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What government and business can do to protect our privacy

An expert explains what individuals, governments, and business can do to fight back against ever-present threats to our data privacy.
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What can we do about looming threats to our privacy online and the theft of important personal information? Ari Trachtenberg has some ideas.

Last year kicked off with Cambridge Analytica being exposed for acquiring access to private data on at least 87 million Facebook users and wrapped up with Marriott announcing that 500 million of its accounts had been hacked.

Quora, MyFitnessPal, Google+, MyHeritage, and Lord & Taylor also recently experienced cybersecurity breaches—each exposing the sensitive data of millions of users.

Here, Trachtenberg, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University, cybersecurity expert, and member of the university’s Cyber Alliance, gives his take on the most widespread cybersecurity threats to anticipate in coming months—and the policies, regulations, and business practices that can help mitigate cyber risk and increase privacy protection.

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