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Did u hear? # 40: Your phone hears U?, Funeral Pre-planning, & more. · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to challenges of a radio program. Did you
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Speaker 1: hear number forty? Use your phone listening to you like
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Speaker 1: to acknowledge God and our listeners and our new listeners
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Speaker 1: in Sweden? Thank you for joining in the starf with trust.
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Speaker 1: You know what trust is, That's when you put your
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Speaker 1: confidence reliance on another person. A suspected serial killer has
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Speaker 1: been sentenced to death for poisoning her friend on holiday.
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Speaker 1: As she continues to face a string of murder charges.
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Speaker 1: Seriat thirty six has been dubbed Miss Cyanide after she
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Speaker 1: was accused of giving fourteen of her friends the Letho
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Speaker 1: chemical because she allegedly owed them money. Now think about that,
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Speaker 1: Think about her friends, Think about yours? Did they ever
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Speaker 1: expect end up paying for their lives? Water used to
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Speaker 1: make toms a Main toothpaste contaminated with bacteria and mold.
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Speaker 1: Not my water, No, no, not my water. But did
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Speaker 1: you hear? A popular toothpaste product from the all natural
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Speaker 1: hygiene company Tom's A Main, was found to be made
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Speaker 1: with water containing dangerous bacteria. Toothpaste from Tom's A Main,
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Speaker 1: which is owned by Colgate Paul malif A manufacturer with
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Speaker 1: water found to contain three different potential dangerous bacteria, while
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Speaker 1: a mode like substance was found at the manufacturing facility.
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Speaker 1: A warning letter from the Federal Drug Administration stated tom
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Speaker 1: Simply White Clean Mint toothpaste, which sells for six dollars,
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Speaker 1: contained pseudomonas and a black mode like substance at the
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Speaker 1: company's Sanford, Maine manufacturing facility, primarily around water tank to
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Speaker 1: manufacturing equipment. DA investigators also found Robstonian insidio so, another
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Speaker 1: type of bacteria, and water sources at the factory in Sanford, Maine.
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Speaker 1: A second Tom's product, the Wicked Coop Anti anti cavitat
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Speaker 1: and tube Fase, was found to contain the deadly bacteria paracocus.
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Speaker 1: The agency said in this letter to Tom's, water is
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Speaker 1: a major ingredient in many of your OTC drug products
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Speaker 1: over the counter. It is essential that you employ a
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Speaker 1: water system that is robustly designed, that you effectively control, maintain,
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Speaker 1: and monitor the system to ensure as consistently produces water
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Speaker 1: suitable for pharmaceutical use. FDA inspectors visited the Tom of
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Speaker 1: Maine SAMFRA facility and found inadequate water systems controls, failure
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Speaker 1: to maintain proper sanitary conditions and poor handling of product complaints.
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Speaker 1: The facility was found to have mold like substances in
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Speaker 1: areas close to equipment for production. Specifically, found the facility
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Speaker 1: violated current good manufacturing practices by failing to prevent potentially
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Speaker 1: dangerous microorganisms and water samples used in product manufacturing and
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Speaker 1: equipment cleaning. Wow Wow, Wow. Did you hear about the
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Speaker 1: For those of you who are going to sit down
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Speaker 1: to eat, or you may have purchased it already, or
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Speaker 1: you're getting ready to do, let me take a step
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Speaker 1: in my water, even though we just got through talking
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Speaker 1: about water. Did you hear about the ground brief beef
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Speaker 1: that was recalled due to possible E. Coline contamination? Yes,
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Speaker 1: ground beef. Wolverine Packing Company is recalling more than one
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty seven thousand pounds of ground beef shipped
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Speaker 1: to restaurants due to possible E. Colie contamination. So far,
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Speaker 1: fifteen patients have been reported ill in Minnesota, with illnesses
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Speaker 1: starting from November to second to November the teenth of
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Speaker 1: the US Department of Agricultural Food Safety Inspection Service say
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Speaker 1: it fresh products have a use by date of November
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Speaker 1: the fourteenth. Frozen products are labeled with production date of
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Speaker 1: October twenty second. Products have an establishment number EST. Two
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Speaker 1: five seven four bas in Boston in the USDA Mark
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Speaker 1: of Inspection. Did you hear that the JM. Smucker Company
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Speaker 1: has issued a nationwide recalled on cinnamon rows and cheese
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Speaker 1: danishes sold at Walmart? And if you happen to be
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Speaker 1: at Walmart and you're gonna to pick up that cinnamon
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Speaker 1: row or cheese danish, you might want to know about
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Speaker 1: the nationwide recall. The company initiated recall on November the first,
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Speaker 1: now you know, is November the twenty four or third,
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Speaker 1: after pieces of plastic were found inside the packages. The
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Speaker 1: two recall products are sixteen point five ounce packages of
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Speaker 1: cinnamon rows sixteen point five ounce packages of cheese danishes,
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Speaker 1: both from the Great Value brand. For those of you
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Speaker 1: who have pet dogs, did you hear about the new
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Speaker 1: disease control report revealing that pet dogs are spreading two
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Speaker 1: rare diseases. American dogs have been found to harbor dangerous pathogens.
