Topic: Data Points

Facebook introduced 50 new custom gender options, a move celebrated by Rich Ferraro of GLAAD in a news clip. The hosts interpret this update as a strategy for Facebook to collect more granular data points for targeted advertising and government surveillance. They mock the "smarmy" PR approach and the complexity of the new categories, such as "cisgender" and "gender fluid."

A retrospective of C-SPAN call-in pranks is briefly mentioned before shifting to an update on the Target data breach. A technician's email suggests that Target was replacing all point-of-sale units nationwide just before the breach. The hosts speculate that the new units, manufactured in China, may have had skimmers pre-installed, which would implicate the manufacturing process in the theft of customer data.