Your Privacy: Why You Should Care and Tools to Protect It 8 | 7

About this episode

In this episode, Kim and Guy discuss the importance of personal privacy and the tools available to protect it, focusing on Guy's experience with Signal and his book on the subject.

We all love the convenience of our digital devices and connected services. But what about our ever expanding pile of digital breadcrumbs we leave behind as we go about our day? These breadcrumbs can be swept up by private companies to learn quite about us and target us with specific goods and services. They can also be collected by government agencies who might use this information for legitimate police work or in some instances, political repression. So, many people are asking themselves, should I be doing more to protect my personal privacy and how should I go about this. Tech evangelist and prolific author Guy Kawasaki had asked that same question about a year ago. It started him on a journey to learn more about how to use some of the latest communications tools built from the ground up with personal privacy as its primary goal. This led Guy to install and use Signal, one of the most popular tools today for personal privacy protection. But as he started to put Signal into his communications work flow, he realized it was not obvious how to use Signal to its full potential. So, Guy collaborated with Madisun Nuismer to publish a “how to” book for using Signal, “Everybody Has…

People in this episode

Host: Kim Scott

Guest: Guy Kawasaki

Topics covered

• digital privacy
• communication tools
• personal privacy protection
• government surveillance
• democratic society

Keywords

• privacy
• Signal
• Guy Kawasaki
• digital breadcrumbs
• communication tools
• personal privacy
• government surveillance

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Signal

Books & works: Everybody Has Something to Hide

More episodes of Radical Candor: Communication at Work

• Oliver Bullough - Everybody Loves Our Dollars - S8 | E17 · June 3, 2026 · 1h 2m
• Gary Gerstle on The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order - S8 | E16 · May 27, 2026 · 1h 4m
• Steven Johnson - The Infernal Machine S8 | E15 · May 20, 2026 · 47 min
• Luke Burgis - The One and the Ninety Nine S8 | E14 · May 13, 2026 · 58 min
• Daniel Coyle - Creating Teams that Flourish S8 | E13 · May 6, 2026 · 48 min
• Eric Ries - How Great Companies Stay Great S8 | E12 · April 29, 2026 · 1h 2m