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Is your organizational data sharing its secrets with you?

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By now we are almost deafened by the data science, AI and ML chorus through Youtube lectures, ever popping data science course advertisements and stories about how data science earned millions for a big corporation. Almost every person, irrespective of age, is talking about data and predictability. The question about how 'Google' knows where I am, my pictures, my videos, my calendar, where was I last year, and my best friends is nothing new and it is asked with awe about the technology surrounding every second of our existence. Overall, the words 'data','analytics' are now the part of mysticism that makes its presence felt at every corner of the world, urban and rural alike. But how it came into being? How it is possible for a company situated a long way somewhere in US to track my every moment? Companies like Google, Amazon et al are leveraging the state of the art technology 'somehow' to track movements and activities of signed up users. That '...