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Hey, it's Mariel.

If you have ever used the internet, which, given the fact that you're listening to a podcast

right now, I think you have, then your data is up for grabs.

Things like your full name, your date of birth, what websites you visit, and your location,

among many other things.

There are people who are very interested in your data.

I mean, it seems like every day and other companies admitting to a data breach.

Just a few examples from the past couple years, AT&T, Ticketmaster, Yahoo, Facebook,

and the data broker National Public Data have all experienced breaches that compromised millions of private records.

This has been very concerning for Samuel O'Horskessler. He's a producer for the Planet Money podcast.

We worked on this episode about the illegal and legal markets for your data. And I've

previously kind of had the stance of like, well, it's my data, but I'm not really using it. So like,

if somebody else wants to take it for a spend, you know, that's all fine with me. But the more I

learned about what people are using my data for and how they can access it, the more just like nervous

I became like right in the pit of my stomach. On this episode of Life Kit, Sam is going to talk to

experts about what kind of data about us lives on the internet. Who wants it? Why? And of course,

what steps you can take to protect yourself.

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