Sep 24, 2026 · 41 min · 11 segments
Please donate to the show at https://secure.actblue.com/donate/impodcast Big tech companies are hoovering up more and more of our own personal data than ever, whether to sell us products or to sell…
Kade CrockfordGuestJordan Brooke PowersHostAnna CallahanHostJonathan CohnHostYeah, I just say I'm so when we think about what's happening now, like AI is like the cutting edge that everyone keeps thinking about.
But data privacy is like many years that we should have taken care of this many years ago.
But I will also say that like there, you know, that was from years ago, which, you know, really should have been taken care of before all of this data got out.
um and you know we're we're beyond that now like we need protection from like ai which is it's not even there but continuing on with it
quick thing to chime in with if people are interested in reading if you're looking for um fiction reading that feels very like prescient of its like near-term future highly recommend the book hum by helen phillips which takes place in a a not-too-distant future where, like, a lot of the planet is destroyed by climate change and everything is run by, like, the surveillance robot, like, humanoid surveillance robots who are constantly trying to sell you things whenever they interact with you.

Another good one, though, is Dave Eggers' The Circle, which is about a company that's kind of like a mix between Meta and Google and somebody who works there and basically realizes like this is deeply.
Yeah, I just say I'm so when we think about what's happening now, like AI is like the cutting edge that everyone keeps thinking about.
But data privacy is like many years that we should have taken care of this many years ago.
But I will also say that like there, you know, that was from years ago, which, you know, really should have been taken care of before all of this data got out.
um and you know we're we're beyond that now like we need protection from like ai which is it's not even there but continuing on with it
quick thing to chime in with if people are interested in reading if you're looking for um fiction reading that feels very like prescient of its like near-term future highly recommend the book hum by helen phillips which takes place in a a not-too-distant future where, like, a lot of the planet is destroyed by climate change and everything is run by, like, the surveillance robot, like, humanoid surveillance robots who are constantly trying to sell you things whenever they interact with you.

Another good one, though, is Dave Eggers' The Circle, which is about a company that's kind of like a mix between Meta and Google and somebody who works there and basically realizes like this is deeply.
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