Thank you. Therefore, it's now time for members of statements. The member from Thorn Hill. Thank you very much Mr. Speaker and I'm here today to talk about a wonderful organization called Danny. Originally I thought like many of you are going to think that it's about somebody named Danny but it isn't. It stands for developing and nurturing independence and their mission statement says to create opportunities for young adults with physical and or cognitive challenges so that they can participate fully as valued members of the community and enjoy a meaningful and dignified quality of life. Danny was created in 2006 by parents of children with disabilities co-founded by Suzy Sokol and Kathy Lazlow. It started as a parent-to-parent advocacy group and became an incorporated non-for-profit organization. Their core beliefs are that it's parent driven, dedicated to serving individuals with disabilities and families and caregivers. They strive to enhance the skills and knowledge of young adults with challenges, establish and maintain partnerships. They're inclusive meaning everybody is welcome to participate but they do observe kashrut which means kosher food, Shabbat and holidays and I just want to mention that this Monday March 14th we're going to have a walk for my constituency to Danny's facility at a local community center the garnet on Clark Avenue and we're going to have lunch there served by the participants of Danny really looking forward to it everybody can join and hope to see you all there and it's just going to be $15 a person I should mention that but it will be well worth your time and effort thank you. Thank you Speaker. The Liberals say they're starting to chart a path towards a comprehensive reform plan designed to reduce poverty. During his budget presentation the minister said they'd be joining with researchers and select communities to develop a basic income pilot project. Speaker I want to offer the Windsor-Essex County region as an ideal site for such an experiment. The cold hard facts to justify this offer are this speaker one third of our single moms live in poverty one out of every 10 people you pass on the streets and Windsor-Essex County live in poverty one out of every 10 out of every six children lives in poverty. Our multiple food banks serve about one third of their meals to children more than a third of our seniors are living on less than $20,000 a year. Speaker 70,000 people in our area who do have jobs earning less than $20,000 more than 30,000 of those folks are childhood college or university graduates. We have suffered with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country for the past 10 years. We've lost 10,000 young people who have left for jobs in other parts of the country. 24% of our population identify themselves as immigrants yet many of our newcomers face economic challenges. We have as many as 9,500 people on social assistance, 2,600 on the waiting list for subsidized housing and we need as much help as we can get. There is no better place in Ontario to test this new method of a basic income allowance. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to recognize and remember my former colleague, trustee and the chair of the Toronto District School Board, Sheila Ward. Sheila represented Toronto's Centre of Rosedale since 1991. She was elected trustee again after the Mike Harris government malcomated six education boards in Toronto to create the TDSB in 1997. She either been elected, re-elected or acclaimed since then. Sheila was the chair of the TDSB from 2003 to 2007. Thrill Sheila's tenure as the public school trustee, she championed for equity including the creation of a senior position at the TDSB focusing on students and community equity. I remember, Mr. Speaker, fondly of Sheila's courage and determination in the establishment of the triangle program and alternative education in the former Toronto Board of Education. This 20-year-old alternative program located in East Chinatown is the only program that's a kind in Canada. It is designed for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students who are at risk for dropping out or committing suicide because of the homophobic or transphobic harassment in regular schools. Inside and outside the boardroom, Sheila used her wit, sharp tongue, analytical skills and determination to champion for the youngest citizen in her community. This includes pressuring the staff to redesign for more green space for students or expanding the libraries or science and technology classrooms in her diverse inner-city schools. Sheila's also remembered for being kind, caring, committed friends and mentor to many, including a Premier, Minister Cotto and Toronto budget chief, Councillor Crawford. Many of us who knew Sheila would remember her passion, feisty-ness, never backed down on important issues affecting her students and bringing multiple bottles of coke to every board or committee meeting. Mr. Speaker, as I conclude my remarks, I want to share Sheila's own word on education, quote, I'm glad that others are willing to spend their time looking for, looking after potholes, sewers and snow plowing. Those are essential important tasks, but for me, education is where I want to serve my community and a quote. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Sheila for her contributions to public education. You have touched many lives, including mine, and you will be missed. And here's to you, Sheila. You did that nicely enough so that the Sergeant in Arms didn't steal your prop. Thank you. Member Stevens, the member from Bruce Gray once again. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I rise to pay tribute to a courageous entrepreneur, a generous philanthropist, and a great visionary who personified the very best of Canadian values. Leo MacArthur, who rose to prominence as President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of the Miller Group and was among the first rank of entrepreneurs of his generation, sadly passed away on January 11th after a long illness. Leo and his partner John Carrick started out with nothing but an idea, a strong work ethic, a belief in private business, and a friendship. Over many years, they led Miller Group and Mcashfall Industries and expanded into an international group of companies that employed more than 4,000 people. Leo was one of the most successful businessmen to ever have come out of the own sound area. Nothing was more important to Leo than family and his employees, who were indeed an important part of the MacArthur family. As such, his legacy was not measured by the fact that he built one of the largest waste management companies in Canada. It was that throughout his life, Leo was an influential ambassador and a major contributor to the communities where he lived and worked. Most recently, Leo and his family owned company contributed in excess of one million dollars to the new Owen Sound YMCA and Community Recreation Center in honor of Leo and Helen MacArthur's daughter, Julie MacArthur, who died in 2007. Leo came from a very loving family but also a very poor beginnings. His dad ran a lumber mill in Owen Sound and died in an industrial accident when Leo was only nine years old, leaving behind eight children. Fortunately, the MacArthur children inherited the belief that integrity, hard work, and loyalty mattered in life and it was these qualities that helped them build an entrepreneurial family. His brothers JD owned MacArthur Tire and the Owen Sound Grace hockey team, Johnny owned MacArthur Construction and Timber MacArthur and his brother-in-law Al Riley owned MacArthur and Riley, a home decorating business. Speaker, I know the legislature will join me in acknowledging the great contribution that Leo MacArthur has made to Ontario and to Canada and extend our condolences to his family. Thank you for the difference you have made in so many lies, Leo. You'll be truly missed. Thank you for the member's statements, the member from Kitchener Waterloo. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On April 5th, 1951, Ontario's first equal pay legislation became law. In spite of the fact that it was a male-dominated house, the legislature had a champion for this bill, Agnes McPhail, one of Ontario's first two female MPPs who was a driving force behind the creation of the Female Employees Fair Remuneration Act, which became the first step towards correcting the pay gap. Far ahead of a time when it was a popular topic, she had a strong sense of what the female workforce deserved. She said and I quote, I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. I rise to date during women's history month to acknowledge the work done by women like Agnes McPhail who have come before us in this house but much more needs to be done to honour their legacy. It's been 65 years since this province's first equal pay legislation and almost 30 years since Ontario's current Pay Equity Act was introduced. And yet today in 2016 we are still working to close the gender wage gap. There is a 31.5% pay difference between men and women and it has barely changed in the last decade. It affects all women at every age of every profession. Not only that, Canadian women earn on average $8,000 less than their male counterparts who are doing the exact same jobs. This is twice the global average of a wage gap for equivalent work. As an assembly with 37 talented, hard-working female MPPs, we can and we need to do better to support the women of Ontario. Thank you very much. Thank you. Further member statements? The member from Mississauga Branton is here for you. Mr. Speaker, this afternoon I rise to honour a leading woman from Mississauga, former Mayor Hazel McCallion. Even after her retirement from political life, Hazel, who we affectionately call as Hurricane Hazel, continues to tirelessly serve the public. On February 23rd, I was pleased to attend the announce of McCallion's appointment as Sheridan College's inaugural Chancellor. Mr. Speaker, Sheridan College is an important symbol of what the cities of Mississauga and Branton are today. Excellent places to live, work, play, raise families and study and invest. The college brings with it the promise of an even brighter future. In Ms. McCallion's own words, the college is a part of the community, including from an economic point of view. It is an incubator for young minds, talents and ideas. It is a private sector partner in research and development. As Chancellor, Ms. McCallion will preside over convocation and also serve as an ambassador for Sheridan, locally, nationally and internationally. Congratulations, Chancellor McCallion. Yes, thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to draw attention to the cuts that are occurring at the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre. While this hospital is in Barrie, it serves many of my constituents, and these cuts impact people from both Simcoe and Muscoca. As a result of an $8 million shortfall, RVH will be eliminating 24 vacant positions as well as 32 full-time. Cuts like these are a direct result of the Liberal Government's track record of scandal, waste and economic mismanagement. Health care has always been the provincial government's most important responsibility. Consistently, it has been the most important issue for my constituents. RVH is one of many hospitals in Ontario who are faced with the growing challenge of how to do more with less, how to better serve patients with fewer staff, how to better serve families with less resources. This government has never demonstrated serious leadership on improvements to health care. Photo ops and re-announcements don't measure up. RVH's wait times for MRI and CT scanners are both higher than the provincial average. It's inevitable that wait times will increase and patients will languish on wait lists for important tests and surgeries. This is unacceptable for my constituents, and it's unacceptable for the province. Mr. Speaker, earlier this week the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada hosted a major four-day conference in Toronto. The annual PDAC International Convention Trade Show and Investors Exchange is the world's leading convention for people, companies and organizations interconnected with mineral exploration. The convention provides an excellent opportunity to meet attend technical sessions, short courses and various networking events for the mining community. This year the convention welcomed over 20,000 delegates and 1,000 exhibitors from over 100 countries to downtown Toronto. Every year PDAC provides us with an opportunity to showcase mining exploration and development in Ontario to the rest of the world. For Ontario, it means promoting our province as a global leader and the most attractive jurisdiction for mineral investment in Canada. For another year, Ontario's Ministry of Northern Development and Mines was the largest exhibitor at PDAC. We welcomed guests to our annual reception and met hundreds of delegates from around the world at our Ontario Pavilion on the trade floor. We have over 40 mines operating in the province, making us Canada's largest producer of non-fuel minerals. And last year we saw the value of mineral production reach $10.8 billion in Ontario. That's almost double the amount in 2003. PDAC provided an excellent platform for our government to share our success story when it comes to mining in Ontario. We look forward to next year's convention and I hope to see you all there. Thank you Speaker. The Fashion History Museum grand opening ceremony is this evening in Cambridge to celebrate their new premises in the old 1929 post office building. The Fashion History Museum has become a destination for tourists both locally as well as from across Ontario. Founded in 2004 by chair and CEO Ken Norman and curator Jonathan Walford, the museum has gained an international reputation. As a matter of fact, they have showcased collections in Balrain, Hong Kong and across North America. Their adapted heritage building is a permanent home for a fabulous collection of over 12,000 garments and 3,000 titles in the library archives, featuring shoes, hats, accessories, vintage clothing, rare pieces and includes some from Canadian designers. This collection has pieces from the mid 1700s to the present day and the displays are constantly changing. Recently the museum held their chapeau and champagne fundraiser which featured a fine collection of unique hats both old and new. And next February at their fundraiser you'll see one for a one day exhibit of Dior pieces. As a matter of fact they were included in the 2017 special anniversary publication from the House of Dior in Paris. At last year's fashion politics, politics and fashion design, they featured a rare paper Pierre Trudeau dress made for the 1968 campaign. Speaker, this is a fabulous exhibit. It's a truly inspired museum. I want to congratulate Ken and Jonathan for their huge success and I also want to thank the City of Cambridge for helping to support this incredible place, Destination. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I thank all members for their statements.


