Indie radio producer. Host of @cbcradio's Love Me produced by the wondrous @mirabw and @cristalliond. CBC.ca/loveme Back in 2025 with S4.

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We made more than 100 cold calls. Each one began the same way: “You’ve been targeted by government-grade surveillance tech.” In our @LHreports collab with @reveal you can hear the voices on the other end revealnews.org/podcast/cellp…
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Today's podcast by Reveal is a follow-up to last week's coverage of the phone tracking technology being sold by a company called First Wap to dictatorships, such as Rwanda's, to track down political dissidents: revealnews.org/podcast/cellp…
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Having reported on this industry, I knew there were shady actors. But part of me thought, surely they can’t be that bad, surely there are red lines. The world isn’t a comic book. When we went behind closed doors, I realized… sometimes it is.
🧵What’s the biggest lie the surveillance industry tells? That they only sell to legal clients. That there are red lines. But what do these companies say when they think nobody is watching? We went undercover to find out
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📹WATCH THIS: they went undercover into the commercial surveillance ecosystem. And working with a massive dataset, lifted the lid on how shady companies use the flaws in cellular networks to track...anybody...anywhere.
🧵What’s the biggest lie the surveillance industry tells? That they only sell to legal clients. That there are red lines. But what do these companies say when they think nobody is watching? We went undercover to find out
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On a Saturday night I stumbled across something on the internet that made me feel like ****** my pants. A giant dataset of real surveillance operations targeting 1000s of people across nearly every country. Unraveling it and the mysterious company behind it has consumed 1.5 years
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EXPOSED: @LHreports uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries, including the US. It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now. motherjones.com/politics/202…
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🧵What’s the biggest lie the surveillance industry tells? That they only sell to legal clients. That there are red lines. But what do these companies say when they think nobody is watching? We went undercover to find out
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