S6, E241 - Privacy Please News: Your data isn't just for sale—it's the main attraction.

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Privacy Please News, for hitting big topics quickly with a hint of sarcasm to bring some joy and knowledge. 

This week, we hit on the latest privacy events in tech with a satirical perspective on how your data is being shared, sold, and exploited. From Google's dramatic stance on sharing search data to state-sponsored hackers dominating zero-day exploits, this episode highlights the absurdity of our current digital privacy landscape.

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai compares sharing search data to "ripping out the company's brain"
• WhatsApp's new AI feature sends "private" messages to cloud servers despite Meta's safety claims
• Gun rights group outraged after gun industry shared customer data, including underwear sizes, for political campaigns
• OpenAI's Sam Altman promotes eyeball scanning for WorldC, dismissing privacy concerns as regulatory lag
• State-sponsored hackers from China and North Korea are leading the zero-day vulnerability exploitation game

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Privacy Please News I'm your host,
Cameron Ivey where your data isdefinitely safe unless someone
wants to use it, sell it, hackit or dress it up in a trench
coat and parade it throughCongress.
First up, Alphabet CEO Sundarsays sharing Google's search
data would be like ripping outthe company's brain and handing

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it to Bing.
Search data would be likeripping out the company's brain
and handing it to Bing.
The doge wants Google to stopmaking exclusive deals and maybe
even split off Chrome.
Sundar called thisextraordinary.
We call it Tuesday in big techdrama.
Next up, WhatsApp rolled out anAI feature that promises to keep
your messages safe or privateby sending them to the cloud.

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Meta insists it's safe, butcritics say it's like whispering
secrets to your friends acrossa crowded room.
Sure, technically it's private,but everyone's still listening.
Gun rights group Gun Owners forSafety is mad, Not about gun
control, but because someoneused their underwear sizes for

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politics.
Literally, the gun industryshared customer data to help
campaigns.
Data misuse the one thing thatunites privacy nerds.
And second amendment folksOpenAI's.
Sam Altman says we should beexcited to scan our eyeballs for
WorldC, Because biometricidentity is the future and

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regulators just need to catch up.
You know nothing says, trust me, like a globe-spinning iris
collecting startup founded by aguy who builds artificial minds.
Right and finally,state-sponsored hackers are
dominating the zero-day game Ledby China and North Korea.
Honestly, if you're not beingspied on by at least one nation
state, are dominating thezero-day game Led by China and

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North Korea.
Honestly, if you're not beingspied on by at least one nation
state, are you even online?
I mean, come on.
Well, that's all, folks, foryour privacy news chaos for the
week.
Remember, if your data's notleaking, you're probably offline
.
I'm Cameron Ivey and this wasPrivacy, Please News.
See you next time, unless I'vebeen algorithmically shadow

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banned for sarcasm.