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Ep 16 - Eva Galperin on Stalkerware, Tech-enabled Abuse, and Taking Back the Power of Privacy

Privacy is the New Celebrity

English - January 27, 2022 19:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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In episode 16, Lucy Kind interviews Eva Galperin, the director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an international non-profit digital rights group that promotes online civil liberties. Eva leads EFF's Threat Lab, where one of her focuses includes eradicating "stalkerware" - spyware used for domestic abuse. Eva explains how private companies are profiting by selling malware that allows abusers to track everything a victim does on their device.  She breaks down how these virtual risks lead to real-world harms, and why it's so important to design technology for the most marginalized members of society.