What Big Tech Doesn’t Want You to Know About Your Data

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Tanner Haas, a four-time founder and CEO of Freedom Chat, to talk about taking back control of our digital lives. Tanner shares why he created a private messaging app designed to eliminate screenshots, block data collection, and protect users from themselves in moments of bad judgment. We explore the false sense of privacy big tech companies sell and how Freedom Chat’s approach flips that model by refusing to store user data or monetize personal information. Tanner also opens up about the challenges of going against industry giants and the lessons he’s learned building a company on true privacy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook.
0:02.5	I'm David Meltzer, and we have an amazing person coming on.
0:07.3	My newest favorite entrepreneur, that's because he talks, walks, and has a business about freedom.
0:16.3	Freedom from what most businesses and individuals are most afraid of and interfere with their
0:24.7	own ability to communicate. Tanner Haas is here, CEO of Freedom Chat. Welcome to Entrepreneurs
0:32.1	the Playbook. Thank you so much for having me on, David. Well, you got a lot of credentials behind you, Tanner, four-time founder, three-time offer, and CEO of Freedom Chat, all underneath your belt at a very young age.
0:47.8	You have built companies across wellness, autism care, and, of course, privacy tech, which I'm sure has led you to freedom chat.
0:55.9	You focus in our real problems with a mission like I do, allowing the commissions to follow.
1:02.6	Give me an idea what frustrated you most with all the success that you had to create a private social messaging app that gives everyone control over their own
1:13.4	digital lives.
1:15.8	So there are a few reasons.
1:18.5	And am I allowed to curse on this or not?
1:20.7	Yes.
1:21.1	Please curse.
1:21.8	We like it.
1:22.6	Please curse.
1:23.2	Encourage it.
1:24.0	I think they're full of shit in all honesty. And I had a marketing SEO company
1:31.6	and we had clients that range from publicly traded to large pharmacies. It did really well. And we
1:38.9	managed a conservative website. And if you look at the statistics, people had a concern about privacy,
1:45.7	more likely to lean on the right side or independent.
1:49.4	And I started going through some of these comments.
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