Grocery stores are gathering data on you
33:50 Share

Hey, it's came commander today, your daily podcast, to keep you up to date with all things digital and beyond. And i'd love to have you be a part of our podcast you can make an appointment to speak with just had over two commanded a common on the top right. There's a button in, says, email, kim, go that out and that hit.

So how many hours week do you think you just park IT in a chair? Okay, make a guess. Is that twenty hours? Thirty hours? Oh my gosh.

Try forty five hours a week. Okay, that may be the average. But what about millennial? Those who are twenty eight to forty nine years old, this is bad.

They're clocking sixty hours a week, sitting down sixty hours week. Of course, this raises the risk of heart and circulatory ory problems. And so what you wanted do is maybe stand up, but wait, no, there was another survey.

They said, if you were to have one of those standing desk, that's just as bad as sitting. So what do you need to do? Come on.

Stay with me. yeah. Gotta move and move. IT, that's right.

Good luck with that one. Hey, i'm that happy. Now, welcome. I came command. Do america's digital god is here with you once again, making sure that you are always take ahead and never left tech behind, and you have just tapped into the bigger show, the best show, the most trusted source about all things digital.

And you can find my award winning, shown over four hundred and twenty top stations throughout the united states. And of course, we're streaming in your favorite radio APP. Just searched for my lesson in commander with A K of course.

And now, oh, this is so great, you can find the kim command to show as a podcast in your favorite podcast player. And a big hallow and slug is out to all of our listeners on the american forces network radio, reaching over three hundred and seventy five thousand service members, serving in one hundred and seventy five countries. ow.

And two hundred chips that say, yeah, they also get the kim command to show. And great sponsors always helped make this show possible. And as i'm giving out these money saving deals and promotions, des and addresses and like what was that? You just seem to go to one spot and that's commanded to com slash sponsors.

And I know you have, at least I don't know, one, two, twelve questions about something digital that's happening in your life. And you know you just can't trust AI, but you can always trust me. And that's why R.

T. Mobile unlimited listening line is now open at one triple, eight, eight, two, five, fifty two, fifty four. Already in every single day, I just dive in to at least thirty five, sometimes forty, five hundred and fifty different sources to make sure that we're both up to date on what's going on in the tech world.

And here, the top five things you need to know about right now, we're going to start with the number one reason why a lot of americans have rejected electric vehicles. It's the batteries, limited range, hard to find recharging stations. And then when you get there, you have lines and then long recharging times.

But toyoy says a life is going to be different. We're gona change this because lithium batteries have all but killed the evs in the united states. Batteries unstable, they catch fire.

They're impossible to extinguish. So here comes together. They say, yeah, we have a self state battery that's less dense and more stable than lithium ion batteries.

Kk, now, before use that there and go OK. M, this is so boring, how can you be talking about batteries? This is actually something big. This isn't. You're going to want to share with your fAiling members and friends, because the solid state battery is lighter and takes only about half the time to charge.

But the real breakthrough, okay, that on of charge a solid state battery, are you ready for IT can get almost eight hundred miles on a single charge? Yes, eight hundred miles. So that's why it's exciting sometimes to talk about batteries.

All right, maybe not that much. All right. Let's talk about artificial intelligence from what IT learns that later.

Plagiarizes, but what happens when A I just runs out of human generated content? right? Listen this.

If A I needs research, but has exhausted all the human gender material. Some of these large language models are called L M. S, for sure.

Don't about like those ones for up OpenAI and google and microsoft, they begin using what called synthetic data, synthetic data that just a fancy phrase for research created by A I itself. But much of IT is far fetched. Wrong, the holus ate.

And so just one more reminder, never turn your back on an AI. Always check carefully what IT says. And yeah, be ready to pull the plug.

Moving on to number three is america's biggest grocery store chain about the begin charging base on your income. What yeah, koga is the nations of biggest grocery chain. IT owns a slut, them talking about fries and raves and harasser pick and save in a home bunch more.

