A speaker explores the privacy paradox: staying offline protects your data, but data brokers like PeekYou surface information about you anyway. Publishing personal details yourself might give you control over your own narrative, but the tradeoff remains unsolved.
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This is a conundrum of our age. Like, do you try not to put anything online so that you're very private, so that you have more of a sense of control? Or do you try to have a sense of control by putting a lot out there, you know, creating the footprint that will be found for you? And this has been a problem with, with Google for, you know, a long time now. If you don't give Google information about yourself for them to list in your rankings, that means someone else can do it. And there are so many sites now with these creepy names that I don't know, like PeekYou. And yeah, they're just these data brokers that suck up all this information and just put it on there for you. So I still, you know, this is, this is a problem we haven't solved yet.