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Kroger Settlement: Ep 3440 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith radio program. I'm Gary McCance.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining here on episode 3440. Did you hear?
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  Speaker 1: Top class action laid it out as it relates to
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  Speaker 1: a 17 million dollar Kroger prescription prices class action settlement
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  Speaker 1: has taken place. Were you aware of it? Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Reclaim the net. Laid it out as it relates to spyware.
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  Speaker 1: They said that spyware does not need your click anymore.
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  Speaker 1: It needs an ad slot. You don't have to download anything.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to click a link, open an attachment,
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  Speaker 1: or install a strange app. You just have to open
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  Speaker 1: something on your phone to show adverts. That covers most
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  Speaker 1: of the apps and websites you use every single day.
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  Speaker 1: Researchers have now confirmed what security people feared for years.
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  Speaker 1: Adverts can deliver spyware. The ad loads in the background
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  Speaker 1: checks whether you're the person it was sent for. And
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  Speaker 1: if you are, guess what? It goes to work. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're not, it does nothing at all because you
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  Speaker 1: might not ever even see it. And the company behind
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  Speaker 1: one such operation served millions of ads a day across
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  Speaker 1: tens of thousands of apps and more than 120,000 websites.
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  Speaker 1: And some of those names are on your home screen
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  Speaker 1: right now. Think about it. For six years, it carried
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  Speaker 1: approval from Google and the industry bodies meant to keep
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  Speaker 1: this sort of thing out. And getting that approval turned
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  Speaker 1: out to be roughly as hard as filling in a
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  Speaker 1: form because that is what it was. The ad system
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  Speaker 1: was built to fit one person among billions and show
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  Speaker 1: them something nobody else sees. It was never meant for spyware.
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  Speaker 1: It just happens to be perfect for it. I know
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  Speaker 1: you're listening. You are, are you not? Well, think about
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  Speaker 1: your browser that you're using and maybe some of the
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  Speaker 1: apps that you're letting near your personal data... Are you
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  Speaker 1: thinking about it? You sure? I know you are.