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S7, E277 - He Used a Police Camera Network to Track His Girlfriend 180 Times

Send us Fan Mail Flock Safety's automated license plate readers are in over 5,000 communities and used by more than 40,000 cameras nationwide — sold to cities as a

S7, E276 - Ransomware Doesn't Have to Hit Like a Hurricane (with Jonathan Sander)

Send us Fan Mail Jonathan Sander is back on Privacy Please — and he's brought two blog posts worth arguing about. Sander (42 Notions, now in an operational role at

S7, E275 - Choose Wisely: GigaWiper, Your New Delete Button & The Gold Bar Grift

Send us Fan Mail Full Show Notes This week on Privacy Please, Cam breaks down four stories that all come back to one theme: choice. GigaWiper — Microsoft researchers u

S7, E274 - Your Password Is Already For Sale

Send us Fan Mail Last year, every major outlet ran the same story: 16 billion passwords exposed. Apple. Google. Facebook. The largest breach in history. It was overblow

S7, E273 - Inside Shiny Hunters And The New Era Of SaaS Breaches

Send us Fan Mail 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 t

S7, E272 - They Know What You Watched

Send us Fan Mail 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

S7, E271 - One File to Rule Them All

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Privacy Please, Cameron Ivey investigates Palantir Technologies — a data analytics company founded in 2003 with CIA backing that has

S7, E270 - The 40-Minute Hack That Stole the Blueprint for AI | The Mercor Breach

Send us Fan Mail 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 t

S7, E269 - You're the Teacher Now: How Companies Are Using Your Data to Build AI That Replaces You

Send us Fan Mail 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, y

S7, E268 - AI Can Unmask Your Anonymous Account for $4 | Here's How

Send us Fan Mail 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 Zur

S7, E267 - Your SOC 2 Won't Save You: Here's What Will with Girish Redekar, co-founder & CEO Sprinto

Send us Fan Mail 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 securit

S7, E266 - Good Boy, Bad Data

Send us Fan Mail How a Super Bowl dog commercial accidentally revealed America's surveillance infrastructure A family loses their dog. Ring runs a Super Bowl ad. A

S7, E265 - Don’t Trust, Verify: Even Your Update Button Might Be Lying

Send us Fan Mail 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, ve

S7, E264 - Season Seven, New Threats

Send us Fan Mail 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,

S6, E263 -Year-End Reality Check On Privacy And AI

Send us Fan Mail We look back at 2025’s privacy and security reality: useful AI where data was ready, repeating breach patterns, and infrastructure limits that slowed th

S6, E262 - WARNER BROS CRISIS: Class Action Lawsuit & The $108B Hostile Takeover (Dec 15 Update)

Send us Fan Mail It is Monday, December 15th, and the battle for Hollywood has officially gone nuclear. What started as an $82 billion acquisition by Netflix has morphe

S6, E261 - The Red Line: Salt Typhoon, Temu Spyware & The 'Side Door' Attack

Send us Fan Mail 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 un

S6, E260 - How Digital Therapy is Changing Mental Health (and Privacy) Forever

Send us Fan Mail 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.

S6, E259 - Patch Tool Turns Predator

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Privacy Please, host Cameron Ivey discusses significant security threats, including a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's WSUS

S6, E258 - The Synthetic Star: The AI Influencer Earning More Than You

Send us Fan Mail 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 entire