Privacy Podcasts

Chad Warner
3 min readJan 7, 2022

I’m interested in personal digital privacy, so I listen to privacy podcasts to keep learning. I prefer those that teach privacy practices over those that report on privacy news.

Several of these cover OSINT as well, because it involves collecting info about people online. I have a separate list of OSINT podcasts, if you’re interested.

Here are the podcasts (in alphabetical order), along with descriptions written by the podcasters.

If you know of others, please let me know!

Photo by Jason Dent on Unsplash

Bigger Insights Privacy & Security

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The Bigger Insights Privacy & Security podcast helps you live a more private and secure life by exposing the latest threats to your privacy and security and teaching you how to mitigate them. The goal of this podcast is to give you the education and insights you need to protect yourself, your family, your business, and your assets from all kinds of threats, whether those be corporate surveillance, device and browser fingerprinting, creepy and malicious advertisements, data breaches, account takeovers, etc. Bigger Insights is about sovereignty and resilience. …

Breadcrumbs by Trace Labs

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Trace Labs is a Canadian based non profit specializing in the crowd sourcing of open source intelligence collection.

In this series, we explore the topics, techniques and tools that relate to OSINT collection.

Closed Network Privacy Podcast by Simon Walsh

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Privacy and security podcast focused on the everyday person and using simple tools and techniques to become a smaller target for online attacks. Learn to protect yourself using VPNs, DeGoogled phones, VPNs, TOR, end to end encrypted communications, and techniques to help become more private online.

Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons Podcast by Carey Parker

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Every week, this podcast brings you the cybersecurity and privacy news you need, in a manner that’s easy for anyone to understand and even entertaining! The host also interviews top industry leaders, to dig deeper into important topics and recent events. It all that weren’t enough, the host also passes along top tips for defending your digital realm.

NBTV: Your Money, Your Data, Your Life by Naomi Brockwell

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Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Technologies of our Future is a podcast series hosted by Naomi Brockwell. Naomi is also the host of the YouTube show “Naomi Brockwell TV” which explores all things tech and crypto, and she is the emcee of the Consensus Blockchain conferences and the D10e Blockchain conferences all over the world.

Even though the description doesn’t say so, this podcast frequently covers privacy and surveillance.

NeedleStack by Authentic8

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Every Tuesday, former White House CISO and CIA cybersecurity officer Matt Ashburn sits down with tech industry veteran Jeff Phillips. The pair discuss tips, tricks and insights to the practice of online research. Whether you’re an OSINT expert or online research just comes with the job, tune in to learn how to hone your skills, improve efficiency and protect yourself as you search the surface, deep and dark web.

Opt Out by Seth For Privacy

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Welcome to Opt Out, where I sit down with passionate people to learn why privacy matters to them, the tools and techniques they’ve found and leveraged, and where we encourage and inspire others towards personal privacy and data-sovereignty.

The last episode was in February 2023.

Privacy Files by Anonyome Labs

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We make the topic of privacy approachable. For both businesses and consumers. With so much of our lives taking place online today, it’s easy to overlook the dangers associated with sharing your personal data with companies and strangers. Many people are aware that privacy is a problem but they don’t know where to begin. Privacy Files explains the vast array of privacy issues facing society in easy-to-understand language. Then we give you practical solutions to quickly and effortlessly make the changes necessary to take back control of your personal information — one case file at a time.

The Privacy, Security, and OSINT Show by Michael Bazzell

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Your weekly dose of privacy, digital security, and open source intelligence (OSINT) news and opinion.

The last episode was in November 2023.

Techlore Talks by Techlore

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Welcome to Techlore Talks — where we dive into technology, privacy, & security.

The Watchman Privacy Podcast by Gabriel Custodiet

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We analyze the war on privacy and freedom in all its forms. Then we talk solutions.

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Chad Warner

Web Strategist at OptimWise. Cybersecurity & privacy enthusiast. Bookworm. Fan of Tolkien & LEGO.