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Everything the Data Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know | Tech Tuesday
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Text the show! Your data doesn’t disappear after you click “I agree.” It enters an industry built to collect it, combine it, sell it, and increasingly use it to determine what you pay. I spent years on the buying side of this business. Tonight, I’m breaking down how the data industry actually works—from device IDs and real-time advertising auctions to data brokers, government purchases, Flock cameras, and surveillance pricing. The problem isn’t data collection. Collection powers services w...