SOLVED! #19 - Big Data: Putting Digital Fingerprints in the Pie of Freedom
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 8–19-25
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:
- Ch.1 - The Trump administration’s unprecedented attempts to get your data from the states
- Ch. 2 - Why Trump’s new private health tracking system is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
- Ch. 3 - How HIV patients suffering in the 80s, 90s and early 00s from constant health data breaches is a hint of what could come
- Ch. 4 - Why a new UK law trying to protect children from seeing terrible things online is doing more harm than good
- Ch. 5 - Tips on keeping your digital privacy intact as best as you can in this data hungry world
- BACKSTAGE: Beyond the Algorithm (Members Only): How an activist organization used debanking to make video game companies censor their content, where that tactic might lead, and more.
- A funny thing happened on the way to recording… (blooper)
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REFERENCES:
States Have More Data About You Than the Feds Do. Trump Wants to See It. - NY Times
Trump Announces Plan to Launch Private Health Tracking System With Big Tech Firms - Time
HIV & Civil Rights: A Report from the Frontlines of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic - ACLU
'A disaster waiting to happen' — Cybersecurity experts react to UK age verification law - Toms Guide
UK Age Verification Laws: How to Comply & Stay Safe in 2025 - WizCase
MEMBERS ONLY
Steam and Itch.io Are Pulling ‘Porn’ Games. Critics Say It’s a Slippery Slope to More Censorship - Wired
EXTRAS
SOLVED! #7 - The Deficiency of Efficiency: Why govt is inefficient BY DESIGN, & more - SOLVED! (Recorded April 2025)
All 2025 Health Information Data Breaches (Source: HHS.gov)
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| 1:53.3 | And so now, with the consistent trend of them always having more than one reason to access |
| 1:58.2 | your data, we come to this Time magazine article, |
| 2:01.4 | Trump announces plan to launch private health tracking system with big tech firms. |
| 2:07.4 | And it says, quote, the Trump administration announced a new initiative on Wednesday |
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