis, the same running gear, and a
new EV strategy. So CEO of Ford, Jim Farley, has
been selling this as another Model T moment. The Model C,
(07:39):
of course, is the car that put America on wheels,
really put the car in general on the map by
using the assembly line to bring down the cost of
what at one time was a very luxury goods, the automobile,
and putting it in the hands of the workers. And
in that same vein Ford seems to be gearing up
for a low cost vehicle here. There have been rumors
recently of a twenty five thousand dollars federal EV tax
(08:02):
credit is going away in the fall, so that means
that electric vehicles people will have to pay more for
electric vehicles, with pressure on some automakers to bring down prices. Here.
Of course, it also comes against some troubling numbers for
the electric vehicle sector, namely at Ford. The sales of
the electric vehicles that Ford currently sells for down thirty
(08:23):
one percent year on year in the second quarter.
Number one Texas taking a number two Ohio State Buckeyes
at the Horseshoe, and the coach's poll came out yesterday
and it is that's never happened with the coaches pole before,
number one, number two to start the season. And you know,
if you're a TV executive, are you are you kind
of second guessing your decision to put that game on
(00:21):
at noon? Aren't you going? You know, should this be
a primetime matchup? Hard to argue against that, but it
is what it is with the big noon kickoff and
Gush Johnson and Joel Klatt with the call. But again,
I gotta tell you can't be if you're looking at
(00:43):
the schedule this year, that's going to be a huge day.
I mean, college football has started number one, number two
Ohio State Texas. But look ahead to the weekend of
September twenty seventh and twenty eighth. Okay, first of all,
it's my birthday.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Second of all, you look good for sixty years. You've
got give you fifty something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ohio State
travels to Washington, YEP.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Okay, so that'll be that's an away game, but it'll
be great TV watching. Sure, you've got the Ryder Cup.
Oh both days, Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Saturday, the twenty seventh, you've got Bama and Georgia, lsu Ole,
Miss Oregon, Penn State, numb And then Sunday you've got Eagles,
Tampa Bay, Ravens, Chiefs, Packers, Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'm gonna have to find a way too to get food,
like to shuttle to my spot.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
On the couch. It's called door dash. No, I mean literally,
not from them. I mean because I'll have to get
up to go get it. I'm saying it's got to
be like a shoot. I think you need to buy
a second TV is what you need? Or three or four?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, and so you can have the Ryder Cup on
over here, have football on over here.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And there's no don't think there's a game time set
yet for Ohio State.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
For Washington, No, there is no. That'll be I guarantee
you that'll be a three thirty. Feels like a three
thirty in Washington.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, could be a night it could be depending on
how it goes, could be a night game.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But I'd say it's going to be a later game
three day.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
But that's that is a weekend to circle on the
calendar for sure. Absolutely all right, over the Legacy Retirement
Group dot com phone line. Let's check in with our
tech reporter. It's Tech Tuesday from ABC. Mike Tbusky, Michael,
good morning. So over the weekend in the UK, the
Online Safety Act went into effect.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
What does that mean? What do they do?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, So this is a new piece of legislation in
the UK that is aimed at protecting younger users from
inappropriate content online. Ostensibly that means pornography, but it could
also mean things that are a little bit more gray. Right,
violence content online, things like stunts on YouTube, even harsh
language could conceivably be considered inappropriate content. Right. And there
(03:03):
are pretty hefty fines for internet providers internet platforms if
they're found to be in violation of this law, up
to ten percent of their global revenue in fact, so
the stakes are really high here for tech companies. So
that has resulted in many of these tech companies basically
going to third party age verification providers and having them
(03:26):
implement their technology into their websites. That means that when
you visit popular websites like Spotify, Reddit, Blue Sky, you
will be prompted to upload a picture of your ID,
so a driver's license, a bank statement of passport or
a selfie and essentially they're going to use age estimation
technology there to basically evaluate whether you look old enough
(03:49):
to enter that website. As you can imagine, this has
sparked fierce debate in the UK over things like privacy.
