2018 was the year for data breaches which compromised the personal information of millions of individuals around the world. I am one of the 1.175 million Filipinos and among 87 million users worldwide whose data Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, shared to other third parties. Facebook has not acted on the complaint I filed in May 2018 at the National Privacy Commission (NPC). Cathay Pacific Airways is the airline I use for my trips overseas and they reported a data breach committed in March that affected 9.4 million travelers and 102,209 Filipinos. British Airways announced a data breach that impacted information from 380,000 reservations made between Aug. 21 and Sept. 5, 2018. Marriott announced that 500 million travelers who reserved at a Starwood hotel since 2014 had their data compromised. Quora announced a breach in its platform. Google discovered a bug in Google+ exposing 500,000 users’ data for about three years. Let’s not forget the breach affecting 50 million Facebook accounts because of the tokens, a system used by third-party platforms such as Spotify.