July 24, 2023 The Politics of Privacy Despite growing demand from US citizens for privacy protections, the federal government has failed repeatedly to enact basic privacy laws. However, one US state…
May 1, 2023 STOPping Mass Surveillance There’s a big difference between mass surveillance and targeted surveillance based on a court-approved, limited-scope search warrant. But advances in technology have made warrant-less,…
April 3, 2023 Privacy Peeps Panel On today’s show, I’ll take you behind the scenes of not one, not two, but three different privacy websites. I ask Nate from The…
January 23, 2023 Using Aliases to Improve Privacy Our email addresses and cell phone numbers have become highly valuable identifiers for marketers. Like government-issued IDs, your email address and phone number are…
January 9, 2023 Privacy Tide is Turning Facebook stock is down 65%, they just paid $725M to settle the Cambridge Analytica lawsuit, and they’ve just been fined over $400M by the…
December 26, 2022 Building a Better Private Network All our devices and apps use the internet these days. But what are they doing on the internet, exactly? Who are they talking to?…
November 14, 2022 Surveying the Digital Explosion Connected computers have changed the world perhaps more than any other single invention. The impacts of nearly instant global communication and effectively infinite, perfect…
October 31, 2022 Building Trust with Privacy It’s easy to tell people to use this or that privacy tool, but this always assumes that you trust the service that is providing…
October 10, 2022 Mobile Payment Fraud Cold hard cash is becoming more and more rare these days. People just don’t carry it around much any more. So how do you…
September 19, 2022 Tornado Warning for Free Speech You may not be into cryptocurrency, but a recent incident involving a so-called “cryptocurrency mixer” has some important implications for privacy and free speech….
