TWITTER Week of July 20, 2020 (see last week)
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It is time for another edition of our jaw-dropping, knee-slapping, award-winning feature called "Thanks for Nothing." Alright, we're exaggerating. But the dubious advertised offers we spotlight should at least elicit a chuckle or a snicker.
That is our Mouse Print* story this week.
Major retailers have just announced that you will need to wear a mask if you want to shop at their stores. This continually updated list includes a lot of the biggies like Walmart, Target, CVS, Walgreens, Costco, Kohl's, Home Depot, Lowe's, Starbucks, and many more.
The Oklahoma pharmacy board just fined CVS $75,000 for safety issues it found at four of its pharmacies. There was understaffing, and an error rate of nearly 22 percent in the 305 prescriptions checked during an audit. The findings at these CVS pharmacies mirror complaints nationwide at various chain drugstores that authorities hear about from pharmacists themselves. [Link may not work in all browsers. Alternate link is here.]
As devices in our homes get smarter and smarter because they are connected to our wifi system and can respond to voice commands, privacy advocates worry that they may be listening in to our conversations and collecting too much personal data. To combat this, a bill was just introduced in Congress to alert you to products that can record audio or video. This bill may have stemmed from an eye-opening report by KUTV earlier this year that revealed that Feit brand smart light bulbs had a privacy policy that suggested the bulb and its app collected ridiculous amounts of private information (which it could not possibly do). Watch the original video.
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