Lock and Code Podcast
1) ALPRs are recording your daily drive (feat. Will Freeman)
There’s an entire surveillance network popping up across the United States that has likely already captured your information, all for the non-suspicion of driving a car.Automated License Plate Readers...Show More
2) Pig butchering is the next “humanitarian global crisis” (feat. Erin West)
This is the story of the world’s worst scam and how it is being used to fuel entire underground economies that have the power to rival nation-states across the globe. This is the story of “pig butcher...Show More
3) Air fryer app caught asking for voice data (re-air)
It’s often said online that if a product is free, you’re the product, but what if that bargain was no longer true? What if, depending on the device you paid hard-earned money for, you still ...Show More
4) Your coworker is tired of AI "workslop" (feat. Dr. Kristina Rapuano)
Everything’s easier with AI… except having to correct it.In just the three years since OpenAI released ChatGPT, not only has onlife life changed at home—it’s also changed at work. Some of the biggest ...Show More
5) Would you sext ChatGPT? (feat. Deb Donig)
In the final, cold winter months of the year, ChatGPT could be heating up.On October 14, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the “restrictions” that his company previously placed on their flagship product...Show More
6) What does Google know about me?
Google is everywhere in our lives. It’s reach into our data extends just as far.After investigating how much data Facebook had collected about him in his nearly 20 years with the platform, Lock a...Show More
7) What's there to save about social media? (feat. Rabble)
“Connection” was the promise—and goal—of much of the early internet. No longer would people be separated from vital resources and news that was either too hard to reach or made simply inaccessible by ...Show More
8) Can you disappear online? (feat. Peter Dolanjski)
There’s more about you online than you know.The company Acxiom, for example, has probably determined whether you’re a heavy drinker, or if you’re overweight, or if you smoke (or all three). The same c...Show More
9) This “insidious” police tech claims to predict crime (feat. Emily Galvin-Almanza)
In the late 2010s, a group of sheriffs out of Pasco County, Florida, believed they could predict crime. The Sheriff’s Department there had piloted a program called “Intelligence-Led Policing” and the ...Show More
10) How a scam hunter got scammed (feat. Julie-Anne Kearns)
If there’s one thing that scam hunter Julie-Anne Kearns wants everyone to know, it is that no one is immune from a scam. And she would know—she fell for one last year.For years now, Kearns has made a ...Show More