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Speaker 1: The public health experts fear composed threats to human health.
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Speaker 1: Did you hear about it? A new CDC report published
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Speaker 1: Wednesday identified two New Jersey dogs a Golden Retriever and
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Speaker 1: a Cocker Spaniel that became infected in spring of twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three with an antibiotic resistant bacteria resembling a pathogen
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Speaker 1: that had previously caused an eighty one person outbreak that
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Speaker 1: same year. The bacterian outbreak was similar to but not identical,
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Speaker 1: and public health officials still do not know how the
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Speaker 1: dogs became infected. Both dogs was treated at the same
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Speaker 1: veterinarian facility, which is where they are believed to have
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Speaker 1: picked up the pathogen. A second CDC report published on
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Speaker 1: the same day detailed a similar outbreak of a fungal
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Speaker 1: infection and dogs in Wisconsin from twenty twenty two. While
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Speaker 1: the infection did not travel from dogs to humans, five
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Speaker 1: people and six dogs became sick from breathing in fungal
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Speaker 1: spores in the same general area. Experts fear the areas
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Speaker 1: where dogs are exposed, such as walks through the woods,
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Speaker 1: also exposed the dogs owners, potentially getting them sick as well.
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Speaker 1: All right, so we started off with water that I'm
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Speaker 1: geting to take another sip of before I head to
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Speaker 1: my tea, which made with water. With my coffee with
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Speaker 1: water were like the old meal. I had earlier with water,
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Speaker 1: and we talked about the food recalls from Walmart, and
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Speaker 1: we talked about the dog pet dogs. Now, just in
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Speaker 1: case you are in the position of pre planning your funeral,
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Speaker 1: a funeral with someone, did you hear about the article
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Speaker 1: that Alvero Pue wrote from the Federal Trade Commission Calling
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Speaker 1: the funeral home about prices and services? Did you hear about?
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Speaker 1: Is that maybe you're pre planning a funeral for yourself
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Speaker 1: or a loved one and decide to get some pricing
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Speaker 1: information by calling a few funeral providers. Well, you need
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Speaker 1: to make urgent arrangements for a loved one who passed
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Speaker 1: away in another state. When you're making funeral arrangements, you
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Speaker 1: have a right to give funeral pricing information over the phone.
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Speaker 1: A new Federal Trade Commissioned staff report about funeral providers
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Speaker 1: practices revealed it it can often be hard to get
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Speaker 1: clear and active pricing information over the phone. FTC staff
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Speaker 1: made costs of funeral homes at all times of day.
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Speaker 1: They were not unable to give funeral price information by
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Speaker 1: phone from some providers. For other staff had to make
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Speaker 1: several calls, especially after hours. When FTC's staff did get
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Speaker 1: it information by phone. Some providers gave different prices for
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Speaker 1: the same service on different calls. Others gave out estimated
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Speaker 1: prices or arrange prices instead of specific prices, and some
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Speaker 1: do not disclose required third party fees or government fees
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Speaker 1: unless asks. The Funeral Rule gives you the right to
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Speaker 1: get accurate information over the phone. If you're researching funeral
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Speaker 1: costs by phone, ask the funeral provider what types of
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Speaker 1: services they offer, how much these services costs, what's included
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Speaker 1: in the price, and if they offer a package of
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Speaker 1: goods and services, ask about itemized prices. They must let
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Speaker 1: you buy only the services you want and need. Ask
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Speaker 1: if there will be other costs, for example, fees to
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Speaker 1: transport the body, get required permits or death certificates, or
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Speaker 1: place orbituary notices. If the funeral provider won't give you
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Speaker 1: accurate price information over the phone, try calling another provider
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Speaker 1: to learn more. Check out shopping for funeral services by
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Speaker 1: phone or online even when you're trying to die. But
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Speaker 1: did you hear about financing a purchase from Hairris Jewelry.
