Fexingo
The Privacy Podcast with Fexingo: Data Protection, GDPR, and Digital Privacy Rights
Data protection is the new civil rights battleground. Lucas and Luna navigate the shifting landscape of digital privacy — from GDPR enforcement actions and ePrivacy Regulation updates to the practical implications of state-level US privacy laws like the CPRA and Virginia's VCDPA. Each episode centers on a single regulatory decision, corporate data breach, or emerging technology (think federated learning, differential privacy, or zero-knowledge proofs) and strips away the marketing hype to reveal what it actually means for businesses and individuals. Lucas, a journalist covering tech policy, pr...
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Episodes
The Right To Be Forgotten Five Years After Google Spain 22.05.2026 10:42
In this episode of The Privacy Podcast, Lucas and Luna examine the 'right to be forgotten' five years after the landmark Google Spain ruling. They discuss the 2014 European Court of Justice decision that forced Google to remove links to outdated personal information, and look at how the regulation has evolved since then. Lucas explains the 'public interest' balancing test, the surprising number of...
Why Your Fitness Tracker Data Is a Goldmine for Insurers 21.05.2026 13:08
Episode 3 of The Privacy Podcast: Lucas and Luna examine how insurance companies are using data from fitness trackers and health apps to set premiums and deny claims. They walk through a real 2024 case where a US insurer used step-count data to raise rates for a customer who didn't hit 10,000 steps daily. The hosts break down the legal loopholes in GDPR and HIPAA that allow this, the chilling effe...
The Privacy Calculus How Companies Decide Your Data Is Worth the Risk 21.05.2026 10:27
In this episode of The Privacy Podcast, Lucas and Luna dissect the business logic behind data protection decisions. They explore the concept of the 'privacy calculus' — the cost-benefit analysis companies run when deciding whether to invest in security or risk a breach. Using the 2023 MOVEit hack — which affected over 2,600 organizations — as a case study, they trace how Progress Software weighed...
The Company That Lost Everything in One Data Breach 19.05.2026 9:26
In this debut episode of The Privacy Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dig into the 2017 Equifax breach—the one that exposed the personal data of 147 million Americans. How did a single unpatched server vulnerability lead to billions in losses, congressional hearings, and a permanent shift in how regulators think about data security? Lucas walks through the technical failure, the timeline of re...
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