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Pig butchering is the next “humanitarian global crisis” (feat. Erin West)

12/14/2025 • 44 min

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 butchering.” “Pig butchering” is a violent term that is used to describe a growing type of online investment scam that has ruined the lives of countless victims all across… Play episode

Air fryer app caught asking for voice data (re-air)
Your coworker is tired of AI "workslop" (feat. Dr. Kristina Rapuano)
Would you sext ChatGPT? (feat. Deb Donig)
What does Google know about me?
What's there to save about social media? (feat. Rabble)
Can you disappear online? (feat. Peter Dolanjski)
This “insidious” police tech claims to predict crime (feat. Emily Galvin-A…
How a scam hunter got scammed (feat. Julie-Anne Kearns)
“The worst thing” for online rights: An age-restricted grey web (feat. Jas…
How the FBI got everything it wanted (re-air, feat. Joseph Cox)
Is AI "healthy" to use?
Corpse-eating selfies, and other ways to trick scammers (feat. Becky Holme…
The data on denying social media for kids (feat. Dr. Jean Twenge) (re-air)
What does Facebook know about me?
How Los Angeles banned smartphones in schools (feat. Nick Melvoin)
The AI chatbot cop squad is here (feat. Emanuel Maiberg and Jason Koebler)
Did DOGE "breach" Americans' data? (feat. Sydney Saubestre)
Is your phone listening to you? (feat. Lena Cohen)
What Google Chrome knows about you, with Carey Parker
How ads weirdly know your screen brightness, headphone jack use, and locat…
Surveillance pricing is "evil and sinister," explains Justin Kloczko
A suicide reveals the lonely side of AI chatbots, with Courtney Brown
Three privacy rules for 2025
The new rules for AI and encrypted messaging, with Mallory Knodel
Is nowhere safe from AI slop?
A day in the life of a privacy pro, with Ron de Jesus
These cars want to know about your sex life (re-air)
An air fryer, a ring, and a vacuum get brought into a home. What they take…
Why your vote can’t be “hacked,” with Cait Conley of CISA
This industry profits from knowing you have cancer, explains Cody Venzke
Exposing the Facebook funeral livestream scam
San Francisco’s fight against deepfake porn, with City Attorney David Chiu
What the arrest of Telegram's CEO means, with Eva Galperin
Move over malware: Why one teen is more worried about AI (re-air)
AI girlfriends want to know all about you. So might ChatGPT
SIEM is not storage, with Jess Dodson
How an AI “artist” stole a woman’s face, with Ali Diamond
Busted for book club? Why cops want to see what you’re reading, with Sarah…
(Almost) everything you always wanted to know about cybersecurity, but wer…
800 arrests, 40 tons of drugs, and one backdoor, or what a phone startup g…
Your vacation, reservations, and online dates, now chosen by AI
"No social media 'til 16," and other fixes for a teen mental health crisis…
Picking fights and gaining rights, with Justin Brookman
Porn panic imperils privacy online, with Alec Muffett (re-air)
Securing your home network is long, tiresome, and entirely worth it, with …
Going viral shouldn't lead to bomb threats, with Leigh Honeywell
How to make a fake ID online, with Joseph Cox
If only you had to worry about malware, with Jason Haddix
Bruce Schneier predicts a future of AI-powered mass spying

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