Did Furbys Spy on Us? 5. Welcome to the Dark Side

Joanne McNally Investigates

BBC

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.3 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

So far in the series, Joanne has been getting more and more concerned about the amount of listening and surveillance which is all around her. And to make matters WORSE, her producers then take her to visit the worlds biggest listening station - on a hillside in North Yorkshire. Intrigued and terrified in equal measure - Joanne starts to wonder why it even exists, and why America was so worried about Furbys when they have an entire fleet of listening devices in the UK!

Joanne then speaks to her pal Roisin Conaty and together they conduct an experiment to find out if their mobile phones really listen to conversations. Picking a random topic which they've never discussed before, they go in deep, and then wait to see if their phones start sending bespoke adverts. And the results are surprising.

With so much concern, Joanne then calls on a tech expert Jake Moore to clean up her social media... fix her privacy settings, and generally help her stay safe online. Jake spots some issues within Joanne's apps, uncovers a scam she recently fell for, and then, inexplicably, helps Joanne access the dark web...

The series is produced by What's The Story for BBC Sounds.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Just to warn you, before you start listening, there will be swearing and some sexual language in this series, because I'm a sweary sexual kind of person.
0:13.8	I know what I am, I swear like a soldier, I'll try to keep it to a minimum.
0:17.0	But just in case you've got very sensitive ears, you can't say I didn't flag it.
0:23.6	So let's talk app permissions.
0:26.9	Yeah.
0:28.5	Completely rattled by my newfound awareness of the very current threat of spying.
0:33.2	I was not prepared to fall victim to it.
0:36.5	I want you to have a quick scoot through my phone
0:39.3	and check out what I've given away of myself, myself, etc.
0:44.3	The threat is everywhere,
0:47.3	because basically everything seems to be susceptible to being hacked or booked.
0:53.3	And like everyone else, I've stuff in my phone that is best left unseen.
0:58.7	So I thought I better get my act together and start protecting myself.
1:02.1	We've hit one. We've got one.
1:03.7	Oh, I've got an ISIS app.
1:06.1	Is that fine?
1:08.3	That seems fine.
1:10.5	This is a What's the Story Sounds production for BBC Sounds.
1:15.5	I'm Joanne McNally and this is Did Furby's Spy On Us?
1:20.2	Episode 5.
1:22.0	Welcome to the Dark Side.
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