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Everyone Is Tracking Your Phone And More On CHOM 97.7 FM

Every Monday morning at 7:10 am, I am on air at CHOM 97.7 FM radio out of Montreal (home base). It’s not a long segment – about 10 minutes every week – about everything that is happening in the world of technology, digital media and culture. The good folks at CHOM 97.7 FM are posting these segments weekly on i Heart Radio, if you’re interested in hearing more of me blathering on about what’s happening in our digital world. I’m really excited about these weekly hits, because this is the radio station that I grew up listening to, and it really is a fun treat to be invited to the Mornings Rock with Terry DiMonte morning show. The segment is called, CTRL ALT Delete with Mitch Joel.

This week we discussed:

If you’re worried that Google and Facebook know everything about you, maybe you should be more worried about Tim Hortons (or any other app that you download)? Looks like you just ordered a double double of tracking, according to the Financial Post. If you’re concerned about data privacy, Tim Hortons knows all – from where you sleep, work and even vacation! They are not the only ones. Check which apps you have given permissions to with regards to your location, and delete all apps from your phone that you no longer use.
Twitter developed a technology that prompts people to read articles before they share them. According to MIT Technology Review: “Someone who goes to retweet a link on Twitter without having clicked through to the story it leads to may be shown a pop-up message saying ‘Want to read this before retweeting?’ It’s currently available only in English for people using Twitter for Android.” This is what we have become. We need a technological innovation because we share things without actually reading them? People do this? I don’t do this. Why would I ever share anything that I haven’t read, thought about, and then considered it valuable enough of your time? Sharing something without reading it screams, “This must be important. I haven’t read it. You read it. Let me know…” It’s very lazy.
App of the Week: Photoshop Camera.

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Mitch Joel · CHOM FM – CTRL ALT Delete – June 15th, 2020

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.