Fri Dec 20 2019: Smart Homes, Facebook, Google Cloud, and Wawa

Today

• Hope for Smart Home integration

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/12/amazon-apple-google-and-the-zigbee-alliance-to-develop-connectivity-standard/

• Facebook plans to try to dodge privacy laws

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/17/21024366/facebook-ccpa-pixel-web-tracker

• Google’s Cloud Platform plan

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-reportedly-set-ambitious-goal-and-possible-deadline-for-gcp

AND

• Lessons to be learned as Wawa is hacked

https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/19/wawa-card-hack/

 

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