Posted on 01/06/2019 2:21:10 PM PST by Chickensoup
I am thinking of getting a cell phone to replace my beloved ENV3. What is the Best OS for Privacy, Connectivity and Reliability?
Most memory? My emails are currently with time Warner with accounts that go back 30 years. I run two businesses out of email and phone currently, how do I make the switch?
I am not a fan of clouds.
What do you recommend?
Who would I get to set it up?
do you know the joke with the punch line upchuck and di?
Nope, let me have it :)
Absolutely. Amazing company. Love their customer service.
I remember having to carry one of those ... and worse for the office.
I had a huge surprise when I went to the hassle of opening the files Facebook has on me ...everything. Very extensive.
Practically nothing was accurate. But then, I have always answered the opposite of the truth when asked on those quizzes. if you’re male, say you’re female, if you’re 25 list yourself as 55.
Minimal education but a gazillionaire!
“So all the Hipaa drama continues to be a lie?”
I always figured that HIPAA was a scam — a placebo to make people believe info is private.
Even my extremely old BlackBerry Classic running on the BB OS searches the web, has GPS, and great “native” BB apps. Tactile keyboard is the best. No Google intrusion. Sadly, it’s not going to be supported any more and no new apps are being written. I love this phone!
Do you know what Charles and Diana are going to name their baby?
Up.
Because then they can be ‘Up, Chuck and Di’.”
One thing that FB doesn’t tell you in its listings about what they know about you, is that each and every website keeps track of where you came from when you logged in and where you went to when you leave.
thank you
That I am aware of. And, as a result, in sticky situations I log over to a neutral site when leaving or entering a subject site ... only thing is I’ve never known how many generals back they go. I’m too lazy to do more than one.
Speaking of heart rate, yes,I can’t believe I may buy an Apple watch. The news ones do monitor your heart ... AND do an electrocardiogram and automatically email it to cardiologist or doc. Not bad, as I am 70 in 3 days.
Also, It tracks your mobility “tripping”, “falling” or “slipping” ... it gauges whether you get up in a timely fashion and calls Emergency Services if you do not respond ...also calls your emergency contact.
I was stunned when I got to be elderly to find that I fall often... or more often than I would like. Some have been close calls and could have been on stairs given one of my places had lots of stairs.
Turns out that Apple is not just the biggest phone/watch sold ... it completely took over the plain old watch market outselling every other make.
Not a surprise really, as anyone watching the cell phone market made the observation that when someone wanted to know the time, they would look at their cellphone, not their watch.
Watches are pretty much dinosaurs without ones with computers and many of the super high-end brands have had Apple do a version.
So so Mrs. Taxman and I!
No decoder rings?
They have decoder smart watches now.
Best description I have heard in a while.
I still have my landline——always there and no batteries to be charged.
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Uh, with iPhones our medical offices do. 256 bit AES encryption built in. . . FaceID unlockable only by the medical professional it’s issued to, or using six to eight character complex passcode using alphanumericsymbolic characters. Take years to force break into.
Depends on where you are. I should point out that there are fewer than ten HIPAA enforcement officers in the entire state of California (the rest of the employees are office drones shuffling paper around) and only two of those are in Northern California. That’s double what it was five years ago. There are over 50,000 medical facilities in California counting hospitals, clinics, doctors, dentists, chiropractors, psychologists, pharmacies, etc, that are regulated under HIPAA. Why worry? Getting a HIPAA Audit has about the same odds as being struck by lightening.
The guy doesn’t know what a generic legal disclaimer looks like if one bit him on the butt, and that’s what T-Mobile handed to him.
“We, too, remember a time before smartphones when it was reasonable to conclude that when you activated service with T-Mobile that only T-Mobile would have access to our personal information. However, with the Samsung Galaxy Note, the iPhone, and many other devices, there are indeed a variety of parties that may collect and use information.” —T-Mobile Privacy Team (FCC Consumer Complaint #423849 filed by Rex M. Lee/public record)
They weren’t going to tell him that there is a world of difference between the data-mining of Google Android’s model and the extremely strong customer privacy promoted by Apple. . . More simply put, Google sells advertising and user data to third party advertisers, Apple does not. Any data Apple may collect is anonymized data to better provide service to you. The link is to Apple’s privacy policy.
Keep in mind, however, that by law, any phone conversation is transmitted in the clear and is recorded and listened to, by the automated sniffers of the NSA at the service provider level regardless of phone make or operating system. The same holds true of basic phone based text messaging. However, messaging between Apple devices, iPhone to iPhone, iPad, or Mac computer does not go by cellular phone connection as a phone call, but rather as data on the internet and is automatically sent encrypted at 256 bit AES encryption. Unfortunately, if you use the Apple Messenger to text to an Android device, it will default back to basic unencrypted cellular text messaging because the Android doesn’t do that except with a third-party app.
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