And Albertson, I think they're still trying to buy that for, I don't know, twenty six billion dollars or so. Uh, progress has begun. What he called dynamic pricing strategy. Hm, what's that? Well, when demand is up like turkey at thanksgiving, turkey Prices will go up.

So the chain is expLoring ways to target Prices based on a person so called consumer profile and is collaborating with an A I company called intelligence not to do this. So bottom in here, some customers may be charged more based on the shopping habits and their ability to pay. So like, for example, if you buy expensive luxury items, like maybe a Better cut stick, like a fly, you buy more expensive wines.

You may pay more for other items simply because you can wow, isn't that something? Moving on to number four. Oh, man, cyber kidnapping.

It's on the rise. It's frightening. Thousands in a stealing millions.

And I just want to what you want to remind you about this. So let's say your phone rings. It's a familiar number.

It's your son, your daughter, your spouse, you, your partner. And when you answer a medicine voice and tells you that they have kidnapped your loved one. And if you want to back, you Better send on some money.

But IT gets worse. You hear your loved one please with you. Please, please, please send the money.

They're hurting me. You get a photo of them change. You watch a video of them crying.

So what are you going to do? You wire a large summer money to the kid networks. And you wait, you wait.

Hours go by. The monkey got. And then you discovered later that no one was in danger. Everything was all A I generated.

So if this happens to you, call your level first or find someone who can check on them. A kidnappers rarely call from a victim's phone. It's just too easy trace.

And finally, this coming in. Number five, at least two generations have no concept of a world before texting and social media, smart phones and video games and streaming. And A, A, I.

But Jenny has discovered what amErica has first discovered in the early nineteen, nineteen fifties. You're ready for IT free. T.

V. yeah. So we abandon cable and satellite. They deserved at high Prices. They're just has naughty service.

And then we we went to hou and disney and apple and partment prime IT goes on and on and we find that we pay more for all this. And we did in cable. So an entire generation is now discovering free TV.

Oh, but sounds exactly free. You have to watch those annoying ads, right? wait.

Oh, we have annoying. It's on streaming too. yes.

So what's next? Rooftop T, V. And hannas, yeah.

Remember those? I speaking to rise me, that old joke. Two antennas met on the roof.

They fell in love and they got married. The ceremony wasn't much. The reception was excEllent.

We are right. Come over. We talking about some A I generated women and what's going on with sim swapping scams. And of course, we have all of your great phone calls and you have we can commend us to stay right where you are.

Hey, i'm giving away a brand new iphone sixteen pro with apple intelligence, and I know you should win this. You would definitely need twin, but how do you win? IT you go to win from kim da com.

That's where you enter. No purchase is required. By the way, that's win from kim dcom when from kim dot com already. How about we start with shire and landhaus ter, new hampshire high shire.

I have a business here in new hampshire and I am a woman, you know women business owners today having and I just wanted to get some tips for you as to how to stay safe given the climate today. And you know, I get even like information and technology because let me tell you, I get A, I get a lot of crazy calls.

What kind of business have?

Share an I T cloud experiment business and .

what do you do um i'm .

basically the i'm self sufficient. I do at all. I schedule appointments. I you know I have been on website. I can do IT all no.

that's what that is. Being a small business owner, I think I mean, even now today, I have a team. There's still a lot of stuff that I do.

I like really like you changing light box and getting ready for shows and making sure you know that the gates are working and the list just goes on and on. I think that just but I think you did have a certain personality for this. I mean, that sounds like you do. I know that I do. It's like, I think if I just did one thing all day long, I would be incredibly bored.

Oh my gosh, I would be. I I just know I need to be doing melty things. I I can't just do one thing all the out. So crazy now .

when you're talking about staying safe in what regard .

just even like technology as well as like phone called. I am trying to hire people um for my business to help so I can get some help, you know and I I put a job posted out there. I've talked to people, you know that I go about my day and you know you get a lot of people, they say you am interested, you know I give them my card, they call me, I have an interview with them and then you know they say, yeah you know I I think they're great. I hire them and then they don't show up or start get now weird out on me one guy actually um you know one guy tried to tried almost he didn't know he was like colony in a weird hours and like do you know not onna work?

