Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 354

Episode 354 has more DMA news, Microsoft in the docks, Google thwart influencer op & more!

Episode 354 has more DMA news, Microsoft in the docks, Google thwart influencer op & more!

Episode 354 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast kicks off with an ‘interesting’ story involving Microsoft, real-time software recording and sex-toy retailers. To go into more details would just be a spoiler.  From there, the team talk about how Facebook are the next business to face EU’s DMA (Digital Market’s Act) legislation.

To wrap up conversation moves to how residents in local town meetings across America were being terrorised by people ‘zoom bombing’ calls and town meetings. The final story revolves around Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) thwarts over 10,000 attempts by Chinese influence operators.

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