Herding Cats with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly update and for the week Ending November 14th 2023

Episode 165 This week we let the cat out of the bag with the FTCs probe into one databroker’s dealings.We follow with our second update that has a cat on a hot tin roof … of your car and just what the automobile manufacturers are collecting from you that is available to the police, but not you. For story three we swing the cat ‘round to the EU to find out a bit more about QWACs, while in Australia we put the cat among the pigeons of one telecom provider with an update and a request that had a judge decide they didn’t have a cat in hell’s chance.In at story five is what happened to the cool cats over at Open AI right after their first developer conference.We look at a couple things the cat dragged in one affecting older older bitcoin wallets and the other particular Python packages.And we end with the cats meow of an update to a great communications app.The cat got the cream but we’ve got an even tastier menu in this week’s dishy update