You know, hiring people is really tough. I started this business twenty five years ago. I have no debt. I have no investors, and IT becomes a real chAllenge to find people who are genuinely talented that have a work ethic and they may have you want them to have the same passion for their job as you have as the company owner. And sometimes I think our expectations are little too high.

So what I have found over years since I kind of lower the bar just a little bit, so I become pleasantly surprised. And I think also my management style has changed over the years as well. But hiring somebody in finding somebody, it's it's just it's it's really it's really very difficult.

I mean, we have job openings now that we've had first eight weeks oh ah where I have interviewed various people and before they get to me, sure they have to go through two other levels. And over the last sixty eight weeks I think i've interviewed ah four people. Now we keep in mind they've gone through two other levels and i've turned down three of them um because I didn't like certain responses.

But what I have found is that the way that we're doing IT now, I think is really beneficial, al, is that we have people fill out a standard application online. If they won't complete the application online, then don't want the job enough because the application is a supplement to their resume. But in addition to that, the application, they have to give you permission and they give us permission to check their references that that they haven't been convicted of a feeling that everything that they're telling us is one hundred percent true.

Okay, it's go at varies from state to state, but this is what we do in the state of zona. We have a fifteen minute interview with them, no more than fifteen, twenty minutes, and then we give them a test. The test is of whatever the skill that they're going to be doing.

Okay, okay. And so like if if if somebody who is applying for social media, we'll say you need to write three social media posts about this. You need to do real, you need to do a short ah, you need to come up with some type campaign that's going to generate more followers, whatever.

Maybe if it's they're planned to afford to work in video, we are going to give them a video task. If audio and audio task, uh, marketing sales know you see where i'm going. So now they go through the test. Now you've already wheat IT out the people who aren't motivated because they didn't feel out the application and they didn't want to do the test or they did the test. Have you know what i'm talking about?

yeah. Okay.

right. okay. So now, now IT comes. Now they now you have to have them explain the test results to you because you want to make sure that they did the test or you can have them do the test in your premise and in front of you or at least in a conference, then you're gonna do a background check um verify all their past employment through education.

That's really important because a lot people don't do that. So they put anything down on their resume uh and you look at their linked in profile, you google search their name, look at their instagram page. I mean, there is somebody who was pretty well in the process, and I think I wonder, I wonder what wonder what they're doing.

And then I go, I find on their instagram page that they hate the police. O you, that's not good for me. Okay, there was somebody else who was be far into the the interview process, and they had an only fans page OK not in congress with our morals and values here at the shop.

Okay, so so so it's you know it's very difficult and especially because a lot of people are employed. And but you still have to be careful, whoever you bring into your circle, especially a small business owner, that they are worthy to be there because you're going to offer them a competitive salary, benefits, days of sick time and you have to invest your time with them. As i've explained my folks, is that where is a gal who's again, very recently in the interview process, who SHE said after six months, you'd like to go to work for us overseas. My note, that's not part of the thing. You know, i'd like to go work at a pair too.

but not me. Yeah, i'd like .

to be there. No, but I still got to have my story. But here in finding arizona, you, which is a fabulous place, and then professional networks, if you can come up with, if there's any business groups, you know, and and you may want to have a lawyer bring up some down disclosure agreements, legal contracts, you know, has to comply to your state. So does that help you out?

IT sure. Does I open my eyes to some ideas I never thought of, but not like that? That is awesome. Thank you very much.

Well, if there's anything else that I can help you with, let me tell. I've heard of all shares.

I, you know.

i've heard all the stories, I mean, and i've interviewed all kinds of people yeah, I don't want to go into IT here. So if I can lend to him, just let me know i'm always here for you are right genes, the career, the future? You're ready for the influences? That's right.

They're actually going to universities now that are offering college degrees on how to be a social media influencer. Oh my gosh, you really yeah, that's right. Hard to believe that.

Yes, let me say, like being a football quarter back, only a few folks make IT. So always make sure that you have a back up. Alright, still, the camera talk about A I generated women who are after your hearts on your money. You're on the kim command show.

