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The Clark Howard Podcast

10.2.18 Facebook data breach; Bogus travel insurance; Amazing food tracking techniques

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Facebook's data breach affects more than 50 million people. Clark has some big takeaways for users of the popular social media site; Lawsuits are flying accusing many of the airlines and cruise companies of selling travel insurance that isn't very good at an extremely inflated price; New food tracking techniques could prevent you from being sold potentially harmful food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Great to have you here on the Clark Howard show where it's about your empowerment with

0:09.9

knowledge so you can keep more of what you make.

0:12.9

And you can follow me at facebook.com slash Clark Howard.

0:17.0

Runnically enough, I'm going to talk about Facebook in just a second.

0:21.7

Coming up in a few minutes, you go to buy an airline ticket, you go to buy a cruise,

0:26.3

you're always pushing you to buy trip insurance.

0:30.2

There's some stuff you need to know about that in today's Clark rage.

0:34.6

And coming up later yet, there's great news on the food safety front.

0:40.2

I want to tell you what private industry is doing to make the food supply safer for you

0:47.7

and your family.

0:50.1

So Facebook has been very confusing for people.

0:55.2

Had a big security breach, 50 million people known of so far.

1:01.8

And hackers were able to exploit the security breach in their system.

1:09.9

And we're able to steal what are known as access tokens to be able to take over your account.

1:18.6

So there are a few things here that I want you to know about because when these breaches

1:24.6

happen, whatever breach happens now, people are completely overwhelmed by the whole breach

1:31.4

thing.

1:32.4

We have breach fatigue.

1:34.8

And you're like, well, why does it make a difference anywhere?

1:38.0

All right.

1:39.0

So one of the things that when we discuss this, because we meet every day as a staff, all

1:46.1

the various functions are off-air team, our digital team, our digital money saving team,

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