Data Brokers
Meta & YouTube Found Negligent: A Turning Point for Big Tech?
Tom Eston | | Age Verification, Algorithm Addiction, Behavioral Data Tracking, Big Tech Accountability, Cybersecurity, Data Brokers, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Jury Verdict, Kids And Technology, machine learning, Mental Health, Meta, Platform Liability, Podcast, Privacy, Section 230, social media, surveillance, The Social Dilemma, Weekly Edition, YouTube
A landmark jury verdict has found Meta and YouTube negligent in a social media addiction case, raising major questions about platform accountability and legal protections under Section 230. This episode covers the ...
AI Just Made Executives the Easiest Targets on the Internet
AI makes it easy to find executive PII online. Security teams must reduce digital exposure before attackers use AI to surface sensitive data ...
Security Boulevard
Who’s Stalking Whom? ICE Uses Social Media and Phone Surveillance System to Track Protesters
Teri Robinson | | Data Brokers, Device Tracking, Fourth Amendment, government surveillance, ICE protests, ICE surveillance, PenLink, privacy laws, Social Media Monitoring, technology and privacy, Webloc
ICE protests surveillance yet uses tech to track citizens' devices, possibly violating privacy laws and the Fourth Amendment, revealed through ICE's data tools ...
Security Boulevard
When the Marketing Graph Becomes the Target Map
Charles Randolph | | ad-tech risk, AI-driven threats, Data Brokers, executive security, surveillance economy
Ad tech platforms likely know more about your executives than your security team does… and that information is available to anyone willing to pay for it. A recent investigation by Wired revealed ...
Security Boulevard
Google Chrome Extension is Intercepting Millions of Users’ AI Chats
Jeffrey Burt | | AI chatbots, AI data exfiltration, Anthropic, browser extension threats, Data Brokers, Google Chrome, Google Gemini, Koi Security, malicious extensions, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Edge, OpenAI ChatGPT
A Chrome browser extension with 6 million users, as well as seven other Chrome and Edge extensions, for months have been silently collecting data from every AI chatbot conversion, packaging it, and ...
Security Boulevard
The Hidden Threat in Your Holiday Emails: Tracking Pixels and Privacy Concerns
Tom Eston | | ad networks, Behavioral Profiling, browser extensions, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Brokers, Data Collection, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Email Privacy, email security, Episodes, Holiday Shopping, Information Security, Infosec, Marketing Emails, online security, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, privacy tips, Proton Mail, retailers, security, technology, Tracking Pixels, Unsubscribe, Weekly Edition
Join us in the midst of the holiday shopping season as we discuss a growing privacy problem: tracking pixels embedded in marketing emails. According to Proton’s latest Spam Watch 2025 report, nearly ...
Act Surprised: Data Brokers Seem to Scoff at California Privacy Act
Richi Jennings | | California, California Consumer Privacy Act, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), CCPA, CCPA Compliance, CCPA Compliance Monitoring, Dark Pattern Web Design, dark patterns, Data Broker, Data broker regulations, Data Brokers, DROP, Privacy, robots.txt, SB Blogwatch, Sen. Maggie Hassan
Privacy Rights Crushed by robots.txt: Sen. Hassan is on the warpath ...
Security Boulevard
National Public Data Shuts Down Months After Massive Breach
National Public Data, the data broker whose systems were breached and 2.9 billion files holding sensitive data from 170 million this year, has shut down following the attack and after a judge ...
Security Boulevard
Deepfake Fraud, Data Brokers Tracking Military Personnel
Tom Eston | | biometrics, Cyber Security, cyber threat, Cybersecurity, Data Brokers, Data Privacy, deepfake, deepfakes, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Fraud, Germany, Information Security, Infosec, Location, location data, military, pirates, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, Privateers, Scams, security, Strava, surveillance, technology, Weekly Edition
In Episode 356, Tom and Kevin discuss the increasing role of deepfake technology in bypassing biometric checks, accounting for 24 percent of fraud attempts. The show covers identity fraud issues and explores ...
Billions of passwords leaked; Twilio experiences data breach through Authy
It’s always better to be safe than sorry. It’s an adage that can keep you out of a lot of trouble, and it’s definitely one to take seriously when discussing cyberthreats. A ...