All right, it's a scm that's happening all the time talking about sim swapping scams. And it's a way that the hackers and scammers and criminals, they get to copy your phone and then they can hack into your bank account. I can tell you more about that.

And of course, we have phone cause. But before we dive into all that, let's talk about as the temperatures are coming down, thank goodness. And phoenix, arizona, I that was never good.

And oh my god, H, I was like one hundred and ten, a hundred and twenty even in october, september. But finally, now, yes, we get to wear sweaters, but maybe you're going to be dealing with ice and snow. But you know, this can break havoc on your tech gadget, especially your smart phone.

There's a magical number that spells trouble for phones. And thirty two degrees fahrenheit. So you definitely always want to protect your expensive devices from cold weather damage. I mean, always leave home with a fully charged phone.

why? Because your phones to lithium ion battery can lose you really quickly when the temperatures are lower. I always want to get a good case, and insulated one is even Better. These are designed to keep the phone snuck in warm, since most phones work best around a cozy seventy degrees very night. And here's a big no no.

Never leave your phone in a freezing car or dropped in the snow and whatever you do, I know people have done this room when I say, I really like cuba would never do that. okay? Well, there's always that person.

Think back in grammar, there was that one kid? okay? Whatever you do, resist the urge to speed things up with a blow drier or worse yet, put IT in a microwave oven. Yeah, that's also a big no no all right, let's see. Uh, john and tyre, texas hi john.

Well first um i'm a relatively new a listener founder pack has not too long ago and really enjoying that. And uh of course the test tips are great but your your jokes even Better because you know not to throws you wonder the bus but when I tell a joke is really bad, I get to say, well, at least it's not as and so thank you for that and I really appreciate .

that at least is not as bad as kids jokes I get IT.

Well, I didn't actually say that out. Yes, thank you. So i'm talking about security with passwords and such. The issue is helping my mother who's um in her um early eighties um keep track of password. She's got a list that SHE writes them down on SHE has a spread SHE on a computer and SHE has dash lane and my brother i've been trying to get her to do dash lane uh but he says is confusing and um so he doesn't use that much sudden he has to change your passwords and bigger to write them down and so as so for um and and an additional kind of related question is like the info about past more adverse pass keys um and also using um my an author cator APP for two factor .

of education, what does mom what is he using?

SHE has a an iphone probably uh twelve thirteen and then he uses a windows P C.

Why SHE still on a .

windows P C? Because no, that's why it's always been I guess I don't have a great .

is is my thing is I don't think any older adults should be on a windows PC because tex support schemes are the number one scams targeting older adults and she's liable to get a pop up and she's onna click and maybe she's not, I don't know, but I just think that it's a hassle.

But if he feels comfortable and she's not clicking anywhere, not giving any any money as long as you keep an eye on IT plate, i'm always worried about about the tech support again, especially like somebody like google and microsoft tax support and then getting you know taking advantage of because you know somebody is in their computer and they get copies of their passwords and they improve their bank account. I just have heard this so many times. Uh so that's what what worries me.

Um as far as on her passwords, mean, like you said that you knew you SHE has a spread SHE. SHE has dash lane. You know obviously SHE doesn't want to use dash lane because he keeps going back to the spread sheet, right?

right? So I hope when there might be like easier to use product, maybe a product that has some party simple how to video that he could watch, seeing something .

at that actually is crazy. You know, it's not that hard to do. They've got a lot of tutorials and she's keeping IT all in a spread sheet.

So probably because this way at at some point, he knows that you know she's going to have to you guys, you're going to have to access those passwords. I mean, if your mom was like anything like my mom mean, you know, very practical, kay, i'm putting them here. So this way you can get into my account if you need to uh right um I went through this with my mom, Margaret.

I tried dash with her. That's why I know it's like it's easy to use, but I could not get her to do IT k SHE had spread sheets, tune and and he would forget to do IT. And so what I found, and this is can sound really crazy, john, is I is that is that I went old school with third because that's what he is you know the switch was yeah and and my mother was one of the developers of the unix Operating system. Just let you know. Um I mean, when remember a long time ago you'd call for one one.

okay.

was my mother's design, my mothers did that.

