Posted on 05/22/2024 5:40:48 PM PDT by Libloather
We've all heard before that our cellphones are listening to us and monitoring our every move. While this has been debunked (or, at least, explained), the fact of the matter is that data tracking is standard practice by the most popular mobile carriers these days.
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If you don't want your mobile carrier to have so much overarching access to your data, there are ways you can stop them. The problem is that most mobile carriers aren't going to broadcast this information because it's beneficial for them to maintain this access.
However, that's why we're here to help. Managing your data privacy involves understanding the settings available on your mobile device. Below, you will find instructions for disabling data tracking on devices served by the major U.S. carriers – T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T – as well as a general guide for other carriers.
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I just turn mine off and wrap it in aluminum foil. Simple.
I.C.U.2. TV
Total fanatic fiction back when there were mostly decent shows on TV. (while they were all black and white there was still grey, but certainly not 50 shades)
Not watchin’ me, ‘cuz I don’t have one.
“While this has been debunked”
Nope... There is no cure except a faraday. But as soon as you take it out they ping you again.
Yep. That's one reason they started making them with non-removable batteries.
Friend of mine said this today,
“The other night, I did an experiment. I started talking out loud in my own home about a pool monitoring system. Shortly thereafter, Facebook sent me one ad after another about, yup, you guessed it, pool monitoring systems.
Who was listening to me? Was it you, Siri? How about you, Alexa? Google Mini, could you REALLY hear me all the way from the kitchen?”
Ping of pings
I’ll ping your ping of pings and raise you a ping.
Bookmark.
A similar thing happened to me a few years ago. My wife and I were driving somewhere and I happened to mention that Adirondack chairs were more comfortable than they looked. Hadn’t mentioned or even thought of Adirondack chairs in years, never owned any, never shopped for any. Her phone was on but in her purse. Mine was turned off in the desk drawer at home where it spends 99% of its time.
Within a few hours we were getting ads on our home computer for, yup, you guessed it, Adirondack chairs.
Great point!
There are reasons you can’t buy phones with removable batteries any more. 1) Corporate tracking. 2) Government tracking.
Later.
“Nope... There is no cure except a faraday. But as soon as you take it out they ping you again.”
I have put my phone in a blackout (faraday) bag several times. As soon as I took it out, I was instantly inundated with messages.
For later.
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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Reclaim your privacy by disabling your cellphone carrier’s data tracking, Openurmind wrote: “While this has been debunked”
Nope... There is no cure except a faraday. But as soon as you take it out they ping you again.
Someone at work told me that their 5G phone can be pinged even when it's in a faraday bag (he called the phone in the bag and it rang), but that faraday bags work on 4G and lower phones (LTE).
Not debunked at all.
If you're talking about camping and a day later start getting ads on your email about tents and sleeping bags that you NEVER got before and did not google up, you KN OW you're being tracked.
Ha, yup. They are everywhere.
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