Your Privacy Settings Are Lying to You (CISO Alex Shulman-Peleg Explains)

Your Venmo, Strava & Netflix accounts may be public right now — I sat down with Kraken's Global CISO to find out how to fix it. In this episode of the Smarter Online Safety Show, I'm joined by Dr. Alex Shulman-Peleg — Global CISO at Kraken, PhD in Computer Science, holder of 14 patents in cloud security and access control, and author of 30+ cybersecurity publications cited over 4,000 times. We dig into online privacy, social media privacy settings, identity theft, deepfakes, and digital self-defense in the age of AI. In this episode, you'll learn: ✅ Why your social media privacy settings are wide open by default — and exactly how to lock them down ✅ The hidden privacy risks of Strava, Venmo, and shared Netflix/streaming accounts ✅ How data breaches and identity fraud connect through your school, utility, and everyday online accounts ✅ Why you should treat every single online account like a bank account ✅ How AI deepfakes and identity theft are now combining to target everyday people ✅ The tagging and photo-sharing setting most people forget even exists ✅ Simple password manager and multi-factor authentication (MFA) habits that actually work ✅ A true story about how good intentions online can be weaponized against the people we're trying to protect 👤 About Alex Shulman-Peleg: Alex is the Global CISO at Kraken ( https://www.kraken.tech ), the AI-powered energy tech platform, and has previously built and scaled cloud security programs at EY, Citigroup, and IBM Research. 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shulmana/  🔗 Google Scholar (publications & patents): https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=O7t54HwAAAAJ  🔗 ONUG board profile: https://onug.net  If this episode helped you, share it with someone who needs to hear it — because once your privacy is gone, it's a lot harder to get back.