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The future for Samsung, does complacency correlate to monopoly status and underestimating the world’s technological capabilities is an issue.

Quick News

• OnePlus is quietly collecting a ton of data from its smartphones [Link]
• Netflix to spend up to $8 billion on programming next year [Link]
• Mobile phone companies appear to be providing your number and location to anyone who pays [Link]
• WhatsApp launches encrypted ‘Live Location’ sharing feature in mobile app [Link]

Topics talked about today:

• Samsung Electronics CEO resigns, even as record profits expected [Link]
• Supreme Court to decide if US has right to data on world’s servers [Link]
• Is US Lurching Back to Monopoly Status? [Link]
• The US government keeps spectacularly underestimating solar energy installation [Link]