Good afternoon, Google fans, and welcome back to beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada. We're here at Google Cloud Next, bringing on the back end of day one of three days of coverage here on theCUBE. My name's Savannah Peterson, joined by analyst Rob Stretche. Rob, what a power pack to afternoon we're about to open. I think this is going to be a lot of fun. I am really excited for these, a lot of partnership with Google and a lot of how you actually make this stuff work around AI in particular. Which is why we have such a fantastic guest. We've got Kathleen from Elastic with us. Welcome to the show, Kathleen. Thank you, I'm glad to be here. Glad you're having me. Yeah, we're having you back.  It only takes twice, okay. Yeah, well you're alumni after, so you're an alumnus after, so yeah. Yeah, that's all it takes in most cases, especially in AI, only two prototypes, right? Awesome. And then you're an expert. How's the show going for you so far? Yeah, it's going great. Just the usual fast packed, fast paced, action packed, a lot of really interesting things going on here this year. Yeah, a lot of really interesting talks I noticed too. Elastic is all about search powered AI. Break that down for us a little bit. What are the advantages you're offering to your customers? Well, as you can imagine, all search experiences are a little bit different. And so if you think about almost a year ago from now, we were all talking about this new thing called generative AI. And there are a lot of questions out there like, is search, is traditional search dead? What's going on? How is this going to change the face of the space? And what we found is it absolutely has, but it's actually drawn more attention to the need for some of that traditional search functionality. So if you think about, I have a customer, I want to build a search application that provides this awesome conversational AI experience. It needs the same underpinnings as traditional search applications that people were building years ago. In fact, part of this was we had a good discussion with Sachin Gupta earlier on today about infrastructure in distributed cloud. And he actually referenced Elastic, unplugging AlloyDB on-premise and using in that infrastructure to distribute it cloud, Google distributed cloud, using Elastic for the vector database. And it would seem like, I mean to me again, I've been saying it for a while that Vector is more a feature than it is an actual, you know, entire database. How does, how does that really come out? Like how has that manifested itself within Elastic and with your customers? Yeah, so what we really say over and over again is you think about a vector database and some people are thinking about it in the terms of like storing and searching embeddings. But that's really just the smallest use case. You really also need to understand how are those embeddings getting in there? And then once you have all this information there, like how are you going to retrieve the best information? And that requires a lot more than just that kind of technical embeddings piece. You need to be thinking about, am I going to be able to aggregate my data? What about facets and filtering? Like how am I actually going to run this? Is it, can I do it on-prem? Can I do it on the cloud? Am I going to have the technology around it for my specific use cases that might require things like text search because surprisingly, text search is going nowhere. It's still really applicable to a lot of those search scenarios where I'm an e-commerce site. One of the most common searches I get is a part number. There's no real intent I need to infer from that. I have a part number, tell me more about it. So it still has a place in the search space and you need more than just kind of these more later technologies like semantic search et cetera to really fill a lot of these use cases. Let's build on that a little bit. So that's a perfect example. We're going to an e-commerce site with three million SKUs. Don't need to know much more detail beyond the intent of someone to learn or to purchase or whatever it is they're doing there. What are some of the use cases that really sing for search powered AI? There's just so many. So a customer that we just recently had at one of our user groups, Stack Overflow was talking about the fact that they have over 100,000 people contributing highly technical information to their environment. And within that environment, there are absolutely other people there that would benefit from that information. But that's this perfect scenario for semantic search where the way that I say something and the way I share information may be different from somebody else. So you really need that technology to help you understand what's the intent behind this question so that it can match you with the best results. So that's a different scenario using some different kind of technology that to answer that question. But what we're finding is most people actually need a combination of both. And so you need a situation where text, traditional text search is going to be the best answer. There are others where semantic search is really required to get the most relevant answer. So that's what we're seeing hybrid search really taking off and exploding. You need your technology to be able to recognize, okay, which is the most relevant answer for this particular query? And then surface that to the person asking the question. Is that where your partnership with Google comes in? Yes, that and more. So one of the things that we've really kept at the forefront for Elastic is kind of our background and just being open. And so we recognize that there are different decisions that have different right answers across our customer base. So if you look at something that a lot of people are talking about right now, like what is the right large language model for me to be using? There's a lot of factors that go into making that decision and a lot of different answers that could be absolutely correct. And so what we focused on is making sure that we're partnering with these technology, with these technologies, working closely with them to make sure that Elastic Search works effectively but also better than other things so that people can pick the things that are right for their use case. And Google's a perfect example of that. Where we got together and we built some reference architectures that we could share with our mutual customers about how to build conversational experiences on Elastic Search on Google. And we had a great webinar on that. It was one of our super high attended ones because people are really interested in this topic as you can imagine. Absolutely and I can imagine they also like a little guidance from a company like Elastic on how to prioritize that and how to train those models to know which type of search to default to in that scenario, which is really cool. You've got some power packed logos on your website illustrating that there are some very large well-known brands that have adopted this. You mentioned a use case with Cisco and how quickly they were able to make change over the course of a year. Can you tell us a little bit about that? In fact you had them on with us. Yeah, last time you saw me, we had Cisco here with us and one of the things that I was really impressed by was just how quickly they moved, embracing generative AI and building their own application. And the application that they built was something that helped their customer support engineers find answers for their customers who were calling in with problems. Always a sensitive one, always when you want to handle quickly and efficiently. And so talking to them a year on out where they got time under their belts, they've made improvements along the way, we've partnered with them the whole time. What they have found is that they can attribute 90% of the answers that they're surfacing to their support engineers are coming from this platform and they've been able to save about 5,000 hours a month for these customer support engineers. You have to imagine that has to have a huge impact on customer satisfaction, right? Yeah, absolutely. I'm getting your answers fast and I'm also able to serve more customers now. And your agents feel better too because their time is better utilized and you have a greater sense of purpose for other types of work. Yeah, so just a really great example about being an early adopter, building something really powerful and getting some great results. Do you see that people are coming to Elastica new because of these features and because, I mean again, Elastica's been around for a while and been known in really how you aggregate data. A lot of pipelines into Elastica like you talked about, getting the data in is part of the problem and then being able to do the vectorizing and all of the tagging and what have you. Is this a new introduction to people who may have not thought about Elastica that way? I think, I would say that Elastica has some great recognition across the market. I think that when you think about search, a lot of people think about Elasticsearch right away. But I think that what we've been able to do is kind of take this moment, this market moment that's been presented and really re-educate people on how much we have done over the last several years to really dive in to the promise of machine learning, dive in to the promise of AI. And it's already surfacing in our products. So when the big buzz started happening around vector database, for instance, it's like we're the most downloaded vector database in the market and that may have been a surprise to some people, but it's the truth. We've been around for a while, we've been investing in these technologies and we're helping our customers see the promise. Were you predicting this market moment? I wish I could say that I predicted all market moments, but I think- I mean don't we all for the record, yeah. I would say I was definitely pleasantly surprised by just the massive amount of buzz that happened because I think all of us saw chat GBT and those initial experiences and we're like, this is very cool. But I think it really opened everybody's eyes and minds to okay, this has a place everywhere. I mean, we've got to figure out what that is because if our competitor just do first, then that's a, we're doing a disservice to our customers. So I think that was really exciting and interestingly enough, we had, we just did a developer survey recently where these were elastic and non-elastic developers, but they all had search on their minds. And one of the things that we found were 87% of these developers had a generative IAU's case in mind or in progress, but only 11% had gotten those out into production. And so that's one of the things that we're seeing is when you start kind of going down this path, all these considerations come up like, okay, how am I going to keep my private data safe? How are we going to make sure that we understand the costs around this and working with somebody who's had a long, long time leadership spot in the search space, I think can help there. Absolutely. How are you helping? We had a really interesting insight from Mackenzie earlier. There's a running joke of death by 1,000 POCs at this point. And so how are you helping customers go from experimentation phase to really figuring out their solution at scale? You know, we have a lot of fun doing generative II workshops not for multiple customers at a time or for individual customers if they want to use their own data. And a lot of times we're kind of starting to talk about it in the framework of like a playground where it's