Om Patel0:00 Hey, what's going on, everybody?0:02 Um, just getting ready to go out, but before I did that, I just want to come out here and talk about something I was thinking about earlier today.0:07 Um, and it's pretty much about how our data is being used.0:10 Um a lot of people don't realize how much data they really give away every single day.0:14 Um every like, every search, if you click, every time you open the browser, it tells companies something about you.0:19 Um, whether it's conscious or subconscious, uh the data gets used to target ads, shape algorithms, uh, and even influence elections.0:27 I mean, I know you see nowadays like people you see these trends where people are like, my phone is listening to me, and it's not that it's listening to, it's it's collecting every single thing you do on that phone, though.0:37 Um, you know, you guys remember the Cambridge Analytical Scandal?0:40 You know, a lot of people's data was just used to push political message without them even knowing.0:46 Scary because it means that democracy can be manipulated quietly, not through laws, but just through our screens.0:52 I think um people should know exactly what data is being collected and how it's being used for.0:57 If our opinions are, you know, gonna be shaped by data we didn't agree to share, then we're not really choosing freely anymore, are we?