We've seen a number of high profile data breaches in
the private sector when people upload their government IDs or
their personal information. Obviously that hangs over this in a
pretty big way, and a number of companies in the UK,
even just for fear of potentially breaching this law, have
(04:13):
essentially closed up shop. They've geo fenced to the UK
and said, hey, we're just not going to operate here
because you know, one thing leads to another. We could
conceivably be considered inappropriate content. We don't want to risk
that fine. Probably the most prominent of them, maybe not
the most prominent, but the most interesting of them is
the r cighter subreddit dedicated to hard cier in the UK. Well,
(04:35):
that promotes drinking content and that could be considered inappropriate
in the UK. That's a very thorty issue that they're
trying to solve over there, and one that's still it seems,
you know, is being fiercely debated.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, that's I think that's happening here in Ohio towards
the end of next month. There is a requirement to
upload your photo ID or some sort of age ver
verification to access adult websites. And that's so that's happening
here in the state of Ohio in a little more
than a month. And I there's a lot of people
that are a little leary about uploading a picture of
(05:08):
their photo ID, and as you point out, for security
and privacy issues.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, absolutely. And you know, we talked recently about the
t app, which was ostensibly a place for you know,
women online to discuss their dating lives and men online
that to a degree did require like your you to
upload your driver's license, your personal government information. And of
course that that app was found to have some pretty
(05:35):
shoddy security producols and all that information was just out
on the internet available for anyone to collect. That was
interesting because it wasn't even really a hack, it was
just sort of carelessness on the part of the company.
This concern hangs over this in a pretty big way,
especially when you widen it out to the scale that
the UK is going through right now. This isn't just
(05:57):
one app, this is pretty much the entire of the
Internet that is employing technologies like this, though there are
seemingly some holes in this system. So VPN use, for one,
skyrocketed over the weekend about one thousand percent. VPNs of
course virtual private networks. They are technologies that make it
seem like your computer is somewhere else, maybe in a
(06:18):
different country, So that is something that people have their
eye on in the UK. It seems like in addition
to that, other people have tried to fool the selfie
upload component of this using video game character creation tools
to essentially make a face that looks a little older
than they are. Perhaps even one person on Reddit says
they were able to fool the system by taking a
(06:39):
picture of a doll that they had a David Lynch
that that was able to fool the system. So some
things to be worked out there.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I was going to say, what is to prevent somebody
who's underage and should not be accessing this content from
using a different picture you know, you are using like
an age filter on and uploading that to make themselves
look older. It seems like like there's always going to
be a way to subvert those age detectors, but we
shall see. Speaking with Mikebuski, ABC News Tech reporter, I
(07:08):
wanted to ask you about Ford. They're doubling down on
some new technology and they're calling it a Model T moment.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, so on Monday, Ford is going to make a
big electric vehicle announcement. We don't really know what it
means necessarily, but we think it could be a new
electric vehicle platform, meaning they can build multiple vehicles off
basically the same chassis, the same running gear, and a
new EV strategy. So CEO of Ford, Jim Farley, has
been selling this as another Model T moment. The Model C,
(07:39):
of course, is the car that put America on wheels,
really put the car in general on the map by
using the assembly line to bring down the cost of
what at one time was a very luxury goods, the automobile,
and putting it in the hands of the workers. And
in that same vein Ford seems to be gearing up
for a low cost vehicle here. There have been rumors
recently of a twenty five thousand dollars federal EV tax
(08:02):
credit is going away in the fall, so that means
that electric vehicles people will have to pay more for
electric vehicles, with pressure on some automakers to bring down prices. Here.
Of course, it also comes against some troubling numbers for
the electric vehicle sector, namely at Ford. The sales of
the electric vehicles that Ford currently sells for down thirty
(08:23):
one percent year on year in the second quarter.
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