S2/E3: Your Phone Knows More Than Your Therapist Does But Probably Likes You More

The Vision Pro launched and the 'they're listening through your phone' crowd is louder than ever. I want to be precise here, because this is one of those conspiracy theories that's wrong in the specific way people describe it, but correct in a direction that's both humbling and revealingly narcissistic; yeah they know you, no they don't care. Let's visit some major advertising algorithms to confront how well a system can know you without ever 'listening' to a word you say, and then a trip to the doctor's office to make you think twice about what you might lie about to get a prescription and how it gets stored.

Thank you hobim for the fine cover art @Pixabay