This 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 and security holes
Google delays blocking third-party cookies in Chrome until 2023