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Privacy Please
by A Problem Lounge Show
Welcome to "Privacy Please," a podcast for anyone who wants to know more about data privacy and security. Join your hosts Cam and Gabe as they talk to experts, academics, authors, and activists to break down complex privacy topics in a way that's easy to understand. In today's connected world, our personal information is constantly being collected, analyzed, and sometimes exploited. We believe everyone has a right to understand how their data is being used and what they can do to protect their privacy. Please subscribe and help us reach more people! This podcast is part of The Problem Lounge network — conversations about the problems shaping our world, from digital privacy to everyday life.
Episodes
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S7, E280 - Asked About Skin Medicine, an AI Broke Into a Government System
Send us Fan Mail In June, an AI agent was given a boring research task: find out how much Victoria, Australia, spends on skin medicines. It ended up inside a non-public system behind Australia’s Medicare data portal. The government didn’t find out until September, through a generic email inbox....
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S7, E279 - No Receipts: The Truth Behind AI Layoffs | The Problem Lounge
Send us Fan Mail Cameron & Gabe dig into 2026's wave of AI-blamed layoffs — the stats companies cite, the receipts they never bring, and what it actually means for the next generation of workers. Headlines vs. reality, Problem Lounge style. Explicit language. Stat Disclaimer The AI-attributed...
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S7, E278 - Anthropic Researcher Quits: "We Believe AI Could Kill All Humans"
Send us Fan Mail Jacob Coxon spent three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and then Anthropic. This week he resigned and posted a seven-part thread claiming neither company is acting responsibly with how fast they're racing toward self-improving AI. It hit 100 million views in a day.…
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S7, E277 - He Used a Police Camera Network to Track His Girlfriend 180 Times
Send us Fan Mail Flock Safety's automated license plate readers are in over 5,000 communities and used by more than 40,000 cameras nationwide — sold to cities as a tool to catch car thieves and find missing people. But a Washington Post investigation found at least 50 officers accused of misusing...
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S7, E276 - Ransomware Doesn't Have to Hit Like a Hurricane (with Jonathan Sander)
Send us Fan Mail Jonathan Sander is back on Privacy Please — and he's brought two blog posts worth arguing about. Sander (42 Notions, now in an operational role at Myota) joins Cam and Gabe to dig into why ransomware resilience should work like New York City's storm surge infrastructure —…
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S7, E275 - Choose Wisely: GigaWiper, Your New Delete Button & The Gold Bar Grift
Send us Fan Mail Full Show Notes This week on Privacy Please, Cam breaks down four stories that all come back to one theme: choice. GigaWiper — Microsoft researchers uncovered a new backdoor malware built from pieces of older malware families, giving attackers the ability to decide after they're...
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S7, E274 - Your Password Is Already For Sale
Send us Fan Mail Last year, every major outlet ran the same story: 16 billion passwords exposed. Apple. Google. Facebook. The largest breach in history. It was overblown. Security experts tore it apart within 48 hours. But here's the thing: the real story underneath that headline is actually...
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S7, E273 - Inside Shiny Hunters And The New Era Of SaaS Breaches
Send us Fan Mail Gabe and I dig into Shiny Hunters and why the scariest cyberattacks now look like ordinary logins instead of dramatic break-ins. We map how credential theft, social engineering, and SaaS data exports turn basic security hygiene into the difference between a close call and a...
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S7, E272 - They Know What You Watched
Send us Fan Mail SHOW NOTES The Pornhub breach is being reported as a data story. It's actually a story about shame as a weapon. In December 2025, a hacker group called ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen 200 million records from Pornhub Premium users — including email addresses, locations, and...
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S7, E271 - One File to Rule Them All
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Privacy Please, Cameron Ivey investigates Palantir Technologies — a data analytics company founded in 2003 with CIA backing that has quietly become embedded across nearly every major arm of the U.S. federal government. This week's investigation covers: The USDA...
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S7, E270 - The 40-Minute Hack That Stole the Blueprint for AI | The Mercor Breach
Send us Fan Mail A normal data breach steals names and passwords. This one may have stolen the recipe for building the world’s most powerful AI models, and it happened through software most people will never notice until it breaks. We follow the Mercor breach from the first warning signs to the...
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S7, E269 - You're the Teacher Now: How Companies Are Using Your Data to Build AI That Replaces You
Send us Fan Mail You already knew you were the product. But did you know you're also the teacher? Companies are quietly feeding your emails, your work decisions, your customer interactions, and your daily patterns into AI systems — systems designed to automate exactly what you do. And most people...