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Speaker 1: Harris Jewelry, Act now before it's too late to claim
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Speaker 1: your refund. Well FTC staff member Terry Miller wrote, if
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Speaker 1: you're a service member who signed up for an instored
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Speaker 1: financing plan through Hairris Jewelry and paid for an add
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Speaker 1: on protecting plan, listen up. The court reopened the HAIRS
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Speaker 1: claims process. If you haven't already applied for a refund
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Speaker 1: or haven't heard back from HAIRS yet, now's the time
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Speaker 1: to apply. Bottom line, don't wait. Even the military people
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Speaker 1: service members are not even safe and they're trying to
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Speaker 1: protect the country. In Romero over at the Electronic Frontier
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Speaker 1: Foundation said that people sometimes worry that advertisers are secretly
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Speaker 1: listening to us through our phones. You know it's true,
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Speaker 1: especially when we see ads that seen based on our
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Speaker 1: private conversation. Wait a minute, how about when you're not
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Speaker 1: even how about if you're just thinking it and you
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Speaker 1: haven't opened your lips period. But experts say there's no
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Speaker 1: evidence that this is happening. We agree, Oh okay. When
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Speaker 1: most people see unexpected ads, it's because they've been targeted
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Speaker 1: based on huge lists of private information about them that
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Speaker 1: was collected in other you're ready for it. Covert ways,
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Speaker 1: undercovered ways, sneaky ways. If you feel like you're being seveiled,
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Speaker 1: that's because you are. I noticed the digit You hear
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Speaker 1: a program, but you don't mind me saying say what?
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Speaker 1: But generally the data isn't coming from your microphone. It's
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Speaker 1: coming from the shady data broker market and giint app
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Speaker 1: platforms attract you, and you and you and me too
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Speaker 1: across the web, then make very educated guesses about your
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Speaker 1: buying habits. Okai was it ai reality? But here's how
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Speaker 1: it works. Data brokers are often companies you've never heard
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Speaker 1: of that collect buy selling data primarily for advertising purposes.
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Speaker 1: They use what they can find out about you online. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I don't hear anything. Anybody say anything? It was Ai
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Speaker 1: looking online? But anyway, let's continue on. What did you hear?
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Speaker 1: They use what they can find out about you online
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Speaker 1: from social media accounts, web pages, for example. Was what
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Speaker 1: they can find out about you offline, your age, type
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Speaker 1: of car you're driving, your address. They all then your
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Speaker 1: personal business or not. They these data broke us create
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Speaker 1: detailed profiles with its information and advertisers to make educations
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Speaker 1: and educate a creepy guests about the kind of things
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Speaker 1: people with those profiles might buy. You've seen ads about
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Speaker 1: new bedsheets because some people who visit it a certain
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Speaker 1: website that you also visited. You or who bought the
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Speaker 1: same match as you did, have purchased new bedsheets, so
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Speaker 1: advertisers think you might want them too, or maybe somebody
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Speaker 1: in your home browser online for bed sheets the night before,
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Speaker 1: and now ad platforms are retargeting you with bedsheet ads.
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Speaker 1: Much of this data is an information that uses have
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Speaker 1: expecially shared. Its information has been actively and silently taken
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Speaker 1: from them. An example of tracking, when you go to
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Speaker 1: a website on your phone or computer, you might be
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Speaker 1: assigned an identifier through a tracking cookie that follows you
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Speaker 1: as you look and search online. This is one method
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Speaker 1: of tracking which follows your virtual activity. You can also
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Speaker 1: be tracked physically in the physical world in order to
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Speaker 1: find nearby Bluetooth devices and Wi Fi networks. Your device
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Speaker 1: is constantly sitting out short radio signals that contain your
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Speaker 1: device's unique identifier. Companies can use devices that silently listen
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Speaker 1: for these identifiers and their vicinity, then use that data
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Speaker 1: to track the movement of a specific device over time.
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Speaker 1: Allowing this rampant data collection, sharing and selling hurts everybody.