like, let's just, you know, let's see what's possible or if you have something in mind or if you're earlier on in the process, let's come in and by the time you leave, you're going to have written your first generative II application. That's got to be really inspiring and empowering for people. Yeah, it is because it's, you know, I think while there's a lot of considerations, our goal is obviously to make a platform that helps you get up and running quickly, helps you ingest data quickly and efficiently and enhance that data as you bring it in so that ultimately, you know, you have a great experience at the end. Makes total sense. Yeah, it really does make total sense. Are there any applications? So we've talked about the logistics and how it works a little bit. Are there any applications of this in the wild or maybe in the Instant Pot of you will, cooking for the future, that really have you personally excited, not just as a company, but as an individual? Well, I think, yeah, we've been having a lot of exciting conversations about just the art of the possible. And I think some of the things that our customers bring to us are like, wow, this is extremely inspiring. And so I think you have your traditional experiences like Cisco has jumped on and like others where I have so much internal data that I want to surface to my employees to help them work more efficiently that that efficiency is only increased. So I think if you'd asked me, which spaces are you seeing the fastest adoption of this technology? I'd say customer success type of, or internal work place search. These are two areas where people are jumping on quickly because it's just so obvious that there are benefits to jumping in this space. But then we've also seen customers go out and do really exciting things about anomaly detection and threat monitoring and things like that that are really helping keep the world safer. And so that's very exciting too. Yeah, I was going to say what was the top use case that you're seeing from your customers? And where are they focusing when they get started a lot of times? Yeah, like I said, I think it's, let's potentially create a experience where our customers can come and ask questions to and have kind of a conversational experience at our support site. So I'm having this issue, how can I solve it? But outside of kind of that traditional, because that in and of itself is not new, but what can be new is if you think about, I know who this is, I know what kind of certifications they have, I know what products they have of mine, I know what may be a recent issue that has surfaced is, all this information can come together with your standard documentation, troubleshooting guides, and provide like a step-by-step, here's, yes, we understand this is what you have, this is what's happening, this is how you can fix it. And lovely to be able to just get a step-by-step guide to solve my problem without having to call anybody, right? Absolutely, and also better for them to, I know how many times I've called up and they don't know how, yes, I know that, I've rebooted it, I've done all this stuff, here's where I am in your call screen, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, so I think between that and just again, if you think about your corporate internet and evolving that into an interaction scenario where you can ask, what's my 401K policy? Well, I know who you are, I know what region you're from, and in some cases I know what role you are, so if I'm asking a more sensitive question, like what's the compensation ratio for this title at this level, you know, I as an individual contributor probably shouldn't be seeing that information, but as a manager of that type of role, I should, and that's where things like role-based access control become really important, making sure that we only serve the data to the people that have the right to see it, so. That's a really good point, I'm glad you said that. Closing question for you, because time has flown. What do you hope, you gave us that great Cisco example here today, a year later, what do you hope the next time we have you on theCUBE, that you can say a year from now, that you couldn't say today? There's just so much exciting stuff that our customers are working on, I feel like we just have endless possibilities to talk about next year, which we hadn't, you know, necessarily even thought about two months ago, and it's kind of the combination of the creativity of the people that we're working on the customer side, with, you know, a technology that we're willing to hear that input and take the product in the direction that's going to serve them best. I love it, well, we look forward to telling that story with you on stage at the next Google Cloud Next. Kathleen, thank you so much for being here. Rob, fantastic insights and questions, as always, and thank all of you for tuning in around the world here for our live coverage from Google Cloud Next. It's the end-ish of day one of three. My name's Savannah Peterson, you're watching theCUBE, the leading source in enterprise tech news.


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I present Mr. No Name here speaking on real-world privacy, so here we go, without further ado. Alright, thank you guys for showing up. We've seen a lot of talks out there where people are going, you know, hey, you don't have any privacy, you know, we've all heard the Scott McNeely deal, privacy is dead, blah, blah, blah. I got sort of tired of that, and I also got tired of a lot of the talks that said, hey, here's 20 different ways I can go get all your data. Sort of at the converse to that, which is how you can hide, sort of the idea here. So what we're going to be talking about today is not a why talk. If you need to know why you need to be private, you're in the wrong talk. There's a whole bunch of them later today. By the way, this entire presentation is on the CD. We're going to be going very quick. If you need this as reference, go look at it on the CD. Key principle in being private is if you don't have the information, if it doesn't exist, it can't be used. So part of the whole idea here on being private is don't leave information out there. That's going to be on your cell phone records, that's going to be on your Visa records, it's going to be things, paying cash, some of the obvious, some of the not so obvious here. Privacy has a monetary cost, and that's something that we all have to acknowledge today. We want to be private, yet at the same time, we want to reduce the cost. We all have our Safely cards and our Vons cards. We all want to have cable TV or use Tivo or use our cell phones. There's a cost associated with that. Sometimes it's a privacy cost where your information is out there. Sometimes it's a direct cost, and here we have to understand that. Sometimes we are going to end up paying a higher cost for our groceries. Sometimes we're not going to get the free things, such as the Best Buy rebates on the latest laptop. We have to take that into consideration. And as we go through, you have to make that decision. Is it worth the monetary cost? So if I make this phone call, turn on my cell phone in Vegas, is it worth the cost? And that's not just a monetary cost of going over to the pay phone. Then there's the privacy cost associated with it as well. Before we start thinking about protecting a privacy, ask yourself these things. What information is it that you're trying to protect? Is it where you work? Are you afraid that somebody's out to get you and they're going to stalk you back to your workplace? And then what can you do to hide that information? But you have to ask yourself some fundamental questions as we get into the privacy discussion. It's very easy to say, yeah, I'll just pay cash for everything. But then what is it that you're actually trying to hide by paying cash? I ask yourself these questions that you see on the screen. And then you ask yourself, who is it that's going to be chasing you down? Is it Big Brother? Is it the government? My favorite is the random target of opportunity.  But ask yourself those questions of what is it you're trying to protect and who is it that you're trying to protect from? Obviously, we all have that fear of Big Brother and the federal government. Be aware that the federal government today is outsourced a lot of that function to the private sector. So as we go through and they say, oh well, I just won't tell the government this information. Great, they're going to call Visa and find out all your records. We'll go to some of the data clearinghouses which they've been doing on a regular basis these days and getting that information there. So it may not be the same who that you're really afraid of that may be somebody else. This is more in the threat from the consumer business, where the marketers are really looking to build up that complete profile of you. And most of us here today are giving that profile away for free. We're not thinking about it, where we drive, how much we make, et cetera, et cetera. Hopefully at the end of this talk you're going to walk away with some ideas about how you can reduce your footprint, how you can leave those fewer bread crumbs in life. Who do you trust? This is a favorite. As we go through and you hand your Visa card to the server, do you trust the server with your information? Do you trust Visa with your information? You tell the doctor that, yeah, you were down in Tijuana and you had a great weekend, but you know, you've got these unusual aches and pains. Great, you trust the doctor, do you trust everybody that the doctor trusts? What about their administrative assistant? How far is that information going to go? Are you aware of how far that information is going to go? Trust is the reliance on something in the future. I hope that somebody's not going to betray that information. That's hard. I really appreciate the guys at DEF CON when they don't collect the information. Notice how you pay cash when you register. There's no information collected. You can't be subpoenaed. There's no trust breakdown that can take place. What is the level of privacy that you're trying to achieve? When you go through this exercise, great, it's easy to pay cash, but then you whip out your cell phone and you start talking. You've leaked information out the cell phone, but you've given up the cash and you said, gee, I protected my financial information. So what level are you trying to achieve? The PO box example is great. Great, nobody knows where you live, but to get the PO box according to United States Postal Service Regulations, you've got to give up additional information. That could be a problem for you. Sometimes it's a compromise, sometimes it's not. Oops, okay. You did a great job. You've hidden all your information from everybody, but oops, you had to go to the emergency room.  What are you going to do about it? You can achieve a level of privacy, but then you may need to reset depending on what actually takes place in the future. If you've accidentally leaked out your home address somewhere and you've got somebody stalking you, seriously consider moving.  On the PI, I'm going to go out and we're going to chase that information down. You would have to move. This talk has broken up into three different sections here. We have daily life, stuff happens, and then I've got some stuff at the end, more life references and some things to think about. This is sort of how-to going through your life and how you can be private. Let's talk a little bit about some trade-offs here. Obviously, using a grocery discount card, real name that you filled it out with, you pay by check, credit card, it can be traced back to you.  