How Your Data is Being Weaponized Against You: Hidden Privacy Risks & Third-Party Threats | Sam Jadali, CEO of Melurna

Yeah, and if you're able to get to it for $50 a month, I'm sure Russia, China, any of the U.S. enemies can look at that data too.

And, you know, companies like Solar Turbines and Lockheed or any of these government contractors, I mean, first of all, you know, if they're working for the government, they have They shouldn't be sending information out, whether they know about it or not.

And then because they could get sued or have regulatory issues with the government, lose big contracts.

But, you know, our enemies are also

finding out about

all these things that we're doing.

Wasn't there like this F-35 that China created all from like contractors of the U.S. government from just hacking subcontractors?

Yeah, I mean it's all about third-party risk.

So it's like you're only as strong as your weakest link.

so if they you know if they breach one of your contractors i mean sure they can exfiltrate all your data right there and um absolutely you know a lot of these are state-sponsored actors you know if like you said if i could buy it for 50 a month what's stopping anyone right yeah stopping any other

government we'll have to link that to the notes uh how china created the f-35 without hacking any of like lockheed or anybody just all the subcontractors it's crazy

oh yeah i mean every app we have installed on our phones right everything we're doing is really being tracked it's so much information what

are the worst offenders

like who who who should people get off their phone right away life 360 i don't know You know, it's the seemingly innocuous applications that you don't know about.

So typically what a data broker will do is or what they'll do is there's companies that create these SDKs.

They'll go and integrate with any app and you don't even know what they are.

They might be a children's app.

They could be.

any sort of application and so they'll go pay that software maker and they'll say hey we'll pay you 10 grand a month all you got to do is just install this snippet of code right and they don't really know what's going on they're just there to sit there and make money from their application so of course they accept it They accept it.

And then all of a sudden that application is just collecting all sorts of information.

So it's really hard to keep track of, right, which one is doing that.

And then the goal of us at Malerna is to go and keep tabs on this doing real-time analysis of whether it's mobile applications or websites and trying to understand okay what's actually being exfiltrated so that we can at least have some hard telemetry and evidence on where that data is going uh but it's man it's changing every day there's just there's something new going on um yeah i mean i would try to avoid applications that where their companies are obviously collecting, you know, user data.

So think like a Grammarly or a Honey, right? They're collecting.