About this podcast
Weekly insights on online privacy, cybersecurity, and AI ethics. Clear, honest, no jargon. New episodes every Thursday.
Episodes
- What Can Your AI Agent See? The Access Problem · 9 min · Season 1 Episode 31Send us Fan Mail A standing always allow covers every future task, and withdrawing access does not undo what an agent has seen. What do you hand over when you give an AI agent…
- Is Your TV Watching You? The Opt-Out Switch Tested · 10 min · Season 1 Episode 30Send us Fan Mail Opt-outs worked on some TVs and not on others, and an offline TV does not depend on the maker. Does turning off tracking on a smart TV really stop it? Alyx and…
- Is It Really You? Passwords, Biometrics, MFA and Passkeys Compared · 10 min · Season 1 Episode 29Send us Fan Mail Length beats complexity, biometrics cannot be reset, and passkeys move the risk to recovery. How long does a password really last against brute force? Using Hive…
- Who Can Check? AI Disclosure Promises Under Scrutiny · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 28Send us Fan Mail Anthropic's policy, OpenAI's watermark and Spain's regulator all promise transparency. Who can actually check? Anthropic, OpenAI and Spain's data protection…
- Not Unfounded: AI Agent Incidents Keep Piling Up · 7 min · Season 1 Episode 27Send us Fan Mail From Hugging Face to a failed kill switch, the central worry of AI safety campaigners is no longer hypothetical. Since July, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta have…
- The Agent That Wouldn't Take No · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 26Send us Fan Mail A minor breach with major lessons. An OpenAI agent got around the blocks on a Medicare statistics portal in June, and Australia only found out 84 days later, by…
- No Password, No Rulebook · 7 min · Season 1 Episode 25Send us Fan Mail What a hacked BYD Shark shows, and what it cannot. A researcher took over parts of a BYD Shark 6 through access with no password, then used its microphone and…
- Pace the Frontier, Skip the Accountability · 3 min · Season 1 Episode 24Send us Fan Mail What Amodei's slowdown letter leaves out, and what a Grok CSAM lawsuit tests. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a letter asking AI companies to pace…
- GDPR Fines Meet a State Mega-Breach · 4 min · Season 1 Episode 23Send us Fan Mail What two hospital fines and a 6TB ransomware leak say about Article 32. France's CNIL fined Hôpital Privé de la Loire EUR 500,000 over missing MFA, missing VPN…
- Uber's €824.99 Million Fine Sets a New Bar for Automated Decision Accountability · 7 min · Season 1 Episode 22Send us Fan Mail The Dutch Data Protection Authority's record penalty turns GDPR's automated-decision rules from theory into enforcement. This week, the Dutch Data Protection…
- AI Transparency Becomes Law: Finland, France, and the FTC Respond · 7 minSend us Fan Mail Three regulators, one week, and the first real test of AI Act transparency This week, three regulators moved on AI transparency and pricing fairness within days…
- S1E20: Can You Spot the AI? · 6 minSend us Fan Mail Inside the Industry's New Transparency Push This week Anthropic, Spotify, Suno and Substack all rolled out new AI-content labelling. Anthropic now automatically…