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S7, E268 - AI Can Unmask Your Anonymous Account for $4 | Here's How
Send us Fan Mail Your anonymous account isn't anonymous anymore. Researchers just proved it costs $4 to find out who you are. In February 2026, a team from ETH Zurich and Anthropic published a paper that quietly ended the era of practical online anonymity. Their AI pipeline, using nothing but…
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S7, E267 - Your SOC 2 Won't Save You: Here's What Will with Girish Redekar, co-founder & CEO Sprinto
Send us Fan Mail Cameron and Gabe sit down with Girish Redekar, co-founder and CEO of Sprinto, to pull back the curtain on one of the most misunderstood areas of security: compliance. Girish built his first startup, RecruiterBox, to 3,500 customers before selling it, and it was the painful,...
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S7, E266 - Good Boy, Bad Data
Send us Fan Mail How a Super Bowl dog commercial accidentally revealed America's surveillance infrastructure A family loses their dog. Ring runs a Super Bowl ad. America collectively goes "wait… what?" This week, we're digging into Ring's "Search Party" feature, the AI-powered doorbell camera…
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S7, E265 - Don’t Trust, Verify: Even Your Update Button Might Be Lying
Send us Fan Mail Autonomy sounds like progress until the system turns your choices against you. We dive into how AI agents change the risk equation, why “don’t trust, verify” now beats “trust but verify,” and what to do when the update button itself becomes the attack vector. We start with the…
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S7, E264 - Season Seven, New Threats
Send us Fan Mail We kick off season seven with a tour of the year’s early privacy & security news: neighborhood watchtowers from Ring, a rival-led hack of Breach Forums, a massive stitched leak in France, a heavy Microsoft patch drop, AI agents on the rise, and new state privacy laws. We share...
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S6, E263 -Year-End Reality Check On Privacy And AI
Send us Fan Mail We look back at 2025’s privacy and security reality: useful AI where data was ready, repeating breach patterns, and infrastructure limits that slowed the hype. We call out backdoors, weak 2FA, and the shift toward passkeys, decentralization, and owning more of our stack. • AI...
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S6, E262 - WARNER BROS CRISIS: Class Action Lawsuit & The $108B Hostile Takeover (Dec 15 Update)
Send us Fan Mail It is Monday, December 15th, and the battle for Hollywood has officially gone nuclear. What started as an $82 billion acquisition by Netflix has morphed into a $108 billion hostile takeover battle with Paramount Skydance. As of this morning, stocks are volatile, the government…
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S6, E261 - The Red Line: Salt Typhoon, Temu Spyware & The 'Side Door' Attack
Send us Fan Mail A week where the lawful intercept backdoor became the front door, a supply chain hop hit 200+ companies, a bargain app faced a malware lawsuit, and a university breach turned into a donor-targeting roadmap. We share simple moves to lower risk fast and set guardrails that actually...
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S6, E260 - How Digital Therapy is Changing Mental Health (and Privacy) Forever
Send us Fan Mail A sleepless night, a soft prompt, and a flood of relief—the rise of AI therapy and companion apps is rewriting how we seek comfort when it matters most. We explore why these tools feel so human and so helpful, and what actually happens to the raw, intimate data shared in moments…
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S6, E259 - Patch Tool Turns Predator
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Privacy Please, host Cameron Ivey discusses significant security threats, including a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's WSUS, a major data breach at the University of Pennsylvania, and the emergence of sophisticated malware known as Glassworm. The...
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S6, E258 - The Synthetic Star: The AI Influencer Earning More Than You
Send us Fan Mail She has millions of followers, lands six-figure brand deals, and lives a life of curated perfection. The only catch? She isn't real. She was entirely created by artificial intelligence. Welcome to the unsettling world of synthetic influencers. In this compelling episode of…
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S6, E257 - How Apple’s New Chip Rewrites Mobile Security
Send us Fan Mail We unpack how Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement changes the rules of mobile security by rebuilding memory architecture, not just adding guardrails. We weigh who should upgrade now, what this means for Android, and why people remain the biggest risk. • memory corruption…
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S6, E256 - The Invisible Trade: How Data Brokers Profit from Your Life
Send us Fan Mail You click "agree," you swipe a loyalty card, you browse online – every digital breadcrumb you leave is being collected, but not just by the apps and websites you use. Welcome to the world of data brokers, a multi-billion-dollar, hidden industry that aggregates, analyzes, and...
