IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Tearing it Down for the week ending September 24th. 2024

EP209  You can tear it up, or tear it down, and this week we get a bit of both as we circle the Earth with our update.We start with Snapchat seemingly opting you in to yet another AI use case.  Subscribers are suspicious, but we let you be the judge.From there we go to a story not so much about a hacker as an aggregator.  Wait how many email addresses have they collected?For our third update we look at the other side of supply chain interference.  Exploding devices may be one thing when they are "over there" but what if they end up in your pocket of front room?Google has announced it will soon tear down a big obstacle for passkeys in their synching across devices through the use of their password manager.An international trade union calls out three of the "Fantastic Five" for their Undemocratic ways.  This could smart in a US election year.And we finish this update with a new phenomenon called a noise storm and the interesting thing found in the midst of it.We tear it down so you can have a better look inside.  Come join us! Find the full transcript to this podcast here.