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What Next TBD: They See You When You’re Shopping

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Though navigating the internet involves spraying your data pretty indiscriminately, you actually have more control over it than you think—it’s just a pain to rein it in.  Guest: Geoffrey Fowler, Washington Post tech columnist. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I made you think you was real.

0:02.0

My name is Caden Sinclair.

0:04.0

Some people call us American royalty.

0:06.0

We were Liars.

0:08.0

A new series on Prime Video.

0:10.0

We were happy. We wanted for nothing.

0:12.0

Based on the best-selling novel.

0:15.0

Something terrible happened last summer,

0:17.0

and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.

0:20.0

No one in my family will tell me.

0:22.7

When you're left for dead, you want answers.

0:25.2

We will liars.

0:26.2

New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.

0:36.9

I'm willing to bet that there's someone in your life who you call when you have a tech problem.

0:41.6

And not the have you tried turning it on and off again kind of problem.

0:46.3

But the more complex ones, the ones like, could my baby monitor get hacked?

0:51.7

Or who is my smart doorbell giving information to? For a lot of people,

0:57.3

that person is Jeffrey Fowler. He's a tech columnist for the Washington Post.

1:02.2

Part of a group of people who write under the rubric, Help Desk.

1:06.5

And, you know, like the Avengers, we all have different skills and capabilities and specialties.

1:12.1

What I love to do is actually investigate things, see the ways in which the hidden ways often that technology isn't necessarily working on our behalf and then point out those problems to people how to get around them and maybe sometimes call for lawmakers and others to do better.

1:34.7

It's his own particular set of skills, a Liam Neeson for our digital trails, if you will.

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