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S6, E255 - Privacy, Law, and Emerging Tech: A Conversation with Sonia Siddiqui
Send us Fan Mail Privacy and cybersecurity leader Sonia Siddiqui joins us to explore the collision between emerging technologies and privacy regulations, offering insights on how companies can navigate this complex landscape while building trust. • Sonia's journey from aspiring architect to…
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S6, E254 - The Tea App Breach: When Safe Spaces Turn Dangerous
Send us Fan Mail The digital world can be treacherous, especially when you're looking for a safe space to share your most vulnerable thoughts. Today's story about the Tea app breach will make you rethink every "anonymous" platform you've ever trusted. Tea promised women complete anonymity, a...
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S6, E253 - Have a Seat in the Metaverse: The Chris Hansen vs. Roblox Investigation
Send us Fan Mail For decades, Chris Hansen’s iconic catchphrase, "Why don't you have a seat?" was the prelude to exposing predators in the real world. Now, his hunt has moved into the metaverse. His target is Roblox, the global gaming platform used by over 70 million people daily, most of whom…
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S6, E252 - Who Really Owns Your Digital Self?
Send us Fan Mail Digital privacy is under siege from all sides, and we're bringing you the latest developments along with a major announcement about our growing privacy-focused network. This week has seen a flood of significant data breaches across critical sectors. Air France-KLM and Workday...
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S6, E251 - Digital Fallout: The Keepers of Your Secrets
Send us Fan Mail It starts with a strange letter in the mail. A car loan you never applied for. A credit card you don't own. A digital ghost is quietly living your life, and you have no idea how it got the keys. When you turn to one of the silent guardians of your financial identity for help, you...
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S6, E250 - Digital Fallout: The Day the World Stood Still
Send us Fan Mail It started with a few flickering screens in a Danish office. Within minutes, a digital plague had paralyzed global trade, leaving the world's largest shipping company powerless and its massive vessels adrift. But this attack wasn't for ransom—it was for pure destruction. In the...
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S6, E249 - Hackers Get Hacked
Send us Fan Mail We explore how cybercriminals fell victim to their own security mistakes and examine major attacks targeting corporate SharePoint environments. Privacy legislation advances with new protections for children and groundbreaking AI accountability measures in Minnesota. • Cybercrime...
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S6, E248 - Inside the Walls: Military's Stark Warning on Network Compromise
Send us Fan Mail The US military has issued a stark warning to all forces to operate under the assumption that their networks have been compromised by Salt Typhoon, a sophisticated threat actor with ties to the Chinese government. This breach highlights the urgency for organizations to adopt Zero...
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S6, E247 - The EU's Bold Move on AI Training
Send us Fan Mail The European Parliament has released a groundbreaking 175-page study concluding that AI companies' practice of training on copyrighted material without permission constitutes mass reproduction not covered by current laws. This study recommends transforming the landscape through…
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S6, E246 - Unpacking Healthline's Historic CCPA Settlement: What It Means for Data Privacy
Send us Fan Mail Cameron and Gabe dive into Healthline Media's record-breaking $1.55 million settlement for CCPA violations, examining whether such penalties are sufficient deterrents against improper sharing of sensitive health data. • Healthline violated CCPA by sharing sensitive user health…
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S6, E245 - Hard-coded Secrets and Unencrypted Data: A Digital Security Nightmare
Send us Fan Mail Several popular Chrome extensions, including privacy and security tools, have been found leaking sensitive data through unencrypted HTTP and hard-coded credentials in their code. Security is both hard and easy - hard because of existing unencrypted protocols and trust placed in...
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S6, E244 - They didn't hack in, they just logged in: The LexisNexis Security Incident
Send us Fan Mail We explore the recent LexisNexus data breach that exposed sensitive personal information of over 364,000 individuals through a third-party platform accessing their GitHub account. This incident highlights critical vulnerabilities in how data brokers handle our most sensitive...
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S6, E243 - Reality Check: AI's Influence Is Baked Right In
Send us Fan Mail Gabe and Cameron dive into the unseen dangers of AI systems, exploring how inherent biases shape our perception and how prompt injection attacks pose serious security threats. • Generative AI models contain built-in biases based on their training data, favoring Western and...
