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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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00:20:26

Face it with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/10/04

This week we rip the lid off privacy starting with a story about a quiet plan in the UK to catch shoplifters that could end up stealing something critical from us all. From there we share a story from LA where popular food delivery robots are delivering much more than your order.Next on the slate is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act lawsuit against some names more familiar to your phone than organized crime.Then we travel to Serbia where there is more evidence of an ingenious

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00:13:06

You can do it. The IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/09/13

We’d like to start by letting you know that we are taking our first pod-break in over 3 years. We’ll be heading up to the highlands to ruminate before returning on the 3rd. of October.It’s a perfect time to catch up on some of our previous podsThank you for joining in for the last 157 episodes and we look forward to serving up many more!In this week’s IT Privacy and Security weekly update, episode 158 we have some really uncomfortable news about your new ride. You may want to sit down for this

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00:21:05

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update fights for...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/09/06

This week it's all about the party and the recovery.We start with the NYPD flying into your party. And end with something that may make all sorts of survellience tech obsolete, for good or for bad.We move onto a blinding new revelation from the UK government and an unexpected verdict out of Texas. From there we go phishing with GoDaddy and discover that some high costs to Germany turn out to be trending downwardWe have more noise from Russia and what sounds like a very clever way to turn the

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00:23:11

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Low Earth Orbit...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/08/30

This week we have a terrific collection of stories for you along with some friendly reminders.As we navigate the heavens we touch on 2FA, Social Media and Rust.We get some interesting insight on the U.S. College Board that all high school students would mark as a “fail”.We discover the perils of a familiar piece of conferencing software and a new initiative from the Taliban that has more than one Hijab tied in knots.From there we learn about a new bot dispensing information that the credit

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00:22:24

From Fido to France-oh! With the IT Privacy and...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/08/23

Get your passport ready, because this week we ignore the Amalfi coast and head straight for the real action!Out of Zurich we have news of Google and a new FIDO2, before heading off to Canada and a wild assertion for a bank there about targeting children's parents.We present the QR code you knew would come, Tesla's insider dealing and how China leveraged Japan's porosity.We bounce back to New York for the Time's latest headline story, and then discover what AI will really mean

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00:22:55

From Teens to Pharaohs with the IT Privacy and...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/08/16

This update quite literally “flies” from one end of the globe to the other.We’ve got great updates for your teens out of Boston and Las Vegas, a great primer on finding out what is in some of the privacy policies you are signing off on and a sneaky bit of data collection coming from chip-maker Intel.We have the looming threat of what the UK’s demand for unencrypted encrypted communications might mean for the population and the new dance that Zoom is doing in regard to AI.From there we go to

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00:19:28

The Surprise of the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/08/09

This week surprisingly starts with a couple of building maintenance callouts: one for a flashing X on the roof and the other for a rat in the kitchen.We then feel the jolt of new, shorter breach reporting requirements and solve the mystery of what happened to your air miles.Google confounds us with a little more control over everything it is collecting on us, while White Castle may be considering racing lanes for its drive-through with its latest AI announcement.We have every spy across the

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00:19:08

The Habits of the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/08/02

This week we suggest new habits to improve your security and lengthen your life.We have a friendly update on what that Nigerian Prince who wanted to give you money a few years back is up to now, and what he might be up to shortly if he gets his hands on the latest batch of PHI to go missing.The US and EU are both keeping an eye on a curious new appetite from one party for old chips, a new coin under the magnifying glass, and one whole country back in the viewfinder.We have an update on why

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00:20:37

Smiling with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/07/26

This week we are smiling at some of the greatest stories to grace the headlines. We literally go from a launch to a cover up, but in between we have all lovely gooey sticky filling that will keep you coming back to the cookie jar.There's an update from Google on your Gmail, that just might be worth the privacy tradeoff (come on, they read all your mail anyway), Now they additionally want to parse the sites you visit to see if they are safe.... And while that is going on Apple slams the UK

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00:12:42

The Kiss of the IT Privacy and Security weekly Update...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/07/19

In this week’s update, we start and end on TikTok, but the bookends could not be more different.We have one of the most important updates on how you can protect your family and friends from the latest AI scam that's already gone global.Then we dance between more revelations from who’s viewing who, to one presenter who lost more than her TikTok audience.There’s a brazen story covering one law firm's efforts to stop Google from hoovering up every piece of our data and presumably make some

