Electric vehicles don’t just move through the city...they observe it.

In this episode of Darnley’s Cyber Café, we step inside the modern EV to examine what smart cars collect, store, and transmit. Microphones, cameras, GPS logs, and cloud systems quietly turn vehicles into rolling data platforms, mapping routines, relationships, and movement over time.

The episode also touches on why Chinese EVs entering North American markets raise a different class of privacy and security concerns: where vehicle data, state access, and long-term leverage begin to intersect.

A conversation about technology, memory, and what happens when the machine knows more than the driver.

Some systems don’t need to speak loudly to listen.

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A quiet data exposure tied to millions of Instagram accounts is raising new questions about privacy, trust, and how modern scams really work.

In this episode of Darnley’s Cyber Café, we look at why this incident matters even without a confirmed breach, how small pieces of data quietly increase risk, and what you can do to better protect your Instagram account.

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When should a child get their first smartphone?

For many families, the decision doesn’t feel deliberate...it just happens. A birthday, a hand-me-down, a safety reason, or the sense that everyone else is already there.

In this episode of Darnley’s Cyber Café, we slow the conversation down and take a closer look at when kids get their first phone, and why that timing matters more than most people realize.

We touch on health, emotional development, and the quieter issues around privacy and digital exposure, and what parents can realistically do without overreacting or banning technology altogether based on a recent study published in Pediatrics.

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