Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast

Erasing Your Online Data


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Data brokers are amassing tons of our personal information, often from public sources. You can try to find all of these brokers and request your data be deleted, but it’s a lot easier to deputize a trustworthy and affordable service to do all that work for you – and to do so on a regular basis. I’ll give you my easy button solution for this.

Also in the news: Meta will use your AI sessions to target ads; Google is rolling out agentic AI shopping tools; OpenTable is gathering and sharing your dining habits; Amazon sues Perplexity over their agentic shopping tool; first ever reported AI-orchestrated hacking campaign; EU Commission looks to gut privacy laws; lawmakers want to ban all VPN use; US Senator uses opponents’ can VIN info against them; and new health privacy bill seeks to protect data in apps, smart watches.

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  1. Meta won’t allow users to opt out of targeted ads based on AI chats https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/meta-wont-allow-users-to-opt-out-of-targeted-ads-based-on-ai-chats/
  2. Google Is Rolling Out ‘Agentic Checkout’ to Make Your Purchases for You https://lifehacker.com/tech/google-is-rolling-out-agentic-checkout
  3. Texas Server Says Your Waitstaff Can Now See What Type Of Customer You Are If You Use OpenTable https://brobible.com/culture/article/opentable-ai-customer-profiling/
  4. Amazon sues Perplexity over ‘agentic’ shopping tool https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/perplexity-receives-legal-threat-amazon-over-agentic-ai-shopping-tool-2025-11-04/
  5. Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
  6. Civil society decries digital rights ‘rollback’ as European Commission pushes data protection changes https://therecord.media/civil-society-privacy-rollback
  7. Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing
  8. Senate Democrats seek to ‘get to bottom’ of Moreno’s car-data collection https://rollcall.com/2025/11/06/senate-democrats-seek-to-get-to-bottom-of-morenos-car-data-collection/
  9. Health privacy bill seeks protections for data collected by apps, smartwatches https://therecord.media/health-privacy-bill-seeks-protections-apps-smartwatches
  10. Tip of the Week: Erasing Your Data: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/dragon-hacks-opt-out/ 
  11. Further Info
    • Ask ARC to delete data and stop sharing: https://www.404media.co/how-to-opt-out-of-airlines-selling-your-travel-data-to-the-government/ 
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    • Table of Contents
      • 0:00:07: Intro
      • 0:00:45: News briefs
      • 0:02:57: News preview
      • 0:05:38: Meta won’t let you opt out of AI data gathering
      • 0:15:05: Google Is Rolling Out ‘Agentic Checkout’
      • 0:20:13: OpenTable gathering and sharing your dining info
      • 0:31:22: Amazon sues Perplexity over ‘agentic’ shopping tool
      • 0:38:57: First reported AI-orchestrated cyber attack
      • 0:51:33: European Commission pushes data protection changes
      • 0:55:15: Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs
      • 1:04:03: Senator uses VIN info against opponents
      • 1:10:38: Health privacy bill seeks protections for data collected by apps, smartwatches
      • 1:12:43: Tip of the Week
      • 1:16:26: Looking ahead
      • ...more
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