Digital privacy in 2021: Take a hard look at your apps
Kim Komando Today
WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc
4.8 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever used an app for messaging, dating or even praying, your secrets have gone to X-Mode, which sells location data to military contractors. Which apps are tracking you the most? Kim talks to Sean O'Brien, the principal researcher at ExpressVPN's Digital Security Lab, about all the creepy details. By the time you're done, you'll be looking at your phone in a whole new light.
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| 0:00.0 | You probably know that your phone is tracking you right now, but you may not know |
| 0:14.0 | exactly how this tracking works. That's what we're going to be talking about in this podcast. |
| 0:18.9 | We're going to be exploring some of the fun apps that you download, but they might come with Trojan horses. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm not talking about viruses. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm talking about secret trackers that you don't even know about. |
| 0:29.7 | So many smartphone apps come with trackers that are collecting libraries of specific data on us. |
| 0:34.9 | And where does all that data go? |
| 0:36.8 | Well, straight into the hands of companies |
| 0:39.0 | you've probably never even heard of. It's an essential part of the mobile app economy, and it's |
| 0:45.0 | going to be going on for years. But the COVID-19 pandemic is bringing the shadowy behavior more |
| 0:51.8 | into light. Welcome to Tech You Should Know. |
| 0:54.6 | I'm Kim Commando, America's Digital Pro. |
| 0:57.3 | And before we jump into the wild world of app tracking, I'd like to open up today's |
| 1:01.9 | episode on a whammy for malware bites. |
| 1:05.0 | Their report on working from home has a shocking statistic. |
| 1:09.0 | Get this, remote workers are now the source of up to 20% of cybersecurity incidents. |
| 1:15.0 | Yikes. |
| 1:15.9 | In other words, cyber criminals are hitting us hard. |
| 1:19.6 | I'm just talking about fishing attacks. |
| 1:21.6 | We're also seeing a rise in ransomware hacks. |
| 1:24.8 | And these are tough times. |
| 1:26.2 | Many people are turning to public Wi-Fi for their remote work. |
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