{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fae2d4526-8b53-440b-b941-3b01f93bb9da","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Have we lost the fight for data privacy?","description":"At the end of 2021, Lock and Code invited the folks behind our news-driven cybersecurity and online privacy blog, Malwarebytes Labs, to discuss\u00a0what upset them most about cybersecurity\u00a0in the year prior. Today, we\u2019re bringing those same guests back to discuss the other, biggest topic in this space and on this show: Data privacy.\nYou see, in 2021, a lot has happened.\nMost recently, with the US Supreme Court\u2019s decision to remove the national right to choose to have an abortion, individual states have now gained control to ban abortion, which has caused countless individuals to worry about\u00a0whether their data could be handed over to law enforcement\u00a0for investigations into alleged criminal activity. Just months prior, we also learned about a mental health nonprofit that had taken the chat messages of at-times suicidal teenagers and then\u00a0fed those messages to a separate customer support tool\u00a0that was being sold to corporate customers to raise money for the nonprofit itself. And we learned about how difficult it can be to\u00a0separate yourself from Google\u2019s\u00a0all-encompassing, data-tracking empire.\nNone of this is to mention more recent, separate developments:\u00a0Facebook finding a way to re-introduce URL tracking,\u00a0facial recognition cameras being\u00a0installed in grocery stores, and Google\u00a0delaying its scheduled plan\u00a0to remove cookie tracking from Chrome.\nToday, on Lock and Code with host David Ruiz, we speak with Malwarebytes Labs editor-in-chief Anna Brading and Malwarebytes Labs writer Mark Stockley to answer one, big question: Have we lost the fight to meaningfully preserve data privacy?\nShow notes and credits:\nIntro Music: \u201cSpellbound\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Outro Music: \u201cGood God\u201d by Wowa (unminus.com)","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/86542258-c2dd-4d09-b526-4dbab9e14d01/lock-and-code-logo-2021-ar2rs.jpg"}