159 episodes

Veteran technology journalist Fabian A. Scherschel covers the most important threats to our personal liberties, privacy rights and freedom of speech. In reporting on these issues, he draws from a decade of experience in reporting on information security topics, mixed with a healthy dose of journalism critique. The show places a particular emphasis on stories and viewpoints that have been ignored in the legacy media.

The Private Citizen Fabian A. Scherschel

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Veteran technology journalist Fabian A. Scherschel covers the most important threats to our personal liberties, privacy rights and freedom of speech. In reporting on these issues, he draws from a decade of experience in reporting on information security topics, mixed with a healthy dose of journalism critique. The show places a particular emphasis on stories and viewpoints that have been ignored in the legacy media.

    Episode 159: Society Is Going to Hell in a Handbasket

    Episode 159: Society Is Going to Hell in a Handbasket

    How following the exodus of Germany's worst YouTuber to TikTok opened a private hell of lolcows for me. To a point where I don't think I understand society as a whole anymore. What is this shit? And where is it all going to end?

    • 1 hr 21 min
    Episode 158: The EU Wants to Abolish Digital Privacy

    Episode 158: The EU Wants to Abolish Digital Privacy

    The EU wants to establish universal client-side scanning for text messages and photos on citizen's phones. With other words: All cryptography would be useless and hence, nobody would have any privacy in the digital realm anymore.

    • 1 hr 37 min
    Episode 157: When Well-Meaning People Make the Laws

    Episode 157: When Well-Meaning People Make the Laws

    Germany tried to make its laws against child pornography stricter and it backfired spectacularly. Now, lawyers and judges are desperately trying not to enforce these laws as the government scrambles to fix them.

    • 1 hr 24 min
    Episode 156: The Widening Gyre

    Episode 156: The Widening Gyre

    I'm back in the saddle. Well, at least partially. An explanation of what happened and some new developments in the Modern Solution case from a few years ago.

    • 1 hr 13 min
    Episode 155: The Twitter Files, Part 5

    Episode 155: The Twitter Files, Part 5

    The podcast returns with more coverage of The Twitter Files. On this episode, I am discussing how the US government used the FBI to exert censorship control over Twitter and many other tech companies to reinforce government narratives and silence critics.

    • 2 hr 16 min
    Episode 154: The Democratic Delusion

    Episode 154: The Democratic Delusion

    Many people seem to think that the democratic system of government extends beyond how the state is run and into civil society. In this episode, I advance the theory that this has caused a lot of people to fall prey to propaganda and misunderstand how journalistic reporting and scientific enquiry should be done.

    • 1 hr 32 min

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Love his perspective on current issues, very sensible, and explains current issues in an unbiased and balanced way. He makes me chuckle with his “ happy go lucky” approach

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