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S7, E272 - They Know What You Watched
Send us Fan MailSHOW 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 called ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen 200 million records from Pornhub Premium users — including email addresses, locations, and intimate watch and search history. They sent extortion demands. The data was verified as real.In this episode of Privacy Please, Cameron Ivey breaks down:✅ What was actually stolen — and why it's worse than most breaches ✅ The three-way...
S7, E271 - One File to Rule Them All
Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Privacy Please, Cameron Ivey investigates Palantir Technologies — a data analytics company founded in 2003 with CIA backing that has quietly become embedded across nearly every major arm of the U.S. federal government.This week's investigation covers:The USDA Deal On April 22nd, the Department of Agriculture signed a $300 million blanket purchase agreement with Palantir to build "One Farmer, One File" — a unified digital profile for every American farmer. The deal was awarded without competitive bidding.The IRS Bombshell The same...
S7, E270 - The 40-Minute Hack That Stole the Blueprint for AI | The Mercor Breach
Send us Fan MailA 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 through software most people will never notice until it breaks. We follow the Mercor breach from the first warning signs to the moment poisoned Python packages hit PyPI and spread in minutes across systems that were set to auto-update. We walk through what Mercor actually does in the AI economy, especially RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback), and why that behind-the-scenes work shapes how too...
S7, E269 - You're the Teacher Now: How Companies Are Using Your Data to Build AI That Replaces You
Send us Fan MailYou already knew you were the product. But did you know you're also the teacher?Companies are quietly feeding your emails, your work decisions, your customer interactions, and your daily patterns into AI systems — systems designed to automate exactly what you do. And most people have no idea it's happening.In this episode of Privacy Please, we break down how it works, who's doing it, why your right to delete your own data is functionally broken in the AI era, and what you can actually do about it....
S7, E268 - AI Can Unmask Your Anonymous Account for $4 | Here's How
Send us Fan MailYour 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 Zurich and Anthropic published a paper that quietly ended the era of practical online anonymity. Their AI pipeline, using nothing but your posts, comments, and forum activity, correctly identified 67% of pseudonymous users from a pool of 89,000 candidates. No name. No photo. No metadata. Just your words.This episode breaks down exactly how it works, why it's different from every deanonymization scare before it, who's...
S7, E267 - Your SOC 2 Won't Save You: Here's What Will with Girish Redekar, co-founder & CEO Sprinto
Send us Fan MailCameron 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 security: compliance.Girish built his first startup, RecruiterBox, to 3,500 customers before selling it, and it was the painful, expensive, duct-taped compliance process he experienced firsthand that sparked the idea for Sprinto. Today, Sprinto helps companies move beyond point-in-time audits into something far more valuable: continuous, autonomous trust.In this episode, we dig into:Why passing a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit doesn't mean...
S7, E266 - Good Boy, Bad Data
Send us Fan MailHow a Super Bowl dog commercial accidentally revealed America's surveillance infrastructureA family loses their dog. Ring runs a Super Bowl ad. America collectively goes "wait… what?"This week, we're digging into Ring's "Search Party" feature, the AI-powered doorbell camera tool that lit up millions of living rooms during the big game and immediately made privacy experts lose their minds. Because what looked like a heartwarming story about finding your lost lab was actually a live demonstration of a nationwide networked surveillance system most people didn't know they were pa...
S7, E265 - Don’t Trust, Verify: Even Your Update Button Might Be Lying
Send us Fan MailAutonomy 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, verify” now beats “trust but verify,” and what to do when the update button itself becomes the attack vector.We start with the Ivy League leak tied to Harvard and UPenn, where attackers exposed admissions hold notes that map influence rather than credit cards. That context turns routine records into leverage for extortion, social pressure, and geopolitical targeting. From there, we trace the surge of agentic AI...
S7, E264 - Season Seven, New Threats
Send us Fan MailWe 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, a massive stitched leak in France, a heavy Microsoft patch drop, AI agents on the rise, and new state privacy laws. We share practical steps: self-host cameras, freeze your credit, harden identity portals, and keep humans in the loop when AI handles sensitive data.• CES unveils Ring’s neighborhood watchtower and its surveillance tradeoffs• Why self‑hosted DVR systems beat cloud video for privacy• Brea...
S6, E263 -Year-End Reality Check On Privacy And AI
Send us Fan MailWe look back at 2025’s privacy and security reality: useful AI where data was ready, repeating breach patterns, and infrastructure limits that slowed the hype. We call out backdoors, weak 2FA, and the shift toward passkeys, decentralization, and owning more of our stack.• AI succeeds when data, process and governance are mature• Power, chips and cost constraints limit AI growth• SALT Typhoon shows backdoor risk and patching failures• SMS 2FA remains weak while passkeys gain ground• Data hoarding expands breach blast radius• Streaming consolidation drives algorithm control and pi...
S6, E262 - WARNER BROS CRISIS: Class Action Lawsuit & The $108B Hostile Takeover (Dec 15 Update)
Send us Fan MailIt is Monday, December 15th, and the battle for Hollywood has officially gone nuclear.What started as an $82 billion acquisition by Netflix has morphed into a $108 billion hostile takeover battle with Paramount Skydance. As of this morning, stocks are volatile, the government has frozen the deal, and a massive Class Action Lawsuit has just been filed to burn it all down.In this Special Report from Privacy Please, we break down the chaos of the last 72 hours. We uncover the "National Security" weapon Netflix is using to kill the...
S6, E261 - The Red Line: Salt Typhoon, Temu Spyware & The 'Side Door' Attack
Send us Fan MailA 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 university breach turned into a donor-targeting roadmap. We share simple moves to lower risk fast and set guardrails that actually hold.• Salt Typhoon abusing CALEA at major US telecoms• Negligence, unpatched routers and weak passwords• Why SMS is transparent and how to switch to Signal• Kill SMS 2FA and use authenticators or YubiKey• Gainsight-to-Salesforce island hopping at scale• Audit connected apps and rev...