Your Smart TV is spying on you. It’s taking snapshots of everything you watch -- sometimes hundreds per second -- and quietly sending that data to third parties. In this video, we reveal what’s really happening behind the glass: How smart TVs track your behavior How that data is used to profile and manipulate you And how you can protect yourself. Surveillance has crept into our living rooms. It’s time to draw the line. 00:00 TV Is No Longer a Private Activity 00:39 Understanding Smart TVs 05:30 ...
Jun 20, 2025•19 min•Season 12Ep. 11
https://youtu.be/gGva7O3czg0 https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/without-consent:5 Your child already has a digital footprint—before they can even speak. But they didn’t create it. You did. Every photo you post, every milestone you share, helps train facial recognition systems and build psychological profiles your child will carry for life. These profiles are sold, scored, and used by companies and governments—long before your child is old enough to understand what privacy even means. In this v...
May 30, 2025•14 min•Season 12Ep. 10
https://youtu.be/1g0RzOGxe40 Step-by-Step Privacy Hardening: Apple is better than Microsoft and Google when it comes to privacy—but they still collect way too much of your data. If you want the strongest digital privacy, Linux is the gold standard. But if you're not ready to make the switch just yet, you can still dramatically improve your Mac’s privacy. In this video, we walk you through privacy expert Michael Bazzell’s recommended macOS setup—from purchasing a device (without linking it to you...
May 09, 2025•31 min•Season 12Ep. 9
https://youtu.be/11P6DdI8HOo https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Extensions:6 You installed them to make life easier. But some browser extensions are doing a lot more than blocking ads or autofilling passwords. They’re reading every keystroke. Tracking every site. Harvesting your data—and in some cases, handing it over to foreign governments or draining your crypto wallets. In this video, we expose the chilling truth about browser extensions. You'll see real-world cases of extensions that were ...
Apr 18, 2025•21 min•Season 12Ep. 8
https://youtu.be/tzTtF3vOiq0 https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/dont-migrate-from-backup:f Every time we upgrade our devices, we face a choice: migrate everything from the old one or start fresh. While transferring data may seem convenient, it also means hauling along unnecessary ‘digital exhaust’—outdated apps, clutter, and potential privacy risks. In this video, I’ll show you why starting from scratch is smarter for both your security and sanity and share some essential tips for setting up a...
Apr 04, 2025•12 min•Season 12Ep. 7
https://youtu.be/Zo9qHqTDcgM https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Graphene-Install:e Your phone is a tracking device. But it doesn’t have to be. One of the best ways to reclaim your privacy is to ditch iOS and stock Android and install GrapheneOS instead. This guide is a step-by-step tutorial on converting a Pixel phone to GrapheneOS, tweaking key settings for maximum privacy, and installing apps—including how to handle Google Play Services after setup. If you want to eliminate as much of Google...
Mar 21, 2025•26 min•Season 12Ep. 6
https://youtu.be/AuqOzn9GWTU https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/UK-Vs-Apple:a In an unprecedented attack on global privacy, the UK government secretly ordered Apple to create a backdoor into its Advanced Data Protection (ADP)—the encryption tool designed to protect your most sensitive iCloud data. Instead of quietly complying, Apple publicly disabled ADP entirely for UK users. By doing this, Apple alerted the world to the secret order—but it also left UK users vulnerable. Their backups, photos...
Mar 07, 2025•12 min•Season 12Ep. 5
https://youtu.be/NXuRlvJI2N8 https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/signal-usernames:7 Did you know you can use Signal without sharing your phone number with other users? Signal introduced usernames last year, but many people still don’t realize how they work—some mistake them for their profile name, and figuring out how to share or search for usernames can be confusing. Here’s what you need to know: how usernames work, how to set yours up, how to find others, and the privacy benefits (and limitat...
Feb 21, 2025•10 min•Season 12Ep. 4
https://youtu.be/rKnoP30Q6Ig https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Car-hacking:d Security researcher Sam Curry reveals shocking flaws in internet-connected vehicles, exposing how they can be hacked and why your car may not be as private as you think. 00:00 Car Hacking Doesn’t Seem Real 01:13 How Sam Got Into Car Hacking 04:55 Why Connected Cars Are Not Secure 12:11 Types of Attacks Researched 14:36 The Subaru Experiment 16:53 Kia Connect Research 18:11 Tesla Bug Bounty Program 23:01 VPN Security ...
Feb 07, 2025•50 min•Season 12Ep. 3
https://youtu.be/UgXjxQsyk4w https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/privacy-101:3 In today’s hyper-connected world, our personal information is being collected, shared, and sold—often without our knowledge or consent. But here’s the good news: you can fight back. More people than ever are waking up to the importance of digital privacy and taking action to protect themselves. The big challenge? Many people don’t know where to begin. That’s where this video comes in. This Privacy 101 guide is design...
