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Your Location Data Is Being Sold—Often Without Your Knowledge
WSJ ^
| 4 Mar 2018
| Christopher Mims
Posted on 03/04/2018 7:26:37 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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Fron the comments "Your phone is your Big Brother...no surprise here."
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posted on
03/04/2018 7:26:37 PM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
I dont know about any of you, but if you’re buying my data to mine for profit, you’re losing money.
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posted on
03/04/2018 7:28:23 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Wonder if they can see the big FU I painted on the roof ?
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posted on
03/04/2018 7:33:12 PM PST
by
tomkat
To: tomkat
That will simply bring more adverts for paint and painting services to your screen.
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posted on
03/04/2018 7:37:37 PM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
(This Space for Rent)
To: Jonty30
That said, I want the lions share of the value they receive on ‘my’ data.
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posted on
03/04/2018 7:40:18 PM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
(This Space for Rent)
To: Jonty30
but if youre buying my data to mine for profit, youre losing money.Same with me and ads and commercials. I don't watch TV, but when I did Commercials meant it was time to pee or refresh my drink. Same thing now on the internet. I don't know the last time I bought anything because of a commercial. I liked some of the old Budweiser commercials, but they never convinced me to buy their swill.
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posted on
03/04/2018 7:40:21 PM PST
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
03/04/2018 7:40:41 PM PST
by
tomkat
To: All
Actually I do know about it.
That’s why my smartphone has the battery removed except during the rare times I’m actually using it.
To: DUMBGRUNT
I don't care if it is to my advantage to be tracked. I have nothing to hide and it might even be helpful to me.
But I hate it because in the hands of unscrupulous people it can be misused. And we know that it will happen if it hasn't already.
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posted on
03/04/2018 7:41:38 PM PST
by
oldbrowser
(The media is not biased, it's complicit.)
To: oldbrowser
In the wrong hands this sort of location data being available in real time could lead to all sorts of nastiness for those who have attracted the wrong sort of attention from those with access to it. For the rest of us we’re just a blip they’re making a little money off of, they don’t know anything about us other than the data captured.
To: Jonty30
Same here. My attempts to make myself appear to be a person of the opposite gender who is 15 years older than me have apparently been very successful. LMAO.
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posted on
03/04/2018 7:59:45 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
To: oldbrowser
When they find out who you are you can be fired for your politically incorrect opinions.
If you're already retired then they can use your location info to find out who you interact with and fire them.
To: DUMBGRUNT
My only comment is: OF COURSE IT IS!
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posted on
03/04/2018 8:06:18 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
03/04/2018 9:03:31 PM PST
by
ptsal
( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
It would be interesting to find out how many of us already have tails.
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posted on
03/04/2018 9:10:33 PM PST
by
oldbrowser
(The media is not biased, it's complicit.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
03/04/2018 9:42:49 PM PST
by
klimeckg
To: DUMBGRUNT
I keep saying it:
More technology = less freedom.
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posted on
03/04/2018 11:56:43 PM PST
by
Noamie
To: DUMBGRUNT
I turned off the function that kept asking me to do surveys/ratings, etc., as my phone ‘recognized’ the establishments I was in/around. Zero input from me = wasted $ for those who buy the info.
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posted on
03/05/2018 4:11:30 AM PST
by
trebb
(I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
To: klimeckg
Good info. Thanks for sharing.
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posted on
03/05/2018 4:38:32 AM PST
by
Dacula
To: DUMBGRUNT
One of the biggest reasons I do NOT have a cell phone & I refuse to have one.
I got raised with a crank telephone on the wall of the farm kitchen. I don’t need a ‘phone’ in my picket.
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