This week, the culprits behind one of the largest data breaches in history, is your sexual activity being sold to marketers? how Amazon’s fake radio station pissed off Trumpsters, is this the end of privacy in the US?, and much much more.
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Andy: Refun A100 Tactical Led Flashlight
Dwayne: SXSW, Last Exile
Tosin: Google Cloud Next conference
Headlines
Google goes after Slack and splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet Vibrator maker ordered to pay out C$4m for tracking users' sexual activityAudible Book of the Week
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Hot Topic
Justice Department: Russia's security services 'protected, directed, facilitated, and paid' hackers behind the massive breach of Yahoo The Feds Would Rather Drop a Child Porn Case Than Give Up a Tor Exploit FBI Director James Comey says 'absolute privacy' does not exist in the USMusic Break: This is Radio Clash by The Clash
Final Word
Amazon launched a fake radio station to promote ‘The Man in the High Castle.’ Angry Trump supporters thought it was realThe Drill Down Video of the Week
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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box product manager Tosin Onafowokan.
