Episode 339 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast kicks off with news that several employees in TikTok were caught covertly spying on Forbes journalists. From there, the team talk about a new cooperation between governments to better tackle spyware and news that the FTC is looking at the upcoming Reddit IPO and AI training data.

To close out the podcast, the team discuss news that ‘at least 900’ websites built using Google’s FireBase cloud database may be leaking sensitive user data.

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• TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists
• Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Poland, South Korea added to US-led spyware agreement
• FTC investigating Reddit plan to sell user content for AI model training
• 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase