Podcast Episodes

Pig butchering is the next “humanitarian global crisis” (feat. Erin West)

Season 6 Episode 25

This is the story of the world’s worst scam and how it is being used to fuel entire underground economies that have the power to rival nation-states across the globe. This is the story of “pig butche…

Published on 1 day, 3 hours ago

Air fryer app caught asking for voice data (re-air)

Season 6 Episode 24

It’s often said online that if a product is free, you’re the product, but what if that bargain was no longer true? What if, depending on the device you paid hard-earned money for, you still became a …

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Your coworker is tired of AI "workslop" (feat. Dr. Kristina Rapuano)

Season 6 Episode 23

Everything’s easier with AI… except having to correct it.

In just the three years since OpenAI released ChatGPT, not only has onlife life changed at home—it’s also changed at work. Some of the biggest…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Would you sext ChatGPT? (feat. Deb Donig)

Season 6 Episode 22

In the final, cold winter months of the year, ChatGPT could be heating up.

On October 14, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the “restrictions” that his company previously placed on their flagship produc…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

What does Google know about me?

Season 6 Episode 21

Google is everywhere in our lives. It’s reach into our data extends just as far.

After investigating how much data Facebook had collected about him in his nearly 20 years with the platform, Lock and C…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

What's there to save about social media? (feat. Rabble)

Season 6 Episode 20

“Connection” was the promise—and goal—of much of the early internet. No longer would people be separated from vital resources and news that was either too hard to reach or made simply inaccessible by…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Can you disappear online? (feat. Peter Dolanjski)

Season 6 Episode 19

There’s more about you online than you know.

The company Acxiom, for example, has probably determined whether you’re a heavy drinker, or if you’re overweight, or if you smoke (or all three). The same …

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

This “insidious” police tech claims to predict crime (feat. Emily Galvin-Almanza)

Season 6 Episode 18

In the late 2010s, a group of sheriffs out of Pasco County, Florida, believed they could predict crime. The Sheriff’s Department there had piloted a program called “Intelligence-Led Policing” and the…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

How a scam hunter got scammed (feat. Julie-Anne Kearns)

Season 6 Episode 17

If there’s one thing that scam hunter Julie-Anne Kearns wants everyone to know, it is that no one is immune from a scam. And she would know—she fell for one last year.

For years now, Kearns has made a…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

“The worst thing” for online rights: An age-restricted grey web (feat. Jason Kelley)

Season 6 Episode 16

The internet is cracking apart. It’s exactly what some politicians want.

In June, a Texas law that requires age verification on certain websites withstood a legal challenge brought all the way to the …

Published on 4 months ago