In this episode, I'm chatting with Kushal Das — public interest technologist, core team member at the Tor Project, core developer of CPython, and director at the Python Software Foundation. He is also the founder of dgplug and a maintainer of SecureDrop — the platform journalists use to communicate securely with whistleblowers. We talk about why privacy is increasingly hard to protect, the hidden cameras in your robot vacuum cleaner, what happens to data once it leaves your hands, and what any developer can do right now to build more privacy-respecting software.

Outline

0:00 Episode highlights

0:17 Introduction

0:38 "Privacy is a human right" — is it?

1:22 What turned Kushal from technologist to privacy advocate

2:57 SecureDrop: what it is and who it protects

3:33 How SecureDrop works i ...