About this episode

The episode discusses community questions and various less interesting privacy-related stories during a quiet news week.

It's a quiet news week, so we're diving into questions from the community and discussing a few less interesting stories. Join us for This Week In Privacy #59 (00:00) - Intro (00:39) - Start of podcast (01:27) - Are there privacy advantages to desktop OS's vs GrapheneOS (06:50) - Announcing Mozilla.org (19:15) - Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUs (32:07) - Site updates (38:00) - Are there any KeepAndroidOpen.org updates? (51:49) - White House app auto-downloads to government phones, can't be uninstalled (01:03:57) - 50% of LG and Samsung smart TV apps embed residential proxies (01:18:50) - Forum updates (01:28:42) - Outro ★ Support this podcast ★

Topics covered

• privacy
• community questions
• technology news
• desktop OS
• memory encryption
• smart TV apps

Keywords

• privacy
• GrapheneOS
• AMD
• Mozilla
• KeepAndroidOpen
• White House
• smart TVs
• memory encryption

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mozilla.org, AMD, KeepAndroidOpen.org, LG, Samsung

Products: GrapheneOS

Places: White House

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