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Gina Neff runs University of Cambridge’s. Her award-winning research focuses on how digital information is changing our work and everyday lives. She led the team who won the 2021 Webby for the Internet’s best educational website, the which has reached over one million people in 17 different languages. Her books include (MIT Press 2012), (MIT Press 2016) and (MIT Press 2022).

She talks to us about the benefits of self-tracking, but how a bait and switch has turned a very useful tool into something that could come back to harm users.

Katy is one of countless women who have used Period Tracking Apps. She tells us about the benefits, and finds out how much information the companies she signed up with still have on her, years after she stopped using the services.

 ia a Senior Reporter at Gizmodo who writes about technology, history, and science. He's covered privacy, algorithms, AI, and social media for more than five years. His work has sparked multiple investigations by Congress and the Federal Trade Commission. His reporting on the company GoodRX sparked an FTC settlement that transformed health privacy in the United States, setting a new legal standard for how medical data is handled online. Another of his investigations was instrumental in pushing Facebook to disable its facial recognition system and delete face data from over a billion people.

He breaks down the chaotic maelstrom that is the Data Broker economy, and warns of the potential dangers of when data is gathered in a drag net - meaning lots of little pieces of information about you can paint a very rich picture.

is a Breaking News Reporter for Gizmodo, covering breaking news and issues relating to legal and policy issues surrounding digital technology.

He tells us about the article he and his colleague Shoshana Wodinsky wrote called ‘These Companies Know When You're Pregnant—And They're Not Keeping It Secret’, and explains how law enforcement agencies may be able to use data collected by brokers to find and arrest people when laws suddenly change.

is Associate Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, an expert in technology and society who works with NASA’s teams, and a longtime personal data economy resistor.  She writes about how to get off Big Tech systems at

She talks to us about how she decided to try and hide being pregnant from the internet, and how that initial experiment became a way of life in order to protect her own data autonomy, and that of her family.