Maybe you trade with your buddies. Maybe every month when you go to the grocery store, every time you go to the grocery store, you get a new card. My favorite is you walk in and you say, what's your phone number? Hey, can you just use your card? Yeah, sure. Your information is not being recorded there when you pay cash. Certainly, you have video surveillance. I don't want to go quite all into that. But essentially, from a cash transaction standpoint, you pay cash but you still get the discount. There's some ways around being anonymous. Some other examples here. Some other things in your daily life we're going to hit on here. Identification. That's the subject for me. Because your name, everybody wants to know your name. If you have a unique name, it's really tough. If you come from a foreign environment, it's a lot tougher because chances are you're not going to have a, quote, American name. Or if you have an American name and you're living over in India, you're going to stick out like a sore thumb. The name is one of the big keys to the whole thing. Sure, social security number works. Data birth can work. It all starts there with the name. It's pretty easy. Use your passport as the means of primary identification. We don't think about passport as the means of identification unless we're out traveling. But your passport does not have the same information that your driver's license has. When you walk into a bar, they scan. They do the magnetic strip scan and your driver's license. They're not going to do that with a passport. A passport, you don't know where you live. You don't know your home address. You do have your date of birth on there because it is identification. There is the scan strip at the bottom. Most places don't have that. It makes for a lot better identification. The other thing, and this is part privacy part, what can you do to minimize your footprint is getting rid of your social security number from your wallet. Certainly we've all learned not to keep our card with us, I hope. But if you have a medical card and a lot of companies still as of last year were issuing your social security number as your ID, physically cut it out. If you lose your wallet and you have your social security number in there, the headaches have just multiplied. Physically cut it out.   Well, I cut my number out, here's what it is. If you use an alias, and I do recommend many aliases for many different purposes, don't use this alias as an intent to defraud. This is not a defraud speech. This is simply a privacy speech. You can go around most times when you go to check in at a hotel, like here, not staying at this hotel, I was staying in, said, you know, I need ID and I paid cash and they didn't ask me for ID. Register under a different name. If they're going to ask for photo ID, ask why they need that photo ID. Because the photo ID may not correlate to the name that you gave them. There's certainly a lot of places where you can go up and you can ask where do you actually need my photo? Or are you going to ask me for an ID? Because if they're not going to ask you for an ID, why give me your real name? Limited liability companies are a subject unto themselves. I want to just touch on them briefly. You can use an LLC as a substitute for yourself. When you're buying cars, real estate, another real property, having a checking account, you can have that in the name of an LLC. I'll have some references at the end on some ideas on where you can go to get LLC information. Spending money is pretty easy. Well, you think it's pretty easy. Yeah, you'll just pay cash for everything. You can also use cashier's checks. But if you're ordering via mail order, money order works, exchanging money, this was fine. I went to go exchange money one time and they said, what's your name? I said, are you going to ask me for ID? No, Bob Smith. And the guy looked at me like I was nuts, but why should I give you real name if you don't need a real name on something? LLCs on your checks is a good idea as well. Proxy agent, and this is sort of a common theme as we go through this discussion. A lot of folks really don't care about privacy. Find those people. And again, because you can use them all over the place. You can use them to make the purchase for you. You can use them to write a check for you. You can use them, if they say live in New York, to go make that item, you know, purchase that item in person for you and then mail it back to you. Disposable credit cards, you know, we've heard they're not really a privacy thing, they're more of an anti-fraud item. Things to avoid, obviously, are credit cards. Debit cards are a lot of ways worse because the amount that I can drain from my credit card account if I have them. Wire transfers are a real headache. And not too many people do these days, but there's very strong ID requirements, especially for international wire transfers. Moving large amounts of money is also a challenge. We'll get to that in a couple of slides. Credit cards are tough because not only do they conduct the actual transaction, but if you read all the fine print on your credit card, you're going to find out that stores, and I found this out once, you can actually get your home address, your mailing address from the credit card issuer. So it's no longer like a cash transaction, you have to not think of it like a cash transaction because now all of a sudden, they're getting more information from you, more information than you thought.  You can also trace where the person goes. It's great when you see somebody's credit card, they're going to stamp everywhere they've been around the city. Not really a good idea if you're looking to hide, or just be private. Concerns about spending cash, cash, as I said earlier, is great. We all think, yeah, just spend cash, but there are certainly concerns, and you need to think about how you're going to handle those.  So there's a trade-off there. Do you want your visa record to be flagged? Do you want your person to get flagged at the airport? Car rentals are a real bugger. I've tried this many times. And cash, you end up giving them a lot more information than you might think. Having your sewer numbers on cash recorded because they think it's counterfeit. I don't know. Think about what happens when you make large cash transactions and carrying around large amounts of cash. In the U.S., there are legal issues in spending a lot of cash. We've all known about the $10,000 limit. There's a couple of others. When you buy the monetary instruments between $3,000 and $10,000, let's say that you want to buy a car and the guy says, you know, just give me a cashier's check.  That gets recorded. There's also a thing called the suspicious activity report. And banks are these days very gun-shy and very willing to fill these things out if they think anything suspicious comes along. Large monetary transactions raise money. To spend money, you need to get it. And I'll let you guys review this one on your own time. Where are you going to get your money? Is it a bank? Are they recording you? Can you do things via non-cash transaction? We're essentially, you know, you do a barter system. You know, will your employer give you something like a computer instead of giving you a check if you're working as a consultant? And then, can you trust your financial institution? These days, you really can't. They want to be your friend. They want your money. But can you actually trust them? No. And Lexus Nexus is sort of interesting.  Not exactly something that I'd be, you know, running to the bank and say, yeah, here, here's all my records. Some of the things about money, passwords on your accounts, et cetera, et cetera. If you have a lower profile, if you're not getting the credit card statements, if they're not sending you the pre-approved checks with your credit card, you're having a lower profile. And being private, it has a low profile. You shouldn't be getting a whole lot of solicitation in your mailbox, a lot of junk mail. The idea is to maintain a very low profile, checking your credit report, blah, blah, blah. Lastly, what is on your check? Certainly not all of us have got LLC set up. Can we do things to minimize the footprint on our check to make sure that the information's not leaking out? If I'm a retail outlet and I write a check, there's a lot of information that's on a lot of checks these days, can you just go by first name? Can you just have Mrs. Smith on your check? Lastly on this cash-dash thing, it's happened before where guys were cash people and they had a large cash-dash, and now they sell the house and 20 years later, the new owners bulldoze the wall and find a large cash-dash. Maybe include that as part of your will.   Maybe you can have your LLC by the car instead. That way it's in the LLC's name, the LLC is doing the insurance on it, it goes to the LLC's address. It's not necessarily associated with you. When you buy a car, you may need to be asked, you may be asked depending on what state you're in for additional information. I think it's pretty bogus, but if it's a large cash transaction, the car dealership needs to give the information back to the federal agents to ask for that. Private-party auto purchases work great, because again, they just want the money. They're just willing to sign over the title. As long as they've got the money, they don't care who you are. It's pretty easy. Again, on the pre-approved loans, it's a bit of a bugger. Maybe you can do some things like barter, trade cars, have your friend cough up the money. Lexus Nexus allows the ability to look up a license plate and then map it back to a physical address. So next time you get somebody off in traffic, ask yourself, are they going to record my license plate and come after me? This has happened in the past. This has certainly happened in California where I live, and people have been stalked. One more thing about parking in the garage, if your car is not visible, that's a good thing. I've actually had somebody come looking for me and my car was in the driveway at the time. They recognized my car. They happened to know the general town I was in. They were 17 years old with way too much time on their hands. And they found me. I wasn't too happy.  The insurer wants to know where the actual car is. If your car burns down in somebody else's garage and they come back and they find that you aren't living there, you know what, you may have some problems because they may not pay that claim. So are you willing to take that chance? I don't know. Maybe again, another chance for the LLC. Can you self-insure the car? That's another option. Or can you piggyback off of somebody else's policy? Again, using the proxy agent here is a good idea.  