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Today, Explained

We've updated our privacy policy

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

You know those privacy policy emails flooding your inbox lately? Turns out those are thanks to the European Union’s crackdown on websites that collect your personal data. The Verge’s Russell Brandom explains the regulation known as the GDPR and why Europe seems to care about your security more than America. ******************************************* Ireland passed a historic referendum over the weekend, voting to legalize abortion. You can hear about one of the strictest abortion bans in the world in our episode here: https://art19.com/shows/today-explained/episodes/e66e8aca-b398-46a8-8468-8ffb3f823184 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Russell Brandham senior reporter at the verge I've been getting all of these emails.

0:12.0

Yeah, I've been getting them too.

0:13.6

Subject lines always the same right we've updated our privacy policy.

0:19.9

I get them from websites I use from websites I never use from websites I forgot existed

0:25.0

and I always do the same thing.

0:26.0

I just delete them without reading them.

0:27.7

Am I making a terrible mistake?

0:29.5

No, I do that too.

0:31.0

I would say reading them would be a mistake because you'd be losing valuable seconds

0:36.2

all of our time as living creatures is precious.

0:39.5

Great because I'm going to make a terrible mistake now by reading you one of these emails.

0:43.2

Oh no, all of this, there's two.

0:45.2

We're all stuck in the middle.

0:46.6

I bet you.

0:47.6

Well, for the purpose of this episode or we explain what these mean, I feel like I should

0:51.5

maybe just read one.

0:52.5

So I went through all of the ones I have, which is about like eight from Kickstarter

0:57.2

and Google and I found the shortest one and it's from my former employer actually New

1:01.4

York Public Radio.

1:07.6

Dear friend, New York Public Radio is committed to respecting user and member privacy rights.

1:13.4

We are writing to let you know that we are updating our privacy policy effective as of May

1:17.3

25th, 2018.

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