[Karthik Renkarajan] · Privacy Engineer / Responsible AI & Governance Part 1 of 3 When the Algorithm Wins the Election A personal note before we begin: I have been a Vijay fan since Ghilli. I say that not to declare bias but to establish context — this analysis comes from inside the culture
Companies have mastered the art of sounding privacy-first while quietly doing the opposite. It's time we learn. "We respect your privacy." The same sentence appears on the homepage of companies that sell behavioural data to hundreds of ad-tech partners. That sell your inferences — your health, your
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I spent years in the trenches — building systems, mapping processes, and figuring out how privacy actually works when it hits the real world. Not the policy document version. The "how do we actually implement this" version. Along the way, I picked up enough legal literacy to speak the