- 40 minutes 54 secondsEpisode 269: The Student Data Free-for-All
As technology is integrated deeper into classrooms, the lines between education and data privacy have been destroyed by for-profit data miners. This week, privacy advocate Shannon Edwards reveals how educational apps harvest sensitive information from children, commodify their data, and what parents can do to fight it.
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15 September 2026, 7:00 am - 52 minutes 10 secondsEpisode 268: Your Privacy Is Being Taxed
Same store, same day, different price. David Dayen takes us on a deep dive into the murky cyberscape of surveillance pricing, we enlist young people to prove it's real, and Grace Gedye lays out a future law that might actually stop it.
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8 September 2026, 7:00 am - 48 minutes 6 secondsEpisode 267: No Price Tag for You!
Fictitious discounts. payday markups. AI setting airfares in real time. Investigative reporter Derek Kravitz, Grace Gedye (Consumer Reports) are joined byDavid Dayen to expose the algorithms that decide if you pay more or less than your neighbor for the exact same thing.
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1 September 2026, 7:00 am - 48 minutes 41 secondsEpisode 266: How Much Is Surveillance Pricing Costing You?
Welcome to the infuriating world of surveillance pricing. Chris "the Producer" Parr created a digital nobody to find out whether companies would charge the new him less. What he found was stranger. So how much does what companies know about you affect what you pay?
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25 August 2026, 7:00 am - 52 minutes 37 secondsEpisode 265: Surveillance In America, Pt 1: Somebody's Watching You
Benn Jordan—musician, acoustic scientist, and one of the sharpest minds on surveillance technology—joins 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and the ACLU’s Jay Stanley to trace how surveillance went ambient— and what it means when everyone’s being watched.
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18 August 2026, 7:00 am - 48 minutes 19 secondsEpisode 264: 15 Years of Fear: A Stalking Story
A stranger showed up at Anna Nasset's art gallery with a painting called "Marry Me." She said no. He did not get the message — for 15 years. Now Anna trains law enforcement on stalking, because someone has to explain that "she should be killed" is a red flag.
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11 August 2026, 7:00 am - 51 minutes 40 secondsEpisode 263: The Affinity Scam Playbook
Coco Berthmann sold a survival story. Amanda Riley sold a cancer battle. Both were lies that raided communities, wallets, and trust. Journalists Sarah Ganim, Karen Given, and Charlie Webster tell the stories; cognitive scientist Daniel Simons explains why we get taken in.
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4 August 2026, 7:00 am - 55 minutes 50 secondsEpisode 262: The Mystery that Changed Wyoming's Stalking Law
Fake screenshots. Burner numbers. Forged emails. A stalker who somehow always knew what a 15-year-old was wearing. Blogger Cathy Holman thought she knew everyone in her tiny Wyoming town—so who's been terrorizing her family?
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28 July 2026, 7:00 am - 46 minutes 57 secondsEpisode 261: Aaron Parnas on the Firehose of Our Digital Here-and-Now
Aaron Parnas is the Walter Cronkite of Substack. He has millions of followers who follow him on every platform to get his just-the-facts reporting, but even the most trusted voice on TikTok has some thoughts when it comes to our collective privacy.
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21 July 2026, 7:00 am - 48 minutes 41 secondsEpisode 260: Jackals of Trust: A Short History of Cybercrime
Cybercrime expert Gary Warner joins to discuss Nigerian confraternities, the "campus cults" rooted in idealism that morphed into a multi-billion dollar transnational organized crime network. Learn about the "money blessing," the coded language and insider access, and the elite thug playbook for exploiting trust.
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14 July 2026, 7:00 am - 52 minutes 35 secondsEpisode 259: Capture The Flag!
Ethan Merritt is an WTH alum, but the last time he was on the pod he was the target. This time, he asked for it: Find four flags using only publicly viewable data. Social media posts, podcasts, leaked passwords, a cat-tree video. Listen to hear how we did.
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