Privacy Protection - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 5/23/26
The Best of Coast to Coast AM
iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM
4.1 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Guest host Rich Berra and technology expert Ric Ralston discuss maintaining privacy as technology continues to merge with daily living.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Now here's a highlight from coast-to-coast AM on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.1 | So I want to talk about when our privacy started getting away from us. |
| 0:12.7 | And why, maybe why is it even important that we have privacy? |
| 0:16.5 | Now, I might be one of those people that think everybody's listening to everything anyway. |
| 0:20.2 | So if you've got nothing to hide, what's the big deal? |
| 0:22.7 | This is not just you kind of sitting around a garage and thinking, hey, I want to make sure |
| 0:28.8 | nobody's listening to me. |
| 0:29.6 | You've got a long history of building supercomputers that really big companies that people |
| 0:36.4 | have heard of have used, right? |
| 0:39.1 | That's right. |
| 0:39.8 | I've got almost 40 years of experience building the computers that run the internet, |
| 0:45.3 | whether it's the signal that you send from your phone through radio signals, |
| 1:00.1 | through internet cable, all of that feeds into a big data warehouse or a central exchange system, all of that is piped and addressed to where it needs to go. |
| 1:06.3 | So my whole background has been the designing and the deployment of those systems. |
| 1:13.6 | But, you know, that was what I was trained for, a design engineer. |
| 1:17.6 | And that's what I love doing. |
| 1:19.6 | And, you know, when I was young, maybe a little bit more naive than I am now, |
| 1:24.6 | I really thought that a lot of the world's problems could be |
| 1:28.3 | solved with better communication. Oh, that's a great point that you bring up there, because |
| 1:34.7 | don't you feel like now that you're not naive, you don't feel like the world's problems can be |
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