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The algorithms know you, predict you, and profit off you.
But with reckoning, can we truly escape the grip of Big Data and stick around?
For our special segment, Heart to heart, your questions, our answers, business, tech, culture, or whatever stirs your soul.
We're ready to dive in.
Coming to you live from Beijing, this is Roundtable.
I'm He Yang.
For today's program, I'm joined by Steve Hatherly and Yu Xun in the studio.
First, on today's show, with every click, every like, every move online, we're creating a trail of data, a trail so rich that Big data might know us better than we know ourselves.
It predicts our next meal, our next binge watch, and sometimes even our next heartbreak.
So many ways our digital lives embody the truth behind the quote.
If you're not paying for the product, you are the product.
All that data we generate becomes a goldmine for companies eager to monetize our every move.
You, our savvy Roundtable listener, are probably already aware of this hidden trade off.
Now the awakened among us are trying to break free from the digital web that's been spun around them, trying to escape the tailored information cocoons, algorithm driven recommendations, and personalized pricing schemes that seem to know us too well.
And it's a rebellion against the invisible digital exploitation that has quietly shaped our online world.
But can they truly succeed in breaking free?
Tell us, Yushun, about this moment of reckoning when people realize that they want to break free from the grip of Big Data.
Oh ye.