Guy Kawasaki: Big Tech reads your texts

About this episode

Guy Kawasaki discusses privacy concerns in messaging and promotes the Signal app for secure communication.

Every message you've ever sent? Not as private as you think. Guy Kawasaki, Apple's original evangelist and Silicon Valley icon, sounds the alarm in his new book, Everybody Has Something to Hide. I sat down with him to talk about what's at stake, why Signal is the only app he trusts for private messaging, and why he wants you to use it too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Kim Komando

Guest: Guy Kawasaki

Topics covered

• privacy
• technology
• messaging apps
• Big Tech
• data security

Keywords

• privacy
• Big Tech
• Signal
• messaging
• data security
• Guy Kawasaki
• Apple

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apple

Products: Signal

Books & works: Everybody Has Something to Hide

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