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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: The Right to Be Forgotten with Gal Ringel
Description: Data breaches at major companies are so now common that they hardly make the news. The Wikipedia page on data breaches lists over 350 between 2004 and 2023. The Equifax breach in 2017 was especially notable because over 160 million records were leaked, and much of the data was acquired by Equifax without individuals' knowledge or consent. Data breaches are increasingly costly to companies and to affected users who must deal with the ensuing identity theft.In 2018 the European Union implemented the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. Despite its mild name, the GDPR had major consequences for individuals' rights to control...