• Happy 300th episode (hosted by Mark)!

• Abour our guest: Jason Koebler is a cofounder of 404 Media. He was previously the editor-in-chief of Motherboard. He loves the Freedom of Information Act and surfing.

• 404 Media, recently cofounded by Jason

• New Jersey Used COVID Relief Funds to Buy Banned Chinese Surveillance Cameras (by Jason Koebler in 404 Media, Jan 4, 2024): “Cameras sold to police throughout New Jersey were made by a banned Chinese company but were modified to have different colors and the company’s logo removed, court records show.”

• Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real (by Jason Koebler in 404 Media, Dec 18, 2023): “Facebook is doing essentially nothing to help its users decipher real content from AI-generated content masquerading as real content, and that huge masses of Facebook users are completely unprepared for our AI-generated future.”

Relevant past shows

• On ALPRs (automated license plate readers): July 19, 2021 show with Jon Fasman, author, We See It All: Liberty and Justice in an Age of Perpetual Surveillance

• On the spread of facial recognition: October 30, 2023 show with Kashmir Hill, author, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

• On surveillance in Xinjiang, China: April 22, 2019 show with NYT’s Paul Mozur

• On Uyghur oppression in Xinjiang: January 17, 2022 and December 19, 2022 shows with Darren Byler, author, In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony

• On life in the Chinese prison state: June 7, 2021 show: Amelia Pang, author, Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods