This Week in Digital Privacy
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Episodes
Digital privacy news for July 16, 2021
July 16, 2021 15:17 - 8 minutes - 15.1 MBThis episode was originally recorded and released on July 16th, 2021. This week we’re covering: Is audacity spyware, raising the alarm on NSA spying, and Amazon’s Ring cameras roll out E2EE. All news sources are linked in the show notes on usefathom.com/weekly. Is the open-source audio software tool Audacity now spyware for Russian companies? Raising the Alarm (Again) on NSA Domestic Spying Ring’s end-to-end encryption is rolling out globally
Digital privacy news for July 9, 2021
July 09, 2021 15:11 - 7 minutes - 13.4 MBThis episode was originally recorded and released on July 2nd, 2021. This week I’m covering: Apple Airtag speaker removal, fake names, Telegrams video calling, Google maps on iOS and governments using facial recognition software. All news sources are linked in the show notes on usefathom.com/weekly. A letter sent to the EU and US governments to ban surveillance-based advertising Secure chat app Wickr was acquired by Amazon GETTR is a buggy, leaky Twitter clone with huge privacy a...
Digital privacy news for July 2, 2021
July 02, 2021 07:01 - 10 minutes - 18.4 MBThis episode was originally recorded and released on July 2nd, 2021. This week I’m covering: Apple Airtag speaker removal, fake names, Telegrams video calling, Google maps on iOS and governments using facial recognition software. All news sources are linked in the show notes on usefathom.com/weekly. Airtag speaker removal Is the future of earning online using a fake name? Telegram adds group videos Google maps on iOS is not privacy-focused Private companies sell facial recognit...
Digital privacy news for June 25, 2021
June 25, 2021 13:56 - 7 minutes - 14.2 MBThis episode was originally recorded and released on June 25th, 2021. This week we’re covering: Amazons surveillance infrastructure, a cookie banner protocol, a call to ban targeted ads, and our interview with Julia Angwin of The Markup. All news sources are linked in the show notes on usefathom.com/weekly. https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/sidewalk-the-next-frontier-of-amazons-surveillance-infrastructure/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/tired-of-accepting-rejec...
Digital privacy news for June 18, 2021
June 18, 2021 15:09 - 9 minutes - 16.9 MBThis episode was originally recorded and released on June 18th, 2021. This week we’re covering: Facebook’s new encrypted calling, car location data, Arizona suing Google, DuckDuckGo, FLoC and more. All news sources are linked in the show notes on usefathom.com/weekly. Secret Conversations from Facebook: https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-ramps-up-privacy-efforts-with-end-to-end-encrypted-audio-video-calling-tests/ 'Privacy Protecting' Car Location Data Seemingly Shows Where Pe...
Digital privacy news for June 11, 2021
June 11, 2021 19:07 - 9 minutes - 18.1 MBThis week we’re covering: WWDC, Protonmail, Apple’s Airtags, and finally, an article from The Reboot: Why We Should End the Data Economy. All news sources are linked in the shownotes on usefathom.com/weekly. Sources mentioned in today's show: WWDC: https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/07/apple-wwdc-2021-privacy-security Jason Momoa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Momoa Protonmail 2: https://protonmail.com/blog/new-protonmail-announcement Airtags: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/05/t...