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What the Hack?

Booking Overview

This is a true-cybercrime and consumer-privacy podcast featuring investigative, advocacy, and subject-matter guests who explain real-world data abuse, surveillance, identity risks, and security threats. PR agencies could credibly pitch privacy advocates, cybersecurity experts, investigative reporters, consumer-protection researchers, and technology-policy specialists; booking difficulty is medium because guests tend to have established expertise or public-facing work.

Metrics

Episodes: 273

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 62.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

beau.friedlander@joindeleteme.com

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Host

David Spark - Cybersecurity media producer and host known for creating and hosting technology and security-focused content.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Privacy advocates, investigative journalists, consumer-protection experts, technology-policy specialists, cybersecurity professionals, and researchers with direct expertise in data collection, surveillance, identity security, or cybercrime.
Required Achievements:  
Investigative reporting or research on privacy, surveillance, or cybersecurity, Leadership or advocacy work in consumer protection and data rights, Expertise informing public policy, legislation, or technology practices

Recent Guest Discussions

Rob Shavell - Identity Verification Risks Following Driver's-license Data Breaches

Shannon Edwards - Children's Data Collection By Educational Technology Platforms And Parental Privacy Protections

Grace Gedye - Surveillance Pricing Legislation And Consumer Protections

David Dayen - Surveillance Pricing And How Personal Data Influences The Prices Consumers Are Offered

Derek Kravitz - Algorithms, Dynamic Pricing, And Surveillance-based Price Discrimination

Recent Topics

Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Cybercrime, Identity Theft

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
What the Hack?
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Are You Being Watched? (You Are.)

September 29, 2026

Worried about AI? Don't trust Flock Security? You might get on a law enforcement list for that. Investigative reporter Daniel Boguslaw explains Big Tech's push to re-label anti-surveillance camera activists and AI skeptics alike as threats to national security. Make yourself harder to find, harder to hit: https://joindeleteme.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 270: Your Driver's License Can't Prove Who You Are Anymore

September 22, 2026

A driver's license breach didn't just leak data—threat actors now have access to a universal key to every identity verification system that relies on state-issued identification. DeleteMe's Rob Shavell joins us to explain what happens when the document designed to prove you’re you can no longer be trusted. Make yourself harder to find, harder to hit: https://joindeleteme.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 269: The Student Data Free-for-All

September 15, 2026

As technology is integrated deeper into classrooms, the lines between education and data privacy have been destroyed by for-profit data miners. This week, privacy advocate Shannon Edwards reveals how educational apps harvest sensitive information from children, commodify their data, and what parents can do to fight it.Make yourself harder to find, harder to hit: https://joindeleteme.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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beau.friedlander@joindeleteme.com

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