Ben explains why Apple may pay half a billion dollars to settle a class action suit, Dave has an update on last week's GPS tracking device story, and later in the show our interview with Riana Pfefferkorn. She is Associate Director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law. We’ll be discussing her recent article, “The earn it act: How to ban end-to-end encryption without actually banning it.”

Links to stories:

N.S.A. Phone Program Cost $100 Million, but Produced Only Two Unique Leads

Removing a GPS tracking device from your car isn’t theft, court rules

The earn it act: How to ban end-to-end encryption without actually banning it

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