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Speaker 1: Companies direct risky advertisement to vulnerable people and exclude certain
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Speaker 1: groups from receiving opportunities. Bad actors must use that data
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Speaker 1: to spy on or harassed individuals. Data breachers put that
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Speaker 1: private information out into the world for anyone to buy,
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Speaker 1: and government agencies and law enforcement can purchase can buy
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Speaker 1: the data without getting a warrant first. There's a joke
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Speaker 1: that everyone has an FBI agent assigned to listen to
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Speaker 1: their phone. That isn't true, but government agencies do have
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Speaker 1: ways to access data like this that are in need
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Speaker 1: of serious reforms. Did you hear about it? According to
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Speaker 1: cyber News, how the safety use public Wi Fi network?
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Speaker 1: Now you know you own it, studying their cafes, working
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Speaker 1: in a hotel, passing time at the airport. Public Wi
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Speaker 1: Fi gives free access to internet to everyone and anyone,
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Speaker 1: including malicious hackers. It's another regular day. You're at your
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Speaker 1: favorite cafe, sipping on a latte and scrolling through Instagram.
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Speaker 1: Instead of using your hotspot, You're connected to the cafes
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Speaker 1: Wi Fi. After all, why waste your precious data when
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Speaker 1: there's a free network available. What you don't know is
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Speaker 1: that a malicious hacker is using the open network to
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Speaker 1: sniff out your login credentials and take over your account.
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Speaker 1: Did you know that? Did you hear about it not
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Speaker 1: only taking over your account, but still your personal data
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Speaker 1: and even take over your financial accounts. With the reliance
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Speaker 1: on the Internet increasing, public wi fi is now accessible
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Speaker 1: and nearly every location, from cafes to public libraries and airports,
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Speaker 1: public wi Fi is convenient and easy to access, making
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Speaker 1: it a digital playground for cyber criminals. So what can
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Speaker 1: you do to protect yourself and your devices? According to
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Speaker 1: cyber News, generally speaking, the safest way to use public
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Speaker 1: wi fi is you're ready for it, not to use
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Speaker 1: it at all, because public wi fi is not always
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Speaker 1: safe and you shouldn't take risks when it comes to
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Speaker 1: your personal information. But it's not always possible. One way
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Speaker 1: or another, you end up in a situation where you
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Speaker 1: need internet access and a secure private network is unavailable.
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Speaker 1: But here's what you can do to secure your connection
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Speaker 1: while on public wi fi. Ensure you're connected to a
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Speaker 1: legitimate public Wi fi blindly connecting to open networks. As
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Speaker 1: a recipe for disaster, always take a moment to verify
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Speaker 1: the public WiFi you're about to join. Imagine this, you're
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Speaker 1: the library and you're about to join library wi fi,
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Speaker 1: but then you see another network with the name free
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Speaker 1: Library Wi Fi. One of these networks is posing as
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Speaker 1: a legitimate network belonging to the public library. Do you
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Speaker 1: know which one? Your best bet is to ask to
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Speaker 1: staff the name of the network. It might take a
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Speaker 1: little bit longer, but you're sure your connection is secure.
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Speaker 1: Never trade security for convenience. Avoid sensitive transaction. As long
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Speaker 1: as the website you're visiting uses You're ready HTTPS, h
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Speaker 1: henry t tome t tome pepall s SAM, your data
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Speaker 1: should be encrypted. However, hackers with more sophisticated software can
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Speaker 1: still intercept it. What's more, public wi Fi security tends
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Speaker 1: to be lackluster, giving malicious actors easy access to your device. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: you should avoid using public Wi Fi for anything that
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Speaker 1: requires you to enter sensitive information, such as banking and
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Speaker 1: online shopping. Examples of sensitive information include your first and
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Speaker 1: last name, home address, phone number, email address, payment information,
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Speaker 1: and log in details. If you must deal with sensitive information,
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Speaker 1: use your mobile network or wait until you return home
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Speaker 1: to complete your online transaction. Oh and don't share your
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Speaker 1: personal information. More often than not, you'll be prompted to
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Speaker 1: provide your email or phone number to gain access to
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Speaker 1: public Wi Fi. Network. This is usually harmless, but may
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Speaker 1: be used by the network operator to send you targeted
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Speaker 1: at ads. However, the real danger lies in harven Stein
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Speaker 1: data harven steam. If the public Wi Fi is compromised,
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Speaker 1: your personal information may be harped and sold to third parties.
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Speaker 1: It's up to you to decide if the work the
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Speaker 1: risks data has become the most valuable commodity. Don't part
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Speaker 1: with it so easy you and keep your software updated.
