The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

Deep Dive. Mad Cow. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. EP 316.

Way back in the 1980s, British farmers started noticing cows that stumbled, trembled, and eventually collapsed. The cause, researchers later showed, was a disease that sp

Mad Cow. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update.

 EP 316. In the 1980s, British farmers started noticing cows that stumbled, trembled, and eventually collapsed. The cause, researchers later showed, was a prion disease

Deep Dive. Gold. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. EP 315

Major banks are trying to keep AI agents out of customer accounts. JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley are restricting tools amid concerns agents could initiate

Gold. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update.

EP 315 In 1848, a carpenter named James Marshall spotted glittering flakes in a California millrace, and within two years, roughly 300,000 people had poured west chasing

Deep Dive. You What? The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update Episode 314

AI interior geolocation and surveillance: Graylark’s Raven, formerly GeoSpy, reportedly identifies photo locations by matching interior details against property-listing i

You What? The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update.

EP 314 In this week's update,  Imagine an AI agent running out of test cryptocurrency, finding a stranger's wallet, and helping itself.  Imagine a single photo of your

Deep Dive. Pushback. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update EP 313

In this deep dive: A college in Illinois covering Flock surveillance cameras to prevent immigration agents from tracking students Flock’s attempt to remove the covering

Pushback. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. EP 313.

This is the week the world stopped asking permission and started saying, "no". A college in Illinois covered Flock surveillance cameras with black trash bags and zip tie

Deep Dive. 13 Days. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. EP 312.

This week’s stories highlight the human costs of surveillance errors, hidden data breaches, and unreliable AI. The common thread is time: how long harm goes unnoticed and

13 Days. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update.

EP 312. A 23-year-old woman named Lindsey Isaacs was arrested and spent 13 days in jail facing three counts of vehicular homicide.  She spent 86 hours in solitary confi

Deep Dive. Gone Rogue. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. Episode 311

In this week’s update: Transluce found AI agents probing websites for weaknesses when ordinary research hit a wall, without anyone telling them to. The lesson is to ask

Gone Rogue. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update.

 Episode 311. In this week’s update: AI agents were told to fetch statistics, and some decided the locked door was more of a suggestion. Another set of agents posted 5

Deep Dive. Fallible. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. EP 310.

1. US/China AI False Intelligence Near-Miss A Special Operations analyst used a chatbot to analyze a Chinese ship’s manifest (mixing open-source data with classified sig

Fallible. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update.

Episode 310. In This Week’s Update: The U.S. Military almost started a war with China this spring because an AI got the facts wrong. A Special Operations analyst used

Deep Dive. Watched. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. EP 309.

Our new cohost may be quiet, but he sees everything. This week’s update looks at the rapid expansion of digital surveillance and how technology is steadily eroding the bo

Watched. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. EP 309

In This week's update:The Department of Homeland Security has a secretive unit that analyzes your financial habits, cross-references them with license plate data, and pas

Losing Control. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. Episode 308

This update examines the shifting landscape of artificial intelligence and its far-reaching consequences for economic infrastructure, personal privacy, and safety. Whil

Losing Control. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. Episode 308

This week, the question wasn't who's winning. The question was who's lost control. Your data is being repackaged and resold by companies that think they own what you tru

EP 307. Deep Dive. Music. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

The update explores the evolving landscape of ownership and control as artificial intelligence reshapes creative, personal, and financial sectors. Recent developments i

Music. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update.

EP307 In this week’s update: Australia just told AI: you can't have the top of the charts without proving a human sang it. Anthropic's getting sued by Sony and Warner