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Every night, software companies monitor millions of kids as they do their homework or connect with classmates online. Is that creepy? @manoushz talks to @futureofprivacy's Amelia Vance, who is helping parents, students and school officials figure it out. luminarypodcasts.com/listen/wnyc-st…

Online DNA tests are marketed as a way to get in touch with your roots or rethink your health. But where does all that very private information about our bodies, our DNA and our families go? And who gets to see it? luminarypodcasts.com/listen/wnyc-st…

On today's episode, @manoushz & @rameshmedia go beyond Silicon Valley to places like Kenya and Mexico, where people and communities are building innovative and ingenious new companies that truly help people. wnyc.news/xe8jq

Hear how a new generation of civic-minded technologists will be educated in a new field — Public Interest Technology — to become the public’s digital protectors, rather than build yet another food-delivery app. luminarypodcasts.com/listen/wnyc-st…

Imagine your ex puts you in their will and you're granted all their Facebook, Instagram and Twitter logins. What would you do with alt those posts and profiles? Keep them — or DELETE? That’s the dilemma facing Terry O’Donovan in the play "User Not Found." wnyc.news/fmqhq

Sometimes going online to check in with friends and family feels good. But just as often, it can feel like you’ve entered a sociopathic wasteland. So how could we take the best parts of social media, while leaving behind the worst? wnyc.news/39yjk

Actor Kerry Bishé isn’t a scientist or coder, but she plays them on TV, perhaps most famously on the cult hit #HaltAndCatchFire. Bishé tells @manoushz why Hollywood is key to getting more women and girls into tech. wnyc.news/v6k6m

Chris Duffy never imagined his face would become a meme. But while he was answering a question on "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire," someone took a snapshot of a silly facial expression he made, posted it and boom — he was internet famous. wnyc.news/pxjpz

Aristotle believed there were 4 core elements to friendship involving mutual respect and expressed love, recognition of each other and regular interaction. Is that possible with our online friends or does Aristotle need an update for the digital world? wnyc.news/q49bj

. @manoushz and author @notrobwalker (“The Art of Noticing”) share ways to reconnect 💆🏻‍♀️ with the physical world around you and resist an era of “peak distraction.” 🤳 Some of these ways are really weird 🤷‍♀️ while others are more profound. ✌️ wnyc.news/f7cpr

The next book 📖 you order from Amazon may be illegally published, or worse, a counterfeit. 📚New York Times reporter David Streitfeld shares his insight into the ways that illegitimate books end up in Amazon warehouses and delivered to your door. 🚚 wnyc.news/uekng

On this week's episode — a history lesson on the humans who make our digital world 📲 with @pomeranian99, author of “Coders.” Starting in the 1950s, he takes us from the era when computers were "women’s work" 👩‍💼 up to the "brogrammers" 👨‍💻 of today. wnyc.news/ap63e

Join @manoushz and the makers of the film #TheGreatHack as they discuss their common obsession: Cambridge Analytica. Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer explain how they got access to former Cambridge Analytica employees. wnyc.news/b8xpd

Renowned cryptographer Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog) is back on the podcast with his latest obsession: the Internet of Things. Bruce wants us to better understand how connected devices and infrastructures are changing how we live. wnyc.news/ulbm4

We hear a lot about the perils for girls online, but what about boys? When a school bully makes fun of Jacob Lazen in the cafeteria, he snaps back — on Twitter. Hear how hyper-masculinity plays out online and the real world consequences it had on Jacob. wnyc.news/kbsrm

Tristan Harris is working to convince other technologists that they have a responsibility to clean up the big mess that Big Tech has made — a mess that’s affecting not just our mental health, but democracy and the very fabric of society. 🧠 wnyc.news/2ejjr

Tom Kamber explains what it’s like to be a senior online — the good AND the bad. How ageism works on the internet, but also how older adults feel empowered to live more connected lives. 👵👴 wnyc.news/34sdx

Right from wrong. We teach our kids what this means in the classroom and at home, but what about online? Manoush is joined by Richard Culatta (CEO of @iste) to talk about the five 🖐 steps to creating good digital citizens. 👩‍💻wnyc.news/9rgne

Digital minimalist Cal Newport wants you to take 30 days off from ALL of your personal tech. The idea is to cut it all out of your life and slowly reintroduce the digital tools that are most important to YOU. Is this doable or just plain impossible?! wnyc.news/vsanf

New episode is out! Hear how a teacher in a poor London neighborhood helped transform her school into an educational powerhouse 💪. Andria Zafirakou believes we’ll prepare the next generation of innovators by teaching the arts. Subscribe now. wnyc.news/dszu7