NEW EPISODES!! At The Digital Trust & Safety Insider Podcast, we chat with people on all sides of the fraud fight: hackers, Secret Service agents, risk analysts, and reformed fraudsters-turned-business consultants. In an era when high-profile account takeovers and global malware attacks lead the headlines, Sift is the leader in Digital Trust & Safety. offering end-to-end intelligent automation to help businesses proactively stop fraud and achieve rapid growth without risk.
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Data privacy is the footprint of our existence. It is our persona beyond ourselves, with traces of us scattered from birth certificates, Social Security numbers, shopping patterns, credit card histories, photographs, mugshots and health records. In a digital world, where memory is converted to 0’s and 1’s, then instantly transformed into a reproduction even in 3D, personal data is an urgent personal and collective subject. Those who wish to live anonymous lives must take extraordinary measur ...
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Episode 180 — Largest Data Breach In History?
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We turn our magnifying glass to what some August 2024 headlines call the biggest data breach in history. One report said the entire population of the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom was hacked, with up to 2.9 billion people’s identities at risk. On closer inspection, it appears that 2.9 billion rows of data were packaged and posted for sa…
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Episode 179 — Data Privacy Infrastructure 2024: Microsoft Priva in Preview
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Microsoft announced at an April 2024 IAPP conference a preview offering called Microsoft Priva. Described as a platform that helps organizations automate how they handle and deal with personal information, Priva aims to “streamline compliance across on-premises, hybrid and multicloud environments.” https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/…
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Episode 178 — Google, Third Party Apps, and Data Privacy: a calendar scheduling example
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Calendar scheduling—it can be simplified with third-party apps that schedule meeting times without a lot of back and forth. But third-party apps that do such scheduling entail significant privacy risks and choices. Using Calendly as an example, we explore in Episode 178 what happens when we allow a third-party app to connect through our IT platform…
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Episode 177 — Autos, AI safety, and Surveillance Pricing: July 2024 Data Privacy Developments
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Join Brion St. Amour, Yugo Nagashima, and the Detective to review three top data privacy developments from July 2024. Our monthly review focuses on these topics: Automobiles - Are they spying on us without our consent? A letter from Senators Wyden and Markey to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asks for transparency and data protection from a…
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Episode 176 — Data Provenance: It’s Time for Standards | Data & Trust Alliance’s June 2024 Version 1.0.0
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It’s time for standards about data provenance. Unless information is reliable and trustworthy - and able to be used properly - datasets hold doubtful value. Yet, datasets are the foundation of Artificial Intelligence. Standards for the provenance of data are thus essential, as Episode 175 explored. Enter the June 2024 release of Data Provenance Sta…
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Episode 175 — Data Provenance and Privacy: Personal Privacy and the Rise of AI
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Artificial intelligence is not new. But now an acronym in common usage, AI is dominating markets, politics, industry, and our attention. And its use affects personal privacy. Let’s take a couple examples. Bathsheba was the mother of Solomon in Torah and biblical days. Solomon’s father was King David. tIf you ask Google’s Gemini what ethnicity was B…
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Episode 174 — The American Privacy Rights Act: Are we getting closer to a U.S. federal data privacy code?
