Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTime to Break Up Facebook
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes makes a heartfelt and cogent argument for breaking up the world’s dominant social media company, Facebook. The litmu…
6 years, 8 months ago
Health Apps Behaving Badly
A disturbing study in the JAMA Network Open journal showed that almost all of 36 mental health apps they downloaded were sharing your data to some ex…
6 years, 8 months ago
Further Facebook Fiascos
Facebook has once again gone too far and, when caught, asked for forgiveness and promised to change. First it was revealed that Facebook has been req…
6 years, 8 months ago
Swiped: Identity Theft (Pt 2)
How do you deal with the threat of identity theft? Follow Adam Levin’s 3 M’s: 1) minimize your exposure, 2) monitor your accounts, and 3) manage the …
6 years, 8 months ago
Swiped: Identity Theft (pt 1)
Identity theft is arguably one of the worst cyber crimes in terms of deep and lasting impact to the victim. This runs the gamut from simple credit ca…
6 years, 9 months ago
Spotting Scare Scams
Bad guys have been using scary emails and pop-up messages to bilk unsuspecting victims of millions of dollars for a long time now. But recent scams p…
6 years, 9 months ago
Fix It Already!
How often have you run across something so obviously bad or behind the times that you just want to scream: Hey, fix this already! Electronic Frontier…
6 years, 9 months ago
Preparing for Your Digital Afterlife
What happens to your digital life when you die? The answer is only slightly less philosophical than what happens to your soul. The laws, as least in …
6 years, 9 months ago
Enter the Panopticon (Part 2)
In second half of my interview with EFF’s Bill Budington, Bill helps us understand how we can at least attempt to disguise ourselves on the web and b…
6 years, 10 months ago
Enter the Panopticon (Part 1)
In the first part of my discussion with Bill Budington from the EFF, we’re going to talk about some of the key ways in which we are tracked around th…
6 years, 10 months ago