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🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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It’s an old story with a new twist. A top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after someone leaked information about their private life. Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill left his post after a Catholic oriented Substack accused him of being a frequent user of Grindr.
Simple on the surface, but our obsession with the sex live’s of the clergy is masking something darker. How, exactly, did the Substack know that Monsignor. Burrill was using Grindr? How many of our apps are spying on us and collecting this kind of data? And just how easy is it for a viscous third party to get hold of that data for nefarious ends.
Here to answer those questions and more is Motherboard staff writer Joseph Cox.
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0:00.0 | Tanneness got the code it's going to launch. |
0:07.0 | It's a unit system. |
0:12.0 | I know this. |
0:14.0 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
0:17.0 | It tells her everything. |
0:19.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:21.8 | The Eagle one. |
0:22.6 | The package is being delivered. |
0:24.9 | It's an old story with a new twist. |
0:27.3 | A top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after someone leaked information about their private life. |
0:33.3 | One senior Jeffrey Brill left his post after a Catholic-orientedoriented substack accused him of being a frequent user of grinder. |
0:41.1 | Simple on the surface, but our obsession with the sex lives of the clergy is masking something darker. |
0:47.2 | As we reported earlier, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has named an interim general secretary following the surprise resignation yesterday of Monsignor |
0:55.4 | Jeffrey Burrell, but many questions remain. |
0:58.9 | The Electronic Frontier Foundation is now questioning the company's use of customer data, |
1:03.9 | sharing info with marketing and analytics companies. |
1:07.1 | What these analytics do is they collect a lot of very specific information about a phone and about a user who's using a specific app. |
1:14.6 | So for instance, what you're clicking on the app, how long you're using it for, but also what your kind of device you're on, what sort of Wi-Fi you're using to connect through the app. |
1:24.6 | This is different because they found the proof of this misconduct using anonymous app data. |
1:31.3 | And what they found with that data is insane. |
1:33.3 | This information can still be used to track bishops and clergy, and in this case, identify those who have been doing things that violate their clerical vows and could possibly bring scandal to the church. |
1:43.3 | And your location data might be in some of this anonymous data. |
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