5/27/26

Carpool Confessions: Happy Privacy Day (Part 1)

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Sharon: Which is worse, someone reading your texts or seeing your screen time report?

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Son: Mom, I don't have a phone. 

Blonde Girl: Screen time report. 

Sharon: How much time a day?

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10 seconds

Blonde Girl: I don't know. Maybe like five, seven hours. 

Sharon: Oh gosh. Okay. 

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18 seconds

Woman with Glasses: Hmm I don't know.

Sharon:  You might be one of those people that has their phone to their face.

Woman with Glasses: I often work on my phone as well. 

Sharon: Yeah.

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24 seconds

Woman with Glasses: I mean, add that between the mindless scrolling and it's probably pretty I'm probably, you know, reducing my life expectancy with the number of hours on my phone.

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36 seconds

Sharon: Okay. All right

How How many minutes a day are you on your phone?

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40 seconds

Son: Well, if you let me get a phone, maybe I'd be able to tell you.

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43 seconds

Brunette Girl: Does it depend on who the person is who's reading this?

Sharon:  Um, okay. Let's just say your parents, cuz those are presumably the most important people in your life

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52 seconds

Brunette Girl: I think that both, if they both saw those things I'd get in in trouble. 

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58 seconds

Sharon: Yeah. So, like how much time you spent on your on my phone? Like I as well as the texts. Brunette Girl: Well, my texts,  Well, yeah,

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1 minute, 4 seconds

cuz I had screen time and even I'm scared to look at my screen time cuz it's just so shameful probably. Sharon: How many hours a day?

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1 minute, 11 seconds

Brunette Girl: I don't even want to know.

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1 minute, 12 seconds

Sharon: Do you have limits? Like…

Brunette Girl: I used to. I used to. And I think that's why I get anxious because I'm like, "Oh my god, I'm going past my set limit."

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1 minute, 19 seconds

like everything's my mom's going to kill me. But then I figured out a way to change the password. So they know that 

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1 minute, 28 seconds

though cuz it's I figured out the password.

Sharon:  Be honest.

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1 minute, 31 seconds

Do you use the same password for at least two accounts? 

Man with Glasses: Probably more. 

Blonde Girl: Yeah. 

Sharon: You know that's terrible, right?

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1 minute, 39 seconds

Blonde Girl: Yeah. But it's like school stuff, so

Man in Toque: I can't say that on camera. 

Sharon: Well, that makes me concerned. 

Man in Toque: Probably.

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1 minute, 45 seconds

Sharon: Oh jeez. Hi. Mhm.

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1 minute, 50 seconds

Do you know that's very bad? Why do you do it?

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1 minute, 53 seconds

Man with Glasses: Cuz when you're older, you can't remember all the passwords. So, it's much easier to remember one or two passwords.

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2 minutes

Woman with Glasses: I create crazy passwords. 

Sharon: And do you remember them all?

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2 minutes, 6 seconds

Woman with Glasses: I remember them because Well, I can't I'll tell you I can't tell you my secret. 

Sharon: No, don't tell us your secret. 

Woman with Glasses: I do write down a prompt. 

Sharon: Mhm.

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2 minutes, 14 seconds

Woman with Glasses: Only I could interpret the prompt. So if if something happens to me, my family is screwed cuz no one's would work it out.

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2 minutes, 20 seconds

Sharon: So do you have like a black book prompt?

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2 minutes, 24 seconds

Woman with Glasses: Oh, I have a couple. So some of them look like, you know, the scribblings of a beautiful mind. 

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2 minutes, 31 seconds

Sharon: Mean your parents do not use a very good password.

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2 minutes, 33 seconds

Brunette Girl: They use the same password for everything.

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2 minutes, 38 seconds

Sharon: Uh oh, we need to have a talk with them 

Brunette Girl: My mom's going through menopause. Don't do that to her.

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2 minutes, 47 seconds

Sharon: What is the most embarrassing thing that your phone knows about you? 

Son: Mom, I don't have a phone.

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2 minutes, 53 seconds

Sharon: Do you like throw in all sorts of your like embarrassing private symptoms on chat GPT? 

Man in Toque: No. 

Sharon: Oh,

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2 minutes, 59 seconds

Man in Toque: never. No. 

Sharon: Really

Man in Toque: Chat GPT is not a therapist. Chat GPT is not a therapist.

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3 minutes, 6 seconds

Sharon: What is the most embarrassing thing your phone knows about you? 

Blonde Girl: Probably like my random searches.

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3 minutes, 13 seconds

Sharon: Mhm.

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3 minutes, 16 seconds

Woman with Glasses: If anyone did a deep dive into my pictures, my photos, I got moles, I got body parts.

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3 minutes, 22 seconds

Man in Toque: Well, I'm going to assume it knows everything about me because the phone is like at least my primary source of all electronic communications.

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3 minutes, 31 seconds

Woman in Glasses: All medical appointment purposes. 

Sharon: Oh,ok

Woman in Glasses:  you know, for followup.

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3 minutes, 35 seconds

Brunette Girl: Sometimes I like bring it with me on the toilet and like it's just like probably not the best thing ever. And I also like write like the silly things to my friends.

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3 minutes, 44 seconds

Blonde Girl: They're just like,

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3 minutes, 45 seconds

"Can I put the dishwasher on with like this in it or something like that?"

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3 minutes, 49 seconds

Sharon: Oh, like, "What do you put in your dishwasher that you need to look at?"

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3 minutes, 52 seconds

Blonde Girl: Like, random like stuff that doesn't have like a label on it like 

Sharon: Oh, okay. That's the most embarrassing thing on your phone.

Blonde Girl: Maybe. I don't know.

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3 minutes, 59 seconds

Sharon: Maybe you just don't want to tell us. 

Blonde Girl: Who knows? 

Sharon: Yeah.

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4 minutes, 2 seconds

Brunette Girl: I think my phone knows too much about me. 

Sharon: Too much about you.

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4 minutes, 4 seconds

Brunette Girl: But then sometimes I feel like I also lie to my phone cuz sometimes I write things in my notes app and then I lie about it even though that's not true. 

Sharon: Oh, like you try to trick your phone.

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4 minutes, 12 seconds

Brunette Girl: Yeah. No, I try to trick myself 

Sharon: Explain this to me.

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4 minutes, 15 seconds

Brunette Girl: Like if I'm just like, "Oh, that really bothered me, but in reality it didn't."

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4 minutes, 19 seconds

And I just like felt like it should have bothered me. I would write down it that bothered me to like kind of trick myself into making it bother me. Does that make sense?

Sharon: No.

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4 minutes, 27 seconds

Man in Toque: I am also a pretty private person in terms of not wanting to leave a huge electronic footprint. So, I have disabled all of the tracking.

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4 minutes, 35 seconds

Woman in Glasses: I've deleted them all. But are they ever really deleted? Are they really gone?

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4 minutes, 40 seconds

Sharon: I mean, depends on the retention of those deleted photos. 

Woman in Glasses: Yeah.

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4 minutes, 44 seconds

Sharon: Yeah. It's photos that you don't necessarily want everyone to see.

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4 minutes, 47 seconds

Woman in Glasses: No. Well, no one wants to see those photos.

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