We’re approaching a year since Edward Snowden became a household name. Last week, the White House released a report on online privacy that may influence future policy. But for months, tech companies and users have been making their own decisions about dealing with these issues. So for a Techsplainer this week let’s talk about one of the ways tech companies are looking at the issue of government data requests. It’s called a warrant canary. Plus, we take a look at how Pinterest is starting to use native advertising and selling it for a pretty penny. In part, because the regular content is already about shopping.

With the FCC is due to vote on a plan to regulate the internet, we hear about the more than 100 major technology companies are calling on the regulator to reconsider a plan that would allow content companies to pay broadband providers for faster Internet speeds to deliver their traffic as long as the deals are  “commercially reasonable.” Also, hear about AOL rebooting Mr. Moviefone for a multi-platform era. And Janell Burley Hofmann, a parenting blogger and mother of five, talks about her new book, iRules: What Every Tech-Healthy Family Needs to Know about Selfies, Sexting, Gaming, and Growing up.

On today’s show, the latest news from the Comcast Time Warner hearings. Plus, Adrienne LaFrance, an editor and technology reporter at The Atlantic, joins us for our weekly quiz on the week in tech, Silicon Tally. Finally, Rekha Malhotra, a.k.a. DJ Rekha, who is credited with bringing Bhangra music to the United States talks to us about combining traditional folk music of India with modern dance beats, and how the technology involved in DJ-ing has evolved.

All this week, we’re talking to musicians about technology. How it’s changing their writing, performing, even how they define their art form. Our series is called Playing With Machines. It would be hard to talk about music and tech without talking to Dan Deacon. The Baltimore-based musician has developed a reputation for infectious live performances that include all kinds of technology. We spoke to Dan as he was preparing for a recent show in New York. 

John Powell, a “computer-aided composer” who has scored everything from the Bourne trilogy to the Shrek franchise, talks about his elaborate studio set-up, as well as his process of recording for film. Plus, there’s a debate now in the broadcast world about whether to change the way networks measure viewership during commercials. Currently, networks count someone as a viewer if they watch within three days of the broadcast. Now the technology exists to measure 7 days out. The question for networks is: Is viewership being under-represented right now when they strike deals with advertisers? Finally, New York Times tech columnist Molly Wood discusses the Alibaba IPO.      

Google has announced that its Shopping Express same-day delivery service (initially offered near San Francisco) will now be extended to parts of Los Angeles and Manhattan. It’s Google’s answer to Amazon Prime. So why are the companies so focused on  same-day delivery? Plus, Merill Garbus, the lead singer of tUnE-yArDs, joins us to talk about how she went from being just another “chick with a ukulele” to being an artist known for performing with a looping pedal and drum machines. 

A lot has changed in our tech lives since counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer left the air in 2014. When “24” returns, will the show have caught up? Plus, more on Twitter’s transformation from a social network to a publishing platform. Also, in the first installment of our series, Playing with Machines, Tom Jenkinson, known as Squarepusher, talks about his latest album, “Music for Robots,” which is performed entirely by robot musicians. Jenkinson discusses the machines’ incredible capabilities, and the challenge of making them sound more… human.

The White House has released a new report this week on big data and our privacy. The report examines everything from how big companies are using data in marketing, to whether new technologies present challenges to current privacy policies. And Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk has decided to build new battery factories for his popular electric cars in at least two different states. It’s a strategy that Musk says will help the company ramp up production of Teslas. Plus, play along with Marketplace Tech’s Friday numbers game: Silicon Tally.

We look at how LinkedIn has managed expectations as it weathered the broader tech downturn and why it seems to fly under the radar when compared to other firms in its sector, namely Twitter and Facebook. Plus, we hear about New York’s Hacker School and one student – Rose Ames – who took a grant from Google to attend.