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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Presented by Jemima Kiss and produced by Jason Phipps with Juliette Garside, Samuel Gibbs and Alex Hern

Tech Weekly Podcast: Simon Hossell on his file transfer app Pipe

This week on the podcast, the Guardian's head of technology, Jemima Kiss, sits in for Aleks Krotoski.

Jemima is joined by the Guardian tech team, reporters Alex Hern and Samuel Gibbs and the Guardian's telecoms correspondent Juliette Garside. The team discuss this week's Guardian exclusive by Nick Hopkins and Matthew Taylor on the growing availabillity of mass surveillance technologies on the commercial market. Also the team discuss why filesharing crackdowns are driving mainstream users towards the darker reaches of the net and why BitTorrent accussed Netflix of being bandwidth hoggers.

Finally the Guardian's Jason Phipps finds out about a new peer-2-peer file transfer app available in Facebook called Pipe. Its CEO Simon Hossell took part in this year's TechCrunch Disrupt conference in Berlin, whilst there he told the Guardian why Pipe is trying to take on the might of WeTransfer and Dropbox.

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