Aware Trade
Aware Trade Podcast
#11. The Rise of Confessional Data
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#11. The Rise of Confessional Data

Why do we willingly tell our smartphones things we would never tell another human being? In this deep dive, Aware Trade explores the rise of confessional data and the multi-billion-dollar tech industry profiting off our deepest vulnerabilities. From therapy apps covertly building “lookalike audiences” for advertisers to AI chatbots permanently archiving your late-night thoughts due to federal legal mandates, we shatter the illusion of the secure digital vault. Discover how your private confessions are being fused into a permanent “data double” used to track, target, and analyze you.

Is true digital privacy still possible, or is it time to start lying to our machines?

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