This Changes Everything

My thoughts on the Spotify acquisition of Anchor and Gimlet and what it means for podcasting. It’s Leo on the line, Line 10…

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It shouldn’t, but just in case I’m embedding the audio here. I would have done that earlier but I was on the road.

Facebook must be scanning Apple’s iCloud e-mail inbox or some data mining company fetching data then sell to Facebook?

I was threading e-mail with my son’s school nurse via my iPhone iCloud e-mail account. When I logged to Facebook in my Samsung Tab E, it popped “person you may know.” Why the heck it was telling the nurse’s Facebook with her pseudo-name which I asked if was hers she confirmed it’s her.

So who’re scanning Apple’s e-mail inbox? Do Apple allow Facebook or some data mining companies do it which they’d share data to Facebook?

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