Your wife might be a bad idea here. Maybe it's a good friend. Piggyback, proxy agent. Transportation's got other issues too. The on-star system tracking you. You know, we've all been bored. We've all poked around and maybe other people's home directories when we were being in Sis-Admin see what's out there. So with on-star, they can flip on the microphone and hear what you're saying in the car. Yeah, again, a bit of a problem. If you don't need it, don't use it. Pull it out. The O-Bag black box recorder is recording the last five seconds of your activity being used against you in courts of law. Possibly now insurance agents aren't willing to pay claims because they'll go ahead and analyze the date on the black box and say, hey, you were driving 85 miles now and we're not going to pay the claim. Part of that ties into usage-based auto insurance now where they're tying GPS systems, recording how many miles you actually drive. Have to read the fine print. Ask the questions. Here's some of the threats on-star using to track bank robbers, talking about way of automobile tracking. There's issues. If you want to be private, maybe you don't have a car. When I live in New York City, it's a great deal because there's a taxi. I just take a taxi every place, pay cash. There's no tracking. No must, no fuss. You also have the issue of tolls. Now, when I live in London, the congestion zone out there, their privacy policy claims that they only keep the data for 24 hours. They take a picture of your license plate, bill your credit card or your pre-approved bank account. Do you believe them? We'll see time and time again that this data is kept for way longer than 24 hours in violation of their policy. Maybe not their policy, but other people's policies. Backup tape, they forget, you know, backups don't run and the cleanup program doesn't run. The data lives on and on and on. Certainly the other fast pass tolls in New York, Denver, I know there's L.A. has got one. These things all can be used. They can be used not only on the highway, but you can also set up things to track people all over town. Do you need one? Pay cash. Taxi, as I mentioned, is pretty cool, but there's issues possibly with taxis. When you pay cash, it's a better idea. You know, on the bus metro train system, when I take the California's effort around, you know, can I pay cash for the ticket? When I take the metro in D.C., pay cash for the ticket.   When you travel in the United States, when you go, I don't know how many of you got the dreaded SSSS on your ticket, you're off to secondary. Is that a bad thing? I don't know. You know, they're not linking my name to the secondary search. When I go through secondary and they go through all my closing and batteries and all the other electronics, is that a threat to my privacy? I'm not sure. You know, if I'm concerned that the screeners are going to laugh at what color shoes or underwear I have, perhaps. In the big picture, for me, at least that's not a big deal. You have trust to traveler. You can also not use your name when you travel. Yes, you guys cannot use your real name. It's pretty amazing. First initial, middle initial, middle name. You can misspell your name. All these things work, and they're actually pretty effective. Again, if you slay that to your frequent flyer card, it sort of doesn't matter. Defeats the purpose, right? What about paying cash for your airline ticket? There's some ways around it. You use travel agents. You can use proxy agents. Those of you that flew in this week from internationally, you know, and may have participated in our nice fingerprinting program at the airport. Some things to think about. Maybe you can go through and utilize some of our other borders that don't have that problem. So who do you believe on the information? Some quick slides about, you know, we really don't provide information to the government. We don't leak it. And then we see Northwest leaking their information. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we actually did leak it. But then you hear the Air Travel Association say, no, we will not voluntarily turn the data over. And a few months later, well, yeah, we actually did. Who do you trust? When you rent cars, it's a challenge. And the best thing I can recommend is use a proxy agent or don't rent cars. Because the amount of information they want when you don't use a credit card. When you live someplace, it's another challenge because chances are when you rent an apartment, they want it in your name and you buy a house. It goes in your name, those sorts of things. Perhaps you just rent a room.  They're not going to, you know, ask for photo ID, those sorts of things. Use a cash deposit.  Chances are they're not going to be looking for a credit check. It's pretty, if you can afford that sort of thing. Maybe you can borrow that money from somebody else. You can also share services. Utilities are a favorite place for private investigators and others to get information. If you can share trash service, gable service, wear legal, lawn service, milk delivery with your neighbors, have your neighbors pay for it, say, look, you know, I'll pay 60% if it goes in your name. Or even do you need all of these services? Those are some other things to consider. How well do you know your roommates? Do you trust them?  They're already in your house. They can invite people into your house. Those are things to consider. Police will check utility records when they're trying to track you down. And when I live in San Francisco, I hear this all the time on the police scanner. Utilities came back with Jim Bob lives at 555 8th Street. Private eyes routinely use this information. And property records are public information as well. So if you own property in your name, it's very easy to track that down. It used to be a lot harder because you had to go to the county or the parish where that information resided. Of course, now all that information is online. Delivery companies are keeping a database of where you live. And they don't use this necessarily for law enforcement purposes, but if Jim Bob gets a package and it goes to the wrong address, they may have a better idea of where he actually was supposed to be going or where that package was supposed to be going. Now, a lot of people have access to that information.  This is good for you. This is good for your neighbors. Neighbors can certainly call the cops and say, hey, I think there's a weed farm in this guy's basement. They can really make your life hell. And the best thing to do is either ignore your neighbors or bake them lots of cookies.  All that information tends to be on the Homeland Association website or whatnot. Yeah, not really a good idea. Now, we also watch the news every once in a while and we see, oh yeah, Steve, he's a real kind of suspicious guy. He had a lot of computers in his basement. I could easily see him being the guy who murdered his neighbor. You're building up that profile. And the idea here is to lessen your profile. The repairman, I think it was late last year, there was a guy, a cis admin out in Virginia, and he invited his air conditioning repairman into his house in the afternoon the feds came and paid him a visit. A lot of the repair folks have been given instructions or given advice by the FBI, hey, please help us find terrorists, report anything suspicious you see in people's houses. This goes to delivery people. This goes to repairman. This goes to a lot of different folks. Some of these folks are actually acting on that tip and playing big brother, walking around your house, seeing what's there, reporting it to the feds. The feds come and pay you a visit. Trash. If you shred it, you're in better shape. If you never get the information in the first place, you're in the best shape. When you get those pre-approved checks, if you never get them, you don't have to worry about shredding them. I strongly recommend a cross cut shredder. I personally reassembled strip shreds before because I shredded my password. Oops. And I realized how easy it was the next day I went out and bought a confetti shredder. There's some other things too about where are you taking your trash? What are you putting in your recycling bin? We all want to be environmentally conscious, but what is really going in that recycling bin and what can it say about you? The other thing too is the other stuff that goes in the trash, maybe you're throwing out a computer, bad for the environment, I know.   Hey, I just bought a new big screen TV, come on in and steal it. Think of some other locations for taking your trash. Retail shopping, no discount cards, paying cash. You may have to spend some time up front getting enough cash to buy those new shoes and carrying that cash with you. Also about renting a movie, instead of renting maybe you buy the movie, maybe have your friend rent it, maybe use a fake name. Judge Robert Bork now knows very well not to rent porn movies in his own name. He's not on the Supreme Court because of that. Phones are tough as well because a lot of folks want credit checks and background checks, they want you to fax in a passport, proxy agent works, you don't have to give them a social security number, they don't have to run a credit check, ask what the options are. A bunch of different options here. If you really want to be private, go for a pager, a one-way pager with a voicemail box for your inbound calls. It's not tied to your house, it's not tied to your person. You can return the phone call from pay phones, from cell phones that may not be turned on all the time. If you really want to be private, that's the best way to go right now. Because of that, again, that direct association between the physical address and where you live. There's some other options. Please, for God's sakes, don't use a cordless phone. Even the spread spectrum phones, even the ones that are scrambled, can be easily picked up. Now I can't go down to Radio Shack, go buy my 49 megahertz scanner and listen to everything you say. It's a little bit tougher than that, but it's an over-the-air broadcast. And lastly, again, opt out. The idea here with the CP&I, our customer proprietary network information, is folks like SBC are selling all of your phone call information. You can opt out of that, but they may not come right out front and tell you you can opt out. Opt out, investigate the privacy policy, or just say, the heck with it, I'm going to go wireless. There are issues with wireless, I realize, but it's a little bit better because it doesn't slave you to a physical location all of the time. You can turn off the cell phone. Some other things about cell phones, when you turn on a cell phone, turn off the cell phone, that's logged. That location is logged. There was a guy that was picked up recently because he turned off his cell phone in the vicinity where a girl was kidnapped and raped. He happened to be in the parking lot. Yes, he was a convicted sex offender, but they found him because he turned off his cell phone there. Not necessarily a good idea. So there is additional logging that you have to think about with cell phones. Calling cards are great in that some calling cards don't pass your calling number information. You need to do some testing ahead of time. I just did some testing this week with the MCI cards and found out they don't. I'll let you guys do some experimentation and find out which ones do not pass that information. Also, some of the VoIP providers do not pass the calling number information as well. Inbound mail and whatnot.  The mail folks and FedEx and whatever, they're more than happy to deliver to Joe Smith at your address. That's not a problem. When you call up the store, they say, you know, I need your actual address or they need to say, I'm only going to deliver this to the address. Say it's a gift. Send a gift to yourself. Commercial mail receiving agencies are cool, but a lot of them by law are required to take another ID from you. You can get around that though by calling around because occasionally these folks will get a new clerk in there and they won't take an ID. Mailing from the workplace or mailing to the workplace is also a good idea. It's away from the house, but be careful about that inbound mail. Proxy we've covered. Having somebody else set up the PO box or your mailboxes, et cetera, also works for you. Do you need a functional mailbox at your residence? If you have a functional mailbox at your residence, you're going to get mail there. Maybe you just take it down. Why do you need a mailbox if you're never getting mail at your house? It certainly might tip somebody off that you have a PO box, but it may also lower your profile. If you take stuff to the post office, you may get recorded. You can take stuff to FedEx and pay cash. They won't tell you this. But here's a little tip. If you go to FedEx and pay cash on a $32 charge and it's $32 charge and you only have 40 and they don't have change, don't tell them to keep an $8 tip. Chances are your package will not be going through. Opt out, use aliases.  