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Episode 70 - Backup Copies: Preserving Your Privacy and Business Data
Mike Potter’s cat bounced on his keyboard years ago. His hard drive cratered, and he lost his data. But he turned this disaster from feline treachery into a career and...
Episode 69 - Ransomware, Negotiating With Digital Kidnappers
Ransomware. It’s in the headlines. It’s digital organized crime across borders. When an organization’s IT system freezes with its data locked by a ransomware gang, ...
Episode 68 - Catching Cyber-Criminals With Digital Forensics
Ransomware attacks, data breaches, digital theft – on the rise. Who are the cyber-criminals? Can they be traced? And what can a company do to minimize risk and respond...
Episode 67 - Data Flows After Brexit... For Now
Europe finds UK data privacy system adequate, for now. On June 28, 2021, the Europe Union granted two adequacy decisions to the United Kingdom for personal privacy pur...
Episode 66 - Phone Scams and You
This is a true story of a phone scam of May 2021. The Data Privacy Detective got a call on the home landline. This scam will succeed in stealing money from countles...
Episode 65 - Ransomware Basics
This podcast episode explores ransomware from preventive, legal, and communications angles. While there’s no 100% effective vaccination against a ransomware attack, th...
Episode 64 - The Two Faces of Browsers and Our Privacy Options
Janus was the Roman god of doors, gates, and transitions. He needed two faces to look in both directions - life and death, past and future. Internet browsers allow us ...
Episode 63 - Your Face, Time To Scrub?
Facial recognition. It’s a hot topic. Targeting, misidentification, and doxing - the dangers are real. So are the benefits – finding criminals and solving crimes, sear...
Episode 62 - TIKTOK and Privacy: Challenges from Europe and America
On February 16, 2021 TikTok was sued in Europe for abusing consumer rights. Millions of Europeans use TikTok to post, share and watch videos 3 to 60 seconds long, rang...
Episode 61 - How Not To Get Phished!
Data theft set new records in 2020. The major causes are not failures of equipment, software, or services. In an estimated 85% of cybercrime, the cause is us. We make ...
Episode 60 - Cyber Insurance: What it Does and Doesn’t Cover
As businesses move into 2021, what insurance can they have to limit cyber risk? What does cyber insurance cover and not cover? How is it priced and secured? Data Priv...
Episode 59 - Taiwan: A Bridge For East-West Commerce?
Taiwan is one of the “Four Asian Tiger” economies. Its companies hold 66% of the world’s semiconductor market. It consistently tops the USPTO per-capita list of patent...
Episode 58 - Personal Privacy and Community IT Systems
Data privacy is about balancing individual concerns and community needs. Without assurance that private information will be responsibly shared and used, people may not...
Episode 57 - Protecting Data Privacy Within Databases
We all value privacy – at least to some extent. But some of us want to be famous, and all of us want to connect with friends and acquaintances. We like the convenience...
Episode 56 - Ransomware and Privacy
Ransomware - a sinister type of cyberattack that installs malware onto a computer system. Once inside a network, the malware encrypts documents, freezing the IT system...
Episode 55 - Differential Privacy and Academic Research
Science and knowledge advance through information gathered, organized, and analyzed. It is only through databases about people that social scientists, public health ex...
Episode 54 - Contact Tracing Apps and Australia
COVID-19 has changed the world in dramatic ways. Contact tracing emerged as an approach to fight the pandemic’s spread and save lives. The idea is to notify people who...
Episode 53 - Brazil’s New Personal Data Privacy Law
Brazil’s General Personal Data Protection Law or “LGPD” entered into force on September 18, 2020. In this podcast, Thiago Luís Santos Sombra of the prominent Brazilian...
Episode 52 - Data Brokers: How our Personal Information is Sold
Robo-calls, phishing, identity theft, ads we didn’t ask for – and worse. How does this happen? How does our personal data get collected, used and sold, without our kno...
Episode 51 - Non - Personal Data - India Stakes A Claim On Owning and Regulating NPD
A July 2020 Indian Government Report calls for regulation of Non-Personal Data. Most data privacy laws aim to protect (or not) personal data of people, This Report rai...