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The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update.

R. Prescott Stearns Jr.

Into year five for this award-winning, light-hearted, lightweight IT privacy and security podcast that spans the globe in terms of issues covered with topics that draw in everyone from executive, to newbie, to tech specialist. Your investment of between 15 and 20 minutes a week will bring you up to speed on half a dozen current IT privacy and security stories from around the world to help you improve the management of your own privacy and security.

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00:18:31

Flying to Venus with Missy Elliot and the IT Privacy...

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2024/07/17

Episode 199 From the millions here on Earth to the second planet from the Sun we keep you up to date with all the latest and most important escapades in IT Privacy and Security.We start with the good news that although AT&T may not be selling your phone location data (if you opted out) they have still been sharing it. We tell you what and when.CNN provides some investigative reporting that turns up the fact that the irrational worry you have about the use of hidden cameras in Airbnb and

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00:14:46

Hiding at the Library with the IT Privacy and...

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2024/07/10

Episode 198 This week we start with a road trip in Cali to the library... and something about that drive that everyone seems to be missing.Next we travel from the depths of the oceans back into low Earth orbit and why the EU datacenters in space research might just have something to plug into.Then we go overdue when we check the card catalogue for AI and discover poor security.There’s a new update in town and it’s got 10 billion entries. We tell you why you’ll hope your details are not in that

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00:16:45

Working Late with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

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2024/07/03

Episode 196 Oops!! We start by reading your emails and finish with your significant other reading you the riot act.Over in Germany, TeamViewer gets a visit from a cozy bear…While in Santa Cruz a lightbulb’s worth of energy is running a chatbot.Google has growing datacenter flatulence and GE gets free and easy with the classified data it’s er… well.. emitting.We get some creepy insight into the Petri dish of the near future and what smiles back at us.And we finish with the reason that your

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00:15:38

On Yer bike with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

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2024/06/26

Episode 195 Check your tires and adjust your pedals because this update could get you back “on Yer bike”In our first story we learn how deep and wide the river of collected car information is, and in our last, exactly how that detail was delivered. You may be as surprised as we were to find out who is riding the prologue into this stream of information.We get a painful puncture from the National Health Service in the UK while in the US a different healthcare provider deflates us with the data

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00:17:24

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update in the...

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2024/06/19

Episode 194 From your car to your new home... this week has something for everyone. We start with a data reseller that will become more and more a target if rising car insurance premiums are anything to aim at.We follow with two stories of exposed client data. The aftermath was handled differently in both cases and we think you should tell us which you’d prefer.From there its off to Singapore in a story we found so incredible it moved us to poetry.And then we “hear” a privacy policy has been

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00:14:40

Filling the hole in your Memory with the IT Privacy...

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2024/06/12

Filling the hole in your Memory with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending June 11th., 20246/11/2024 0 Comments - click the pic to hear the podcast - Episode 193For this update we start and finish with some spectacular areal shots of things we probably shouldn’t be seeing.We bump into a familiar issue with extensions. This one isn’t browser extensions, but something that could be even more dangerous if not tightly overseen.After that we get some good news on filling the

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00:17:41

Good Help is Hard to Find. The IT Privacy and...

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2024/06/05

Episode 192 This week we go looking for help and discover something else entirely.We start by being turned away from a London hospital because of something spread by a sick corporate partner.Then we move onto background checks. Perhaps soon potential employers won’t need to run them, they’ll just look you up on the dark web.From there Google springs a leak. Honestly, whoever is handling their PR must be having a meltdown over this latest faux pas because it’s a whole database of privacy incidents

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00:14:31

Guns are Drawn At The IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

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2024/05/29

Episode 191 This week we detonate a mix of updates starting south of the U.S. border, following a tremor into the roots of DNS and then colliding into the 5 precincts of New York City.We have the incendiary tale of the Mexican cartels and how a hack spilled light on who is arming them.Next, like our root DNS server, we explode with the 411 on just what another outage of that server could mean to all of us.From there we reload with a tag story of how Apple presents location data and why you may not

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00:14:39

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Hits the...

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2024/05/22

Episode 190. This week we start with a tale that will bring happiness to every University Students’ mother.We follow with another that has one woman fuming while everyone involved claims it was a coincidence.There is an update on the tattletale car story and the short, sharp, slap that lawmakers gave automakers recently.We find out the name of the company whose employee was tricked into a $25 million transfer.Then a story that will make the blood boil of anyone who’s been let go during the ongoing

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00:15:09

Tagging along with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

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2024/05/15

Episode 189. Ever feel like you are being followed? This week we have both Apple and Google making efforts to quell that effect. We have leak updates from two sources that should be among the last to ever have to send out breach notices. One a computer manufacturer and the other a US Government agency.From there, its on to the latest craze in extortion and what you can do to secure against it.We get what we think could be an AI version of Mad Cow disease. The first round of Mad Cow was scary,

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00:16:45

A Shot in the Bot with the IT Privacy and Security...

