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What Google Chrome knows about you, with Carey Parker
Season 6 Episode 6
Google Chrome is, by far, the most popular web browser in the world.
According to several metrics, Chrome accounts for anywhere between 52% and 66% of…
1 year, 6 months ago
How ads weirdly know your screen brightness, headphone jack use, and location, with Tim Shott
Season 6 Episode 5
Something’s not right in the world of location data.
In January, a location data broker named Gravy Analytics was hacked, with the alleged cybercrimin…
1 year, 6 months ago
Surveillance pricing is "evil and sinister," explains Justin Kloczko
Season 6 Episode 4
Insurance pricing in America makes a lot of sense so long as you’re one of the insurance companies. Drivers are charged more for traveling long dista…
1 year, 7 months ago
A suicide reveals the lonely side of AI chatbots, with Courtney Brown
Season 6 Episode 3
In February 2024, a 14-year-old boy from Orlando, Florida, committed suicide after confessing his love to the one figure who absorbed nearly all of h…
1 year, 7 months ago
Three privacy rules for 2025
Season 6 Episode 2
It’s Data Privacy Week right now, and that means, for the most part, that you’re going to see a lot of well-intentioned but clumsy information online…
1 year, 8 months ago
The new rules for AI and encrypted messaging, with Mallory Knodel
Season 6 Episode 1
The era of artificial intelligence everything is here, and with it, come everyday surprises into exactly where the next AI tools might pop up.
There a…
1 year, 8 months ago
Is nowhere safe from AI slop?
Season 5 Episode 27
You can see it on X. You can see on Instagram. It’s flooding community pages on Facebook and filling up channels on YouTube. It’s called “AI slop” an…
1 year, 9 months ago
A day in the life of a privacy pro, with Ron de Jesus
Season 5 Episode 26
Privacy is many things for many people.
For the teenager suffering from a bad breakup, privacy is the ability to stop sharing her location and to bloc…
1 year, 9 months ago
These cars want to know about your sex life (re-air)
Season 5 Episode 25
Two weeks ago, the Lock and Code podcast shared three stories about home products that requested, collected, or exposed sensitive data online.
There w…
1 year, 10 months ago
An air fryer, a ring, and a vacuum get brought into a home. What they take out is your data
Season 5 Episode 24
The month, a consumer rights group out of the UK posed a question to the public that they’d likely never considered: Were their air fryers spying on …
1 year, 10 months ago