Your Phone Isn't Listening, Here's What's Actually Happening

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Check out my sponsor, DeleteMe, and get 20% off their plans: joindeleteme.com/taylor20 Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co Or support me on Patreon so I can keep producing these videos: https://www.patreon.com/taylorlorenz I spent months making this video about how surveillance capitalism evolved, the companies profiting from your data, and how it all began long before the internet. This is part one of a multi-part series I'm doing on data brokers and the dark history of digital surveillance. I dug into the industry's origins from early government tracking systems to invisible surveillance networks fueling ultra-targeted ads. I talk about how corporations are able to build data profiles so detailed that they can predict when you’re going to get sick, where you're likely to live, and even discover you're pregnant before your own family. Let me know what you think in the comments! I worked so hard on this one 🙏 Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co Follow me: https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz3.0 https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorlorenz