Getting a particular task accomplished. I say better with bacon because as some perhaps overzealous chefs think that they sprinkle bacon on everything, it suddenly that much better but it you are a vegetarian you just effectively destroyed the diners meal so thinking through what task are we trying to accomplish when we are bringing a device into our home or our enterprise and how those connections facilitate or add risk to the Bigger Picture of our lives. So lets just quickly take an example. Lets say that i am a state employee and i live in dc and im out shopping and i see this really needs connected oven with an app and that can operate my oven from my phone , its kind of cool. But thinking through how the oven connects to my wifi network, what kinds of information i access from home with respect to my professional life, whether theres Sensitive Information that could potentially be compromised if the security on my internet connected oven is not necessarily up to par and whether vu
To like . It is about protecting consumers. Just up here across the street from the Old Executive Office building and i predict it will outgrow its space in a few years. Consumer Protection Bureau is a sovereign entity unlike any bureaucracy that existed before. Not under the control of congress but the fed chairman and board dont have a lot of control over it. The president appoints a single director to overlap the president ial term and they have wide discretion interpreting and enforcing various financial regulations and basically have jurisdiction over everything in the Financial Sector from Investment Banking and mortgage banking all the way to daddys money pawnshop in alabama. I have gone killing reports from c e os to have been investigated by the cfpb and it is truly chilling. However wellmeaning this might have been this is a Dangerous Organization and structure is dangerous. That is why the story is worth telling. This is when chapter in a very long saga of what i will call c
Private finances, and it did not even ask. Is siepi be is reportedly cozying up with the u. S. Trustee program to collect bankruptcy data to help fuel a massive consumer database. With more on this, director of investigations and research at judicial watch. Thank you for coming on. It is not just the nsa, boys and girls. Now it is the cfpb, an organization that is supposed to be protecting us. Is it . It is not. Arguably cohan it is far more intrusive than anything the nsa is doing in the civil rights on one with t irs is doing. They have unlawfully breached the Fourth Amendment search and seizure provisionand gone after the personal Financial Data of millions of americans. The spreadsheet of the info that they get on you contains 96 elements, everything about your credit card paying history, your line of credit, when you made your last payment. It is excruciatingly detailed, and it is very, very invasive. It is a huge bridge of the Fourth Amendment. Gerri i agree, but im going to play
Bureau is snooping into your private finances, and it did not even ask. Is siepi be is reportedly cozying up with the u. S. Trustee program to collect bankruptcy data to help fuel a massive consumer database. With more on this, director of investigations and research at judicial watch. Thank you for coming on. It is not just the nsa, boys and girls. Now it is the cfpb, an organization that is supposed to be protecting us. Is it . It is not. Arguably cohan it is far more intrusive than anything the nsa is doing in the civil rights on one with the irs is doing. They have unlawfully breached the Fourth Amendment search and seizure provisions and gone after the personal Financial Data of millions of americans. The spreadsheet of the info that they get on you contains 96 elements, everything about your credit card paying history, your line of credit, when you made your last payment. It is excruciatingly detailed, and it is very, very invasive. It is a huge bridge of the Fourth Amendment. Ge
Gone years, the furby in 1998, paying three times the retail price for furbies for more than 100 . People have barely recovered from the tickle me elmo in 1996, in one case, 300 people jostling for a stores last remaining tickle me elmo left a store clerk with a broke on rib and a concussion. Cartier used the toy to market a Million Dollar diamond necklace. That came with a tickle me elmo doll included. But before all those hot toys, it was the Cabbage Patch in 1983. You would think money was being given away. But the mad rush was for a doll. The Cabbage Patch kid doll, shoppers went wild, there were no rules, they pushed this woman won, she got the doll without the wrapping. And while the recession of 2008 and the sluggish Consumer Practices of recent years seem to have tempered toy madness, there are still pockets of Christmas Morning yearning driving parental retail choices. Undoubtedly there its a dad somewhere searching for the perfect elsa doll and accessories. The holiday season