Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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✴️ We worry a lot about privacy, but our concerns are often misplaced. Fortunately, the biggest risk to our personal privacy is right under our nose.

✴️ The risk to your privacy
The biggest risk to your privacy isn’t technology at all; it’s people. Even then, we worry most about hackers, governments, and corporations — and yet, they’re not the biggest risk. It all comes back to you: you are the biggest risk to your privacy, and honestly, that’s great!

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Chapters
0:00 The Biggest Risk to Your Privacy Revealed
0:36 The biggest risk is people
1:10 Hackers, scammers, and other ne’er-do-wells
2:16 Governments and government agencies
3:23 Employees, technicians, and policy makers
5:03 Friends and family, business contacts, and associates
6:30 You...

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