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Your Data Has A Social Life You Don’t Know About: Part 2
Last time, we asked what you agreed to. This time, we follow the money. Well, the data. Okay, both.
That "I Agree" tap doesn't just disappear into the void. It sets off a whole journey: your data gets passed around, packaged, and sold, and you're never invited to the after-party. In this episode, Prof. Aneesha Dev and Sahasra trace where your data actually goes, what consent really means when it's a pop-up you dismiss in half a second, and what that click ends up costing you.
We also go deeper on data brokers, the industry that profits off your digital footprint and has somehow stayed weirdly quiet about it. Why is it so silent? Who benefits from that? And what does it mean for the rest of us? Spoiler: not great, but we've got receipts.
Then we get into the Kunal Kamra case and the Fact Check Units: what happens when the government gets to decide what counts as "misinformation" about itself, and can direct platforms to take content down. Think POFMA, but make it desi. Referee and player, same jersey.
But we don't leave you spiralling. We end on the fix. Your UPI payment is guarded like the crown jewels, while your personal data gets a "we value your privacy" banner and good vibes. Why is money held to a gold standard and privacy isn't? What if we moved privacy into the same bucket? We make the case that we can, and that there's still hope for the state to show up on the right side of this one.
Press play before your next "accept all."
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17 Aug 2026
Your Data Has a Social Life You Don't Know About
You tap "I Agree" without reading it, every single time. We all do. Champions of informed consent, honestly. But this episode is about what that one tap actually hands over; and it's more than you'd think.
In this episode, Prof. Aneesha Dev sits down with Sahasra and they get into who's really deciding what you see, what you believe, and what you're allowed to say online. These are people and entities you definitely didn't vote for. Like the one guy who bought a website and somehow rewired the internet for 500 million people overnight. No big deal.
We talk about why reporting harassment online feels like shouting into the void, while getting flagged yourself happens at the speed of light. We get into the billion-dollar data broker industry that knows an unsettling amount about you and has never once introduced itself. And we talk about the cookie banner that makes "accept all" one click and "manage preferences" a six-click maze. A design choice, definitely not an accident.
We also unpack the Kunal Kamra case: what happens when the government gets to be both the referee and the player in deciding what counts as "fake news" about itself.
No boring lecture energy. Just the stuff worth knowing before you tap "Agree" for the 400th time this month.
🎧 New episode out now.
10 Jul 2026
Vichaar- From the Margins to a Living: The Fight for Transgender Inclusion in India's Formal Economy
In this episode of Vichaar, we speak with Swetha C Sudhakar, Founder and Director of Born2Win Social Welfare Trust, Chennai, one of India's most concrete examples of trans-led welfare work in action. From chronic underfunding and the failures of the Garima Greh scheme to the gap between Pride Month MoUs and genuine workplace inclusion, Swetha takes us through what it actually means to build economic dignity for transgender individuals from the ground up and why welfare designed outside the community will never serve the community.
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