Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDesigning Apps for Privacy
Privacy advocates like me implore people to use secure apps that protect their data. But how difficult is it to actually create those apps? How do yo…
2 years, 10 months ago
Unmasking Shortened Links
Web links are great, when you’re on the web. But if you need to read off or write down a web address, or URL, to someone else, anything beyond a simp…
2 years, 10 months ago
Fixing Social Media
Social media wasn’t always so bad. It didn’t use to collect so much information. It didn’t use to feed us content we didn’t ask for in an attempt to …
2 years, 11 months ago
Where & Why to Plant Your Flag
As a general rule, I would normally advise people to minimize the number of online accounts they have, including avoiding creating unnecessary accoun…
2 years, 11 months ago
Combatting Surveillance Capitalism
The business of data mining and behavioral advertising has never been stronger or more ubiquitous. And yet, cracks are beginning to appear in the fou…
2 years, 11 months ago
Data Privacy Week 2023
Every January, we celebrate privacy with Data Privacy Week. It has rightly expanded from Data Privacy Day. And of course every day should be data pri…
2 years, 11 months ago
Using Aliases to Improve Privacy
Our email addresses and cell phone numbers have become highly valuable identifiers for marketers. Like government-issued IDs, your email address and …
2 years, 11 months ago
New Year’s Resolutions: 2023
It’s that time of year again! Time to put the past behind us and look forward to a brand new year, full of possibilities and hope! In today’s show I’…
3 years ago
Privacy Tide is Turning
Facebook stock is down 65%, they just paid $725M to settle the Cambridge Analytica lawsuit, and they’ve just been fined over $400M by the EU. But tha…
3 years ago
SPECIAL: LastPass Breach
Right before Christmas, LastPass dropped a bombshell report explaining that bad actors appeared to have made copies of LastPass users’ encrypted pass…
3 years ago