The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

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

EP 306. Deep Dive. Memories. The AI, Privacy & Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending August 25th., 2026

Modern digital infrastructure has transformed personal data and movements into a permanent form of surveillance memory that is increasingly vulnerable to exploitation.

Memories. The AI, Privacy & Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending August 25th., 2026

EP 306. In this update. Memory became evidence. It became leverage. It became the frontier where infrastructure, surveillance, and survival intersect. We found Russian

EP 305. Deep Dive. Fingerprints. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the week ending August 18th, 2026.

Current technological trends are increasingly defined by a tension between enhanced utility and personal privacy, as highlighted by the rise of AI surveillance in public

Fingerprints. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the week ending August 18th. , 2026.

EP 305.  In this week's update: Anthropic is adding invisible watermarks to everything Claude writes-and you won't know it's there until someone looks for it. China i

EP 304 . Deep Dive. Verify. The AI, Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending August 11th., 2026

In this week's update, we look at the multifaceted integration of artificial intelligence into modern infrastructure, safety, and technology. AI is reshaping emergency

Verify. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the week ending August 11, 2026.

 Episode 304. n this week's update: New Orleans is about to let AI answer some of its 911 calls - and the question isn't whether it's fast enough, it's what happens th

EP 303. Gorgones. Deep Dive. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the week ending August 3, 2026.

Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed the cybersecurity landscape by reducing the expertise needed to launch sophisticated attacks. Open-weight AI models now

Gorgones. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the week ending August 4, 2026.

EP 303. A camera network built to catch stolen cars turned out to work just as well for stalking an ex. A hacker in Zhuhai built an AI that could scan, hack, and attac

EP 302. Deep Dive into the Records. The AI, Privacy, Security Weekly Update for the Week ending July 28th., 2026

1. Saudi Arabia – World’s Largest AI HackathonKanz (AI hiring platform) ran an 8-day free event (July 15–22) targeting 100,000 complete beginners — teachers, job seekers,

One Request, 600 Companies and one Deep Dive: Inside California's New Data Deletion Machine

California’s Delete Act (SB 362) introduced DROP (Delete Request and Opt-out Platform), which launched on January 1, 2026. It lets residents submit one deletion request t

Can AI Education Go Viral? A Deep Dive Inside the World's Biggest AI Hackathon

The Kanz initiative (ka.nz/hack) was far more than a hackathon. It was a bold, free global program to democratize AI by enabling everyone, from complete beginners to expe

Records. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the Week ending July 28th., 2026

 Episode 302.   In this week’s update. Nearly 100,000 people just tried to learn AI development in a single week, no coding background required - and the attempt to set