Why we all need to take data privacy seriously in 2021

2021 has been, let’s say,  an “interesting” year for data privacy. There was that time in April when names, addresses, locations, emails of about 530 million Facebook users leaked online — oops! — and the tech giant chose not to notify those exposed. Or who can forget when Facebook and Instagram were basically deleted entirely for 5 hours in October. Or there was that time in June when 700 million LinkedIn members had their data scraped and sold on internet forms. In fact, analytics firm Risk Based Security estimated that in the first six months of 2021 over 18.8 billion personal records were released online across the world. So yeah, not great. 

It’s easy to feel these days that no one has control over their data, and that these kinds of data breaches are just becoming normalized — a lot of big tech companies would prefer it that way. 

We get it, the…