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Kim Komando Today

Tech Refresh: The government agency monitoring what you do online

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Tech News, Technology

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Which government agency is watching what we do online? The answer will surprise you. Plus, fake crypto apps scamming people out of their cash, Google's latest additions to Maps and more, and an app that started a manhunt ... for the wrong guy.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Tech Refresh with Kim Commando and friends from Commando.com with a K. That's K-O-M-A-N-D-O. Gangs all here, Kim, Allie, Ben. I'm Mike, and don't forget to hit that subscribe button. Before we get started real quick, hit the subscribe button so you get this podcast delivered to your device

0:21.4

every single week automatically. Later on, we're going to talk about driverless cars. Would

0:26.1

you feel safe in a driverless car? Also fake crypto apps. And we start with the news and America's

0:32.3

digital goddess, Kim Commando. All right. So let me start by asking you all a question. If you post something on social media

0:39.4

that's about a protest against the police or maybe something you don't like about the government,

0:44.3

who do you think is actually looking at all those posts on social media?

0:48.7

FBI, post office.

0:50.5

Well, you know what you said? You said the post office. But I would know, I would think like it would be the Department of Homeland Security, right?

0:56.1

Yeah.

0:56.3

The NSA, somebody like that.

0:58.5

But you're right, Mike.

0:59.8

It's the post office.

1:01.2

The same people who sort and delivered the mail.

1:03.0

That's, well, always late.

1:04.7

They run the Internet Covert Operations Program.

1:08.4

That's called ICOP for short and what they're doing is they're tracking social

1:12.4

media posts of americans and then they're sharing that information they say with other law

1:16.0

enforcement agencies so news is out that this iCOP program includes people who assume fake identities

1:22.6

online so the postal service has people who are assuming to be other people online.

1:29.7

Then they're using other tools, facial recognition.

1:32.8

Yahoo News just broke the story the other day.

1:35.0

Now, among the tools that ICOP uses is Clearview AI.

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