From the moment you were born, The Man With The Data knew you better than you knew yourself. Omar Hamdi explains.
You’ve been giving data away – or rather data has been taken from you – for longer than you have been alive.
Four months before you were born, you were papp’d by a midwife (after your parents agreed to the T’s and C’s, of course). She opened your file, took your info and from that moment, The Man With The Data knew you better than you knew yourself.
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