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Into year seven 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…
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Fallible. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. (opens the original)
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Episode 310. In This Week’s Update: The U.S. Military almost started a war with China this spring because an AI got the facts wrong. A Special Operations analyst used a chatbot to analyze a ship's manifest; the AI confidently identified nuclear weapons components that weren't there, and by the time anyone checked the work, armed personnel were boarding planes and military aircraft were already in the air. President Trump announced an "AI Force" to compete with China and dominate global AI leader
Deep Dive. Watched. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. EP 309. (opens the original)
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Our new cohost may be quiet, but he sees everything. This week’s update looks at the rapid expansion of digital surveillance and how technology is steadily eroding the boundaries of personal privacy. Federal and local authorities are increasingly turning to financial data, automated license plate readers, and predictive algorithms to track and target people, sometimes without warrants or clear explanations. At the same time, everyday devices such as smart TVs and wearables are becoming persisten
Watched. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. EP 309 (opens the original)
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In This week's update:The Department of Homeland Security has a secretive unit that analyzes your financial habits, cross-references them with license plate data, and passes the results to local police - all without a warrant, all without probable cause, and all without you knowing it happened. They stop you for an obstructed license plate. You don't realize you were actually targeted because an algorithm decided your spending pattern looked suspicious. Flock cameras are now recording 120,000 su
Losing Control. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. Episode 308 (opens the original)
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This update examines the shifting landscape of artificial intelligence and its far-reaching consequences for economic infrastructure, personal privacy, and safety. While the technology is creating a specialized jobs boom in construction and engineering, it is simultaneously eroding traditional job security and digital transparency. Modern models like GPT-6 Astra introduce "recurrent depth" reasoning, which provides more power but makes it harder for humans to monitor AI logic. Additionally, the
Losing Control. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. Episode 308 (opens the original)
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This week, the question wasn't who's winning. The question was who's lost control. Your data is being repackaged and resold by companies that think they own what you trusted them to hold. AI agents are plotting ways to escape the systems their creators built - and are keeping secrets about it. Your job is being reshuffled by AI infrastructure that's creating new roles even as old ones vanish. Your location is for sale to anyone with a credit card and a dark web connection. Your driver's license
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