August 15, 2024: Data Breach Exposes 2.9B Personal Records, Journalists Leak Conversation With Project 2025 Author, Columbia University President Steps Down, and More.

Episode Format:

1. Data Breach Exposes 2.9B Personal Records Including Social Security Numbers (0:21)

2. Columbia University President Steps Down (3:33)

3. Lawsuit Wants Police Body Cams Banned from Political Events Due to Chinese Chips (5:33)

4. Meta Says Goodbye to "Transparency Tool" CrowdTangle, Releases New Tool (8:03)

5. British Journalists Release New "Undercover in Project 2025" Video Featuring Secretly Recorded Conversation with Project 2025 Author (11:09)

6. Quick Hitters: Vice-Presidential Debate Confirmed, Trump Seeks to Delay Hush Money Sentence, Google Says Biden and Trump Campaigns Targeted by Iranian-Linked Hackers, RFK Jr. Sets Record Straight on 'Requested Meeting' and 'Endorsement' of Harris (14:43)

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Data Breach Exposes 2.9B Personal Records Including Social Security Numbers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-leak-27-billion-data-records-with-social-security-numbers/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-number-leak-npd-breach-what-to-know/

Columbia University President Steps Down

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/14/business/columbia-president-minouche-shafik-steps-down/index.html

https://president.columbia.edu/news/announcement-president-minouche-shafik

Lawsuit Wants Police Body Cams Banned from Political Events Due to Chinese Chips

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/15/dnc-police-bodycam-china-00174161

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.1390805/gov.uscourts.azd.1390805.23.0.pdf

Meta Says Goodbye to "Transparency Tool" CrowdTangle, Releases New Tool

https://transparency.meta.com/researchtools/other-datasets/crowdtangle

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/14/nx-s1-5074143/meta-shutters-tool-used-to-fight-disinformation-despite-outcry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEuAzeg_BYo

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-killed-crowdtangle-an-invaluable-research-tool-because-what-it-showed-was-inconvenient-121700584.html

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/crowdtangle-petition/

British Journalists Release New "Undercover in Project 2025" Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY_chqyaRHo

https://americarenewing.com/about/

https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

https://www.project2025.org/playbook/

https://climate-reporting.org/#about-us

https://climate-reporting.org/stories/

Quick Hitters

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/election-2024-kamala-harris-donald-trump-walz-vance?id=112767640&entryId=112861037&cid=social_twitter_abcn

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25045277-letter-asking-for-trump-sentencing-delay

https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/iranian-backed-group-steps-up-phishing-campaigns-against-israel-us/

https://kennedydebunked.com/2024/08/15/rfk-jr-is-dropping-out-and-endorsing-harris/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/14/rfk-jr-kamala-harris-cabinet-trump/