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ALPRs are recording your daily drive (feat. Will Freeman)
Season 6 Episode 26
There’s an entire surveillance network popping up across the United States that has likely already captured your information, all for the non-suspici…
9 months ago
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 …
9 months, 2 weeks 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 y…
10 months 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 h…
10 months, 2 weeks 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 …
11 months 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…
11 months, 2 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 eithe…
11 months, 4 weeks 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 ove…
1 year 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 …
1 year 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 …
1 year, 1 month ago