✨🎄 New Episode Drop: All I Want For Christmas 🎄✨

There I was, wrapping gifts with one hand and clearing cookie banners with the other, when it hit me: nothing says holiday season quite like festive shopping… and a little too much data magic behind the scenes. And I couldn’t help but wonder — when algorithms know our wish lists better than we do, who’s really doing the gift-giving?

In the latest episode of Data & The City, we swap mistletoe for metadata and take a glamorous stroll through Christmas shopping in the age of profiling, automated decision-making, and AI-powered persuasion. From the ads that follow you like a festive carol to the rights that let you say “human says no”, this episode is your chic survival guide for a data-savvy holiday season.

🎁 This episode’s chapters:
🛷 Sleigh My Data Darling — How profiling and automated decision-making shape what you see, buy, and believe during the holidays.
🔐 Encrypted Answers — Your festive listener questions, unwrapped with love (and a touch of GDPR).
🎄 All I Want For Christmas — The data protection news that could impact how you shop, click, and consent this season.

Don't forget to check out our Christmas anthem: https://youtu.be/A-4dxYZGNzY

So grab your coziest sweater 🧶, your sharpest “reject all” finger 🍪, and a glass of something sparkling 🥂 — because privacy is the ultimate stocking stuffer.

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