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#018: Is Snapchat a Magnet for Child Predators? Former Prosecutor Zachary Yurick Tells All (opens the original)
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Millions of kids use Snapchat every day, and according to one former prosecutor, predators know exactly how to find them there. Zack Yurick spent five years prosecuting child sexual abuse cases before switching to civil litigation so he could go after the platforms enabling them, and Snapchat has become the center of his practice. In this conversation, he walks through exactly how the app's most popular features work against kids, why the safety settings most parents rely on don't do what they t
#017: Surveillance Pricing Is Here: How Your Data Can Change the Price You See (opens the original)
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In this episode, Siara breaks down surveillance pricing, a growing practice in which personal data can influence the prices, discounts, promotions, and products consumers are shown. She looks at investigations from the FTC and Consumer Reports involving groceries, rideshare platforms, retailers, and the technology companies working behind the scenes to build increasingly sophisticated pricing systems. Siara shares four ways to make yourself harder to profile. Plus, two stories from this week’s t
#016: How to Stop AI From Taking Over Your Life: 6 Boundaries To Set Before It's Too Late (opens the original)
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Lifestyle creep has a cousin, and it's called AI creep. It's the slow process where AI works its way into more parts of your life until things you once would have called invasive start to feel normal. This week, Ciara walks through the six boundaries she's written down for herself before AI gets the chance to set them for her, covering data access, judgment at work, always-on recording devices, AI clones, emotional dependence, and synthetic art. Plus, news on Spotify's new AI cover feature, Anth
#015: How to Manufacture an Addiction: 6 Hidden Tactics Apps Use To Keep You Scrolling (opens the original)
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Siara breaks down six psychological tactics engineers use to keep you glued to your phone. After reading a book that's reportedly passed around inside companies like Google, Facebook, and Slack, she deep dove to uncover the models they'ev been using for decades and breaks them down today. She walks through how these tactics quietly shape behavior without you realizing it's happening, and why understanding them is the first step to fighting back. She also covers two fast-moving stories worth know
#014: How The Betting Economy Targets Young Men: Keith D. Exposes The Online Gambling Epidemic (opens the original)
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Somewhere between watching "trade the World Cup" show up inside his own Coinbase app and a college classmate flashing a million-dollar gambling account like it was a fraternity paddle, Keith D realized gambling had quietly rebranded itself as an asset class. In this conversation, Siara and keith get into how sports betting and prediction markets borrow the language of real investing, portfolios, event contracts, information markets, to make a bet feel like a strategy, and why young men in partic
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