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Episode 1: Buy a Fancy Privacy Notebook or the Fascists Win
This week, comedian Rosie Tran tries to convince you to buy a physical privacy notebook, and write your password manager’s master password inside its cover. In our sho...
Episode 2: Your Privacy Notebook Isn't Just For Sharing Your Deepest, Darkest Secrets
This week, comedian Rosie Tran tells you what goes inside your privacy notebook. It's not just for sharing your deepest, darkest secrets. Although you can totally use ...
Your Smart TV May Be The Biggest Snitch In Your Home
This week, Comedian Rosie Tran explains how your TV has been watching you watch ... Well, everything. And it's not keeping those embarrassing secrets to itself! Find o...
Now Every Car Is Creepy, Not Just Your Windowless Van
This week, comedian Rosie Tran tells you how there's a stalker in your driveway, and it's not a human. She also explains why you want to pick up a Microphone Blocker. ...
Creeps, Weirdos, and How To Protect Yourself From Both After a Breakup
It's no secret that the police and legal system often fail to protect women from creeps and weirdos. So, this week on the show, Comedian Rosie Train provides tips on h...
It's Dangerous to Go Alone! Take these Apps With You
We get asked a lot about "Minimum Viable Privacy." What's the least you need to do to in order to get the MOST protection? So, this week on the show, Comedian Rosie Tr...
Violence Doesn't Defeat Fascists, But Doing This Sure Does
This week, we're joined by advertising industry legend, Bob Hoffman, and comedian Rosie Tran shares the one thing that consistently defeats fascist movements. No, it's...
Son, That Internet Won't Pay For Itself
If you want a free and open web — Don't we all — We need advertising. But that advertising, and the technology that powers it, doesn't have to be evil. Our guest from ...
Going to a protest? Be funny, not just paranoid
The best way to overthrow fascists and weirdos? Make them look dumb. We'll explain how to work out your creativity muscle to help you do just that. Also joining us thi...
I'll Get You My Pretty, and Your Little VPN Too!
Pi-Hole! It's not just something that sounds like a sex move. It's a way to block out those annoying ads on your SmartTV. That's right, we're talking SmartTV's again i...
You Can Find Love (and Privacy) in a Subaru
Lauren Hendry Parsons, from the Mozilla Foundation, explains how cars have become data‑hungry surveillance devices that undermine user control. Our host, Rosie Tran of...
Going Through Customs? This Is a Must Listen
This week: Henry David Thoreau joins us from beyond the grave, and Rosie has advice for those traveling internationally this month and next. Plus: why every American s...
Crypto Is a Scam. Use Cash. Film ICE.
This week, the ACLU's Rebecca Williams joins BJ Mendelson to talk about the do's and don'ts of filming ICE, using cash whenever possible, and why crypto currency is a ...
Are Baby Boomers Really to Blame For The Disinformation Plague?
In this special Thanksgiving episode of Stupid Sexy Privacy, BJ Mendelson speaks with members of Clemson University's Human and Technology Lab about baby boomers sprea...
Are You Caught in Facebook's Web of Scam Advertisements?
Ho Ho Holiday Scams. This week on the show, Rosie tells you how to keep scammers and thieves from ripping you off this holiday season. Meanwhile, Broadway Actor Roger ...
Artificial General Intelligence Doesn't Exist, But Here's How to Hide From AI
"How to Disappear" author, and Black Mail Expert, Frank M. Ahearn returns to the show this week. Frank explains to BJ how one could use extreme privacy mentions to eva...
Your Phone Is a Drug. So What Are You Doing About It?
This week, Kelly Carlin joins the show to talk about how smartphones hijack attention, cause "digital brain fog," and displace real human connection. Kelly, and our ho...
All We Want For Christmas Is The Second Bill of Rights
It's our (a day late) Christmas episode! In this episode, BJ speaks with author Victoria Hetherington about the bonds between humans and artificial intelligence. Our h...
Here's Where to Go to Get Trustworthy, Noncorporate News
Author Victoria Hetherington returns for part two of our conversation about artificial intelligence and the illusion of relationships with it. Meanwhile, our host Rosi...
What Does a Functional Federal Trade Commission Look Like?
This week, investigative journalist and co-producer of Stupid Sexy Privacy, interviews Samuel Levine. Mr. Levine served as Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Pro...