Podcast Episodes

Data and Disability: Rights in a Digitised world

This week we take a deep dive into the issues around the rights and privacy of the global disability community in the digital age.

We're joined by Rosemary Kayess - Vice Chair of the UN Committee o…

Published on 10 months ago

Enter the matrix: How to run an encrypted communications platform

This week we're talking to Matthew Hodgson, one of the founders of Matrix - a network for secure, decentralised communication, and CEO/CTO of Element - a communications platform built using Matrix, a…

Published on 11 months ago

The XZ exploit: The day the internet got lucky

This week we're talking about a backdoor inserted into a popular Linux file compression tool, which had the potential to massively undermine the security of vast swathes of the internet. What happene…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

The Cryptowars: A short history of encryption politics

Welcome to the last of our short series on encryption. This week we're just talking amongst ourselves, luckily Gus is an expert on encryption - having been working in and around the encryption debate…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

A letter from the Russian government: Defending encryption in Court

This week we speak to Ioannis, a senior lawyer at PI, about his and his colleague's work on the landmark case protecting encyrption at the European Court of Human Rights: Podchasov v. Russia.

The ca…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

What is Encryption? Codes, Keys, and Hashes

What do you know about cryptography? Have you ever wanted to get a better understanding of some of the maths behind encryption? This week we speak to Ed, a Senior Technologist at PI, about some of th…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

GPS tracking of migrants in the UK: Performative cruelty and dodgy tech

This week we speak to Mark Nelson, a car mechanic and father of five, who has been forced to wear a GPS tag by the Home Office for the past 20 months, and his lawyer Katie Schwarzmann of Wilsons Soli…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Good News: Things you might have missed in 2023

This week we talk about good things (or good-ish things) that you might have missed from 2023!

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Companies getting disciplined

- Ovulation Tracking App Premom Will be Barred from Sharing Healt…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Generative AI: Our hot takes on deep fakes

This week we have a think about generative AI. After a concerning Guardian article about deep fake scams, we ask the question: did we really understand the risks when we started a podcast?

The audio…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

No Competition: Big Tech, Big Problems

This week we speak to competition expert Dr Deni Mantzari about competition, monopoly, and regulation. Are big tech companies monopolies? And if they are is that a problem?

Since we recorded this p…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago