Withdraw Your Email Data

Withdraw Your Email Data

From Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast by Carey Parker

May 4, 2026 · 1h 13m

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of withdrawing email data to protect privacy and highlights recent news related to data security and AI.

Probably the oldest online data you have – like, still have out there right now – is your emails. Did you have an AOL account? Or email through your internet service provider (ISP)? Statistically speaking, you probably have a Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Outlook (previously HotMail) account. Unless you explicitly closed those accounts or deleted those emails, they’re still there. Emails are less like letters in an envelope and much more like postcards, unless you made a point of encrypting them. So today we’ll start a multi-step process to download that email history so that we can delete the online data before it’s slurped into some AI model training or leaked in a data breach. In other news: Met Police win suit to use live facial recognition; Australian teens work around social media ban; big tech is ignoring your do-not-track signals; Meta threatens to leave New Mexico over AG demands; Meta is training AI on their employees; doctors are using AI to take session notes; Mythos suffers ‘unauthorized access’; AI agent deletes companies databases; and AI is empowering script kiddies. Article Links Challenge over Met Police’s use of live…

People in this episode

Host: Carey Parker

Topics covered

  • email data privacy
  • data breaches
  • AI and data security
  • social media regulations
  • facial recognition technology

Keywords

  • email history
  • data deletion
  • AI training
  • facial recognition
  • social media ban

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AOL, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook, Meta, Met Police, Google, Microsoft, Mythos

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