The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

This week you might be forgiven for laughing at some of the coverage until you realize how close it hits to home. We start with an issue reported back in 2020 that got no response, but could be set to beat the third-largest fine issued so far under GDPR (both to the same company), and end with something done in the name of security so curious, you’ll have to decide what to call it. From there we p...

This week we hand you the remote so you can explore the latest in what you need to know about IT privacy and security. We start with an unexpected success story and end possibly with fewer Euros in our pockets. We have some incredible updates on China’s creative use of the Internet, the weaponization of a familiar app., and a well-known red teaming tool to test company security that’s probably the...

Presenting a special birthday round-up for you today. From a new law in Italia that will ban facial recognition until the rules surrounding it catch up, to the birth of a new baby who just might grow up to be president! We have some great spy thriller/forensic analysis stories for you this week that will be either reassuring or …  very  disconcerting in their discoveries! We move “down u...

This week we have a refreshing break for anyone in the US who has been bludgeoned with non-stop Political ads for the last two weeks. (These ads are everywhere, TV, the sides of buses, the Internet, radio, and even people’s front lawns.) For our fresh “forget the election” update we start with a “You could not make this up” story again about TikTok, now changing their EU privacy policy to let all...

This week we start down the road of your data collection and discover ways and places it’s being shared that you might never have suspected. Next, we learn who’s included in the hubbub about ransomware and what the ransomware baddies are doing to build greater efficiencies into their exploits. From there we move on to companies with more leaks than a wicker canoe, a submarine screendoor, or a porc...

For this update, it’s all digits to hand. We go from Japan and Iran to Prime deliveries from a van. Allegations of TikTok’s Chinese monitor, e-mail proof that Parler shares monikers while France fines an unrepentant photograph chronicler. We have programming language standings, new Australian fines landing and the malware that Qatar is demanding. And if that bad rap came through clear, we promise...

This week we start in the air and end in the air, with not a care while we are there. We get an update on “Baby Al Capone” who got done for hacking a phone, how your drone might give up your home, a new Turkish law that gets basted, and a card shark who’s wasted. We have Shein getting the boot, hackers for hire facing a suit, a duck update for your next reboot and new AI that identifies a woodland...

James Bond, Mata Hari, and Papa John? This week we look into what today’s liars and spies are up to; from fishing to card sharks, wiretaps to deauthers, stolen keys to firewall upgrades. And in the face of that, we are presented with an Operating System that is bundling higher security and application updates and … supporting it all for 10 years. Publicity stunt? Maybe, but it got our attention! F...

Wooly Mammoth or Ferrari? One’s sprung a leak and the other could feature in the next chapter of a spy novel. It’s not Ke$ha, but Tik Tok following us around these days, as Amazon hits the front page for providing cloud services to a couple of companies better avoided and the NYPD goes dark. If you hate picking the boxes with the “buses and crosswalks” we could have some very good news for you, wh...

This week we are practicing a security technique introduced to us years ago while working with Scotland Yard. “Air Gapping” You can’t get hacked if you are air gapped. So while we are off gapping we update you on a great way not to suffer from MFA fatigue. Then we discover after lots of arm flapping by the US authorities about the Russians and Chinese doing this…they’re doing it too We fly across...

This week we start out fine but falter somewhat when we hear how many healthcare facilities have been breached in the first six months of 2022. Spirits lift with an Uber joke and the reassurance that if you lose your phone but are one of ten thousand lucky travelers across, around, and near, US borders each year, Uncle Sam might just have a full backup of it. We hear how one guy who ran a farm has...

From Tweets to Whistles we’re here to make some noise. You get the latest from Washington DC on “what it has, where it lives or where it came from” and why the U.S. Navy can’t say anything more about UFOs. We serve you a fix that really whacks and a new telecom project that will leave you looking at your phone like it’s a tin can with a piece of string attached. You’ll be amazed by the magic of Me...

