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Episode 275: What $9 Buys You from a Data Broker
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- Episode 275: What $9 Buys You from a Data Broker · 57 min.Chris Parr, A.K.A Chris the Producer, asked the five biggest data brokers for his file. They refused. So he started an LLC, built a website, and bought his own data for nine…
- Episode 274: How to Not Buy a Stolen House · 50 min.Rochester broker "J-Man" explains how scammers impersonate owners, why AI-made rental listings are multiplying, and one thing owners and renters can do this week to stay…
- Episode 273: Profiler Jay Jones Takes on Fake Job Scams · 56 min.Congrats, you're the perfect candidate! (You're not. You're the mark.) Jay Jones "The Profiler" has taken down more than 58,000 fake job postings. Learn how scammers turn a job…
- Episode 272: You Should Be Unsettled: Meta and Teens · 43 min. · Episode 272When she was 12, Ava Smithing's Instagram algorithim led her from bikini ads to eating disorder content. Meta settled for $17 billion recently, but what's actually changed? Not…
- Episode 271: Are You Being Watched? (You Are.) · 52 min. · Episode 271Worried about AI? Don't trust Flock Security? You might get on a law enforcement list for that. Investigative reporter Daniel Boguslaw explains Big Tech's push to re-label…
- Episode 270: Your Driver's License Can't Prove Who You Are Anymore · 49 min. · Episode 270A driver's license breach didn't just leak data—threat actors now have access to a universal key to every identity verification system that relies on state-issued identification…
- Episode 269: The Student Data Free-for-All · 41 min. · Episode 269As technology is integrated deeper into classrooms, the lines between education and data privacy have been destroyed by for-profit data miners. This week, privacy advocate…
- Episode 268: Your Privacy Is Being Taxed · 52 min. · Episode 268Same store, same day, different price. David Dayen takes us on a deep dive into the murky cyberscape of surveillance pricing, we enlist young people to prove it's real, and Grace…
- Episode 267: No Price Tag for You! · 48 min. · Episode 267Fictitious discounts. payday markups. AI setting airfares in real time. Investigative reporter Derek Kravitz, Grace Gedye (Consumer Reports) are joined byDavid Dayen to expose…
- Episode 266: How Much Is Surveillance Pricing Costing You? · 49 min. · Episode 266Welcome to the infuriating world of surveillance pricing. Chris "the Producer" Parr created a digital nobody to find out whether companies would charge the new him less. What he…
- Episode 265: Surveillance In America, Pt 1: Somebody's Watching You · 53 min. · Episode 265Benn Jordan—musician, acoustic scientist, and one of the sharpest minds on surveillance technology—joins 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and the ACLU’s Jay Stanley to trace how…
- Episode 264: 15 Years of Fear: A Stalking Story · 48 min. · Episode 264A stranger showed up at Anna Nasset's art gallery with a painting called "Marry Me." She said no. He did not get the message — for 15 years. Now Anna trains law enforcement on…
- Episode 263: The Affinity Scam Playbook · 52 min. · Episode 263Coco Berthmann sold a survival story. Amanda Riley sold a cancer battle. Both were lies that raided communities, wallets, and trust. Journalists Sarah Ganim, Karen Given, and…
- Episode 262: The Mystery that Changed Wyoming's Stalking Law · 56 min. · Episode 262Fake screenshots. Burner numbers. Forged emails. A stalker who somehow always knew what a 15-year-old was wearing. Blogger Cathy Holman thought she knew everyone in her tiny…
- Episode 261: Aaron Parnas on the Firehose of Our Digital Here-and-Now · 47 min. · Episode 261Aaron Parnas is the Walter Cronkite of Substack. He has millions of followers who follow him on every platform to get his just-the-facts reporting, but even the most trusted…
- Episode 260: Jackals of Trust: A Short History of Cybercrime · 49 min. · Episode 260Cybercrime expert Gary Warner joins to discuss Nigerian confraternities, the "campus cults" rooted in idealism that morphed into a multi-billion dollar transnational organized…
- Episode 259: Capture The Flag! · 53 min. · Episode 259Ethan Merritt is an WTH alum, but the last time he was on the pod he was the target. This time, he asked for it: Find four flags using only publicly viewable data. Social media…
- Episode 258: Fighter Pilot Cadet Turned Hacker, She Keeps Us Safe · 46 min. · Episode 258A teenager rage-hacks a Tetris leaderboard and becomes a millionaire by 18. Now Tal Kollender breaks into companies for a living—and fixes whatever made that possible. We talk…
- Episode 257: Seth Godin's Anti-Spam Playbook: Be Awesome · 45 min. · Episode 257Marketing visionary Seth Godin explains how the Internet got hijacked by an attention-stealing spam economy that keeps us in an endless loop of badly targeted marketing. Godin's…
- Episode 256: The Colonel & the Catfish · 43 min. · Episode 256A retired Army Colonel becomes the unwitting face of thousands of romance scams. Bryan Denny has been breaking the hearts of people he's never met for years. What do you do when…
