{"podcast":{"title":"This Week in Privacy","slug":"this-week-in-privacy-6761897","podcast_index_feed_id":6761897,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/this-week-in-privacy","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4r2iPaDyYL_JY28-WyXXbBu6RIlTfcHv7WBT4vTeHcY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82OTVi/YmVmMzVjZTQ1ZjQz/ZTMxYTI4MjM5NmQ5/NjFhNi5qcGc.jpg","author":"Jonah Aragon","episode_count":59,"summary":"A weekly live podcast from Privacy Guides - We cover updates on what we’re working on, privacy news from around the industry, and anything our community wants to share. Privacy Guides is a non-profit, impartial organization that is focused on delivering the best online privacy advice and building a strong privacy community.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-13T10:21:23.185967+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-privacy-6761897"},"episode":{"title":"WhatsApp Is Not Really Encrypted?","slug":"whatsapp-is-not-really-encrypted","published_at":"2026-01-31T01:00:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-privacy-6761897/whatsapp-is-not-really-encrypted","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-privacy-6761897","url":"https://www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/whatsapp-is-not-really-encrypted","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/media.transistor.fm/d60491b0/5fab4759.mp3","summary":"WhatsApp encryption is coming under scrutiny, French lawmakers are pushing an under-15s social media ban, TikTok’s privacy policy has gotten worse after it has been bought by American investors, and much more! Join us for This Week In Privacy #38. (00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Start of podcast (01:12) - Site updates (04:47) - Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption (19:04) - French lawmakers vote to ban social media use by under-15s (36:23) - UK Lords vote to ban VPNs for children as pressure on the privacy tools increases (49:57) - AI and facial recognition to be rolled out as Britain’s ‘broken’ policing system faces sweeping reforms (01:03:12) - TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes (01:17:26) - Forum & Community Updates (01:20:32) - Q&A (01:50:46) - A Message from Privacy Guides' Program Director (01:54:07) - Outro ★ Support this podcast ★","meta_description":"WhatsApp encryption is coming under scrutiny, French lawmakers are pushing an under-15s social media ban, TikTok’s privacy policy has gotten worse after i…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6888,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-week-in-privacy-6761897/episodes/whatsapp-is-not-really-encrypted/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-privacy-6761897/whatsapp-is-not-really-encrypted.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}