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Podcast: NBTV: Your Money, Your Data, Your Life
Episode: Your Phone Contacts AREN'T Private
Description: https://youtu.be/FloGxOlMSyIhttps://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Phone-Contacts:9The humble Contact List in our phone is a goldmine of data. Each contact is filled with the personal information like names, numbers, email addresses, home addresses, birthdays, work details and social media information. It’s the kind of information that data brokers salivate over because it allows unprecedented insight into consumer behavior, political leanings, and even potential vulnerabilities that could be exploited. The worst thing is, it's not even your information that's being taken -- When we don't protect our contacts list, it's the information th...