Скачать или смотреть Big Data: Putting Digital Fingerprints in the Pie of Freedom (SOLVED! #19 - 8-22-25)

Best of the Left Podcast Presents: SOLVED! Ep. #19 in which Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:
00:00:00 The Trump administration’s unprecedented attempts to get your data from the states
00:19:40 Why Trump’s new private health records system is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
00:34:25 How HIV patients suffering in the 80s, 90s and early 00s from constant health data breaches is a hint of what could come for all
00:44:05 Why a new UK law trying to protect children from seeing terrible things online is doing more harm than good
01:10:20 Tips on keeping your digital privacy intact as best as you can in this data-hungry world

🎶 Check out our SOLVED! SONGS! playlist for the tunes and music videos directly inspired by our past episodes.

⭐ SOLVED! is brought to you by the Best of the Left podcast team. Get Best of the Left, expertly curating the best of progressive politics, news, and culture (via leftist humans, not A.I. or algorithms) since 2006, wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/listen

💙 Become a member to get an ad-free and extended audio version of SOLVED! a week earlier than the YouTube community, and ad-free Best of the Left episodes, at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/support


📰 ARTICLES

States Have More Data About You Than the Feds Do. Trump Wants to See It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/up...

Trump Announces Plan to Launch Private Health Tracking System With Big Tech Firms
https://time.com/7306647/trump-health...

HIV & Civil Rights: A Report from the Frontlines
of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/fi...

Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08...

'A disaster waiting to happen' — Cybersecurity experts react to UK age verification law
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/v...

UK Age Verification Laws: How to Comply & Stay Safe in 2025
https://www.wizcase.com/blog/uk-age-v...


EXTRAS

The Deficiency of Efficiency - SOLVED! #7
   • The Deficiency of Efficiency: Why govt is ...  

Best of the Left #1730: "The Dark Triad: The Axis of the Dark Personality Triad: Unfit Leaders and the Suffering They Cause"
Wherever you get your podcasts or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1730

"The best free VPN in 2025" - Tom's Guide
https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/...

All 2025 Health Information Data Breaches (HHS.gov)
https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/...

2025 Data Breach (Account info for Apple, Facebook, Google, GitHub, Telegram, and government platforms)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-p...

2025 Aflac Insurance Data Breach
https://newsroom.aflac.com/2025-06-20...


📣 TAKE ACTION:

One Million Rising Trainings
https://www.nokings.org/rise

In a blue state? Stop ICE overreach
https://www.bluestatedefiance.org/ice

5calls.org
https://5calls.org/

Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

Find your Indivisible group - or start one
https://indivisible.org/

Write to the DNC and tell them to be better!
https://democrats.org/contact-us/


🌊 FOLLOW US!
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bestofthelef...
Instagram:   / bestoftheleft  
Facebook:   / bestoftheleft  
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@bestoftheleft
Mastadon: https://mastodon.social/@bestofthelef...


CREDITS:
Curation, commentary, production, visual design, and editing by the Best of the Left team.
Video editing support from Lain Dorsey ([email protected]).