Privacy Please
Welcome to "Privacy Please," a podcast for anyone who wants to know more about data privacy and security. Join your hosts Cam and Gabe as they talk to experts, academics, authors, and activists to break down complex privacy topics in a way that's easy to understand.
In today's connected world, our personal information is constantly being collected, analyzed, and sometimes exploited. We believe everyone has a right to understand how their data is being used and what they can do to protect their privacy.
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Latest Episodes
S7, E278 - Anthropic Researcher Quits: "We Believe AI Could Kill All Humans"
Jacob Coxon spent three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and then Anthropic. This week he resigned and posted a seven-part thread claiming neither company is acting responsibly with how fast they're racing toward self-improving AI. It...
S7, E277 - He Used a Police Camera Network to Track His Girlfriend 180 Times
Flock Safety's automated license plate readers are in over 5,000 communities and used by more than 40,000 cameras nationwide — sold to cities as a tool to catch car thieves and find missing people. But a Washington Post investigation found at l...
S7, E276 - Ransomware Doesn't Have to Hit Like a Hurricane (with Jonathan Sander)
Jonathan Sander is back on Privacy Please — and he's brought two blog posts worth arguing about.Sander (42 Notions, now in an operational role at Myota) joins Cam and Gabe to dig into why ransomware resilience should work like New York C...
S7, E275 - Choose Wisely: GigaWiper, Your New Delete Button & The Gold Bar Grift
Full Show NotesThis week on Privacy Please, Cam breaks down four stories that all come back to one theme: choice.GigaWiper — Microsoft researchers uncovered a new backdoor malware built from pieces of older malwa...