Privacy Please
Welcome to "Privacy Please," a podcast for anyone who wants to know more about data privacy and security. Join your hosts Cam and Gabe as they talk to experts, academics, authors, and activists to break down complex privacy topics in a way that's easy to understand. In today's connected world, our personal information is constantly being collected, analyzed, and sometimes exploited. We believe everyone has a right to understand how their data is being used and what they can do to protect their privacy. Please subscribe and help us reach more people! This podcast is part of The Problem Lounge network — conversations about the problems shaping our world, from digital privacy to everyday life.
Episodes
Gabe and I dig into Shiny Hunters and why the scariest cyberattacks now look like ordinary logins instead of dramatic break-ins. We map how credential theft, social engineering, and SaaS data exports turn basic security hygiene into the difference between a close call and a headline.
• Shiny Hunters’ scale, loose structure, and why takedowns rarely stick
• Why ransomware and extortion keep growing as ...
SHOW NOTES
The Pornhub breach is being reported as a data story. It's actually a story about shame as a weapon.
In December 2025, a hacker group called ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen 200 million records from Pornhub Premium users — including email addresses, locations, and intimate watch and search history. They sent extortion demands. The data was verified as real.
In this episode of Privacy Please, Ca...
In this episode of Privacy Please, Cameron Ivey investigates Palantir Technologies — a data analytics company founded in 2003 with CIA backing that has quietly become embedded across nearly every major arm of the U.S. federal government.
This week's investigation covers:
The USDA Deal On April 22nd, the Department of Agriculture signed a $300 million blanket purchase agreement with Palantir to build "One Far...
A normal data breach steals names and passwords. This one may have stolen the recipe for building the world’s most powerful AI models, and it happened through software most people will never notice until it breaks. We follow the Mercor breach from the first warning signs to the moment poisoned Python packages hit PyPI and spread in minutes across systems that were set to auto-update.
We walk through what Mercor act...
You already knew you were the product. But did you know you're also the teacher?
Companies are quietly feeding your emails, your work decisions, your customer interactions, and your daily patterns into AI systems — systems designed to automate exactly what you do. And most people have no idea it's happening.
In this episode of Privacy Please, we break down how it works, who's doing it, why your right to...
Your anonymous account isn't anonymous anymore. Researchers just proved it costs $4 to find out who you are.
In February 2026, a team from ETH Zurich and Anthropic published a paper that quietly ended the era of practical online anonymity. Their AI pipeline, using nothing but your posts, comments, and forum activity, correctly identified 67% of pseudonymous users from a pool of 89,000 candidates. No name. No pho...
S7, E267 - Your SOC 2 Won't Save You: Here's What Will with Girish Redekar, co-founder & CEO Sprinto
Cameron and Gabe sit down with Girish Redekar, co-founder and CEO of Sprinto, to pull back the curtain on one of the most misunderstood areas of security: compliance.
Girish built his first startup, RecruiterBox, to 3,500 customers before selling it, and it was the painful, expensive, duct-taped compliance process he experienced firsthand that sparked the idea for Sprinto. Today, Sprinto helps companies move beyond p...
How a Super Bowl dog commercial accidentally revealed America's surveillance infrastructure
A family loses their dog. Ring runs a Super Bowl ad. America collectively goes "wait… what?"
This week, we're digging into Ring's "Search Party" feature, the AI-powered doorbell camera tool that lit up millions of living rooms during the big game and immediately made privacy experts ...
Autonomy sounds like progress until the system turns your choices against you. We dive into how AI agents change the risk equation, why “don’t trust, verify” now beats “trust but verify,” and what to do when the update button itself becomes the attack vector.
We start with the Ivy League leak tied to Harvard and UPenn, where attackers exposed admissions hold notes that map influence rather than credit cards...
We kick off season seven with a tour of the year’s early privacy & security news: neighborhood watchtowers from Ring, a rival-led hack of Breach Forums, a massive stitched leak in France, a heavy Microsoft patch drop, AI agents on the rise, and new state privacy laws. We share practical steps: self-host cameras, freeze your credit, harden identity portals, and keep humans in the loop when AI handles sensitive da...
We look back at 2025’s privacy and security reality: useful AI where data was ready, repeating breach patterns, and infrastructure limits that slowed the hype. We call out backdoors, weak 2FA, and the shift toward passkeys, decentralization, and owning more of our stack.
• AI succeeds when data, process and governance are mature
• Power, chips and cost constraints limit AI growth
• SALT Typhoon show...
It is Monday, December 15th, and the battle for Hollywood has officially gone nuclear.
What started as an $82 billion acquisition by Netflix has morphed into a $108 billion hostile takeover battle with Paramount Skydance. As of this morning, stocks are volatile, the government has frozen the deal, and a massive Class Action Lawsuit has just been filed to burn it all down.
In this Special Report fro...
A week where the lawful intercept backdoor became the front door, a supply chain hop hit 200+ companies, a bargain app faced a malware lawsuit, and a university breach turned into a donor-targeting roadmap. We share simple moves to lower risk fast and set guardrails that actually hold.
• Salt Typhoon abusing CALEA at major US telecoms
• Negligence, unpatched routers and weak passwords
• Why SMS is t...
A sleepless night, a soft prompt, and a flood of relief—the rise of AI therapy and companion apps is rewriting how we seek comfort when it matters most. We explore why these tools feel so human and so helpful, and what actually happens to the raw, intimate data shared in moments of vulnerability. From CBT-style exercises to memory-rich chat histories, the promise is powerful: instant support, lower cost, and zero vi...
In this episode of Privacy Please, host Cameron Ivey discusses significant security threats, including a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's WSUS, a major data breach at the University of Pennsylvania, and the emergence of sophisticated malware known as Glassworm. The conversation highlights the importance of cybersecurity measures and the potential consequences of negligence in IT security.
She has millions of followers, lands six-figure brand deals, and lives a life of curated perfection. The only catch? She isn't real. She was entirely created by artificial intelligence.
Welcome to the unsettling world of synthetic influencers.
In this compelling episode of Privacy Please, we dive deep into the booming industry of AI-generated online personalities. Discover:
- The Technology: How advanced AI imag...
We unpack how Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement changes the rules of mobile security by rebuilding memory architecture, not just adding guardrails. We weigh who should upgrade now, what this means for Android, and why people remain the biggest risk.
• memory corruption explained with apartment analogy
• why NOP sleds and heap sprays fail under MIE
• tags, type segregation, and synchronous checks ...
You click "agree," you swipe a loyalty card, you browse online – every digital breadcrumb you leave is being collected, but not just by the apps and websites you use. Welcome to the world of data brokers, a multi-billion-dollar, hidden industry that aggregates, analyzes, and profits from your most intimate personal information.
In this special episode from Privacy Please, we pull back the curtain on this sh...
Privacy and cybersecurity leader Sonia Siddiqui joins us to explore the collision between emerging technologies and privacy regulations, offering insights on how companies can navigate this complex landscape while building trust.
• Sonia's journey from aspiring architect to privacy expert, motivated by the intersection of civil rights and privacy
• The growing gap between rapid technological innova...
The digital world can be treacherous, especially when you're looking for a safe space to share your most vulnerable thoughts. Today's story about the Tea app breach will make you rethink every "anonymous" platform you've ever trusted.
Tea promised women complete anonymity, a digital sanctuary where they could share dating horror stories, relationship struggles, and deeply personal c...
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