When the US House of Representatives passed a controversial law about Internet privacy earlier this year, several news outlets published security advice suggesting that you should use the Tor network or a commercial virtual private network (VPN) to protect yourself. Both of those suggestions turned out to bad ideas. In this episode, Ben Wilde talks with Dan Guido, the founder of a New York-based security consultancy called Trail of Bits, about the trouble with Tor and commercial VPNs.

Face-to-face communication is increasingly being supplanted by messaging that's typically much shorter in nature and often happens without any context. For the machines given the task of trying to interpret those messages, this is often a lot easier said than done. In this episode of the Impact Podcast, Jon Prial talks with Saif Mohammed from the National Research Council in Canada about speech and text analysis. Find out how machines are starting to look beyond mere words to try to understand the emotions behind what's being said. http://saifmohammad.com http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/news/a53378/saddest-radiohead-song-graph/

In this episode, Jon Prial continues his conversation about differential privacy with Yevgeniy Vahlis, Georgian Partners' Director of Security First. Find out more about how differential privacy works as Yevgeniy explains it using simple, every day examples. He then goes on to describe why differential privacy isn't just for the likes of Google and Apple, but rather something that most companies should be taking a close look at.

Apple made headlines in 2016 when it started talking about differential privacy. But what exactly is it? And what opportunities can it create for your business to aggregate and share your customers' data to get better results without compromising their privacy? In this episode, Jon Prial talks with Yevgeniy Vahlis, Georgian Partners' Director of Security First, to get a primer on differential privacy and understand what it's all about.

The dark web. It’s the underbelly of the Internet and a place where some pretty terrible things happen. Cyber criminals, for example, are using it to orchestrate attacks on all kinds of businesses. In this episode, Jon Prial talks to Josh Lefkowitz, the CEO and Co-Founder of Flashpoint, to learn more about the dark web, the very real threats that it presents, and what Flashpoint is doing to help other companies navigate the risks.

Around the world 422 million adults are living with diabetes at an estimated cost of $825 billion per year. That makes it the single largest chronic disease on the planet and a true epidemic. Yet when diabetes is properly managed you can eliminate most if not all of the associated complications. In this episode, Jon Prial talks with Rick Altinger, the CEO of Glooko, our newest portfolio company and one that’s using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and broad integration with medical and personal devices to tackle the diabetes epidemic.

People have been talking to each other for millennia. But we've only been talking to machines for a very short time. In this episode, Jon Prial talks with Nandini Stocker, former Head of Conversational Design Advocacy and Partnerships at Google. Find out about voice user interfaces (VUIs) are evolving to help businesses create better experiences for their customers.

We're living in the age of the Internet of Things. Companies in virtually every industry are collecting vast quantities of data to help them make better decisions. In this episode, Jon Prial talks with Ward Thomas, the CEO of Sentient Science, a company that's using the data it's collecting to extend the remaining useful life of fielded assets like wind turbines, and to optimize new product design and testing.

Artificial intelligence is on the mind of entrepreneurs and business executives all over the world. And while everyone is talking about it, understanding how and where to actually apply it to your business is quite a different matter. In this episode, Jon Prial talks with Bradford Cross, a founding partner at Data Collective, the world's leading machine learning and big data venture capital fund. Find out how to collect differentiated data and apply AI to it to get big results.

They say that no one cares about banking, but that everyone cares about their financial well-being. And while that’s probably true, it also creates a problem: How do you make something as important as banking more accessible and engaging for everyone? In this episode, Jon Prial talks to Jake Tyler, the CEO of Finn.ai, a company that has built an AI-powered personal banking and financial management assistant that you can interact with over a messaging platform. Find out how communication is shifting and what this exciting company is doing to try to improve the lives of billions of people by giving them better access to financial services.