This week is a short episode. This week I discuss several data breaches, making informed decisions, and the future of surveillance with connected cars and facial recognition. Full show notes: https://thenewoil.xyz/20201115.html

This week, I offer you 25 minutes and 49 seconds of reprieve from US Elections. Well, I do mention California's Prop 24 once. But other than that, sit back and enjoy the smooth sounds of Google's new VPN service, SIM swapping attacks, and police use of technology in the real world. Also WhatsApp's disappearing messages.

Full show notes: https://thenewoil.xyz/20201108.html

This week's top stories include a major data breach of mental health data in Finland, surveillance tech companies using their own tech to sexually harass their own female employees, an article about the security risks of popular browser plugin Honey, and much more. Full notes: https://thenewoil.xyz/20201101.html

This week's big stories include Chrome ignoring user privacy in Google's favor (shocking), Google removes two malicious plugins who were competing with them for user data collection, and I actually defend Facebook for once. That one's not a joke. Full list of links: https://thenewoil.xyz/20201025.html

This week's big stories: Five Eyes calls for backdoors (yet again), cell carriers know everything about you already, and Twilio acquired a data analytics company. Show notes: https://thenewoil.xyz/20201018.html

This week: An unforgivable data breach from Georgia DHS, Telegram might delete channels belonging to Belarusian protesters, Privacy Badger is changing, and more. Show notes: https://thenewoil.xyz/20201011.html

This week's news: EARN-IT Act has been introduced to the House of Representatives, Kylie Jenner data breach, Amazon debuts palm-based payment systems, and more. Full notes: https://thenewoil.xyz/20201004.html

This week's top stories: people surprisingly use Bing, major busts for dark web criminals, Amazon's surveillance state ambitions, and more. Full notes: https://thenewoil.xyz/20200927.html

This week's stories include AT&T's ad-subsidized phone plans, a German citizen who died in a hospital ransomware attack, and a ton of good news and helpful links. Show links: https://thenewoil.xyz/20200920.html

Once again, show notes are too large to fit. Link to show notes: https://thenewoil.xyz/20200915.html