TWiT 1068: Toto's Electrostatic Chuck - Is TikTok's New Privacy Policy Cause for Alarm?
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 172 minutes
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Summary
Microsoft quietly hands over BitLocker keys to the government, TikTok's new privacy terms spark a user panic, and Europe's secret tech backups reveal anxious prep for digital fallout. Plus, how gambling platforms are changing the future of news and sports.
- You can bet on how much snow will fall in New York City this weekend
- Europe Prepares for a Nightmare Scenario: The U.S. Blocking Access to Tech
- China, US sign off on TikTok US spinoff
- TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection -- here's what it means
- Elon Musk's Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show
- Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw - Forbes
- House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16
- Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
- Route leak incident on January 22, 2026
- 149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database
- Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS
- Anthropic revises Claude's 'Constitution,' and hints at chatbot consciousness
- The new Siri chatbot may run on Google servers, not Apple's
- A Wikipedia Group Made a Guide to Detect AI Writing. Now a Plug-In Uses It to 'Humanize' Chatbots
- GitHub - anthropics/original_performance_takehome: Anthropic's original performance take-home, now open for you to try!
- Telly's "free" ad-based TVs make notable revenue—when they're actually delivered - Ars Technica
- Toilet Maker Toto's Shares Get Unlikely Boost From AI Rush - Slashdot
- Dr. Gladys West, whose mathematical models inspired GPS, dies at 95
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Alex Stamos, Doc Rock, and Patrick Beja
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twitter this week in tech. |
| 0:02.0 | Alex Stamos joins Patrick Bejjah and Doc Rock. |
| 0:05.7 | We'll talk about betting on the amount of snowfall that hit New York. |
| 0:10.6 | Microsoft giving up the keys to Bitlocker to the feds and why I deleted TikTok as soon as I saw the new terms of service. |
| 0:18.8 | This week in tech is next. |
| 0:24.1 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:25.7 | From people you trust. |
| 0:28.3 | This is Twit. |
| 0:34.9 | This is Twit. |
| 0:36.6 | This Week in Tech, episode 1068, recorded Sunday, January 25th, 2026. |
| 0:43.6 | Toto's Electrostatic Chuck. |
| 0:46.3 | It's time for Twit this week in Tech, the show we cover the week's tech news. |
| 0:51.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:52.1 | I hope you're staying warm and you're safe and your power is on and |
| 0:55.4 | you're not listening to this on a battery. If you are, turn it off and save it for when the power |
| 1:02.1 | comes back. Oh, maybe you don't want to because we've got a great show lined up for you. Patrick |
| 1:07.6 | Bejad joins us from Paris, the host of the Phileas Club and a bunch of stuff in French. |
| 1:13.1 | Hi Patrick. |
| 1:14.1 | Hey, Leo, how's it going? |
| 1:16.6 | Notpatrick.com if you want to see them all. It's great to see you. |
| 1:21.6 | I see you too. Yeah. You know, we almost, I'm not sure we would have been allowed to talk if, I know, if things had had gone differently in the last couple of |
| 1:32.3 | my NATO buddy. Yeah, we're still NATO friends. We're still able to converse. So so far. We'll actually talk about that a little bit because I didn't realize this, but there was real fear |
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