i have a 120db emergency whistle next to the phone for exactly that purpose, since they all wear headsets i'm sure it goes in one ear and out he other...
Posted on 04/14/2018 8:55:50 AM PDT by rktman
When I downloaded a copy of my Facebook data last week, I didn’t expect to see much. My profile is sparse, I rarely post anything on the site, and I seldom click on ads. (I’m what some call a Facebook “lurker.”)
But when I opened my file, it was like opening Pandora’s box.
With a few clicks, I learned that about 500 advertisers — many that I had never heard of, like Bad Dad, a motorcycle parts store, and Space Jesus, an electronica band — had my contact information, which could include my email address, phone number and full name. Facebook also had my entire phone book, including the number to ring my apartment buzzer. The social network had even kept a permanent record of the roughly 100 people I had deleted from my friends list over the last 14 years, including my exes.
There was so much that Facebook knew about me — more than I wanted to know. But after looking at the totality of what the Silicon Valley company had obtained about yours truly, I decided to try to better understand how and why my data was collected and stored. I also sought to find out how much of my data could be removed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I want $100 cash! LOL
i have a 120db emergency whistle next to the phone for exactly that purpose, since they all wear headsets i'm sure it goes in one ear and out he other...
Sorry, free beer is all the ping list can afford.
DARN!!!
A loud whistle was my next try... an air horn is a little more difficult to get and use. I also thought I’d record something loud and just play it. I hold the phone right down to the radio and let them listen to Rush.. and sometimes I just lay the phone down until they hang up. But all that means I have to get up or stop what I’m doing and tend to the phone... or they leave a message.
My computers were hacked last year. I was with xfinity and switched to att because comcast was raising my rates every 3 months and then I’d have to call .. they’d change it back to what it was supposed to be.. and one month they raised it $40 and I was tired of calling them.. att came and connected everything.. then I got a call from comcast... too late. but I don’t like att either.. right after I had their modem, someone, somehow got into my computers and got everything they could find... plus leaving messages on my land line phone that were eerie. I think att modem had a back door somewhere.. they said no, but I demanded a new modem and fix it right... they said it would be 2-3 days.. that’s when I yelled.. and a tech man was here in an hour with a new modem. I had to redo 2 of the computers.. and I don’t trust any of them for anything.. I have a son who is a tech and he knows how to fix it so there is no back door.. but he had not gotten to it when they got in on the att modem.
“your PC/laptop mic can be “on” too.”
Wasn’t it former FBI Director Comey who told the American people that we should probably have a piece of tape or something covering our computers’ webcams and microphones?
Yes, somebody said that.
Cameras and mics - yes.
“Internet tracking (cookies) has been a common practice for years on every site visited. I’m not seeing why this is just now being discussed.”
Cookies is like 0.0001% of this.
When Web Browsers first became available back in the mid 90's (Mozilla, Netscape for example) it was commonly understood that the cookies from one website could not be read by another site. Cookie formats were typically proprietary for each site and one website didn't know how to read the cookie for another website.
Fast forward to Fakebook and all their agreements with thousands and thousands of websites where cookie format and information from everyone including Yahoo, Amazon, Drudge (yes, Drudge!) MSN, CNN and more are shared with Facebook for the very purpose of being able track your activity, what you're looking at and share that information across websites.
I'll give you an example: Go to Amazon and search for anything. Then go to a site like Drudge, Yahoo, CNN, Facebook for example and what happens? Very likely the product(s) you looked at on Amazon are also displayed in the advertising sections of those websites.
How did that happen? Facebook.
Whether or not you're a Facebook user, they track you. That's been known for quite a while by advertisers and internet security professionals (such as myself and others here on FR) it's just NOW becoming public knowledge after this week's Zuckerberg "testimony" to House and Senate committees.
That's why this is a big deal. The general public is waking up and going "holy shit! They track ME?!" followed by "they track ME and I'm not even a facebook user?!"
The fact is, you can install any OS on your machine and do a clean install, then go to any of approximately 10 websites I can name, none of which are Facebook, and by the mere fact you've gone to those websites, Facebook assigns you an identity and starts tracking your web behavior.
The ONLY difference between Facebook vs. Non-Facebook users at that point is Facebook can associate YOUR PERSONAL IDENTITY (which most facebook users willingly and stupidly provide ...) with your web browsing behavior. For non-facebook users, they know everything about you EXCEPT your name. They know your machine, IP address, location based on that IP address, web browsing habits, products looked at and more.
Now, based on an IP address can facebook go back and make some assumptions or determinations on who you REALLY are? Yep. They sure can and it's not terribly difficult to do once an address is associated with the IP Address.
Scary stuff? You bet, and not just for Facebook users -- for ANYONE who browses the web and just so happens upon one or more of the websites that Facebook ingests and correlates cookies for because of their data sharing agreements with so many websites.
Some people think Amazon Echo (Alexa) is Skynet. They're wrong. Skynet is Facebook.
I just googled “grumpygresh” (via startpage) and I have 7 citations between 2009-2014 and one in 2018 (posted an article).
Some were put on vikingkitties, diggersrealm that were lifted from an FR post. I didn’t find anything on “rktman”.
0.0001% is still an invasion of privacy.
I did FB early and bailed early...
I was wondering how I would find out how much info FB has on me when I haven’t been a member for years.
Haven’t found out how...yet....
LOL! I found a rktman.com but it ain’t me.
Damn. I searched my handle, and I was the third hit on duck duck go.
As a side note, perhaps I need to clean up my language, my phone wanted to autocorrect “duck” lol.
[Post it here, and then google what you posted. It’s usually already there. ]
What’s REALLY scary is I was just thinking of posting something and it was already there!!!
Of course, I was flying the MiG-31 Firefox at the time. And, of course, I was thinking in Russian. And posting on Facebook.
I prefer the Firefox in black. White is O.K. but black just has that “Hey, steal me” feeling to it.
Have any of your boys seen a submarine?
I need to pick up some fuel and missiles from a MiG “borrowed” from Syria.
Hey! Is that Cliff Clavin? What’s he doing on this ice floe?
On one of my fake accounts I am outright foul. Haha. Getting ready for my jail term I guess
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