Joining me. Everything on the alec simon show, and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business. Im show business. Ill see you then during the vietnam war, u. S. Forces there in laos. It was a secret war. And for years, the American People did not know how much it is officially country per capita, human history, millions of unexploded bombs still in danger. Lives in this Small Agricultural country. And i mean, we have to point out, it cannot happen even today, kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago. This is the us making amends for the tragedy in laos to the people need in that little land of greetings and sell you sold them just and then just slicing some pineapple. Swipe into the right order and some grub from the get my lift back from the studio. Once the shows done, who we love our apps, you know they become our new pet rock slash. We board it our time. But with every app comes, a lack of privacy apps today can track our movements document what we eat, hold our bank account numbers, they keep track of our social circles, and they even know who we pray to. We allow them to do this by simply clicking the click. I accept your terms. But do we really accept them . Do we really, would we really agree to these terms . If, if we knew that, you know where we go, who we see, and what we do is also being sent to and viewed by not just advertisers hungry to sell us the latest brand new thing we dont need. But also the United States military and their favorite private contractors, that my friends is at the core of a scandal that journalists working over a motherboard of uncovered after months of investigations. Motherboards joseph cox lays out the controversial findings, writing quote, the u. S. Military is buying the granular Movement Data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous seeming apps. These apps unwittingly or willingly are sending the u. S. Military, your location data, among other things, they include a loose limbed prayer and quran app that has more than 98000000 downloads worldwide. A muslim dating app, a popular craigslist app and an app for following storms. And, and a level app that can be used to help, for example, install shelves in a bedroom. Because nothing i want more in this world is for the u. S. Airports generals own jack the ripper. Knowing that i cant hang my bedroom shut up straight. Lets look all kidding aside. This is without a doubt, a very serious invasion of privacy by the u. S. Military Industrial Complex as u. S. Representative bill and omar tweeted and points out she tweets the military Industrial Complex and the surveillance state have always had a cozy relationship with tech buying bulk data in order to profile muslims as par for the course for them, and is absolutely sickening. It should be illegal. No one should log on to a prayer or dating app with the expectation that the u. S. Military is just behind your screen, buying up your medal data and violating your privacy. I mean thats what the n. S. A. Is for after all. Now lets start watching the hawks. If you will, on a cd, you want to see this is this, you always state great displays systemic deceptions show which brings up the field welcome everyone to watch i robot. And im right, my friends like amazed that this is, this is pretty incredible when we really look at how all this breaks down. But the u. S. Military has been caught. Motherboards found out that they are buying location data. And this story combines that kind of mysterious and dangerous location data in the u. S. Militarys obsession with that, which has become which, you know, look at the end of the day. Theyve used for drone strikes that have ultimately killed civilians and things of that nature. Its a very dangerous issue. No, youre absolutely correct. And its one that hed been to a lot of the conversation about what about data privacy and whats been going on on some of these social media sites, as well as some dating apps because they are so popular, you have on there not even reading when there are disclaimers, but to my understanding for this type of thing, there hasnt even been a disclaimer that says where this information is going and people are unwittingly finding out by the thousands. Sometimes more than that under erroneous pretense. And theyre doing one thing and now theyre step is being sold to, god knows who well in this case we do know who and i can go along with that. I mean, its crazy because its like, look, we all kind of expect a little bit of like we, we expect, but theres no privacy, especially when we click i accept, you know, as i mentioned earlier. But whats interesting with this is that motherboards investigation, you know, basically uncovered 2 separate parallel streams that the u. S. Military uses to obtain this location data and other metadata. The 1st use a Company Called babel street, which creates a product called locate x. You socom u. S. Special operations command, which is a branch of military tasked with counterterrorism and things like that around the world. They bought access to locate, locate x. 2, i guess, want to with assume with their counterterrorism activities. But theyre still, you know, they obviously because everything is classified, you dont really know at the end of the day. The other stream is through a Company Called x. Mode, which obtains location data directly from the apps and then sells the data to the contractors. And then by extension, the military, you know, as you see the kind of stages and how it ends up in u. S. Military form or at their starts with the up the location data sent to like Something Like x. Mode of defense contractors by location date off x. Mode then handed over to the u. S. Military. To me, its just like this