The Impact

By Whitney Pettit, Emily Zhu

The Impact hosted by Whitney Pettit and Emily Zhu is a podcast focusing on the little actions that have lasting impacts on students at Mercer Island High School.... more

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The podcast currently has 8 episodes available.

The Impact episodes:

February 23, 2026 Mattea - Pascale MacDonald
Episode 2 of The Impact focuses on Pascale MacDonald's story of her cousin Mattea who passed away at the age of twelve. We explore more sentimental topics and reflecting on relationships with family.
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5min
February 04, 2026 Coach Nate - Anushka Tiwari
This episode of The Impact focuses on Anushka Tiwari talking about how her swim coach has greatly impacted her when thinking about balancing school and extracurriculars.
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9min
November 28, 2020 Passwords suck. Can you do anything about it?
Passwords are the worst. Trying to pick a "secure" one makes the whole thing worse. Every site and service has it's own variation on the "rules" for making a strong password and it's hard to remember what you've set your password to.
Are those rules really making our passwords stronger? Do we need so many different passwords? Is it even possible to keep track of all of these passwords?
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14min
November 16, 2020 Is Apple Tracking Every App You Use?
Apple recently launched macOS Big Sur and a security researcher's post vent viral highlighting a steady stream of communications that "phone home" detailing what apps you're using on your system. What's going on here?
Is privacy promoting Apple actually spying on every app running on every macOS system around the world? Or is something much less sinister going on...something that might even help us?
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9min
September 04, 2020 Advertising to & Tracking iOS 14 Users
Ad-tech, digital marketing, and the surveillance economy are worth billions and billions of dollars. It all hinges on the ability to target ads and you can't target ads without tracking users and their devices.
A privacy-focused design decision by Apple for iOS 14 puts Facebook on edge and Google on notice. What is the IDFA? What happens in iOS 14? And why you should care...all covered in this episode.
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13min
August 24, 2020 Do App Stores Help Your Privacy & Security? (Epic vs. Apple & Google)
Epic Games is current waging war on Apple and Google over the right to distribute apps to mobile users. There's been a ton of excellent coverage of the issues, but it's usually missing one key perspective; what do we as users get from the App Stores?
This episode if Impact Assessment looks at the cybersecurity and privacy impacts of the App Store model. Do App Store delivery do anything to improve the security of our devices? Can Apple or Google help protect our privacy? Will they?
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13min
August 14, 2020 One Month After The Twitter Hack, What Have We Learned?
On July 15th, 2020, Twitter was hit with the most visible hack of a social network of all time. 130 of the top accounts tweeted out a bitcoin scam. A month after, have we learned anything? What's the impact of continuing to use Twitter?
In this episode we're going to take a look at the issue to see if we can't answer those questions and more.
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9min
August 03, 2020 Is TikTok a Threat?
The President has promised to ban TikTok in the United States for national security reasons. Is that the case? Are there real security & privacy concerns or is this purely a political move?
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11min

FAQs about The Impact:

How many episodes does The Impact have?

The podcast currently has 8 episodes available.