Welcome to Axis ProRata, a podcast that takes just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech, business, and politics.

I'm Dan Pramak. On today's show, how SpaceX could help Elon Musk buy Tesla, and a very big week coming for the trade wars.

But first, the end of privacy, or let me rephrase, the end of caring

about privacy. The U.S. Census Bureau this morning released new data showing that Americans in 2017

were less concerned about online privacy and security risks than they were in 2015. It is a remarkable

finding, given all the big hacks of

personal information that occurred during that time, like that one of all the Yahoo email users,

or the enormous one of Equifax, which has personal credit histories on just about all of us.

So what's happening here? Why are we becoming less concerned about a growing threat? The answer may be that we're

simply becoming numb to these data breaches. It's not that we don't care, but more that it's

become kind of an accepted risk and an accepted part of life, kind of like how we all know about

car crashes, but still drive. There was a time not that long ago where Americans were very

hesitant to put any of their information online.

But that's become extremely hard to do today in an age of Amazon and Uber and online banking.

And as the Equifax hack shows, it might be someone else putting your data at risk.

In 15 seconds, we'll go deeper on this with Axios managing editor Kim Hart, who wrote about the new Census Bureau findings today.

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And now, back to the ProRata podcast.

We're joined by Axios managing editor Kim Hart, who today wrote about the new Census Bureau findings.

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