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Emerson Collective Podcast ‘Technically Optimistic’ Wants to Save Your Digital Soul


Data privacy and protection is top of mind for the second season of the "Technically Optimistic" podcast.

As consumers turn apathetic toward information collecting online — and Washington cracks down on foreign-owned apps like TikTok — the urgency of data privacy and protection seems increasingly unavoidable in daily life. “Technically Optimistic,” a podcast from Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective, seeks to address that in ways that don’t make the average listener’s eyes glaze over. Women avoiding even the most basic medical care at Planned Parenthood in select states, for instance, so legislators will not have access to previous behaviors if they seek procedures like abortions at other locations.

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