Jan 24, 2025•15 min•Season 12Ep. 2
https://youtu.be/E9iPKu1v7os https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/year-in-censorship:f On Dec 31st, 2024 I was invited on to Al Jazeera to discuss internet censorship, the new Australian ban on children under 16 from accessing social media, and whether banning TikTok will help prevent the spreading of misinformation. 00:00 Everyone Is Trying to Hijack Our Attention 00:38 Introduction to The Stream 00:54 Censorship is a Government-Led Effort 02:51 The Curious Case of TikTok Bans 05:03 It is Never...
Jan 10, 2025•8 min•Season 12Ep. 1
https://youtu.be/MtHKGaDA30g https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Techno-optimism:b It’s easy to feel pessimistic, even hopeless, about the future of privacy in a world so deeply intertwined with technology. This is because we’ve been tricked into thinking that powerful technology can only be wielded by powerful entities who want to spy on us. But I’m very much a techno-optimist. In this video I’ll explain why I believe that we have all the tools at our disposal to write a better future. I’ll al...
Dec 27, 2024•19 min•Season 11Ep. 31
https://youtu.be/Hcqh0ZSza50 https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/nothing-to-Hide-v7-ODYSEE-20241213-001:a “I have nothing to hide”. It’s become a default response from many to overreaching surveillance. When did privacy start being about having something to hide? It used to simply be about having the right to decide for ourselves who gets access to our data. But over the past decade we’ve lost that choice, and so much of our personal and sensitive information is shared without our knowledge or ...
Dec 13, 2024•18 min•Season 11Ep. 30
https://youtu.be/PPnFJ8PeSsY https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/faraday-bags:0 Our phones and laptops are like personal tracking devices, constantly emitting signals that map our every move. But what if you could take back control of your privacy without ditching your tech? Enter Faraday bags—a simple yet powerful tool to block unwanted tracking. In this video, I’ll show you how Faraday bags work, the privacy threats they protect against, how to pick the right one, and how to test it. Plus, I’...
Nov 29, 2024•15 min•Season 11Ep. 29
https://youtu.be/vUQLkHK7eNI https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Byron-Tau:1 Your favorite apps might be secretly selling your location and personal data. Governments and shady corporations are buying data from brokers to track your every move—no warrants required. In this interview, I sit down with Byron Tau, author of Means of Control, to uncover the hidden world of secret code in your apps, shady shell companies, and the surveillance economy we've unknowingly accepted. This is a wake-up call...
Nov 16, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 11Ep. 28
https://youtu.be/CVeZfM0pVyU https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Local-LLM:d AI chatbots are taking over the world. But if you want to guarantee your privacy when using them, running an LLM locally is going to be your best bet. In this video I collaborate with The Hated One to show you how, and to explain some AI terminology so that you understand what's going on. 00:00 Your Data is Used to Train Chatbots 01:11 Understanding AI Models 01:28 LLM 02:23 Parameters 03:34 Size 04:51 AI Engine and UX...
Nov 01, 2024•18 min•Season 11Ep. 27
https://youtu.be/sb6u-TpV-JA https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/BRENDAN-EICH:9 As we rushed into the Web 2 era, privacy was left behind. There was a naive view that users could consent to something that was impossible to understand. The result was tracking and monitoring of every activity. I chatted to Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, Co-Founder of Brave, and the Co-founder of Mozilla. We talk about how the privacy landscape evolved on the internet, and the future of our technology-dri...
Oct 25, 2024•42 min•Season 11Ep. 26
https://youtu.be/wcKtnnzsQGk https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/content-moderation:9 In this interview from Al Jazeera on October 16th, 2024; I discuss the current state of global privacy legislation, ways that we can encourage free speech without censorship, and strategies for the future of privacy around the world. 00:00 We Are Getting to a Real Scary Place 00:30 Setting Scary Precedents Against Privacy 03:17 Striking a Balance 05:54 The Future of Privacy is Up the Users In an era where the ...
Oct 24, 2024•7 min•Season 11Ep. 25
https://youtu.be/07-IsfTMujo https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Pegasus:d7 Journalists, activists, and human rights defenders are being targeted and silenced daily by authoritarian governments that fear losing power. One of the deadliest tools used against them is Pegasus—a powerful cyber-surveillance weapon that puts lives at risk. In this interview, I sit down with Laurent Richard, founder of Forbidden Stories and co-author of Pegasus. His team broke the story on Pegasus spyware and built a ...
Oct 23, 2024•53 min•Season 11Ep. 24
https://youtu.be/0PbL1GeClQI https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Surveillance-watch:2 The surveillance industry operates by design in a shrouded, opaque manner. It's intentionally difficult for the public to understand the vast and intricate network of companies, subsidiaries, partnerships, affiliations, and even the financial backers of data brokers and surveillance-as-a-service companies. I chat with the creator of Surveillance Watch, an activist from Bahrain whose website is a mammoth effort...