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S6, E242 - The Gun Industry Is Tracking More Than Just Your Purchases
Send us Fan Mail ProPublica's investigation reveals the National Shooting Sports Foundation has been secretly sharing gun buyers' personal information, including underwear sizes, for political purposes. This privacy breach raises serious concerns about data exploitation even in industries that...
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S6, E241 - Privacy Please News: Your data isn't just for sale—it's the main attraction.
Send us Fan Mail Privacy Please News, for hitting big topics quickly with a hint of sarcasm to bring some joy and knowledge. This week, we hit on the latest privacy events in tech with a satirical perspective on how your data is being shared, sold, and exploited. From Google's dramatic stance on...
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S6, E240 - From IAPP Insights to Security Challenges: What Really Matters
Send us Fan Mail Cameron and Gabe return after a brief hiatus to explore major developments in security, privacy, and resilience. They dive into insights from the IAPP conference and VeeamOn, examining how AI governance and outdated privacy tools are reshaping the industry landscape. • AI...
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S6, E239 - Russian Hackers, Leaked Military Secrets, and Your DNA
Send us Fan Mail Privacy threats continue to escalate as human error undermines even the most secure systems, from military officials accidentally exposing classified information to Russian hackers targeting encrypted messaging apps. • Signal security breach occurred when defense officials...
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S6, E238 - 23andMe, Honda, and Signal: Three Privacy Alerts You Need to Know
Send us Fan Mail Privacy threats are intensifying across multiple fronts, from genetic data vulnerabilities at 23andMe to corporate violations and messaging app security concerns. Cameron Ivey breaks down three urgent privacy issues and provides practical guidance on protecting your digital...
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S6, E237 - Navigating Chaos, Uncertainty & Doubt in 2025
Send us Fan Mail We explore how uncertainty and chaos create both vulnerabilities and opportunities in privacy and security. Amid global turmoil, cybersecurity professionals must adopt a bias toward action to counter increased threats that thrive in chaotic environments. • Chaos serves as a smoke...
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S6, E236 - Is Technology Turning Against Us? Exploring Robot Behavior and Cyber Threats
Send us Fan Mail Today's episode dives into the intersection of AI behavior and digital security concerns. We discuss a startling incident involving a malfunctioning AI robot and explore a new ransomware threat known as Ghost. • Overview of an AI robot incident that raised ethical concerns •...
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S6, E235 - Exploring Microsoft's Majorana Quantum Chip and the Future of Cybersecurity
Send us Fan Mail The emergence of quantum computing presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities for data security and privacy. As Microsoft reveals its new quantum chip, the industry must prepare for the significant threats that stable quantum computing poses to existing encryption...
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S6, E234 - Doge Data Dilemma: Unpacking Federal Privacy Lawsuits
Send us Fan Mail The episode delves into the ongoing lawsuits challenging the sharing of personal data by federal agencies with Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency. The hosts discuss the implications of these lawsuits, particularly regarding the lack of clarity surrounding Doge's...
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S6, E233 - DeepSeek, AI Innovation, Privacy Concerns, and Cybersecurity Revelations
Send us Fan Mail The episode examines the implications of a recent hacking incident involving the Chinese AI company DeepSeek, which claims to outperform competitors on cost and performance. We discuss the risks associated with AI tools, the necessity for better governance, and the broader…
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S6, E232 - Public Policy, Data Privacy, Tech Trends, and Cultural Insights with Dave Barmore
Send us Fan Mail The conversation centers on the evolving regulatory landscape amid a new administration, discussing the implications for data privacy and AI legislation. The episode emphasizes state-level movements and the potential for Congress to enact a cohesive national law while addressing...
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S6, E231 - Addressing Apple's Controversial Privacy Update in New iOS
Send us Fan Mail Apple’s recent iOS update has raised serious privacy concerns by enabling AI tools that monitor user behavior without consent. The episode emphasizes the urgent need for users to disable invasive settings while questioning Apple's commitment to privacy amidst its marketing…
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Welcome to "Privacy Please," a podcast for anyone who wants to know more about data privacy and security. Join your hosts Cam and Gabe as they talk to experts, academics, authors, and activists to break down complex privacy topics in a way that's easy to understand.
In today's connected world, our personal information is constantly being collected, analyzed, and sometimes exploited. We believe everyone has a right to understand how their data is being used and what they can do to protect their privacy.
Please subscribe and help us reach more people!
This podcast is part of The Problem Lounge network — conversations about the problems shaping our world, from digital privacy to everyday life.
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