is a really dangerous precedent because we dont use a nap and we dont why we should have to use an apple no one around the world to use nap and worry about who is viewing their data, especially the military. No, youre absolutely correct in the thing with this is that weve seen somewhat of a model that was similar in china, but it was used by china to spy on chinese people. We have yet to see something with the military using this social dating app. And it is going that that information is going towards another country. So not this is not happening, but this is the 1st like me to report what have being on that type of thing. I think that it, it poses some significant concerns. One not only related to privacy, again, thats something that americans have the knock down doors about warning our data to be private. So you knew lising, this is going to be and where it goes is going to be interesting. But also, just if its done here, where else then who else is going to get the idea to do the exact same thing and at what point are people going to just, either not use these apps or these, these types of facilities again, or you know, what does this world look like when thats the problem . And also how can we point the finger at places like china and things like that, as you kind of mentioned, like how can we sit and point the finger at them and say, how dare you compile all your so this and stuff . Well guess what . Were doing it to, you know, millions of people around the world, including and it very clearly a lot of this like data mining that the military is doing is being very specifically targeting apps that cater to muslims. Its incredible how many i mean, one of the apps that was discovered sending data, the x. Mode included an app called muslim pro, which reminds users when to pray and in what direction they never had any idea that their location data is being sent to the u. S. Military, you know, by way of all these, the, from the hurdles is being sent to the u. S. Military. They actually announced they are suspending business with x. Mode after the motherboard. Article come out, theyre telling motherboard, quote, in respect of the trust of prayers put the trust of millions of probes, put some muslim pro every day. We are immediately terminating our relationship with our data partners, including with x. Mode, which started 4 weeks ago that up and down like a 50000000. 00 times in android and over 98000000. 00 in total cross other platforms. So you see the size and scope of data that the Government Military could be collecting for us. And this makes sense if youre going after terrorists or going after some type of link sale where thats possible, but these are just regular citizens. So this is, this is kind of a total use. Be careful where you walk. Glass is everywhere. Women are shattering the Glass Ceiling from the 1st woman and woman of color to service by express it by president elect harris to the record breaking amount of women voting, fundraising, donating and taking part in americas 2020. Alexion things are changing. The winds of change havent only been in politics that Major League Baseball got in the action. They miami, miami, marlins announced on friday that kimmy would be the teams general manager. Shes the 1st woman to hold the position and they will be for more Humble Beginnings as an intern for the Chicago White sox in 1990, just kept climbing with 30 years of baseball experience. She now joins an elite previously all male group of g. M. Joining us now to ship more light on this story is our team sports producer regina hamm welcome and thank you. I have good news for once. Good news. Good news. We all saw that nelson last week in social media was a blaze with everyone being excited over the 1st female g. M. In Major League Baseball history. Well, in sports history, aside from that record breaking achievement, what do you think this means for the m. L. B. And other sports that have yet to fully accept women in that type of leadership role . So nobody has already had a rough is a nice word with their coach. It impacted season. They already shorten 60 games. They have players who are not being protocols. Are they going to press for that . You know, relative quiet things perceived as normal. Then you had a world series, you had a player test positive, still played on the field, they pulled him eventually, but he was still there. So this is good press for the league, but its also good press for a lot of young girls and young women who want to be agents who want to be scouts who want to climb the ranks. Ms. Ng, she served in the l. B. Commissioners office for the past 9 years. She has reached the echelons of what many women in sports who work on the team side in the league side only dreamed of. And shes done so much. And shes also the 1st Asian American to be in such a high position. So you now have women, minority women who are in this position. It is wonderful. She has shattered the Glass Ceiling in Major League Baseball, kim starters, and in turn, as you said, one was 30 years ago. And then rose through the ranks are definitely speaks to her determination to one day reach the level of achievement that she now has. What do you think that experience across multiple sports teams and working in the different capacities that she has taught her, prepared her for this new job . And you know, i think the biggest question is why was she chosen, why did they suddenly say, you know, what . Now is the time she is one of the most. Shes the overqualified at this point. She has worked away. Like you said at the white sox, she was an assistant g. M. , at 29 in 1908. And for the new york yankees, shes worked with now. Marlin c. E. O. , derek jeter, when he was assured stop for the