Oct 22, 2024•51 min•Season 11Ep. 23
https://youtu.be/NciVkd6ddPo https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Zimmermann:f In the early 90s, Phil Zimmermann, the godfather of privacy, released a groundbreaking encryption program called Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP. This software allowed people to protect their email communications with robust encryption. The government then investigated Phil for 3 years, claiming that by spreading PGP around the world as free encryption software, he was engaging in munitions trafficking and jeopardizing U....
Oct 21, 2024•27 min•Season 11Ep. 22
https://youtu.be/rriStH1eTH0 https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Private-AI:f AI is already deeply integrated into our daily digital activities, whether we realize it or not, but it's a double-edged sword: On the one hand it can skyrocket our productivity and skillset. On the other, there are often serious privacy concerns to using it. Do you want to be able to use AI tools, without worrying that companies are collecting everything you're doing? In this video, I talk to two experts working on t...
Oct 18, 2024•24 min•Season 11Ep. 21
https://youtu.be/T32XfRSaC0w https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/disappearing-messages:5 In today’s digital world, nothing is truly secure. Imagine waking up to find that a hacker had posted every conversation you’ve ever had online. We don't need to keep a permanent trail of all of our digital conversations, that could be hacked at any time, and there are deep psychological effects when we do so. In this video, I make a case for using disappearing messages. 00:00 Imagine THIS Nightmare 01:48 Y...
Oct 04, 2024•16 min•Season 11Ep. 20
https://youtu.be/4sfIBRTcRpU https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/HIPAA:7 Most people think that HIPAA means that their medical records are kept private. But what if I told you that HIPAA doesn’t protect your privacy at all? This is our first video in a series about medical privacy, specifically looking at legislation that stripped individuals of the right to consent to medical data sharing. We focus on what HIPAA actually is, how it came to allow our data to be shared without us even knowing, h...
Sep 20, 2024•25 min•Season 11Ep. 19
https://youtu.be/aXhXkXcMXyM https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Fish:e28 What do Fish and Privacy have in common? This video will explain. Our expectations of privacy have shifted dramatically in the past few decades. What was once considered outrageous overreach has become normal, and we've lost sight of what a healthy amount of privacy even looks like. It's called shifting-baseline syndrome, first coined in relation to fish populations. This video is based on a fantastic essay by Bruce Schne...
Sep 06, 2024•11 min•Season 11Ep. 18
https://youtu.be/s9Ux8DFgMSM https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/ditch-sms:1 Most of our conversations are digital, and our privacy hinges on our ability to convince others to use a private messaging platform. Getting friends and family to switch isn't easy though! Here are some strategies you can try, ranging from educational methods, to downright sneakiness! 00:00 We have all decided to never answer our phone again 02:12 Its Easy 02:47 Privacy Leaks 04:29 Response Delay 05:45 Missed Connectio...
Aug 23, 2024•11 min•Season 11Ep. 17
https://youtu.be/c0ZAPaRddfo https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Fingerprint-unlock:e Should you use fingerprint unlock on your device? The answer is not going to be the same for everyone. In this video, I look at the benefits and tradeoffs of using fingerprint readers, and try to compare the security of fingerprint unlock vs a pin or password. A major factor to consider is actually what kind of device you have. 00:00 You Asked, I Delivered! 00:56 What is Fingerprint Unlock 02:13 Should You Use...
Aug 09, 2024•17 min•Season 11Ep. 16
https://youtu.be/xILGdtI9NPo https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Veracrypt:9 Our devices contain a treasure trove of private information. We have sensitive work documents, cherished family photos, archives of private communications. You can keep these digital files safe by using encrypted containers, which are secure digital vaults that will help keep your data private. In this video, we explain how use the free, open source encryption program VeraCrypt. 00:00 Our Digital Files Are Precious 03:...
Jul 26, 2024•15 min•Season 11Ep. 15
https://youtu.be/FloGxOlMSyI https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Phone-Contacts:9 The humble Contact List in our phone is a goldmine of data. Each contact is filled with the personal information like names, numbers, email addresses, home addresses, birthdays, work details and social media information. It’s the kind of information that data brokers salivate over because it allows unprecedented insight into consumer behavior, political leanings, and even potential vulnerabilities that could be ex...
Jul 14, 2024•12 min•Season 11Ep. 14
https://youtu.be/pA0zYTmi5ck https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/car-privacy-part-3:1 We now know that the data collection in modern cars is out of control -- The question is, how does that data even leave your car? And what, if anything, can you do to stop it? That's what we cover in this video, Part 3 of our car privacy series: SIM cards, WiFi, and OBD ports. We also talk about how companies trick us into handing over our data, things that we can do to push back against this insane overreach ...
Jun 29, 2024•20 min•Season 11Ep. 13
