No Privacy, but the AI, Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week ending April 21st. 2026

EP 288. No privacy, but so much is going on that you might not notice for the next 20 minutes. We start with…A senator who has been right before is raising alarms he cannot fully explain, and that pattern alone should command attention. Traveling with a locked phone just became a legal liability in one of the world's most-visited financial hubs. A hundred thousand users thought they were downloading videos; they were handing over their digital fingerprints.That free app may be paying for itself in ways you never agreed to and will never see on a receipt.North Korea's most prolific hacking group has refined its macOS playbook down to a single terminal command and a moment of misplaced trust.A six-figure plugin acquisition quietly became an eight-month undetected supply chain attack hiding in plain sight.The promise of building software in minutes is colliding with a harder truth: speed without security discipline is just a faster way to expose your users.The same government arguing in court that an AI model is a national security threat is quietly using it to scan its own networks.Let’s take a peek…Find the full transcript to this podcast here.