Don't use your name. Magazine subscriptions. There's lots of databases with lots of information to magazine subscriptions. Newstand is certainly the best option or have it go to a different mailbox and a different name. Computer-based, I'm sure we all know all sorts of good things about computers, so I'm not going to spend any time on this slide. Education. Most of us don't have kids, but some of us are thinking about having kids if you really want to maintain your privacy, the only option that you have is homeschooling. If you end up going to public school, you're hosed. And it's a real bummer because there's some decent public schools out there, but think of it this way. They're going to want to know your home phone number, all the different ways to contact you. When Johnny goes to school, do you think he's not going to tell them his home phone number? Teacher is going to say, yeah, home phone number is a good thing. It's really hard to get a six-year-old not to say where he lives or what his phone number is. When you go to college, you don't really have an option to homeschool college. I suppose you could do, like, remote study programs.  You go away, but your information stays. And recently, there's been a real spate of break-ins at colleges where they've stolen alumni information, current information. They've stolen information about everybody that's applied to the school, name, address, date of birth, social security number, the whole enchilada. Those are things that you've got to think about. Who is watching you with surveillance? This is not really a surveillance talk, but you have those things that you want to think about, too. If you're private and you're worried that somebody's following you home, is somebody listening to what you're saying, somebody watching you, the good news about the Wired article, although there might be 9,000 cameras in New York, they're not all linked together yet. Now, for the most part, it's unlikely. So there's not a possibility of, say, 9,000 cameras tracking you today, but in Vegas there is. In Manhattan, there's not, more the real world, there's not. The facial recognition is something that we've read about as far as I can tell, it's not working all that well right now outside of Vegas. And it kind of comes back to, you know, they've got to have that information. Did they buy the original picture that's tied your picture to your name? Did they buy that picture? Maybe you wear a hat. I'm not sure what the options are on that, but right now it's a threat. Maybe you just avoid those places. The Vana commissions with Tempest, you know, if you monitor leaking, we all thought liquid crystal displays were the answer. Now we come to find out that liquid crystal displays are not the answer, that those too are leaking information. There's some ways around that I suggest that you Google. Maybe we do some things with fonts, instead of going black-white like this is, we change the fonts to font kind and the font color and create such a strong signature for the Vana commissions. So some other things are going to happen to you in life. You're going to go to the doctor and you have to worry about the administrative staff. You have to worry about the outsourcing that takes place. The information going to the doctor, the administrative office, the administrative back office, the insurance agent, several people on down ended up in India. And I don't mean that in a negative way, but it certainly will travel around and you don't know where your information is gone. When you sign on the dotted line now with HIPAA, that says, hey, have my information, have a nice day. Drug companies are taking your information, researchers, a lot of folks are taking your information and doing all sorts of creative things with it. And if you're concerned about it, there's some things you can do about it.  You may not be going to the doctor that's published in the recent New England Journal of Medicine, but hey, if it's a sore throat or something simple or maybe an embarrassing infection, you know, you can get away with that. Local health fairs are also a good option because they don't require an ID. Actually, a lot of doctor's offices don't require an ID, but sometimes they do require a medical card, which is an effective ID. Sometimes you can get away with, look, here's a couple hundred dollars cash while you just treat me. If it's a gunshot wound, now that's not going to work. Paying cash with prescriptions, again, it's a good idea, but you think about here, you go into a pharmacy, chances are you're giving them your real name, you may not be able to, you know, depending on what name you gave the doctor, you wrote it to John Smith, you go get John Smith a prescription, you can pay cash, but if you paid with your credit card, now all of a sudden that, you know, your credit card company's got medical information cross-pollinating on that. Non-chain doctors work a little bit better because chances are they're not going to outsource all that information. They are hiring folks in-house. It's a smaller profile here. The last part of that NAPS, not NAPSTER, but NASPR, NASPR is a policy now that several states have joined on and what they're doing is they are recording prescription drugs and different class medications. So these are narcotics and whatnot and they're tracking it because they're looking for people, they're abusing the system. They're basically building profiles of you. Proxy agents may not work here, buying your drugs on the black market, I don't know. Going to Canada or option. Going to Mexico, take your chances. Lastly, we've got some big life events that happen and births, deaths generally end up in the newspaper. You're trying to maintain a low profile remember, so how can you keep that information out of the newspaper? It becomes very embarrassing from you and you find out that you've done a dang good job but your brother has created this obituary for your grandmother that reports where everybody in the family lives. And all that information is out there. Usually too much information. Go pick up a paper read the obituaries and you're going to usually see too much information.   Your information is getting sold out. Law enforcement, avoid. Some other things about law enforcement you know they're emailing lawyers in jail that you may need representation. Police are using mobile cameras now. Which in some ways is a really good idea. There's a video record but the fact that they're keeping it around for 90 days. Again it's background information for you.  Today this may not be a problem but now all of a sudden if they do automatic license plate identification and say you know record that in some database there's potential to be a problem. So here's some just random fun facts and figures. Let me tell you about my flat in Britain and this is a little bit scary for me the fact that the television licensing authority can at any moment break into my flat and look for a television set. If I haven't paid the television licensing fee. You have different laws in different countries and you have different threats in different countries and you have to do the research at each place or maybe you have to go to a rabbit ears in the window don't stick a big area up if you haven't paid the fee. Again that's maybe where that sharing comes in. The third bullet point on here is rather amusing because as the second bullet point where Mom and son go to I think it was Best Buy to buy a flight simulator program and the 17 year old clerk says that's illegal you're not allowed And I'm not sure what to do about that. These are things to keep in mind. If you're confronted with that 17-year-old clerk, maybe go talk to the store manager. We've got a problem here. You've got that on your store shelf. Would I need to be 21 to buy a flight simulator software? Things to think about. The last bullet point on here is Linda Tripp. You may remember her from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Now if you're a government employee, some of you may be, you have a background check. And that background check is a large folder with lots of embarrassing information on you. You have to ask yourself, is it worth it?  Now the people that have access to that are generally trusted individuals, but you can ask yourself, do you really want all that information in one spot? A shopping center in Denver, Colorado, Cherry Creek Shopping Center. They're literally going around and recording license plate numbers looking to build a profile of their clientele. Now the good news is, at least they claim, they're not building an individual. It's an aggregate data collection. It's very easy for them, though, they already have the data as an individual. What's to stop them from now targeting you as an individual? There are some bright sides out there. I don't want to leave everybody with doom and gloom. There are some people that are successfully being private. There was a couple of folks from college that decided to run away and go to Florida, and they weren't found for about five days because they turned off their cell phone and didn't use credit cards. They were eventually found sort of randomly because their car was spotted in a parking lot, but it can be done. And I want to encourage each of you guys to maybe do some steps to start to go down this road. Some resources for you, again, this is on the CD. You don't need to take pictures or come up and say, hey, hold the slide. How to be invisible book, I can't recommend enough. This guy is an ex-Franco worker out of Spain, and he's made it his mission in life to be private. And a lot of the tips that came from the speech came out of here. This guy lives privacy, and it's a really good idea. It may consider him a nut, but at the same time, he's got some good suggestions out there. More on Opting Out, Living Without Social Security Number, Lucky 225, can be done. And again, there's a lot of resources out there. End stocking in America. A lot of the privacy stuff is geared towards people who are being stocked. And if you act like someone that's being stocked, you too can sort of have that mentality and not worry, or at least, you know, you've got sort of a support club out there and they've got a lot of ideas about how you cannot be tracked. Some deeper reading, there's been some good papers written about privacy and hiding. The Homeland Security paper that Torch Concepts did had all sorts of great employee, or not employee, it was passenger data in the original report. They had their name, their date of births, you know, all that fun stuff. It's since been blacked out. But it gives you an idea about the level of depth that people are actually going to to find information. I've just started the 9-11 report, and as I go through the fine print in the back, there's a lot of great details about how Air Security works and how they're actually building up the CAP system doing the employee, or not the employee, but the passenger profiling. Real quick thoughts on the future.  