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When the Chairs of Senate and House committees, one a Democrat and one a Republican, agree on a comprehensive and thorough federal data privacy statute, one might guess it will be enacted - or at least move forward to votes on amendments and packaged into a final form. Proposed by House Energy & Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers and S…
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Episode 173 — U.S. Defense Department’s version 2.0 for Contractor Cybersecurity: CMMC 2.0
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The U.S. Defense Department is forcing its contractors and subcontractors to upgrade their cybersecurity practices through CMMC version 2.0. CMMC is shorthand for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. This affects virtually all suppliers to DOD that deal in Controlled Unclassified Information. 2.0 sets demanding cybersecurity standards in an …
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Episode 172 — May 2024 Data Privacy News: Vermont / Illinois Biometric Changes / Trends Report
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Vermont joined the “we have a data privacy code” group - almost a third of U.S. states now with a statute devoted to personal data privacy. Illinois modifies its code on biometrics to soften business costs of compliance. DataGrail’s 2024 Data Privacy Trends report focuses on a surge in data subject requests. Join Yugo Nagashima of Frost Brown Todd,…
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Episode 171 — A Global Privacy Statement: How to Draft One
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Privacy statements - how can one be written that applies globally? That seems like an impossible, even hopeless, challenge. Laws change regularly, even within countries and groupings like the EU. Rules differ. There are no “international” laws making data privacy a commonly regulated matter. This episode presents an approach to a comprehensive data…
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Episode 170 — E-Skimming at ATM’s, Stores, and Gas Pumps: What we can do about it
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Skimming—once defined as an internal business fraud of insiders taking money off the top of a company’s cash flow. E-skimming - the growing theft of personal digital information to steal funds and benefits from individuals. A May 22, 2024 New York Times report focused on how food stamp holders are victimized by crime rings when their benefit cards …
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Episode 169 — Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, and the Sales Industry
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How do organizations convert leads into revenue? How can they do this effectively while being privacy-conscious, not bombarding people with unwanted cold calls or messages? In Episode 169, the Data Privacy Detective converses with Thomas Ryan, CEO and founder of Bigly Sales. https://biglysales.com. Learn how the sales industry is undergoing rapid t…
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Episode 168 — April 2024 Data Privacy Developments
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Progress towards a U.S. federal data privacy code? Consider the APRA, a bipartisan congressional effort in that direction - and its hot spots and chances. Learn about the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act and how it challenges big tech’s preferences. Discover what Max Schremms, AI, and birthdays have in common. Episode 169 explores these topics from…
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Episode 167 — Colorado act to guard our brains: the Privacy of neural data
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In April 2024 Colorado became the first U.S. state to declare neural data - what goes on in our brains - to be “sensitive data” subject to its Privacy Act. Neural data will be treated the same as medical and other sensitive data such as fingerprints and facial images. The law will permit individuals to access, delete and correct their neural data. …
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Episode 166 — Digital Identity Systems: Estonia
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For about ten years, Estonia has pioneered a digital ID system for its 1.3 million citizens. Every Estonian receives a digital identity at birth or later. Estonians use this e-ID for a host of interactions with government and the private sector. The e-ID is not guarded zealously like a U.S. Social Security number. Instead, it is a kind of public ke…
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Episode 165 — Health data, HIPAA, and Privacy
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Our medical and health data are valuable - both to promote public health and to enrich data brokers selling our sensitive personal information without our consent. HIPAA is the U.S. federal statute intended to safeguard our medical information - but it does not cover many of the ways our information is released and shared, with unintended consequen…
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Episode 164 — March 2024 Data Privacy News
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Episode 164 covers three March 2024 developments: Florida bans social media platform accounts of children under 14 - and more; Illinois modifies its pioneering biometrics laws; and President Biden and the House of Representatives act together about the sale of personal information to countries “of concern.” Consider how social media platforms are a…
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Episode 163 — You and Your Data Identity: How data private can we be?