K tell. Well.

thank you know he was, he is. And so what i'm telling us, because he was computer literate, I mean, SHE was, I mean this, I mean, this was her background. This is why I am doing what I do, because SHE passed the pattern on k, that what I found is I I got rid of the windows PC, and I got her an ipad.

And SHE was a lot happier for that, by the way, because SHE didn't have to deal with system updates and everything, he could still check fidelity and see the or one k, and he could go to facebook and space, time and everything, you know, just having a pad in front of her. But then when I came time for passwords, that's when I said, you know what, this is not working, this system that is not working, because when he couldn't remember a password is that he would get frustrated and then he would ask me for help. And then and then he had asked for three times, and, you know, is your security question here OK.

So I said, you know what? Let's try something new, because what we're doing right now is not working. And I went on amazon, and I bought her a seven dollar.

I told her this book seven dollars. Okay, so this is not a crazy expense, okay? Uh, and it's a password book. K, and when you change the password, IT has like and he has A B, C, D, is that when you change the password, you just scratch IT out and you new password and just write IT in and and that was her her bible that was her password book and SHE unfortunately diagnosed with paint stage for pancreatic cancer you know that's a horrible diagnosis um but that password book, when I had to take care of the estate, was a was a lifesaver for me because I had everything that I needed write in that book. And SHE was religious about putting IT in there because that was easier.

I think that the spirit sheet then using dash, dash lane or whatever team might a bit IT was just more realistic. IT was more pragmatic. I mean, he was used to handwriting things.

So pass keys are coming. Biometrics is coming. You know, we're starting to see google rolling IT out and apples rolling IT out.

And and microsoft is trained a little bit behind in that whole wrong. But try the password books, go on amazon by password book. Explain to her this is what know, this is how it's gonna be.

I can all address book that used to have write people's phone numbers in and they changed phone number, cross that out and and he had write in the new phone number and I think, john, sometimes we had just gotten make IT simple and and not so techy and IT just works out best sometimes. Thanks for your call. All right.

So you're so excited. You met a girl online. She's super beautiful. She's a stunner.

And then you you even had a quick video chat with her in your leg. Hey, okay, i've done my due diligence. This is amazing.

Thank you. God, i'm going to a be falling in love. All right, here's the deal. Scammers are using A, I created women to target you on the dating apps with these AI image generators.

These fakes pop up faster than you can swipe right, and they can chat with you, they can video call with you, and they can even sweet tokyo be a text. And people are getting duped. And it's costing a lot more than just A A few bad dates.

We're struggling like thousands and thousands of dollars. So if you're online dating right now, I want you to totally beyond the look out. Some telltale signs are talking to A I, the woman that you speaking to has perfect features.

But as you look a little bit closer, 嗯， what's going on? Does SHE have an extra finger? Does he have three eyeballs? Are the earrings in the right places? And then you want to capture a picture of this and then do a reverse image search.

And if everything feels like it's moving too quickly, it's just too extraordinary. And then he starts asking for money. You want to swipe left like right now, alright, still the time we have wear my phone calls, as well as that warning about sim swapping scams I need to tell you about you're on the kim commendation.

And listen, just a quick reminder is that over at youtube, dot come slash kim commander, I know you just can't get enough of me. You're kind of love all the videos that we're putting out. I mean, for example, every monday, wednesday, friday, we have kim commander.

Today is your front podcast, as I like to say, about everything digital. We don't take calls. We just kind of I don't know, it's like we're sitting around the kitchen table talking about all things tech.

And again, that's youtube that com slash kim commander. And when you're there, do me a huge favor and hit that big gold subscribe bug, please help me do that. I'm trying to like get to that next level of youtube started, and I need everybody to subscribe to my channel to do that.

Plus you get automatic notifications when we're alive and when new shorts. And so you get instant notifications when ever we dropped the new stuff. So again, that's youtube outcomes that kim commander already. Then Terry in corning, new york. Hy, Terry.

hi tom. How are you?

I'm great. Thanks for us.

