• Introducing EFFector: How Targeted Advertising Gives Your Location to the Government
    on March 11, 2026

    A new podcast from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: The digital world isn't just a place you visit on your phone. It's the battleground where tomorrow's civil liberties will be won—or lost. Each […]

  • Building and Preserving the Library of Everything
    on September 10, 2025

    All this season, “How to Fix the Internet” has been focusing on the tools and technology of freedom – and one of the most important tools of freedom is a library. Access to knowledge not only […]

  • Protecting Privacy in Your Brain
    on August 27, 2025

    The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to decipher thoughts, and perhaps even manipulate them, isn't […]

  • Separating AI Hope from AI Hype
    on August 13, 2025

    If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between reality and lies, or help us live forever, or take over the […]

  • Smashing the Tech Oligarchy
    on July 30, 2025

    Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands: the surveillance capitalism that makes it profitable to invade our privacy, the […]

  • Finding the Joy in Digital Security
    on July 16, 2025

    Many people approach digital security training with furrowed brows, as an obstacle to overcome. But what if learning to keep your tech safe and secure was consistently playful and fun? People react […]

  • Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap
    on July 2, 2025

    The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially forever to do certain tasks, like factoring prime numbers and […]

  • Securing Journalism on the ‘Data-Greedy’ Internet
    on June 18, 2025

    Public-interest journalism speaks truth to power, so protecting press freedom is part of protecting democracy. But what does it take to digitally secure journalists’ work in an environment where […]

  • Why Three is Tor's Magic Number
    on June 4, 2025

    Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first, cheaper, better, best. But what if […]

  • Love the Internet Before You Hate On It
    on May 21, 2025

    There’s a weird belief out there that tech critics hate technology. But do movie critics hate movies? Do food critics hate food? No! The most effective, insightful critics do what they do because […]