This week, we are joined by Kyla Cardona and Aurora Johnson from SpyCloud discussing their research "China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle." Chinese technology companies, under CCP mandate, collect vast amounts of data on citizens, creating opportunities for corrupt insiders to steal and resell this information on dark markets. ... Show More
Yesterday
Payal Chakravarty: Overcoming bias in the workplace. [Security and Risk] [Career Notes]
Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Payal Chakravarty, Head of Product for Security and Risk from Coalition, sits down to share her story of working at several different organizations, including interning for IBM and Microsoft. After obtaining her master's degree, she worke ... Show More
10m 17s
Apr 2023
ICYMI: WTH is Tik Tok So Dangerous? Klon Kitchen on How the Chinese Communist Party is Reading Your Keystrokes and Collecting Your Data
It’s spring break, and your kids might have more time on their hands… so we are revisiting one of our best and increasingly relevant episodes.Over a third of Americans spend hours every day on an app that directly feeds their data to the Chinese government. TikTok, owned by Chine ... Show More
51m 56s
May 2025
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
On this episode, I chat with Victor Shih about all things China. We discuss China’s massive local debt crisis, the CCP’s views on AI, what happens after Xi, and more.Victor Shih is an expert on the Chinese political system, as well as their banking and fiscal policies, and he has ... Show More
1h 29m
Feb 2025
Alphabet Earnings Miss Estimates, China Launches Retaliatory Probe
On today's episode, we get a breakdown of Alphabet's earnings with Annabelle Droulers, Bloomberg Tech Correspondent in Hong Kong. This as the company also faces a probe from Chinese anti-trust regulators amid a fresh US-China trade war. Plus - a look at how America's new China ta ... Show More
14m 40s