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Facebook admits it does track non-users, for their own good
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| Apr 17, 2018
| Richard Chirgwin
Posted on 04/18/2018 3:47:55 PM PDT by upchuck
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To: mewzilla
Privacy does not exist today, except among the homeless who are off grid. If you are middle class, you have no expectation of privacy anywhere at any time. Not in your car. Not in your home. Not in your bathroom. Not in your bedroom. Privacy no longer exists. It is just a matter of if somebody wants to use what they have on you or not.
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posted on
04/18/2018 6:48:45 PM PDT
by
Freedom_Is_Not_Free
(What profits a man if he gains the world yet loses his soul?)
To: Larry Lucido
"from folks who've bought batteries"
Well, back then my phone number prefix was CR4.
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posted on
04/18/2018 7:06:45 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: PIF
I don’t believe it will work.
F___book can track your IP address...forever...
They also collect data about you (name, address, phone, etc.) from various sources and track, track, track you on any device/phone.
This is not about you.
F___book needs a quick trip into the ash-bin of history.
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posted on
04/19/2018 4:39:01 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
To: cgbg
If there is no cookie to report you are online, what do they use? Do they poll every ISP constantly for IPs on line?
Google while not part of this discussion does exactly the same thing as FB. This is especially true if you use Google’s Android OS on your phone, their Chrome browser or Chrome OS. Further, if you run a site from your PC and have a Google tracker or analyzer installed, you can be tracked.
Both companies track your history, movements and sell your data - that’s just their business model.
Both need “a quick trip into the ash-bin of history”.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:00:00 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Pearls Before Swine
To: upchuck
"When non-Facebook sites add a Like button...visitors to those sites are tracked: Facebook gets their IP address..."Wouldn't DHCP take care of that?
I have no concerns of FB doing this because I eschew 'like' buttons when surfing by PC and do not use a 'smart' phone, or any phone with 'net access.
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posted on
04/19/2018 6:45:55 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Perhaps we should care less about who we may offend and care more about who we may inspire.)
To: 1FreeAmerican
I was paying at an independent sub shop last week and the cashier flipped the tablet around and said “punch in your email”.
A firm “NO” reply yielded a slightly perturbed face.
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posted on
04/19/2018 7:03:50 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
( Zoo + Prison + Circus = Public Shool)
To: AndyJackson
My son’s google phone tracks location and routinely asks for pictures at places he visits.
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posted on
04/19/2018 7:05:20 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
( Zoo + Prison + Circus = Public Shool)
To: upchuck
If you have time to go on Farcebook then you don't have a life.
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posted on
04/19/2018 7:11:01 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
To: Larry Lucido
Radioshack had about 5,200 company owned stores in 2014 and due to Internet competition closed about 1,000. (Those numbers do not include independent dealer-owned franchise stores). Radioshack went bankrupt in February 2015, and that led to closing nearly 1,800 more stores. Radioshack then partnered with Sprint, which opened a store within a store in most of the 2,400 remaining locations. That agreement went bust and lawsuits insued and in March of 2017, RadioShack filed for bankruptcy again. Sprint took over between 50 and 200 stores (depending on which report you read) and by then had shrunk to about 1,500 company owned stores. Most of those closed with only (approximately) 28 corporate locations remaining (currently owned by General Wireless Operations, Inc.), who lease the name from Kensington Capital Holdings. In addition to the 2 dozen corporate locations, as of September 2017, RadioShack operated as an online website and the name is still licensed to approximately 425 independently owned authorized dealer stores.
To answer your question about personal info, in the 2015 bankruptcy RadioShack include customers' personally identifying information as part of its assets for sale, despite its long-standing policy and a promise to customers that data would never be sold for any reason at any time. The Federal Trade Commission and the Attorneys General of several states fought against it, but the sale of the data was eventually allowed, however greatly reduced from what was initially proposed (sales histories of customers was likely excluded, but who knows?). Who bought that data and owns it now? Iz a secret.
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Past independent Radioshack franchise owner
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posted on
04/19/2018 1:47:03 PM PDT
by
Drumbo
("Democracy can withstand anything except democrats." - Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Drumbo; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON
Well, the joke is on them anyway. The last time I bought batteries at Radio Shack, I believe I brought out the old fake phone number. They can reach me at H&H Bagels or the Off-Track Betting office. Put a sawbuck on Captain Nemo in the third at Belmont.
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