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Identity Orchestration - the difference between Identity and ID. Join Gerry Gebel, IT veteran, now Head of Standards at Strata Identity - https://strata.io. Gerry leads an effort to develop Identity Query Language, a policy orchestration standard. Strata Identity pioneered the concept of Identity Orchestration, which helps organizations integrate a…
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Episode 162 — Public Records and Privacy: Rethinking what’s public about us
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From the day of birth, and perhaps even earlier, we become public data subjects. Without our express consent, our personal information is collected and poured out like salt from a shaker because of public records laws. There has been little federal attention to this for 50 years, and state laws vary. Tune in for an exploration of many ways in which…
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Episode 161 — Privacy and the Online Onslaught
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Privacy - “freedom from unauthorized invasion,” says Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, or “the quality or state of being apart from company or observation.” The Detective did not authorize an online onslaught. But every day my computer and phone are bombarded with unsolicited ads and messages. My digital space is invaded by demands for my attention.…
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Episode 160 — Data Privacy News from February 2024: California and Florida
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Join Yugo Nagashima, data privacy and technology attorney at Frost Brown Todd, as he and the Data Privacy Detective discusses two major topics from February 2024. Learn how DoorDash and California settled a dispute under California’s privacy law that raises important issues for business and consumers. DoorDash was accused of failing to inform custo…
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Episode 159 — Data Privacy and Cookies: Why we should rename Cookies as the Collectors that they are
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Who doesn’t like cookies? When a website posts a notice about cookies, that sounds like a free offer for something good. But cookies on the internet are not good or bad. They aren’t cookies at all in any real sense. They are simply embedded technology that attract and use information about us and what we do on a website. Aside from software that en…
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Data Privacy and Tracking: How to combine privacy protection and quality data for Digital Companies User consent, ad-blocking, and tracking prevention are on the rise, along with increasingly privacy-centric regulation. Companies want to understand what users want from products and services. This depends on accurate datasets of user experience. How…
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Episode 157 — Data Privacy Developments from January 2024: Videos, State Codes, and App Stores
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Tune in for three top January 2024 data privacy developments in the Detective’s monthly update. Yugo Nagashima and Brion St. Amour, data privacy and tech attorneys at Frost Brown Todd LLP, join the Detective for a monthly roundup. Explore: How the Video Privacy Protection Act (a U.S. law from video rentals days) is alive in the internet age and a c…
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Episode 156 — Data Privacy and Your Computer - The Offerings of Tech Giants
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You buy a new computer. You push the power button. Your screen blazes with tips and prompts, not from the device maker but from tech giants like Microsoft and Google. You rush to get started with offerings from these giants and other iconic providers. What about your personal information and how your privacy will be affected by your launch on the n…
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Episode 42 | The democratization of fraud meets fraud-as-a-service
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In this episode, “The democratization of fraud meets fraud-as-a-service (FaaS),” Sift Trust and Safety Architects discuss how evolving methods of both casual and commercialized fraud present an increasing risk to online businesses and consumers everywhere. They share who and what to watch out for, where to look for unexpected vulnerabilities, and h…
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Episode 41 | The U.S. Secret Service Investigates Global Pig Butchering Scams
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Crypto-based fraud is on the rise and evolving inside a disrupted market. In this episode of the Digital Trust & Safety Insider Podcast, Sift Trust and Safety Architect Jeff Sakasegawa speaks with Special Agent Shawn Bradstreet about the U.S. Secret Service’s ongoing investigation into “pig butchering”—a global fraud phenomenon combining online rom…
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Episode 40 | Beating The Odds In The Fraud Economy (part 2)
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Gaming and gambling operators haven’t had decades to figure out the fight against online fraud. At best, they’ve had a few years, all marked with global economic disruption and digital transformation. Businesses in every market and at every stage of growth can learn a couple of fraud-fighting cheat codes from our friends in gaming. In part 2 of thi…
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Episode 39 | Beating The Odds In The Fraud Economy (part 1)
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Gaming and gambling operators haven’t had decades to figure out the fight against online fraud. At best, they’ve had a few years, all marked with global economic disruption and digital transformation. Businesses in every market and at every stage of growth can learn a couple of fraud-fighting cheat codes from our friends in gaming. In part 1 of thi…
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As we mark the second anniversary of COVID-19, online providers are once again facing disrupted consumer demand and behavior, supply chain shortages, unchecked inflation, and global socioeconomic unrest. Jeff Sakasegawa, Trust and Safety Architect at Sift, shares his take on what economists are calling 2022’s “summer of hell,” and how fraudsters ar…
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In this episode of the Digital Trust & Safety Insider Podcast, Trust & Safety Architect Jane Lee sits down with Host Arwen Heredia to share her experience exposing an emerging romance-meets-crypto scam known as Pig Butchering.By Sift
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We're back! In this new episode of Trust & Safety in Numbers, Sift Trust and Safety Architect and new host, Jeff Sakasegawa, sits down with Sift CEO, Jason Tan, to discuss how the pandemic has accelerated a global digital transformation, the role trust and safety is playing, and which recent changes are here to stay.…
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Sahil Farooqi, head of customer care & safety at Rently, shares how his innovative startup builds a hybrid fraud-fighting solution that combines the efficiency of machine learning with the nuance of the human eye.By Sift
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