From the Depths of the Dark Web to the summit of Mount Everest, we have you covered. In this update, we have a creative idea for what to do with the rellies for the holidays, where the commute may be long but the privacy superb. We have a sensational story of TikTok actually telling the truth and another of Irish authorities objecting to Instagram/Meta business accounts for 13-year-olds. We have a...

From outer space to inner space and a few rotations in between, we spin you right round. Space may be “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, but one woman has and will again. We discover why you are less likely to be locked in a compartment and blasted with targeted ads during your next train ride to Delhi and what Google will track while you are on the tracks. We learn about all the cameras you can buy...

This week we start with a tweet and end with a rap. In between those bookends, we have a sick kid, now healthy, a father who may never recover, a great site to see what the apps on your phone might be up to, and a new champion in the fight for our attention. We have the latest in “secure” smartphones that could end up sounding exactly the opposite by the time you get to the end of our coverage, an...

This week is at least our 100th show and to celebrate, we start in the underwear drawer and end up on the floor in one of the cutest stories about the effects of honey that we have ever seen. We learn about a new hack that reveals the deep secrets of Dishy McFlatFace, and why Zoom took you out for your first meeting with your boss yesterday. There’s an announcement about Amazon’s new comedy show m...

From outer space to time travel: this week it’s “All systems go!” We find ourselves in the cow flower and then get “compromised by” Twitter, Slack, and Twilio. We find the legal detail in the class action lawsuit behind the company which must have one of the worst ads on US television right now. We discover a couple of new players in the phone security arena and perhaps come away with some ideas f...

Get out the passport because you’ll need it for a range of stories that circle the globe. We start with an icon and end with an algorithm, and in between, we’ve got one of the best updates yet. From data sharing between governments to Meta/Facebooks’ latest debacle, you could find our story on camo might be the only thing left to hide behind. There’s a shocking story for new parents in the US stat...

This week we share a pungent selection from the most excellent landfill of stories yet. We start our noisome journey literally in the dump and end up staring at a set of salad tongs. We have a familiar cast of characters representing slightly different fragrance lines: Zuck, Elon, Blake, and even the devil himself may be found to guff in this one. There’s the effluvium at KMart, new detritus for O...

This week we use all our senses as we move from our ears, with Mark Zuckerberg’s lilting voice and constant backing tracking, to talk of a frozen backside during one of the biggest heatwaves ever to hit the northern hemisphere. We learn that our eyes may never see the million-page novel censored by an online document service, and smell a rat as a former CIA agent gets the opportunity to feel the s...

We go drifting in the Honda this week with stories ranging from AI writing its own autobiography to why our Anom phone bill was so high. In between we have lots of car stories: Some of them might have you in tears, so grab a tissue. We accelerate from beans to Titans and then hit the brakes when we discover another instance of those collecting everything on everyone leaving it all out on the start...

This update moves IT Privacy and Security from your next meal to a trip around the salad bar at least a couple of times. We work our way from an unlikely garden and a Raspberry Robin out to the OpenSea. We discover many, unappetizing ways for our data to be lost, stolen, or sold. Then… sprinkling a little bit of insight into how police use our search data and what is being proposed in the garden s...

For this update, we start with a bit of binge drinking and end up in hot water. We jet from the NSA’s advice for Windows admins to T-Mobile’s new scheme to sell your data to advertisers. We hit the impeller fizzling and bubbling once we discover the extent of different kinds of data China is collecting on its own population. We get a soaking from a new piece of spyware turning up on phones that fo...

This week we chase up stories from around the globe from inner to outer space. We surmise that if some countries’ plans to harvest solar energy are successful it might just induce your rellies to forget about you. We let you in on a little million-dollar lost wager and a new student movement to get you to log off. We finish with a sad story about a little fox, that’s getting smaller by the day and...

This week we go from Paparazzi to Cookie jars, with an ear to our phones, an eye on those supercomputers and plugs and bugs in our PCs. We have cool new functionality in Chrome and Firefox and (finally) a retirement party for IE. We learn how the FBI is helping millions of Americans avoid an identity crisis, we get an unexpected “Les Mis.” book review and a “no bets” policy for an upcoming trial....