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The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update.

Into year five for this award-winning, light-hearted, lightweight IT privacy and security podcast that spans the globe in terms of issues covered with topics that draw in everyone from executive, to newbie, to tech specialist.

Your investment of between 15 and 20 minutes a week will bring you up to speed on half a dozen current IT privacy and security stories from around the world to help you improve the management of your own privacy and security.

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311
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2020 - 2025
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From Peking… to Duck: The IT Privacy and Security Update for April 6th., 2021

From Peking… to Duck: The IT Privacy and Security Update for April 6th., 2021

This week we go from Peking to Duck (literally), and we are sure you’re going to find the tastiest treats anywhere.

We take you crashing down a staircase with a wireless data communication company, a…

00:27:11  |   Tue 06 Apr 2021
The moment, you own it, you better never let it go. The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for March 30th 2021

The moment, you own it, you better never let it go. The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for March 30th 2021

We start this week’s adventure with a tribute to women’s safety as we come to the end of National Women’s History Month in the US.

We move on, not to home building, but cybersecurity, with a backdoor…

00:25:54  |   Wed 31 Mar 2021
Hanging on the phone for the IT Privacy and Security weekly update for March 23rd 2021

Hanging on the phone for the IT Privacy and Security weekly update for March 23rd 2021

This week we invite you to join us as we make a bunch of long-distance calls, starting with India, moving across the world, and finally ending up in Egypt.

During our phone dialing journeys we find o…

00:26:42  |   Tue 23 Mar 2021

"Right through the very heart of it" the IT Privacy & Security weekly update for March 16th 2021

Welcome to the update that never sleeps… “king of the hill”, “top of the heap”.

This week we get non-fungible with our fungibles … and … just look at the results. We save you the FOMO by ELI5 to help…

00:22:45  |   Tue 16 Mar 2021
Fresh from the auction block: The IT Privacy and Security weekly update for March 9th. 2021

Fresh from the auction block: The IT Privacy and Security weekly update for March 9th. 2021

We have a galloping great IT Privacy and Security Update for you this week! We help the Mac users come to terms with why it seems like they have been getting more updates than their Windows counterpa…

00:24:32  |   Tue 09 Mar 2021
Get fit with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for March 2nd 2021

Get fit with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for March 2nd 2021

How are you feeling today?  Good, we hope! 

We are starting this week’s update with healthcare and ending with an insurance story in a journey that blows right past the doctors’ office.

In between bu…

00:20:51  |   Wed 03 Mar 2021
The Fertile Pasturelands of the IT Privacy and Security Weekly update for February 23rd. 2021

The Fertile Pasturelands of the IT Privacy and Security Weekly update for February 23rd. 2021

This week we move from the farm to the hospital, and all hopefully injury-free.

We’ve got another “kikerikii, jippiyayyeyyy, boomchikahwoowoow”from Zoom, stalking Favicons, and why you might not want…

00:23:45  |   Wed 24 Feb 2021
Pump up the IT Privacy and Security Update for the week ending February 16th 2021

Pump up the IT Privacy and Security Update for the week ending February 16th 2021

What do you do if you’re in a country where there are zero officially reported cases of Covid-19 and you have no vaccine research budget?
Officially, you don’t need the vaccine, but unofficially… you…

00:24:26  |   Tue 16 Feb 2021
The ITPaSWU for the week ending February 9th 2021

The ITPaSWU for the week ending February 9th 2021

Happy ITPaSWU* Tuesday!

Valentine’s Day is coming up and we’ve got gifts for you. Lots of them.

The first is a great story on just how much precise data your phone shares about you with whoever cares…

00:27:07  |   Wed 10 Feb 2021
The IT Privacy & Security weekly update for “Identity Theft Awareness Week”, February 2nd 2021

The IT Privacy & Security weekly update for “Identity Theft Awareness Week”, February 2nd 2021

Happy Identity Theft Awareness Week!