They're not really, I think, a problem yet for most of us, but they're certainly coming. There's a bunch of other things that are coming that are either in Congress right now or being talked about. Genetic testing is certainly a huge threat to genetic profiling. And the data really becoming omnipresent, which is these databases are getting linked together, and that big profile that the marketers are just drooling over with that 360-degree profile of, you know, this guy needs Tylenol two times a year buys this kind of toilet paper and really likes eating in and out burger and starts sending you the targeted marketing. That's where they're trying to go, where they're trying to take it, but they're not quite there yet, fortunately. And the good news is our friends up to the north in Canada, at least the Privacy Commissioner's got a clue and had a clue before he got thrown out, as I understand. And they have an idea that privacy is good business, and I encourage all of you to take back and talk to the folks that you work with and make privacy good business. If you don't collect the data, you don't have to worry about protecting it. Ask yourself why you need to collect the data. With that, I'll take any questions that you have. We've got about three minutes left. We've got five minutes left. Okay. Question over here. So the file income taxes, that's a good question. I'm sorry. The question was, what's the best way to file income taxes? And in my book, the best way to file income taxes is honestly, because you end up with the law enforcement problem. In terms of filing income taxes, not from my residence for seven years now, and I have no problem with the federal government having that information, because if they come after me, then I've got a bigger problem. That certainly is one of the trade-offs you could say about living in the U.S. that you're going to file, for me at least, you're going to file the income taxes, and I'm not going to deal with the flip side of the law enforcement problem. But the income taxes are a problem. Certainly the IRS has been a big source of information, and that's why if you don't have income, you do the bar system, you can reduce some things down like that. Or you don't claim the same deductions, because with an income tax form, you itemize all your deductions out for kids and whatnot, or trips to DEF CON. You may think about, well, if you don't list that out, then it's not going to be in somebody's big round file. Another question here. The question was, can you recommend a good source for federal and state laws on privacy? I don't have one particular site. I'm not sure if I've got a good resource out there on privacy. The problem that you run into, that I found on the law side, is there are so many different areas of privacy that there is not, you may have one law conflicting with another law, if I'm in the medical business, and yet I'm issuing credit, because somebody comes in and has a medical procedure done, now I may have two laws that conflict with each other. The best thing I can recommend is start with the big ones, like HIPAA, and kind of work your way down from there. If you're a business and you're looking for legal information, that's a lot tougher, and it's pretty much consult with a lawyer. It's kind of a standard, unfortunate answer. Question in the back. So the question was, what about post-office boxes? What about private post-office boxes? There's actually what I call as a post-office boxes, or non-resident post-office boxes. There's your regular PO box at a post office, then there is a commercial mail receiving agency, like post-office boxes, etc. Then you actually can have like your lawyer, or you have a random street address that can get mail for you. As an example, wait about somebody that just stuck up a mailbox on the street, painted a number on it, and started getting mail there. If you've ever driven in the country, sometimes there's a whole rack of boxes out there, there might be 30 mailboxes, where you put 11.5, and you nail it down and you start sending stuff there. This person was successful at getting mail there. If you go to the commercial mail receiving agencies, there's additional ID requirements, and your best bet on that is to call around and find one that has either minimum ID requirement, or use a proxy agent, best friend that doesn't care about it, have him set it up or have her set it up for you. All right, thank you.


Hello, my name is Darcy Had Son. When I graduated from high school, I always knew I wanted to study somewhere in Europe. Definitely something international. I applied to a couple of universities in France, Spain and also in the Netherlands. Then I found Saxon University. I was instantly compelled to Saxon University in many different ways. I was very impressed from the start by their professionalism, as well as a lot of creative methods and I was also very impressed by the communication from the teachers to me during my whole application process from start to finish. Today I welcome you to Eurideff, which is my first job after my study since I graduated in 2017 in international HR management. Eurideff is a business development organisation and what we do is we help North American companies bring their business into Europe. We offer three services for this, sales outsourcing, HR outsourcing and mergers and acquisitions. My role is mainly concerned with the people in turn of me and I'm the HR manager for the 70 people both in our Dutch office as well as our French office. I take care of everything from recruiting employees, so publishing job descriptions, writing job descriptions in our Dutch office as well as our French office and after this I take care of the whole recruitment and selection process right up until we found the selected candidate we want to hire. Once we found the candidate we want to hire we make them an offer and I'm also involved in this process, so salary negotiation, making a contract and also starting their onboarding process into Eurideff. So this is when the employee actually starts working for Eurideff, so I coordinate their training programme, I also offer them training programmes and make sure that they are fully operational to start working at Eurideff. Then their employment starts and from day one to the end I'm involved in many of the steps. I take care of talent development which consists of learning and development for employees. I also offer coaching both to managers as well as to employees, professional and also personal coaching. I also am responsible for the HR strategy making of Eurideff. I also take care of corporate projects so we did an employee retention research last year so I looked into retention at Eurideff and I see how we can improve this for Eurideff so I'm also making HR improvements for the company. The not so nice part of my job is I'm also involved in dismissals so when employees are leaving, whether that's voluntary or involuntary, I'm involved in that process as well. So my role is very diverse, there are some things which I can be prepared for but most of the time no day is the same.


So we're standing here in Port Villa of Fateh in Vanuatu, looking out at a number of boats that have run ashore. Can you tell us, Peter, like what are we looking at over there? I think that's the, like you already mentioned, it's some number of boats that was damaged during PAM. Cyclone PAM? Yeah, cyclone PAM. There were quite a number of them and I think they've already removed some and that's the only remaining one that's still there. And that was in 2015 and the devastation remains are still there? Yeah, that was in 2015, yeah. So can you tell us in the future how you think technology can help in disaster preparedness as well as response? Technology will be very useful in the future for disaster management in this country. We can do risk mapping for cyclones and volcanoes and tsunami. So there's a lot of benefits for technology to help us improve our future disaster reduction programmes.


S. S. Training Center in Brooklyn, New York, a special yes network presentation. It is Nets Media Day in Brooklyn. Ryan Rucco, Sarah Kustak with you live until 1 PM, maybe a little bit longer as well, depending on how the afternoon plays out. You will hear from all the key players, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Ben Simmons, Sean Marks. Many will be stopping by here as well. Of course, everybody excited about what's to come this season, but there are a lot of questions still to be answered after a wild offseason. And for the start of those answers, we go to the podium to Kevin Durant right now. Kevin, good to see you. If you just want to start off kind of giving us your mindset from when we last spoke to you, we have the Celtic series ended and what played into your decision to put the trade request in and ultimately rescind it? Well, there was a lot of uncertainty around our team last year. I committed to this organization for four years last summer with the idea that we was going to play with that group that we kind of went on that little round with the second round with. I felt like another year that us being healthy, we were building something towards the future. Then as the season went on, you know, you've seen what happened with our season, guys in and out to line up, injuries, just a lot of uncertainty which built some doubt in my mind about the next four years of my career.  So I had some doubts about that and I voiced in the jail and we moved forward from there. But in my mind, I did like what we did with Sean put together this summer with the team. I knew that with all the adversity that we had and a lot of failures that we had as a team last year, guys are going to be working to get better and be better and not make that a trend. So in the back of my mind, I was still there and I had conversations with Steve and Joe, Claire and Sean and, you know, we came to a mutual agreement that we should keep moving forward. Hey, Kevin. Twofold, what did Joe say that kind of put your mind at ease or convinced you that you guys were headed in the right direction and did you feel the need to kind of air things out with Steve and Sean specifically to make sure that they knew that you're actually behind them?  