What's going on? I have a question that I ve not been able to get an answer for yet, for our laptops, for our tablets and for our phones, their ad blockers everywhere. And I had the ma PC, and no at snow mercial know anything.

I have IT on my phone. I have a bRandy phone and i'm still having a little bit trouble with that, but i'm working on IT. My question for you today is, is there anything out there to block commercials on television? You we pay all this money forth for cable and the commercial sum of a magic or horrendous in a house of inappropriate Better wait a lot .

of and a lot of its annoying to I get that let's let's switch girls for just a second. Do you know do you know the TV brand video?

Yes, that's that's what I use.

Okay, so so you know it's it's relatively inexpensive television, right?

No, yes.

So what's interesting to me is in the last quarter, visio T V, they made a fifty seven point three million dollars. wow. okay. But they didn't make that by selling televisions.

No.

they made that by selling advertising and viewer data. Okay, they made twenty five point six million dollars selling tvs.

So you .

can see so you can see there's a lot of money. And there there's a way that you can turn off this tracking on your video. We have the steps on the website for L, G, H, samsung in any other zone, anybody under the the the round.

But I always find IT interesting that how visio is now making money. They're making more money. It's almost like a lost leader, the tps loss leader. So when IT comes time for content that's delivered, be a cable or satellite, uh, it's it's difficult to block. And you have to remember that these networks are getting so much money from advertising revenue that supports the programing.

And there is really no way to easily skier black the ads unless, of course, you record the programme and you have a dvr and then you can fast through the power through the commercials and watch the later, uh, some cable companies give you the D V R. Otherwise you can purchase a standalone D V, R like a tivo. But it's unlikely that the next networks are ever going to give you a way to skip the commercials because that's how they're making their money and they're giving the program.

Yeah and so so you know and that's how we make money here. We sell advertising. We'd love for you to to listen to the ads and support our sponsors and that's what keeps the light bill on in the website tional and all that other good stuff. Uh, but when he comes to your TV, if you are concerned about you, are you concerned about that tracking on your TV, Terry?

Not really what I I just you know, like I called we had expect from cable. I called them and they said there's nothing that they can do.

I don't know my blocking TV. no. Are you concerned about that video was keeping track of everything that you watch and how long you watch IT and then selling that to who knows you? Of course I am. yeah.

Because the origin. Why I ask is that if you are.

then what I can do? What I put you on hold and say thank you for your call is i'm going to make sure that we give you the link that direct links so that this way can know the exact steps to take that turn off that tracking on your television. And k, you're wondering like, oh, I didn't even know as on watching my TV, it's watching me, is that we have all the instruction step by step for all the major TV makers over at commander, a cop.

Just search for H, I don't know TV tracking remove or something like that in the search box at the site. I'm sure that title pop up for you. Everybody else in for Terry.

We're going onto go ahead and give you that link right now as I put you on hold. And thank you for your call. Oh, it's the old money train, Terry.

That's what IT is. Hey, just a quick reminder if you're just too shy to come on a big time radio show podcast, I still want to get all of your questions. And so the best way for you do that is to hit commander to com.

There's a link at the top that says, ask kim. I imagine that you're checking your phone and suddenly IT just stops working. You're like, what's going on? No calls in, no calls out.

So you're like, okay, what am I gonna do? So you try to find a landline, you borrow some phone and you call your career. Then comes to the shocker. They say, hey, your phone number has been moved to a brand new phone but you're said that saying, like I didn't get a new phone, what's go on on it's called sim swapping.

What happens is gamers get your name and other personal details, including phone number, then they call up the Carrier and I sweet talking to switch your number to their, and then they get control with access to your tax. They can bypass two factor auth education and get right into your bank count. So don't let this happen to you.

Call your phone Carrier and set up a unique pass code that has to be used for any changes on your account. Yeah, really important stuff. Hey, it's just a quick reminder.

Make sure that you do enter to win that new iphone. Go over to win from cam 点 come。 This program is a copyright de production of west multimedia entertainment and protected by the copyright laws any of the program commercial economy cal production entertainment is strictly prohibited.