Digital Privacy & Protecting Your Data

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

You might think you have nothing to hide on your devices but everyone does. From bank accounts to passwords to travel plans, protecting your digital privacy is one of the biggest issues we face today. Digital privacy expert Eva Galperin joins host Dr. Samantha Yammine to discuss the importance of protecting your data and how to best do so. Sam also explores recent updates on a nuclear battery that can keep devices charged for years as well as a man who might be the key behind creating a universal antivenom to protect against snakebites.

Be sure to watch #ImplosionTheTitanicSubDisaster on Wednesday, May 28 at 9pm on Discovery. It's a two-hour special that uncovers the extraordinary story of what caused the OceanGate disaster in 2023 and how it might have been prevented. For the first time ever, Josh Gates unveils groundbreaking new footage including an unsettling interview and a problematic test dive inside the Titan only months before the submersible started missions to the Titanic shipwreck.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, or if it's your first time here, glad you made it. I'm Dr. Samantha Amin, and this is Curiosity Weekly.
0:09.5	This episode is packed with cool science, so let's get into it. We're going to talk about a man who's been bitten by snakes.
0:16.9	A lot, like over 200 times. But here's the wild part. His blood might actually be the key to a powerful
0:25.2	new anti-venom. Oh, we're going full science thriller on that one. Then we're diving into something
0:31.3	that affects pretty much all of us. Digital privacy. It is possible to have both privacy
0:36.9	and convenience because privacy is not black and white.
0:40.3	Privacy is having control over your data and making decisions about who gets to see it and under what circumstances.
0:47.3	Privacy is about control.
0:50.3	That's cybersecurity expert Eva Galperin.
0:52.3	I'll talk with her about how much access others really have to your digital world
0:57.1	and what's being done behind the scenes, from surveillance tech to data profiling,
1:02.0	whether you know it or not.
1:04.0	And also, I want to tell you about tiny new nuclear batteries.
1:08.3	You heard that right.
1:09.5	What does that mean for energy, safety, and the future of,
1:13.3	well, everything that runs on power? But before we get into that, hey, we need to hear from you.
1:19.3	Go over to the reviews on Apple Podcasts and drop a question there. Seriously, tell us what you
1:24.6	want to learn about, whether it's tech, science, weird inventions,
1:28.3	digital rights, whatever's on your mind.
1:31.1	We read every single one of them and we'll pick a few to answer right here on the show.
1:36.0	So hit that review button and ask away.
1:39.2	Okay, so now nuclear batteries. Researchers are working on batteries that could power your small devices for 50 years without
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