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No Place to Hide podcast ep. 1: When privacy is a matter of life and death

May 6, 2020 Bob Sullivan 3

Amy Boyer, I sometimes say, was the first person murdered by the Internet. Twenty years ago this fall, she was gunned down in cold blood by stalker Liam Youens. He found Amy by hiring a data broker, and told everyone about that on his website. “It’s actually obscene what you [Keep reading]

‘Mistakes were made’ — how did we get privacy so wrong? Place to Hide podcast, Ep. 2

May 5, 2020 Bob Sullivan 2

Dan Solove, perhaps the leading legal scholar on privacy, has an amazing collection of magazine covers on his TechPrivacy.com website. One after another, they all lament that “Privacy is Dead.” The stories date from 2015….2010…1994…..1970! He calls this collection “the undying death of privacy.” “I am growing weary of [Keep reading]

‘A system that can .. change the way you think and the way you feel’ – No Place to Hide podcast, ep. 3

May 4, 2020 Bob Sullivan 0

The third episode of our privacy podcast, No Place to Hide, goes right to a pretty dark place. When they take away our privacy, what are they really taking away? Our humanity. Menny Barzily, CTO of the Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at Tel-Aviv University, offered the most profound analysis. He [Keep reading]

Erin and Noah on the run, why Americans carry tracking devices everywhere now – No Place to Hide, Ep. 4

May 3, 2020 Bob Sullivan 1

Erin and her son Noah think they’ve finally found a safe place to live, in a quiet Ohio town, invisible to Erin’s abusive ex-husband. But that life is shattered by a disturbing voice mail after a single photo of Noah accidentally appears on a school website. The call sends [Keep reading]

A billion cameras watching us; and now Baltimore cops watch from airplanes above the city — No Place to Hide podcast, ep. 5

May 2, 2020 Bob Sullivan 0

Erin and Noah, on the run from Erin’s abusive ex-husband, make their way from Ohio to Missouri as they search for a safe place to spend the night after a near-disaster that morning at Noah’s school. Even simple tasks like shutting off Internet service are dangerous and mind-numbingly frustrating. That’s [Keep reading]

Is Covid-19 the end of privacy? It doesn’t have to be (and, the No Place to Hide podast finale, ep. 6)

April 27, 2020 Bob Sullivan 3

This weekend, a million Australians downloaded a smartphone app called CovidSAFE that is designed to warn citizens if they’ve spent time near someone who has tested positive for the Covid-19. Voluntarily. That would have been an unthinkable breach of privacy just a couple on months ago. Nations around the world [Keep reading]

Postscript: Closing the loop on the data broker project

April 4, 2020 Bob Sullivan 0

In the first season of No Place to Hide, Duke students Carter Forinash and Jake Satisky cyberstalked Spoke Media founder Keith Reynolds — with his permission. The results of their research are sprinkled through episodes 1, 2 and 3. In this postscript, we talk with Carter and Jake about their [Keep reading]