They understood where I was coming from. They, you know, I had plenty of talks with Steve and Sean throughout the season about how I was feeling and what I felt we needed to change as a team and as an organization and where I see my career. And we had plenty of conversations. So they know me, you know. So they know how much I care about the game of basketball my teammates and wanting to win. So we all jumped on the same page. It was pretty simple. We're professionals. We're, you know, we got to, you know, we know how to adapt and move forward. So I think that's really what it was. Hey, Kevin, as you do try and build, you know, winning franchise going forward, do you worry about now, you know, in a span of a few months, James Harden wanted to leave. It looked like you wanted to leave. That guys on the outside are going to maybe wonder sort of, you know, what's wrong there that the top, top level players don't want to be there. What guys are you talking about? No, I'm wondering about if, if from the outside, players might look at this and say, what players? I'm just saying, I mean, who knows? I mean, we got some good guys here that chose to come here this summer. So, I mean, I guess they, it didn't matter to them that much. So we got, you know, just got Marquis Morris who made a decision with a couple of teams, one of him and he chose us. So I guess it didn't make that big of an impact. But we know how the NBA is. It's a business and, you know, once you have businesses involved, sometimes you may have disagreements, relationships, you know, may hit a halt and you may hit a fork in the road. You got to figure out, but at the end of the day, you know, people understand what I bring to the court, what we bring to the court, the players on this team and they've seen us, they played against us and coached against us. So they understand how we play the game of basketball, all that other stuff, you know, we'll figure out. That's just the nature of the NBA at this point. Kevin, over the summer when everything was playing out, were you disappointed that you weren't traded? No. Not disappointed. I can't be, I'm not disappointed. I mean, I'm doing what I love to do first of all. So if I'm looking at it from that lens, no, I'm not disappointed, you know. I felt like either option, I mean, coming here still had a great team. But now I wasn't disappointed. I still love to play. I knew that wasn't going to be affected, you know. Regardless of what happened in the summer, I was not going to let it affect the work that needs to be put out on the court when it's time. So, you know, that's what I lean on just having fun playing ball. And I knew that's one thing that wasn't going to stop regardless. Kevin, just curious about, I understand like the season itself was disappointing the way it ended. But the talent here has never really been in doubt whether it was you, James and Kyrie or now you, Kyrie and Ben Simmons. So what was missing that raised so much doubt in your mind about your future here? And was any part of that Kyrie's contract situation? Not at all. I mean, I heard that talks about me not being upset about their contracts and them offering Kyrie. Always since day one, first of all, I never walk into any GM office or coach office that demand anything. Tell them to sign anybody or run a play for me or I come in and do my job as a player, which is to be coachable work as hard as I can and be available. So a lot of people got that in their minds is that I control everything here with the nets and only control my job. And my job is to be a player. And I felt like their relationship, they had to figure that out on their own. I'm not the liaison between Kyrie and the organization. And I always told them that. Always told Sean and Kyrie, I got to build your relationship how y'all do it. Because everybody is separate. Everybody is different. You approach each player differently. So I didn't want to get in between that. Whatever they negotiated, I had no talks in it. And I let them handle that. So my whole thing was I wanted everybody to be held accountable for their habits as a basketball player every day. And I think a lot of stuff was getting swept under the rub because we're injured or this guy's not around or just the circumstances. I thought we could have fought through that a little bit more and focused on the guys that were here a little bit more. You know, when I went out with the injury, we lost 10 in a row. And I'm like, we shouldn't be losing some of these games that we lost regardless of who on the floor. So I was more so worried about how we're approaching every day as a basketball team. And I felt like we could have fought through a lot of the stuff that I felt that held us back. And championship teams do that. You've seen that Steph Curry and the Warriors, he was injured going into the playoffs. Their team still, you know, fought in one games. Luca, he was hurt. Their team still fought in one games. And I felt like we had enough talent to do that. And that's what was a, you know, rose some doubt in my mind is that when adversity hit, can we keep pushing through it? And I've been on championship teams. I've been on teams that have been right at the brink of winning the championship. And they did those things. So I want to be a part of a group that did that. Winning and losing, I can take all of that. I've been in the league for a long time. So it's not more so about just the result. It's like how we get to that point. And I wasn't, I didn't, I wasn't feeling how we was getting to that point. And I didn't, I didn't want it to affect the game.  So Kevin, does your approach to the off season change depending on how you guys ended the season? I mean, it was a disappointed end to the season. So how did that inform what you did this off season in terms of personal work on the court? I mean, everything matters. Oh, you talk about personal. Oh, nothing, champ. I mean, you still work on all parts of my game. I mean, I've been at it for a while. So I figured I know what works out there for me. So this, mainly each summer, it's about who I'm going to get in the gym with, you know, if I'm going to be around high level talent all the time or I'm going to be around college guys. You know, so I wanted to be around the best of the best players. And I've been like that the last 10 years in my career. That's why I moved to Los Angeles because I want to be around the, you know, most of the best NBA players are there. So I work on my, you know, every aspect of my game, but I want to be amongst the best in the world, you know, when they are in their environment and their element as well outside the NBA. So it's only good for my development if I do that. Kevin, get a couple for you. First, are you surprised you're still here?  So that's one thing I did appreciate about Sean and Joe. It's like, yeah, you're too great for us to get you away. Just that easy, that simple. So, you know, I get that. I know who I am. And the second one is you said you're not the liaison between Kyrie and the organization, but now that you're still here, what gives you the confidence that he'll be a fully committed member of the team this year compared to the last couple of seasons? That first year, I mean, he played more games in me and James. So, I mean, you can say he was more reliable than us that first year. And last year, if it wasn't for the vaccine, man, he would have played. So it's not a vaccine mandate this year. And the year that I played with him before, he was very reliable. So once the mandate was gone, I figured he's going to be here every day and he loves to play. I mean, I shouldn't even have to say that. We all know that. Hey, Kevin, you mentioned there are some things that you felt the team could have thought through. Do you think that was an issue of game management, culture, or communication? It's just a matter of, like, team building.  I mean, I know it's hard, but I think we should, we could have, you know, fought through it, like I said, and did the hard thing, which is to continue to keep coming together, play, you know, winning basketball every single play. And, you know, I didn't like the fact that it's like, well, when KD come back, I was just like, well, I get it. I know I can affect the game so much, but, like, what about these other guys that got an opportunity to, you know, maybe showcase what they can do, but also help the team in a different way? So when I come back, I can jump on their train and help them, you know, instead of them, you know, adapting to me again. So I just felt like that's what great teams do. You know, I've been a part of some great groups in regards to me being in line up or out, or not just me, any guy being in and out the lineup to train, keep going, you know. So I felt like we could have did that better. And Steve agreed with me, you know. So the stuff that I was saying wasn't like, we were all on different pages, whether we all agreed that we should be doing the same stuff. So, you know, you know. So I'm glad that we was able to talk through it. And we all figure out that, you know, that's what we need to do to be a forget the championship, to just be a good team, a respectable team. And I feel like we don't have any respect out there on the court. And that's what I want for us is respect amongst the NBA community as a team on how we play on both ends of the floor, from GM all the way down to the equipment manager. I want that respect. And I think that's what we do that, but how you work every single day. And we skip some steps on how we worked throughout that year last year because of the circumstances, vaccine mandates, people with disgruntled injuries. I felt like we could have just kept pressing forward. And that's what I try to do as a player. I'm not doing, I'm not preaching something that I don't practice. Like, I come in here, every rep matters to me. So I want everybody to feel the same way. Kevin, over here, to your left. Are you able today to provide assurance to net fans that if there is adversity at some point this season or in next off season, that you won't go back to management and ask for a trade again? I mean, net fans should know me after three years and the work I put in, like we've been through a lot as a team and I still go out there and do my job. So I don't feel like I got to prove anything to net fans after three years. And, you know, I'm committed to moving forward with this team. So if they got doubts, then I can't control that. That's on you.  So, you know, I just keep being me every day. And then some people won't like it. Some people not gonna like it, but they may come around to it.  Katie, no disrespect to the people that were brought in this off season. Very good players there, but it's still the same structure, leadership, coaching, top players. A lot of the same role players are back. So what gives you the confidence that that group that didn't get it create that atmosphere you were looking for last year can do it this year? It is a year of growth and a year of us looking in the mirror of like we, you know, as a team, you know, and that only makes you better. You know, so I'm banking on that. I got faith in that. We got guys in this locker room that care. We got people in this organization that want to see this organization be as one of the prominent ones in sports. So I'm banking on that. We got, we got competitive people in this building.  Thank you, Kevin.


Hey there, this is Alex, and I have here an EVA DPI, which I'm going to try to get picked on camera for you at some point in the near future, but as you can see it is picked open, which I did off camera, and when I was fiddling with it, I picked it clockwise, and when it hit about the seven or eight o'clock mark, the plug locked up on me, and that's because there's a sidebar in there that is checking to see that there's a key there. Let me zoom out a little bit and see if it'll hold. So, what I'm going to do is, I could use a tensor, but I'm just going to use the cam to manipulate it to turn the plug, and the particular sidebar is driven by a little spring thing right on the side of the keyway on the right. I'm going to have a double time engage, and there we go, that's released. Now, if I'd gone to the right, it would have been able to continue opening the door, but that released it. So, the idea of this is that, you know, if you'd perhaps used a pick gun or picked it, as I did, and you were in the process of opening the lock, it would stick, and unlike other locks that have similar features, you can actually clear this one. Some of them they pretty much get stuck. Now, if you go on, I think keeppicking.com or lockpicking101.com, they have some good pictures of this thing gutted. Maybe I'll be brave enough to gut it one day. So, anyhow, that's that. So, if you're picking one of these guys that gets locked up, there you go. That's how you clear it out. That was a Peterson small diamond. You can use anything you want. Anyhow, this is Alex. Hopefully, in one of my next videos, we'll be picking this thing up on camera. Anyhow, please subscribe to my channel if you like my videos. And as always, have fun and keep it legal. Thanks. Bye-bye.