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Speaker 1: Software updates are not just bug fixes that improve performance.
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Speaker 1: They often include critical security updates and patches. They ensure
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Speaker 1: that cyber criminals cannot exploit vulnerabilities and the current version
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Speaker 1: of the programs to steal your data or take over
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Speaker 1: your device. This applies to everything from your browser, to
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Speaker 1: your operating system to your device, so make sure that
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Speaker 1: the programs you use on a daily basis are updated,
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Speaker 1: and the best way to do is to ensure you
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Speaker 1: receive critical updates. To enable automatic updates in your settings,
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Speaker 1: and also make sure you always download and install the
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Speaker 1: latest updates on a secure, trusted network. Disable sharing. Foul
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Speaker 1: sharing allows you to share fouls and photos with people
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Speaker 1: in the same network. This poses a risk when you're
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Speaker 1: connected to a public Wi Fi with people you don't
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Speaker 1: even know, as you could accidentally give them access to
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Speaker 1: your sensitive fouls. On Windows, go to your Settings, select
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Speaker 1: Network and Internet. Scroll down to Advanced Network Settings, where
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Speaker 1: you'll find Advance Sharing settings. Locate public networks and toggle
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Speaker 1: off foul sharing. One mac os, go to System Settings
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Speaker 1: and select General, click sharing and toggle foul sharing off.
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Speaker 1: Stick to HTTPS websites. The HTTPS protocol uses SSL certificates
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Speaker 1: to encrypt that to encrypt data sent between a browser
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Speaker 1: and a website. Did you hear about any of that?
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Speaker 1: You sure? Now you know what I'm going to do
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Speaker 1: next because you know you're eating. But I'm taking a
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Speaker 1: stip in my water that I'm putting my trust in
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Speaker 1: that some human did the proper inspection. But did you
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Speaker 1: hear that what could have been an AI robot? Both
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Speaker 1: the human and the robots imperfect? But do they imperfection?
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Speaker 1: You're playing with people's lives? Did you hear this? The
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Speaker 1: United Nations is using Africa as a testing ground for
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Speaker 1: controversial digital ID systems. Now, I know it's the Digit
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Speaker 1: Here program, but say what? The United Nations for not
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Speaker 1: only has clearly chosen to focus his push on introducing
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Speaker 1: digital ID systems to some of the world's developing countries,
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Speaker 1: particularly in Africa. What's referred to in reports as a
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Speaker 1: comprehensive initiative is now taking place across the continent, driven
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Speaker 1: by the United Nations Development Agency UNDP, as well as
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Speaker 1: the UN Innovation Network and even UNTESCO, education, scientific and
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Speaker 1: cultural organizations. This is one of the components of what's
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Speaker 1: known as the UN's Global Digital Compact. Such initiatives are
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Speaker 1: sold in those countries as a way to develop better
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Speaker 1: access to services improved digital inclusion, but opponents around the
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Speaker 1: world say the schemes create large, centralized curveillance networks prone
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Speaker 1: to missus, particularly without stringent safeguards in place. After the
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Speaker 1: United Nations agencies previously formalized their initiatives in Kenya, it
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Speaker 1: is now the turn of Ethiopia, where similar programs are
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Speaker 1: being launched in cooperation with their government ASWANI as well.
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Speaker 1: In Ethiopia, the government is organizing ID card registration what's
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Speaker 1: said to be a large scale effort that encompasses financial services, healthcare,
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Speaker 1: and education. It would appear not since the result of
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Speaker 1: the evaluation revealed more money needs to go into developing
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Speaker 1: that infrastructure as well as training staff further developing both
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Speaker 1: public and private digital services. The latter are supposed to
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Speaker 1: take on an increasing important role, as has previously been
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Speaker 1: done in other African countries. Various digital ID projects, either
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Speaker 1: discussed or tests elsewhere in the world, are typically unpopular,
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Speaker 1: facing low uptake and constant pushback from both privacy and
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Speaker 1: security advocates. Did you hear about it? Closing scripture as
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Speaker 1: Colossian Chapter one, verse sixteen reminds us, for in him
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Speaker 1: all things were created, things in heaven and on earth,
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Speaker 1: visible and invisible, whether thrones of powers or rulers or authorities,
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Speaker 1: all things have been created through him, and for him.
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Speaker 1: He is before all things, and in him all things
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Speaker 1: hold together.