Are we living in a post-privacy age?

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🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Ronan Farrow says yes. He joins Peter Kafka on the Recode Media podcast to discuss his latest investigation for The New Yorker into the surveillance technology Pegasus — spyware that gives remote access to a smartphone’s camera, microphone, and contents. Be sure to power your phone completely off after you listen to the episode. Farrow will tell you why. Featuring: Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow), Investigative Reporter at the New Yorker Host of the Recode Media podcast: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.6	Welcome to ReCode Media of Peter Kafka.
0:43.8	That is me.
0:44.8	Today, I'm talking to one of the most high-profile and highly praised journalists of our time.
0:49.3	That's Ronan Farrow of the New Yorker, who, as you know, has shared the Pulitzer Prize
0:53.8	for his work exposing Harvey Weinstein's abuses.
0:57.2	This is a wide-ranging conversation about his work, how it is about doing it, the limits
1:01.3	of TV journalism, compared to the investigations he does for New Yorker now, and a lot more.
1:06.8	The first we spent a bit of time talking about his most recent piece for the magazine,
1:10.5	about the very big and very worrisome industry dedicated to hacking your cell phone.
1:16.0	This is not strictly a media topic, but it is one that's relevant to anyone who uses
1:19.9	a phone, and that's you when you're probably using your phone right now at this very moment.
1:25.5	And also, since we're here, this week I wrote about Netflix, and it's stumbling about
1:28.9	face-on-ads, as in it's going to have an ad-supported version of Netflix, even though Netflix
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