Apps watching you
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- dMullins0
@George: Just watched those videos. Not really ground-breaking news, but a good watch regardless. Recommended.
- fxone0
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Yeah I agree, the videos are like a nice balance of all the info that is being collected from thePeople® and where this info is being collected from.
To me though, it seems that there are just too many People® and the sources are way too varied/unrelated for all this info to make sense, let alone all be gathered into a single Database™ about Everyone™.
- formed0
The data is for sale, no? So anyone could buy it, just like a email/address list, and use it for whatever purpose they want.
- Dodecahedron0
When someone said that "we are the product" it is so true . You watch in the next few years how consumers are being herded around into consumerism and purchase choices they aren't even making anymore. The other side you should be paranoid about is that not only are they tracking this for marketing/ads they're tracking and processing information for political uses and larger (impersonal) national/international legal agendas.
- epigraph0
If a news story/headline is trying to elicit fear you can pretty much assume it is propaganda.
- abettertomorrow0
Well, no one forced you to go on the internet you know. And yet, here we are.
- besides the pointDodecahedron
- Point is, the measures you can take are out there. There are anonymous ways to surf the web and so on.abettertomorrow
- You sound like a very indifferent person.Dodecahedron
- There will always be an excuse for you. I'm not sure you appreciate how drastically privacy and identity is going to be altered because of these companiesDodecahedron
- ..be altered because of these companies.Dodecahedron
- I I or you remain safe on the net they will continue to change laws and infiltrate sovergn societies with informationDodecahedron
- ...information technologies.Dodecahedron
- * If I or you... "Dodecahedron
- formed0
Dode nails it - the scary part is not about silly things like what color shirts I like, it is about what the info could be used for.
And if we all just shrug and say something stupid like 'if you don't have anything to hide...' then it will surely continue to get worse. I am not some conspiracy junkie, but I don't like all of my personal info available to anyone that wants it.
For me, it is about business. I will never use Pandora because of this, for example, nor will I purchase any of the apps listed in the article. I will also expect Apple to announce a privacy policy that they enforce. So, while some companies clearly make a lot off selling this data, they've also lost me as a customer (and surely I won't be the only one).
- plash0
Is collecting data by itself bad? I think the important context of this article is what type of data is being collected. for Pandora (http://blogs.wsj.com/wtk-mobile...
it seems that mostly demographic information is being collected,
Age, Gender, City, DMA (Designated Market Area), ZIP Code and Phone ID.Outta of that list (imo) only Phone ID seem deemable as intrusive. and for that "free" account you do have pony up some information. no?
Plus just because a question is asked does not mean you have to answer it. so if you have a problem with you age being distributed, don't answer or don't answer correctly..
ffs you are the gate keeper of your personal information. Does your phone really need to know it?
- drgs0
- GeorgesII0
Hey, do you use google or facebook?
- Shaney0
but they kinda ask first George, nice to be kissed before you get fucked
- GeorgesII0
privacy is dead, get used to it,
It's sunday, watch these videos, they are real informative
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part one
http://video.google.com/videopla…
part two
http://video.google.com/videopla…
- rosem0
you get what you pay for.™
- raf0
Hiddenapp.com registers my whereabouts
- drgs0
I'm just an average man... with an average life
I work from nine to five -- hey, hell, I pay the price!
- pr20
WSJ is owned by Murdoch the guy who brought you FOX News and New York Post - the sources of made-up news.... YOu really want to believe what they have to say about anything????
- << head explodesShaney
- Aw cmon, it was a pretty good articleabettertomorrow
- instrmntl0
Surprise! You are in fact the product.
- YEPchilamont
- In America capitalism, app downloads you!abettertomorrow
- abettertomorrow0
But here's the thing formed...despite what you saying, there's never been any kind of vendetta against any of us personally for its own sake.
Which isn't to say that there aren't companies taking advantage of consumers constantly, but these companies really do want to sell T shirts at the end of the day. And the info they are able to collect about people that is actually usable (demographic stuff like location, gender, and income) is useful for exactly that purpose, trying (most unsuccessfully) to sell you stuff.
Its annoying but more on the level of spam advertising than people coming to your house to take you away. The government knows all that basic stuff about us anyway, and the rest of it isn't really all that interesting, at least I have trouble seeing how it could be.
- You're confusing what the government knows and might have a right to know and what a zillion private 3rd party companies know.Dodecahedron
- ...companies know. Konw it or not citizens of a free countries have a right to protection against people exploiting info.Dodecahedron
- Its not about individuals its about everyone's info.Dodecahedron
- Absolutely, but only if there's a law against it, right? I guess it's hard to motivate people around something like this:)abettertomorrow