About this episode

The episode discusses the launch of Android 17 for GrapheneOS, the expiration of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and various privacy-related news.

Android 17 has officially launched and GrapheneOS has just announced an experimental build with a stable release coming soon (update Jun 19: delayed...), the United States controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has expired but spying will continue till March 2027, AMD has striped hardware cryptography from it's consumer CPUs and more! Join us for This Week In Privacy #58 (00:00) - Intro (00:39) - Start of podcast (01:13) - Android 17 Launched, What New Privacy/Security Features Does it Bring? (17:32) - (Canadian) Liberals dismiss 'tinfoil hat' privacy fears as lawful access bill passes (28:37) - Controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act spying law expires tonight. The spying will continue. (50:13) - Site updates (54:58) - If the FCC Bans Burner Phones, It Could Be a Privacy Nightmare (01:27:54) - UK to ban social media for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews (01:39:20) - Forum updates (01:55:35) - Q&A (02:03:06) - Outro ★ Support this podcast ★

Topics covered

• privacy
• security
• technology
• legislation
• surveillance
• consumer rights

Keywords

• GrapheneOS
• Android 17
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
• AMD
• privacy
• surveillance
• FCC
• consumer rights

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GrapheneOS, United States, AMD, FCC

Products: Android 17

Places: Canada, UK

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