Rooftops, Radio Waves & You
Listen now
Description
AC investigative correspondent Francesca Fionda returns with another important investigative story: this time, the breach of your personal health data. We follow Francesca to a Vancouver rooftop where she intercepts code sent between ambulances and hospitals; code that contains sensitive information like patient room numbers, active injuries and more. We also meet a future pod regular, McGill researcher Taylor Owen, who wonders whether in the age of social media, truth has traction. 
More Episodes
Big Tech is a bi-weekly podcast that explores how emerging technologies are reshaping the world as we know it. Co-hosts David Skok and Taylor Owen, an AC regular, sit down with leading scholars, policy makers and entrepreneurs, to discuss technology's impact on society - for better or...
Published 04/23/20
In our series wrap, we trace the history of fake news. We start in 15th century Europe and end in the here and now. We talk to Dr. Jacob Solls who says that the cure to misinformation is more journalism. Society needs what it lost years ago: a strong fourth estate with a local...
Published 11/05/19