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Techlore Surveillance Report

Techlore Surveillance Report is your weekly deep-dive into the privacy and security news that matters for your digital freedom. Hosted by Henry Fisher, founder of Techlore and long-time digital rights educator, each episode cuts through the noise to bring you carefully selected stories with the context, analysis, and historical perspective you need to truly understand what"s happening to protect yourself (and others!) in the digital space.Topics covered include:• Privacy tool updates and

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30:48

Microsoft's Control Over Open Source Grows

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/08/19

Episode 237: Microsoft will integrate GitHub more deeply as GitHub's CEO resigns, data brokers were caught hiding their opt-out pages, important updates from Debian, the Pinephone Pro, & Plex, and more.Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New Oil to keep you updated on the newest security & privacy news.🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, affordable, and effective way to automatically remove your data from people search sites: https://easyoptouts.com. Thanks to the

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40:59

Q&A: Ways to Make Your Phone Private

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/08/15

Q&A236: A collection of phone-related questions, Cloudflare concerns, is Firefox still worth using with the recent ToS changes, and more on this week's record-breaking Q&A. Join our next Q&A on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collection/415684?view=expanded or XMR Chat: https://xmrchat.com/surveillancepodWelcome to the Surveillance Report Q&A - featuring Techlore & The New Oil answering your questions about privacy and security.❤️ Support us on Patreon:

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37:02

Apple Has 4 Months, Google Has Just 14 Days...

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2025/08/13

Episode 236: Google and Apple are being forced to crack open their phones, the latest cascading data breach has arrived, uBlock Origin Lite arrives for iPhone, and more.Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New Oil to keep you updated on the newest security & privacy news.📷 Ente is the zero-knowledge, cross-platform, and open-source photo management app you didn't know you needed: https://ente.sh/surveillancereport. Thanks to Ente for supporting Surveillance

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18:24

Q&A: Privacy Advice for Your Next Phone Upgrade

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/08/07

Q&A235: What phone should you get next? What's the best way to use custom domains and alias emails? Join our next Q&A on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collection/415684?view=expanded or XMR Chat: https://xmrchat.com/surveillancepodWelcome to the Surveillance Report Q&A - featuring Techlore & The New Oil answering your questions about privacy and security.❤️ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/surveillancepod💛 Support us on Liberapay:

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39:16

Thinking of Trying a Custom ROM? Think Again...

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/08/05

Episode 235: Yet another blow to the Android custom ROM landscape, an nsfw data breach, age verification continues to tear across the net, and more.Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New Oil to keep you updated on the newest security & privacy news.🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, affordable, and effective way to automatically remove your data from people search sites: https://easyoptouts.com. Thanks to the EasyOptOuts team for sponsoring Surveillance

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43:54

Q&A: How Do You Avoid Amazon?

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/08/02

Q&A234: How can you avoid Amazon? Which music streaming service is the most privacy respecting? How do we balance our privacy lifestyle with other life goals? And more! Join our next Q&A on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collection/415684?view=expanded or XMR Chat: https://xmrchat.com/surveillancepoddWelcome to the Surveillance Report Q&A - featuring Techlore & The New Oil answering your questions about privacy and security.❤️ Support us on Patreon:

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53:12

Dating Safety App Puts Thousands of Users at Risk

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/07/30

Episode 234: Tea - an app meant to keep users safe - doxes thousands of users with carless design, a Microsoft cloud vulnerability is burning through hundreds of major organizations, Proton released their own AI chatbot, and more.Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New Oil to keep you updated on the newest security & privacy news.📷 Ente is the zero-knowledge, cross-platform, and open-source photo management app you didn't know you needed:

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43:00

Q&A: Do You Really Need a VPN?

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/07/19

Q&A233: Does this Patron really need a VPN? Have we ever found any security vulnerabilities? Can you use YouTube premium privately? Plus a grab-bag of questions from our classic patron, David Johnson. Join our next Q&A on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collection/415684?view=expanded or XMR Chat: https://xmrchat.com/surveillancepodveillancepodWelcome to the Surveillance Report Q&A - featuring Techlore & The New Oil answering your questions about privacy and security.❤️ Support us

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33:08

McDonald's Combines the Worst of AI & Job Hunting

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/07/16

Episode 233: McDonald's hiring chatbot exposed millions of job applications due to laughable password practices, Jack Dorsey created an encrypted messenger over the weekend, custom Android phones are landing on law enforcement radars, and more!Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New Oil to keep you updated on the newest security & privacy news.🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, affordable, and effective way to automatically remove your data from people search sites:

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33:50

Android 16 is Adding AI, Even if You Opted Out!

