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A true tale of virtual kidnapping (re-air)
Season 7 Episode 20
On Thursday, December 28, 2023, at 8:30 pm in the Utah town of Riverdale, the city police began investigating what they believed was a kidnapping.
17-…
4 hours ago
The AI plot to scan and destroy books (feat. Emanuel Maiberg)
Season 7 Episode 19
If you want AI to tell you a story, it will. If you want that story to sound like one of your favorite authors, it can. And if you’re one of the auth…
2 weeks ago
Loyalty points fraud is funding hacker holidays (feat. Kim Sutherland)
Season 7 Episode 18
Crooks are taking a holiday. They’re counting on you to fund it.
For decades, cybercriminals have stolen roughly the same types of data. Biographical …
4 weeks ago
What happens to your data when you die? (feat. Tamara Kneese)
Season 7 Episode 17
You will die. Your data will not.
The afterlife of our information is a recent phenomenon, and some of the companies with the most to sort through are…
1 month, 1 week ago
How to fake a data trail (and maybe lower prices) (feat. Chris Parr)
Season 7 Episode 16
It may sound entirely bizarre but the prices you once paid for hotels, educational classes, or staplers could have all been higher because you used a…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
What's your data worth on the dark web?
Season 7 Episode 15
Twenty years ago, a British mathematician named Clive Humby popularized a phrase that came to describe data’s relationship with the entire global eco…
2 months, 1 week ago
Trusting your kids online isn't enough
Season 7 Episode 14
There is a lot going on right now regarding the safety of kids online.
In the United States, the majority of state legislatures have passed age verifi…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
This pay gap is programmed (feat. Veena Dubal)
Season 7 Episode 13
Pay is personal for plenty of Americans, but a new distribution model that consumes vast quantities of worker data is turning pay into something else…
3 months ago
Deepfake porn sites are going offline (re-air) (feat. David Chiu)
Season 7 Episode 12
If you weren’t taking deepfakes seriously before, it’s too late now to ignore them.
According to new research from Malwarebytes, one in three people w…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Payment apps are watching what you say (feat. Rainey Reitman)
Season 7 Episode 11
In the United States today, you can have your bank account closed, your credit cards cancelled, and your online payments revoked for any number of cr…
4 months ago