How Companies Learned Everything About Us
July 28, 2025
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July 28, 2025
How Companies Learned Everything About Us
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<p>I'm proud to partner with DeleteMe. Get 20% off their plans: joindeleteme.com/taylor20<br /></p><p>This is the first video in my new series on data brokers and the dark history of digital surveillance. I dig into how surveillance capitalism evolved, the companies profiting from intimate details about your life, and how it all began long before the internet. </p><p>I reveal the industry's origins from early government tracking systems to invisible surveillance networks fueling ultra-targeted ads. 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. </p><p>Let me know what you think in the comments! I worked so hard on this one 🙏</p><p><strong>Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co </strong></p><p>Follow me:</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz </p><p>https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz3.0 </p><p>https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorlorenz</p><p><br /></p>
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