Tonight, on the The Private Citizen, I talk about breaking news from Afghanistan. Not so much the war or the troop withdrawal itself, but how politicians reacted to it. And why we, as freedom-loving, democracy-affirming citizens can not let this blatant (and dumb) propaganda stand.

→ The Private Citizen 82: The Afghan Disaster

The people responsible claim nobody could have predicted what happened in Afghanistan this week. But their experts did in fact did predict it, which wasn’t exactly hard, and then the people in charge lied about it. The public now desperately needs to understand how governments operate, or it will all happen again. And soon.

If you want to get notified automatically when new episodes are released, you can subscribe to the show via a number of methods:

I’ve just released the latest episode of The Private Citizen, where I cover Apple’s new privacy-defeating features in iOS and tie that together with some of their recent supposedly privacy-friendly initiatives to explain how its all part of the same strategy: Do things that are best for the company while pretending they have their users' interests at heart.

It always amazes me how people can be very suspicious of almost every other company but then give Apple a free pass. And this is IT security experts and journalists we are talking about. Well, they were in for a rude awakening last week…

→ The Private Citizen 81: Let’s Talk about Apple

What are the new features Apple is implementing in iOS 15 that have privacy and security people all up in arms? And why none of this should come a surprise to anyone who’s actually paid some attention and is thinking for themselves instead of just buying the company propaganda.

If you want to get notified automatically when new episodes are released, you can subscribe to the show via a number of methods:

I’m a day late with this since I had a bit of an emergency last night and couldn’t record the podcast, but I’ve now released the latest episode of The Private Citizen. It’s all about a speech Joe Biden gave recently and why what he said concerns me greatly. And why I think it should concern you, too.

→ The Private Citizen 80: Biden’s Dangerous Cyber Jingoism

The US President says it’s likely that hacker attacks will lead to a real war and that is something that scares me a lot.

If you want to get notified automatically when new episodes are released, you can subscribe to the show via a number of methods:

Okay. Now on to the first of the two podcast episodes I released this week.

On Wednesday, my usual release day, I recorded and published an episode of The Private Citizen that covers the recent GameStop kerfuffle. If you haven’t heard about it, or don’t really understand what it was about, listen to that podcast episode. It will be worth your while, because it’s a hilarious story.

→ The Private Citizen 54: Hodl the Stonks

How a number of couch investors ruined some Wall Street guys using a mobile app. And why the Wall Street guys really don’t care. And what it means for the future.

You can subscribe to the show via a number of methods:

Oh dear. I am quite behind with telling you about podcasts I’ve recorded.

I was just going to tell you about the episode I’d released this Wednesday and noticed that I didn’t even tell you about the one from last week. So let’s do that first:

On 27 January, I released an episode of The Private Citizen that I had planned to do for many, many months. It is about the potential of spyware in pretty much every single modern car on the market in Europe.

→ The Private Citizen 53: Clippy in Your Car

It looks like you’ve had an accident! Every new car sold in the EU has a black box in it that will activate the car’s microphone and call emergency services in the event of a crash, supplying them with the car’s location. A system that’s ripe for explotation as spyware.

You can subscribe to the show via a number of methods:

I’ve just released this week’s episode of The Private Citizen. I’m a day late because Mike and me recorded that episode late into the night yesterday. In fact, it was already Thursday when we were done. I did my best to get it out as fast as possible today, but I unexpectedly had a lot on my plate. But here it is, our discussion of Trump’s last days, Biden’s inauguration and what the future holds for the US and the rest of the world.

→ The Private Citizen 52: A President for All Americans

Donald Trump has left the White House and Joe Biden is now President. What does that mean for the future of the US and beyond? I look back at what happened with Trump and forward at the future with my guest Michael Mullan-Jensen.

You can subscribe to the show via a number of methods:

Yesterday, I published the first Private Citizen episode of the year on the newly redesigned website. Unsurprisingly, the episode deals with the insurrection at the US Capitol and the reactions of social media companies, who banned Trump and then just kept the bans going.

→ The Private Citizen 51: The Twitter Coup

After an angry mob stormed the US Capitol last week, Twitter and other social media companies embarked on an unprecedented power grab for control of the public’s opinion.

You can subscribe to the show via a number of methods: