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Data breaches are everywhere and consequences are ???

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4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Companies lose your data and then nothing happens. Emily Stewart, senior reporter for Vox, explains. Read Emily’s story: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23031858/data-breach-data-loss-personal-consequences Today’s episode was produced by Taylor Maycan, engineered by Melissa Pons (Hemlock Creek Productions and hosted by Adam Clark Estes. Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:20.7

It's Rico Daily, I'm Adam Clark Estus. Whenever you're online, especially if you're using a free

0:26.8

service like, I don't know, Gmail or Facebook, chances are some company is collecting your data.

0:34.7

That includes personal information like where you are or even what you're doing.

0:48.5

Anybody who exists on the internet, I think at this point, is pretty used to handing over data.

0:53.3

I mean, think about even when you order a pizza online, right? Like at some point you might be

0:57.8

putting in your information to get that pizza online. Email addresses, home address, or your phone number,

1:04.3

all that sorts of stuff. That is Emily Stewart, a senior correspondent for Vox.

1:10.6

And companies have more nefarious tracking systems as well that follow your moves online and

1:16.0

sell that data to advertisers, and sometimes we don't even know exactly what we're being tracked by

1:22.0

what apps on our phone are watching us onto a website, what follows us next.

1:27.2

And how often do companies lose all of that personal data they've collected on us? Like,

1:33.1

I'm imagining we're in a factory with one of those big, it's been X number of days since our last

1:37.9

accident signs. How often would that sign need to be reset for data reaches?

1:43.8

We really are dealing with this all of the time. Companies are constantly losing our data,

1:49.8

and you know, it's a big deal because we don't necessarily know what's out there about us on the

1:55.2

internet. I think we've all kind of experiences at this point where you get kind of an email or

2:01.3

a letter in the mail that says like, hey friend, FYI, we had a date of reach. Super sorry about that.

2:08.4

If you want, maybe you can reach out to us, maybe we're going to take some sort of measure,

2:13.9

but like we're working super hard on this. Like please stick with us. You're a super value

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