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EP206 This week's update takes off from Las Vegas and lands somewhere in Low Earth Orbit.

We have databases of faces and how both a police union and the Dutch Data Protection watchdog think they are a bad idea.
If they have your face, how do you prove you are you?  That's the next challenge and a proposal from OpenAI and Harvard thinks it'll have you covered.  We might have a different opinion.
With elections coming up in the US would you be upset to discover that the code in your voting machine was written and updated by a Russian?  You could not make this stuff up.
The Washington Post tells us why it thinks that Pavel Durov should stay in jail  and some security researchers share how you might bypass TSA security the next time you are at an airport.
Finally we will soon have fifteen thousand reasons for considering not subscribing to one provider's broadband.
The dream police, they live inside of our heads.  Let's check out this week's arresting update. 

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Cash Cows and the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending August 27th 2024

8/27/2024

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Episode 205The cash cow is in your house and you sit staring at it.
How did it get in? We’ll give you the latest on cloned RFID cards that will let you into almost any door using them.
Google gets shady with its collection practices and ends up back in court.
The FBI receives an order to clean house from the Dept. of Justice Inspector General.
Uber gets spanked in the Netherlands for sending private data across the world
And finally the Russian Army looks dazed and confused as their main form of communication gets locked away.

We may be in the dog days of Summer, but all we’re seeing are cows!

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Episode 195 Check your tires and adjust your pedals because this update could get you back “on Yer bike”

In our first story we learn how deep and wide the river of collected car information is, and in our last, exactly how that detail was delivered. You may be as surprised as we were to find out who is riding the prologue into this stream of information.
We get a painful puncture from the National Health Service in the UK while in the US a different healthcare provider deflates us with the data breach of a shocking percentage of the US population.
From there we spin up to Sweden for some extra miles / kilometers to get the inside lane on the type of event that ensnared poor Ellen Bagley.
Then, back across the Atlantic, someone bans Russia’s premier antivirus. But wait! Wouldn’t a Russian antivirus be the best “bloc” for Russian hackers?
Finally Pavel Durov puts a spanner in his spokes by saying the wrong thing to Tucker Carlson earning him a “Lanterne rouge”.
If you love adventure, this could the best tour yet, so strap on that helmet, slip on your gloves and let’s catch the Peloton!

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From the Depths of the Dark Web to the summit of Mount Everest, we have you covered.

In this update, we have a creative idea for what to do with the rellies for the holidays, where the commute may be long but the privacy superb.

We have a sensational story of TikTok actually telling the truth and another of Irish authorities objecting to Instagram/Meta business accounts for 13-year-olds.

We have a pretty firm reason not to stay at a particular hotelier and why you should be a little suspicious of all the beautiful people who just adore Russian soldiers.

We have our first NFT story out of Afghanistan, and our second out of your TV set.

This week’s update moves faster than USB4, so let’s plug in and go!

For a full transcript of this week's podcast please head to discuss.daml.com

From outer space to inner space and a few rotations in between, we spin you right round.

Space may be “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, but one woman has and will again.

We discover why you are less likely to be locked in a compartment and blasted with targeted ads during your next train ride to Delhi and what Google will track while you are on the tracks.

We learn about all the cameras you can buy access to in China, and then we see the full database of photos in the second largest data exposure in China.

We have the FTC getting tough on data brokers and a Judge getting tough on Elon and the punch-weary Twitter.

We suggest a new way to send untracked e-mail and learn the EU’s complaining that Google is swapping out other junk mail for their own.

And finally, we get a story about upcoming phones that will be better, faster, and never lose a connection, like the one you left in the back of the taxi.

We’ll spin you right round… like a record.

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This week we start with a tweet and end with a rap.

In between those bookends, we have a sick kid, now healthy, a father who may never recover, a great site to see what the apps on your phone might be up to, and a new champion in the fight for our attention.

We have the latest in “secure” smartphones that could end up sounding exactly the opposite by the time you get to the end of our coverage, and a pending court case alleging that Oracle has leapfrogged Facebook in the race to collect everything on everyone, everywhere.

We’ve got another car story that sounds so dumb, it’s got to be smart, and a new way to get around the Vegas strip.

Just about the only thing missing is something credit card-sized you can tuck into your wallet or bag so that they never end up lost…… Wait, yes we have that too.

Well then, it certainly looks like we have it all. Let’s have at it!

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This week is at least our 100th show and to celebrate, we start in the underwear drawer and end up on the floor in one of the cutest stories about the effects of honey that we have ever seen.

We learn about a new hack that reveals the deep secrets of Dishy McFlatFace, and why Zoom took you out for your first meeting with your boss yesterday.

There’s an announcement about Amazon’s new comedy show made from Ring doorbell clips, yet nothing about what happened to all the compromising recordings Alexa made of you over the last few years.

We have bans on video players, chips, and even a whole smart city.

Finally, we get to the root of rooting the combine-harvester you’ve had sitting out in the barn for the last two seasons because you could not drive it to the service center.

No stone is left unturned, no seed left unplanted, no crop left un-rotated and no mind left unfertilized, with this week’s harvest of stories.

So grab your pitchfork and follow us!

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From outer space to time travel: this week it’s “All systems go!”

We find ourselves in the cow flower and then get “compromised by” Twitter, Slack, and Twilio.

We find the legal detail in the class action lawsuit behind the company which must have one of the worst ads on US television right now.

We discover a couple of new players in the phone security arena and perhaps come away with some ideas for holiday gifts (they say you can’t start too soon).

This week’s update is unquestionably the best one yet so grab that hat and let’s go!

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Get out the passport because you’ll need it for a range of stories that circle the globe.

We start with an icon and end with an algorithm, and in between, we’ve got one of the best updates yet.

From data sharing between governments to Meta/Facebooks’ latest debacle, you could find our story on camo might be the only thing left to hide behind.

There’s a shocking story for new parents in the US state of New Jersey, and yes, one more revelation about the NSO groups’ software that cuts very close to home for our European audience.

We even have a superb story that calls out one of the hidden benefits of liberally buying your teenager pizza… from a mother that might be contemplating just that for a very long time.

So take your glasses off, pull your hair back behind your left ear, look straight at the camera and relax your shoulders because this week’s update is pretty as a picture!

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This week we share a pungent selection from the most excellent landfill of stories yet.

We start our noisome journey literally in the dump and end up staring at a set of salad tongs.

We have a familiar cast of characters representing slightly different fragrance lines: Zuck, Elon, Blake, and even the devil himself may be found to guff in this one.

There’s the effluvium at KMart, new detritus for Ohio, and why even Google is starting to sniff at the bitter waft of the TikTok algorithm.

We tell you what trumpery to expect when you next get phished and if you are one of the tens of thousands laid off in the latest round of tech cuts, what you might want to consider for your next less malodorous gig.

Yes, it may be less than aromatic, but this week’s update will leave you with a smile like a Welsh crypto-Millionaire!

Come on! Pull up the waders, put the clothes peg on your nose, grab a pair of rubber gloves and let’s get mucky.

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