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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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Update frequency
every 3 days
Average duration
20 minutes
Episodes
311
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Smiling with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending July 25th 2023

Smiling with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending July 25th 2023

This week we are smiling at some of the greatest stories to grace the headlines. 
We literally go from a launch to a cover up, but in between we have all lovely gooey sticky filling that will keep y…

00:20:37  |   Wed 26 Jul 2023
The Kiss of the IT Privacy and Security weekly Update for the week ending July 18th 2023

The Kiss of the IT Privacy and Security weekly Update for the week ending July 18th 2023

In this week’s update, we start and end on TikTok, but the bookends could not be more different.
We have one of the most important updates on how you can protect your family and friends from the lat…

00:12:42  |   Wed 19 Jul 2023
Primed for the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending July 11th, 2023

Primed for the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending July 11th, 2023

This week we have a prime serving of updates for you, we start with artificial intelligences' decline and end, frankly a little loopy, but you are sure to find a story in our global round up that mak…

00:19:48  |   Wed 12 Jul 2023
The Boom of the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for w/e July 4th 2023

The Boom of the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for w/e July 4th 2023

In this week’s update, we flutter from “ almost everything” to the butterfly effect.


In between those extremes, we find a little tit-for-tat going on between the US and China that could impact every…

00:23:37  |   Tue 04 Jul 2023
Pictures of the IT Privacy and Security weekly Update for the week ending June 27th., 2023

Pictures of the IT Privacy and Security weekly Update for the week ending June 27th., 2023

This week we start with a story that we’ve had to reread three times because it was just so unbelievable.

From there we move onto what you are doing with your phone that a small number of years ago u…

00:27:42  |   Wed 28 Jun 2023
The IT Privacy and Security Update and a side of Julia for the week ending June 20th., 2023

The IT Privacy and Security Update and a side of Julia for the week ending June 20th., 2023

We start with some serious dissing and end up dishing.

Between the start and end state, we get served up by Julia and rerouted by the Benz.

We learn about a new voicebox that we can’t have and get th…

00:27:10  |   Wed 21 Jun 2023
School’s out for Summer with the IT Privacy and Security Update for the week ending June 13th., 2023

School’s out for Summer with the IT Privacy and Security Update for the week ending June 13th., 2023

From the cool waters of the backyard pool to the chilling depths of cylindrical holes in the ground, this week’s stories will elevate your temperature to get you in that summertime mood.

We commute t…

00:19:07  |   Wed 14 Jun 2023
Warming up to the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending June 6th., 2023

Warming up to the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending June 6th., 2023

This week’s exciting collection of stories takes us from the latest fashionable freeze to the warmth of a fuzzy paparazzo.


We have a “stand up, sit down, stand up” again revelation about our friends…

00:20:35  |   Wed 07 Jun 2023
The Weighty IT Privacy and Security Update for the week ending May 30th., 2023

The Weighty IT Privacy and Security Update for the week ending May 30th., 2023

This week we go from excess baggage to a face that is not our own.


We have a new scheme to establish what is real in a world where more and more is artificial, by someone we expect to be very promin…

00:23:31  |   Wed 31 May 2023
Flashing Colours in the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending May 23rd., 2023

Flashing Colours in the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending May 23rd., 2023

This week’s update starts with what some might see as a poke in the eye and could end with really poor enunciation.

We have Google intro’ing 8 new domains and getting caught in a .zip.

There’s a grea…

00:23:59  |   Wed 24 May 2023
Breathe deeply with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly   Update for the week ending May 16th, 2023

Breathe deeply with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending May 16th, 2023

Up North here, it’s Springtime so we start with a deep breath of DNA and finish out of ink, we think!


Between here and there we sneeze as we bump into a couple of projects, one that sniffs out unenc…

00:22:16  |   Wed 17 May 2023
Smart Start, Dumb ending with the IT Privacy and Security Update for the week ending May 9th, 2023

Smart Start, Dumb ending with the IT Privacy and Security Update for the week ending May 9th, 2023

This week we start smart and end dumb. Potentially somewhat contrary to our other updates.


In between we might ultimately have a dumb way to protect a car, a dumb executive who got lucky, and a heal…

00:21:50  |   Wed 10 May 2023
The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Gets in your head for the week ending May 2nd., 2023

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Gets in your head for the week ending May 2nd., 2023

This week we get breached, we get in your head, we go all over the world and then we get a beat-down by the cat.

The world of brain scanning coupled with AI is already yielding some very interesting …

00:28:46  |   Wed 03 May 2023
Follow the flags with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending April 25th., 2023

Follow the flags with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending April 25th., 2023

This week starts with frustrated police in Sweden and finishes in the back pocket of a legal team.


We move onto the troubling story of the US National guardsman who, now it transpires, leaked way mo…

00:21:42  |   Wed 26 Apr 2023
Down to Chinatown with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending April 18th., 2023

Down to Chinatown with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending April 18th., 2023

This update starts with the fortune cookie found in the back seat of what might just be the worlds top-selling car. Both have a surprise in store.


From there, we have a touching story of how the NYP…

00:22:48  |   Wed 19 Apr 2023
The IT Privacy and Security Weekly “Roadtrip” for the week ending April 11th., 2023

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly “Roadtrip” for the week ending April 11th., 2023

This update starts in the middle of Interstate 84 and ends with a possible answer as to what’s happening with the ghost orders for bottled water.


We hit the road with some car updates; from what migh…

00:21:55  |   Tue 11 Apr 2023
Shake it with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending April 4th., 2023

Shake it with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending April 4th., 2023

For this update we start off with our feet solidly on the ground, buried under U.S. tax returns, before shaking it and finishing in outer space.

We learn when people discover that you are using NSO’s…

00:24:12  |   Tue 04 Apr 2023
Sowing the seeds of the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending March 28th., 2023

Sowing the seeds of the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending March 28th., 2023

This week we kick off in Canada and finish in Norway.

In between, we hear why the big push to ban TikTok from our phones may be less effective than we think.

We get the inside scoop of a malaise that…

00:23:30  |   Tue 28 Mar 2023
The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Cut it Up for the Week Ending March 21st., 2023

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Cut it Up for the Week Ending March 21st., 2023

This week we start in the hacked offices of the US Government and end up being launched off a drone in Africa with a little parachute on our back.

In one country we have a government turning off wire…

00:24:20  |   Wed 22 Mar 2023
The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Gets Mooned for the week ending March 14th., 2023

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Gets Mooned for the week ending March 14th., 2023

This week’s update zooms from the moon to your innermost thoughts.

We get an update on a shrinking Meta and our shrinking IQs.

From Washington DC we learn about probably the most perfect imperfect wa…

00:17:51  |   Wed 15 Mar 2023
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