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00:19:48

Primed for the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/07/12

This week we have a prime serving of updates for you, we start with artificial intelligences' decline and end, frankly a little loopy, but you are sure to find a story in our global round up that makes a difference to your life, even if it is only to keep you from tripping.We start with a mother's photo of her son and the upsetting news that he might have been created with AI. From there we move to the Philippines where a little too much about the police has gone publicWe have a big win for

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00:23:37

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

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/07/04

In this week’s update, we flutter from “ almost everything” to the butterfly effect. In between those extremes, we find a little tit-for-tat going on between the US and China that could impact everything from your cloud compute to your phone. We have facial recognition software being rejected by performers and embraced by you local shops. From there the sad story of the CISO first attacked by a nation-state and then by the US government. And finally, we have a story about some phone hacking

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00:27:42

Pictures of the IT Privacy and Security weekly Update...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/06/28

This week we start with a story that we’ve had to reread three times because it was just so unbelievable. From there we move onto what you are doing with your phone that a small number of years ago used to take some pretty hefty specialized equipment. We stick to phones in a global round up of details on another scheme to compromise you through it, advice from the Australian government as to what to do with it, and who’s going to court for selling data from it. We discover a programmer who has

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00:27:10

The IT Privacy and Security Update and a side of...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/06/21

We start with some serious dissing and end up dishing. Between the start and end state, we get served up by Julia and rerouted by the Benz. We learn about a new voicebox that we can’t have and get the perfect example of a self-licking ice cream cone. We have new controls on what can be sold and to whom and a new way to use that screwdriver to unlock your Lenovo. Finally, we have a group of Swiss farmers that think Apple has taken one bite too many. This week’s update comes with a side of Julia, so

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00:19:07

School’s out for Summer with the IT Privacy and...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/06/14

From the cool waters of the backyard pool to the chilling depths of cylindrical holes in the ground, this week’s stories will elevate your temperature to get you in that summertime mood. We commute to work past a copycat chip shop and then get an update on why the unemployment rate for lobbyists is still at all-time lows in Washington DC. We catch Microsoft being naughty, while Google and Apple go to the head of the class. We find the US government flunking out with their latest budget spend, while

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00:20:35

Warming up to the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/06/07

This week’s exciting collection of stories takes us from the latest fashionable freeze to the warmth of a fuzzy paparazzo. We have a “stand up, sit down, stand up” again revelation about our friends at TikTok that will leave you …well either sitting or standing… and a couple of Ai stories that describe the horse bolting from the stall and then what that horse did. There’s a little relief for those in the US living within 100 air miles of the border and a story that will give you more reasons to

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00:23:31

The Weighty IT Privacy and Security Update for the...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/05/31

This week we go from excess baggage to a face that is not our own. We have a new scheme to establish what is real in a world where more and more is artificial, by someone we expect to be very prominent in both. There’s a new declaration about social media that is eerily similar to the one from Santa Cruz California on June 3, 1956, when city authorities announced a total ban on rock and roll at public gatherings, calling rock and roll music “Detrimental to both the health and morals of our youth

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00:23:59

Flashing Colours in the IT Privacy and Security...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/05/24

This week’s update starts with what some might see as a poke in the eye and could end with really poor enunciation. We have Google intro’ing 8 new domains and getting caught in a .zip. There’s a great story that might have you thinking that HP has moved into home construction when you hear about all the bricks it created over the past couple weeks. We have evidence that the FBI emerged from the locker room dirty and the low down on the kingpin of scammer calls in the UK. While that’s going on Meta’s

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00:22:16

Breathe deeply with the IT Privacy and Security...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/05/17

Up North here, it’s Springtime so we start with a deep breath of DNA and finish out of ink, we think! Between here and there we sneeze as we bump into a couple of projects, one that sniffs out unencrypted LTE communication and another that sniffed out the contents of the phone you lost or had taken as evidence by the police. We dab the tears of a former Bytedance executive as he makes allegations about the Chinese Communist Party “maintaining supreme access” to data, and Toyota who cleverly created

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00:21:50

Smart Start, Dumb ending with the IT Privacy and...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/05/10

This week we start smart and end dumb. Potentially somewhat contrary to our other updates. In between we might ultimately have a dumb way to protect a car, a dumb executive who got lucky, and a healthcare company that almost seems to be competing with T-Mobile for most breaches in 2023. There’s a dumb plan by the EU to scan all your messages, and a smart move from Open AI to give you back some privacy. We have the FBI going “gangsta” on DDoS as a service and a brilliant writeup of Russian malware

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