The Creepy Tech of DNA, Social Media, Data Privacy and COVID-19 for People of Color.

Listen up y'all! We are the most valuable thing to tech companies. Why? Our engagement with these platforms make their money, tells us what to buy, what to look at and it starts with our consent, “ I Agree” with the terms of Service. Why do you think its always “Free?” Can you trust Google and TikTok? How does Covid-19 tracking impact me and my family? Many questions, that we have the right to ask and demand! We are the data that are building the new apps, the artificial intelligence driving new marketing, new products on social media platforms, and adding more to the global search engine. Do you think we should get paid for using our data? Many people would say, YES!  In this collaboration podcast, with Creepy Tech podcaster, Lydia Shompole, who is also the founder of The CrossPods.com, we discuss how some of us have  been living in a haze of data trust with these social media platforms, yet we less than 2% of people of color within leadership and or product teams on these global and social media platforms or even less within the realms of science and medicine. Believe it or not, it affects so much of our lives that we don’t even realize it! Let’s get educated on this data privacy issue and realize how we can use our technology to ask the right questions about our data to protect our identities and our ancestral knowledge from being exploited.