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2024/05/08

Episode 188 This week we blast off with a couple of stories that would make movies like Top Gun and Armageddon appear tame in comparison. This just might be where reality surpasses fiction.From there we move to a couple of US healthcare providers that are doing their utmost to help other nation states get familiar with your particulars. One was an actual breach but the other was just dumb.Then we learn about sharing... or… we learn we are sharing, as it seems that almost 50% of Internet traffic is

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00:13:59

Burn, Burn, Burn with the IT Privacy and Security...

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2024/05/01

Episode 187Flames leap from the IT Privacy and Security news this week... from trick TVs to leaky telephones.We flare up with a story about US Senator Ron Wyden chasing a Google TV “quirk” that could grant access to your Gmail.Then from the embers we hear scraping noises. This time Discord is the target and you are the payload.From there it’s insecure Chinese keyboard apps. And the millions of users that could be easily smoked out.Next is a story about how Microsoft threw cold water on a hot

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00:18:19

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the IT Privacy and...

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2024/04/10

Episode 186 Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane! It’s... your insurance company!?!?This week we have stats and stories that will leave you gasping, and that’s good because you’ll have a chance to catch your breath during our spring break over the next couple weeks. We start this update up there, in the sky, and the novel new way insurance companies are finding to lower risk and increase profits. From there we move on to a US privacy bill that we never thought we would see get as far as

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00:14:08

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update and the...

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2024/04/03

Episode 185 This week’s update starts out leaking like an old bucket, but gets patched up pretty good.We start with our friends at AT&T and yet more mobile phone subscriber detail launched out onto the dark web. Is it playing catch up with another mobile service provider?An almost shocking update from the Department of Homeland Security that they are halting the purchase of your location data and phone records from data brokers. Could this be the DHS realizing they were doing wrong or is it

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00:14:15

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update “in Like a...

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2024/03/27

Episode 184. It’s the last last episode this month, and if “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb” then we have the wild in these updates running backwards.We start with an absolutely stupid way to save five bucks. Cut coupons, buy off-brands but don’t try to save money with Telegram’s new money saving offer.Next we move onto a story about how the YouTube algorithm could get you added to a very special list of people who end up with way more attention than they bargained for.From

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00:16:23

Sweet Like Chocolate. The IT Privacy and Security...

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2024/03/20

Episode 183 In our sweetest update yet, we go from “Jam” to chocolate as we cover all subtle flavors and nuances of IT Privacy and Security.Then for our second story we have an EU member in trouble with GDPR with what some would call complete disregard for the regulation they helped create.In the third story of our update we explain the two things you should be aware of as you scroll through TikTok videos.General Motors has a new lawsuit driven at it after one customer discovered he couldn’t get car

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00:15:55

“Makth the Stable Dore Fast” with the IT Privacy and...

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2024/03/13

Episode 182This week we take you from credential stuffing to whistle-blowing by way of a bolted horse.We start with the compromise of your beloved Roku account and no more vivid a lesson on the value of unique passwords.From there it’s on to closing the barn doors after the horse has bolted with the US’ new report on controls for AI.Airbnb takes you off camera for your next rental while the EU seems to have gotten caught in their own GDPR trap.Signal’s new username feature is available now and it

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00:16:03

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Finds a...

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2024/03/06

For this episode we go searching for the needle in the haystack and it appears that someone or something in our fourth story found it!But we end Q1 with what we end every Q1 with in the US. Taxes. And relief that the already onerous tax prep process that so many have to have buy special software for just to complete, now asks you for permission to sell your data …. and how you can avoid it.Americans see their privacy eroded at every lamp post, but North of the border in Canada the supreme court

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00:15:13

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Loses the...

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2024/02/28

Episode 180. The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Loses the Car for the week ending February 27th., 2024This week one vendor announced we’d be getting post-Quant encryption for our messages, while another works feverishly to ensure we can find our car when we are done at the supermarket.We have a discovery at one vending machine that does its tracking while you are snacking.We shine some new light into nation-state spy versus spy wars.Then the FTC lets loose on a free antivirus provider that

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00:17:37

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update fixes it...

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2024/02/21

This week’s update is our most exciting yet: You get driving lessons that help you fix security. A new class of black hat AI that can hack websites on its own. A suggestion that you keep your thought crimes to a minimum if you want to keep your job New malware that will steal your face. The US Department of Justice (sorry U.S. only) logging into our routers and removing malware A John Deere tractor story with a sad ending for farmers An update to the secure messaging app Signal that

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