In celebration, we move from stories about a 7 year old to a 30 something, the first an agent, and the last a real operator… to a mischievous creature that is cau…

00:24:07  |   Wed 03 Feb 2021
The “They got more breeches than Levi Strauss” Privacy and Security Weekly Update for January 26th. 2021

The “They got more breeches than Levi Strauss” Privacy and Security Weekly Update for January 26th. 2021

We start with a guy who’s got reporters, lawsuits and a Stock Market darling chasing him, and he didn’t even know it until a reporter from the New York Post told him!

We show you the price you pay fo…

00:24:28  |   Wed 27 Jan 2021
Raindrops keep falling on the Privacy and Security Weekly Update for January 19th 2021

Raindrops keep falling on the Privacy and Security Weekly Update for January 19th 2021

Tom Jones sings the Burt Bacharach classic, as a tip off to our first story as we move from sunspot, Sunburst, Teardrop onto "Raindrop".

From there we go X-rated before hurtling into the Good and the…

00:16:29  |   Tue 19 Jan 2021
The Little Red IT Privacy and Security Update for January 12th 2021

The Little Red IT Privacy and Security Update for January 12th 2021

This week we start our stories to the background tune of Prince with a story that just keeps getting bigger. We move onto politics and the permanency of the Internet and a do at home project, you too…

00:24:03  |   Wed 13 Jan 2021
A Cowboy named ROI. IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for January 5th. 2021

A Cowboy named ROI. IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for January 5th. 2021

Following on from last year’s collection of the Best IT Privacy and Security stories yet, we up your ROI (return on investment) in this section with what these stories mean to you. There’s no better …

00:18:50  |   Wed 06 Jan 2021
From row 16: IT Privacy and Security weekly update for the December 29th 2020

From row 16: IT Privacy and Security weekly update for the December 29th 2020

Welcome to this week’s edition of the IT Privacy and Security weekly update.

According to research done by MIT the number 17 is the most common randomly chosen number between 1 and 20.

17 is the seve…

00:10:18  |   Wed 30 Dec 2020
Praɪvəsi ænd Sɪˈkjʊrəti Update for the week ending the 22nd December 2020

Praɪvəsi ænd Sɪˈkjʊrəti Update for the week ending the 22nd December 2020

Phonetically speaking, we have the tastiest holiday serving of praɪvəsi ænd sɪˈkjʊrəti on anyone’s holiday menu!

Our entre is confirmation of a hack first reported here months ago, before moving onto…

00:21:38  |   Wed 23 Dec 2020
SPY: Security & Privacy Yarns for the week ending December 15 2020

SPY: Security & Privacy Yarns for the week ending December 15 2020

This week reads like a https://www.007.com/ movie
(we like the " How To Drive Like James Bond… That is, if you have £3M to spare" section): from across the world, nation state spies are revealed, hu…

00:19:31  |   Tue 15 Dec 2020
On the HIgh Seas: Privacy and Security Update 2020 12 08

On the HIgh Seas: Privacy and Security Update 2020 12 08

Happy Tuesday!  

In our process of constant evolution we have a slightly new format for you this week.  

After an exciting IoT Bill we are going to focus on secure communications. 

We look deep into …

00:16:40  |   Wed 09 Dec 2020
“8 It Privacy & Security Things that Are Hiding under Your Bed” for the week ending 2020 12 01

“8 It Privacy & Security Things that Are Hiding under Your Bed” for the week ending 2020 12 01

Howdy!

On “giving Tuesday” we are “giving” you the best privacy and security stories yet.

AI and privacy feature high on the list, from AI aimed at truck drivers to office 365 workers and sticking wi…

00:16:07  |   Wed 02 Dec 2020
Unwrapping P & S news for the week ending November 24 2020

Unwrapping P & S news for the week ending November 24 2020

They used to say, “If you want to get someone’s attention, just whisper.” In these trying times where social distancing keeps people more than 6 feet away, that strategy falls flat, so instead we com…

00:19:44  |   Wed 25 Nov 2020
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