yankees. She has 3 world series ring. She has, she is an impressive human being. And derek jeter sees that he is the c. E. O. , of miami marlins. Hes also not a stranger to hiring women. The c. E. O. , Caroline Oconnor of the marlins is also one the highest in the league as well. So ms. Ng joins a very accomplished group of women, but she has seen how teams where she has been a loser, your ship position. She has gained those skills that she needs to reform as a general manager and team to pass her over before for this i dont know why she guesses on anybody. But the fact that derek jeter has seen her rise is seen her growth. He is capitalizing on that see her, take the marlins in a brand new direction and she has earned it. And what message do you think that this sends to women and girls . This is such a monumental moment and weve heard, you know, the year of the girl i believe was supposed to be last year, but were seeing women continue to shatter Glass Ceilings across the country and across the globe. What do you think this says to all these young girls, particularly minority girls, but young girls and women who are interested in sports and didnt previously for the opening . I think i should let miss ang tell her, tell us what she means 1st. So take a listen, you know, in terms of these little girls, it means the world to me, and anybody who knows me knows that i have spent countless hours advocating for young girls advocating for young women. And really trying to help them advance their careers. That is something that is just so important to me. And so now having this high profile position, you know where youre out in public more and, you know, girls can see is, i mean theres an adage you cant be if you cant see it. I guess i would suggest to them now, now you can see that shes absolutely right. You can see it. She is the face of general management for the marlins and theres other women, not necessarily in the leadership positions. But in coaching, if you see becky hammon in the n. B. A. For the spurs, she is a name to watch. She is overdue for, a head coach position in the n. B. A. And the n. B. A. Is already a very Progressive League to begin with. So its kind of surprising this that didnt happen before this did, but you know, progress, and we seem to see it, you know, women break the n. F. L. Sidelines as well in recent years to. One thing i want to ask though, is with the marlins looking at this team that shes now the g. M. Of. What kind of situation is she walking into . Is this a team thats like just built for success and shes going to ride that or is she got to make . Is there a lot of hurdles that come with this job or like if you are a perennial viewer of the n. L. East, you will see the marlins are not usually contenders for the title. However, the 60 game season that we had just had proved otherwise. Granted, if it was a fluke, we dont know, but theres a lot of rebuilding there in your 3 buildings. A lot of work to do. Ok, so its going to be a challenge. Its going to to ok everybody, but it was a great, thank you so much for coming out and bringing us this great news about whats happened in Major League Baseball. Really just so much. All right, as we go to break one of the, you can also still watching the hawks on the mound to the brand new portable t. V. , which is available on all platforms. Coming up, we enter the world of hard boiled detective, but war is author, georgetown. Professor Chris Chambers, georges, to discuss his new book, scavenger. You do not want to miss this, trust me state to watch the same wrong. Lol. 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The reason behind this lies mainly in the fact that not only does the storytelling give its readers and viewers a gripping vibrant mystery and adventure story. But it also allows its authors and creators, much like their antihero protagonists, the chance to pull back the curtain on all the glitz and glamor here in the land of the free and reveal the dark twisted underbelly lying just just below the surface. Often giving us a far more elegant, brutal, and honest look into the twist of soul, of the american landscape and experience than any has story. And could dream of capturing this year, author georgetown, professor and friend of the show Chris Chambers released into the world of noir fiction. His new book scavenger, which takes takes place on the stone and marble one ratline streets of washington, d. C. And features a biting takedown of the Nations Capital. Through the eyes of its homeless survivor and sleuth Dickie CornishProfessor Chamber joins us now to discuss his new book. Thank you, chris. Always a pleasure. Thank you. So chris, i got to stop right out the gate. What was the inspiration for this new book . That you, you know, what, what got you to sit down and say, i know what i need to write this story about washington d. C. And this, and this homeless man living in it. And the adventure that he embarks on a couple of my spiritual creative george who had been writing about rendition about the city win back. The curtain on the real needs the for a long time that hes going to show rather than movie producers on the wire. And i want to do something in but i also, you know, what the streets to me throw you in a neighborhood like the word ashore on every corner. And when you talk to them, they all have a story. And their stories are, you know, very what it is, not about failure and crime in the life of jared or i want you like that. And thats, you know, thats the nutshell basically because the city would be gone from the highs the lows, the gone from, you know, the years back to the obama years, even, you know, even before that never happened in the future. But the constant is the failure t