February 15, 2021 Not Just a Face in the Crowd Ep207. Clearview AI – the company that has hoovered up every face it can find on the internet to create a creepy person identifying…
February 1, 2021 Stop Watching Me! Tracking and data mining has gotten way out of hand. We’re not only being tracked online, we’re now being tracked around the real world,…
November 9, 2020 Zoom: Now with Actual Privacy Zoom went from an obscure teleconferencing company to a household word when the pandemic hit. Zoom wasn’t the best videoconferencing app by any means….
August 17, 2020 This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (part 2) Can Facebook or Google really promise to keep your data private in this era of mass surveillance by the likes of the NSA and…
August 10, 2020 This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (part 1) What good are privacy laws when we all know that intelligence agencies don’t play by the rules? How can any company promise to keep…
April 13, 2020 Contact Tracing, Privately As health services and society in general struggle to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, people are desperately seeking new and inventive ways to curb…
March 2, 2020 Hacked: A Clearer View of Clearview A few weeks ago, the New York Times published a bombshell article about a small startup called Clearview AI who was using a massive…
January 1, 2018 🎧 Make Your New Years (Cyber) Resolutions! It’s that time of year again – time for New Years Resolutions! While you consider going to the gym or maybe drinking a little…
November 30, 2017 It’s Time for Everyone to use Secure Email In the era of mass surveillance, our communications are being hoovered up, searched and stored by both corporations and intelligence agencies, without a warrant…
November 9, 2017 🎧 It’s Time to End Dragnet Mass Surveillance The law that enables the warrantless collection and searching of the communications of US citizens is set to expire at the end of 2017….