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/07/07

Episode 232: Android 16 makes it harder to avoid sharing your data with AI even if you opted out, an innovative new VPN enters the scene, how the cartels used surveillance to find a mole, and moreWelcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New Oil to keep you updated on the newest security & privacy news.📷 Ente is the zero-knowledge, cross-platform, and open-source photo management app you didn't know you needed: https://ente.sh/surveillancereport. Thanks to Ente for

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24:43

Q&A: Top 3 Things We Wish We'd Done Differently

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2025/07/04

Q&A231: The top 3 things we wish we'd done differently in our privacy journeys, data as "the new gold" rather than "the new oil," defining privacy as a human right, Android hardening advice, and encrypted calendars. Join our next Q&A on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collection/415684?view=expanded or XMR Chat: https://xmrchat.com/surveillancepodWelcome to the Surveillance Report Q&A - featuring Techlore & The New Oil answering your questions about privacy and security.❤️ Support

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29:07

Facebook's Latest Privacy Invasion: Now with AI!

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/06/30

Episode 231: Facebook wants access to all your photos, updates to the ongoing Android 16/Custom ROM situation, a critical vulnerability in popular printer brands, and more!Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New Oil to keep you updated on the newest security & privacy news.🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, affordable, and effective way to automatically remove your data from people search sites: https://easyoptouts.com. Thanks to the EasyOptOuts team for sponsoring

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36:54

The Biggest Data Breach That Never Happened

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/06/24

Episode 230: The headline-making data breach that isn't really a data breach, how the data broker industry enabled political assassination, Meta unveils two new forms of enshittification, and more!Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New Oil to keep you updated on the newest security & privacy news.🔑 Protect yourself online with Proton Pass, the password manager from the team behind Proton Mail and Proton VPN. With seamless hide-my-email integration powered by

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42:49

Q&A: Is Windows Unfairly Hated?

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/06/19

Q&A229: Windows privacy, SMS/RCS privacy, KYC-free crypto, E2EE Discord alternatives, XMPP's potential, TSA prescreenings, self-hosting considerations, EXIF data, and iMazing. Join our next Q&A on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collection/415684?view=expanded or XMR Chat: https://xmrchat.com/surveillancepodWelcome to the Surveillance Report Q&A - featuring Techlore & The New Oil answering your questions about privacy and security.❤️ Support us on Patreon:

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39:42

Android 16's Dark Side Threatens Every Custom ROM

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/06/16

Episode 229: Android 16 is out but will make life harder for custom ROMs, passkey portability is in the works, a dating app based on your search history, and more!Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New Oil to keep you updated on the newest security & privacy news.🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, affordable, and effective way to automatically remove your data from people search sites: https://easyoptouts.com. Thanks to the EasyOptOuts team for sponsoring Surveillance

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29:43

How Companies Sidestep Protections to Spy on You

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/06/09

Episode 228: Meta & Yandex skirt around Android's sandboxing to violate your privacy even further, Apple turned over thousands of push notification data requests, billions of session cookies are for sale, Signal might be rolling out backup subscriptions soon, and more!Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New Oil to keep you updated on the newest security & privacy news.🔑 Protect yourself online with Proton Pass, the password manager from the team behind Proton

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19:41

Q&A: Is RethinkDNS Any Good?

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/06/04

Q&A227: Is RethinkDNS a good tool for easy traffic analysis? What are our thoughts on governmenet SSO services, like Australia's MyGov? What resources do we use to threat model? Do companies still sell phone location data, and how can users opt out? Are there any lessons to be learned from the way different governments treat privacy? Join our next Q&A on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collection/415684?view=expanded or XMR Chat: https://xmrchat.com/surveillancepodWelcome to the

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27:32

Your Comments May Reveal More Than You Think...

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/06/02

Episode 227: Your comments might reveal more than you think, LexisNexis (of all companies) had a data breach, some spicy political news, and more!Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New Oil to keep you updated on the newest security & privacy news.🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, affordable, and effective way to automatically remove your data from people search sites: https://easyoptouts.com. Thanks to the EasyOptOuts team for sponsoring Surveillance

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46:37

Google's Latest Attack on FOSS

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/05/27

Episode 226: Google threatens FOSS by way of restricting Nextcloud, Mozilla actually appears to be focusing on Firefox again, New Orleans cranks the dystopia up to 11, and more!Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New Oil to keep you updated on the newest security & privacy news.🔑 Protect yourself online with Proton Pass, the open source password manager from the team behind Proton Mail and Proton VPN. With seamless hide-my-email integration powered by SimpleLogin,

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11:31

Q&A: Cardinal Rules of Privacy

Techlore Surveillance Report ·

2025/05/14

Q&A225: Are there any things in privacy where you can't ease in or make mistakes? How can a typical person do traffic analysis on phones? How do we address printer privacy concerns? Is it safer to open a port in a VPN than a router? Join our next Q&A on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collection/415684?view=expanded or XMR Chat: https://xmrchat.com/surveillancepodWelcome to the Surveillance Report Q&A - featuring Techlore & The New Oil answering your questions about privacy and

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