I’ve got the following plan for the next few episode releases of my podcast The Private Citizen, which should get me back up to this year’s schedule of the four episodes a month that I’ve promised for the show:

The Private Citizen 91, 20 October 2021: Bugs in our Pockets

• Bugs in our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning — Whitfield Diffie of Diffie-Hellman fame (co-invented public-key crypto), Ronald Rivest co-invented RSA, Steven M. Bellovin co-invented encrypted key exchange and is credited with inventing the firewall, Josh Benaloh invented the Benaloh cryptosystem, Jon Callas is one of the founders of PGP Inc. and co-founder of Silent Circle, Peter Neumann is the editor of the RISK Digest, Carmela Troncoso was the main author of the original DP-3T paper, Bruce Schneier, Matt Blaze and Ross Anderson are well-known crypto and security experts

The Private Citizen 92, 25 October 2021: CIA vs. WikiLeaks

• Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA’s secret war plans against WikiLeaks

The Private Citizen 93, 27 October 2021: iOS Do Not Track

• When you “Ask app not to track,” some iPhone apps keep snooping anyway
• Study: Effectiveness of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency

I also have the following topics on my list, which I want to cover as soon as possible in further episodes (I might do an episode where I lump a couple of smaller topics together, too):

• Geofence warrants: Google Report Spotlights Uptick in Controversial “Geofence Warrants” by Police
• Xiaomi censorship: Lithuania tells its citizens to throw Xiaomi mobile devices in the bin, Zensurvorwürfe: Will Xiaomi vor allem Porno-Werbung filtern?
• Quad vs. China cyber war: “Quad” group seeks to set security standards for global tech industry, Quad Principles on Technology Design, Development, Governance, and Use, India, Japan flex cyber-defence muscles as China kicks the Quad, FCC details $1.9 billion program to rip out Huawei and ZTE gear in the US
• Stasi spying on car phones in West Berlin: Stasi hörte seit 1975 Autotelefone in West-Berlin ab
• The Trump / Alfa Bank story: Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story
• Facebook account deletion: Top German Court Says Facebook Must Inform Users About Deleting Their Posts Or Suspending Their Account, Explain Why, And Allow Them To Respond