My TV is so dumb.

Welcome back to Protect Our Privates. Today we’re talking about something sitting in almost every living room in America — the smart TV — and why one of the best things you can do for your privacy is to never, ever connect it to the internet. What your TV is really doing That big beautiful screen on your wall isn’t …

Scamfluencers is our shameless guilty pleasure.

Okay, look. This one has absolutely nothing to do with privacy. We know. We don’t care. Scamfluencers is a deliciously unhinged deep dive into the world of influencers, con artists, and the beautiful chaos that happens when social media fame meets spectacularly bad decisions. Hosts Sadie Gennis and Scaachi Koul bring serious investigative chops and zero chill to stories about …

Darknet Diaries is true crime for the internet age.

Most people hear the word “hacking” and picture someone in a hoodie typing furiously in a dark room. Darknet Diaries is what happens when you replace that cliché with the actual, documented, deeply human stories behind some of the most significant cybersecurity events in history. Host Jack Rhysider spent years working in a Security Operations Center for a Fortune 500 …

This Week in Tech is the OG tech podcast.

Leo Laporte has been doing this since before most people knew what a podcast was, and This Week in Tech (TWiT) is the show that basically invented the format. If you want the big picture on what’s happening across the entire tech world — from Silicon Valley drama to AI regulation to privacy policy — this is where you go. …

Surveillance Report keeps you current on privacy news.

If you want a tight, no-fluff weekly roundup of what’s happening in the world of privacy and surveillance, Surveillance Report delivers every single time. Produced by Techlore and The New Oil — two of the most trusted voices in the privacy community — this show distills the week’s most important privacy news into something you can actually get through without …

Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons is our favorite privacy podcast.

If you only listen to one privacy podcast, make it this one — and we mean that sincerely. Carey Parker is the kind of guy you’d want explaining the internet to your parents, your boss, and honestly yourself. He’s Gen X, which means he remembers a world before surveillance capitalism swallowed everything whole, and he brings that perspective to every …