Posted on 11/16/2014 12:13:18 PM PST by BenLurkin
The tracking mechanism - Relevant Advertising - put in place by AT&T essentially added an undetectable identification number to all Internet traffic on the cellphones of the users. Since the identification number helped mark all the sites visited by AT&T customers, advertisers could build up profiles on users by following the website trail he or she would visit.
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Revealing that the use of the controversial technology has been stopped by AT&T, company spokeswoman Emily Edmonds said that AT&T subscribers who do not want to be included in the carrier's new smartphone tracking system have the choice of opting out of the program
(Excerpt) Read more at nhv.us ...
Maybe its time to opt-out of AT&T. T-Mobile is looking better and better every day.
Ting. Sprint network. Pay as you go. No crap.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT
I opt out of telemarketing calls with the FCC also, but I still get them.
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