this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2026
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Friend, or friends discussed said panic attack on big tech social in DMs or something. Obviously, you follow your friends, you are likely to go out on Saturdays with them, maybe even your first name was mentioned in their messages, you are now tied to an advertising angle for 'Panick Attacks'. Data brokers buy this information, serve ads. This is just ONE way the data may have been inferred. This doesn't include contact scanning, location services and so on.
No such discussion happened. As per above, that group of people were super toxic and couldn't care less about this specific person...
At most the remaining people would've mentioned how his panic attack inconvenienced their night out.