Sounds like a good idea for a lawsuit against FB and Twitter. Of course, their CEO’s hold the correct politics.
Sounds like the tip of the iceberg. But yes, if you have a phone, you are almost certainly being tracked by NSA and others. Does NSA give a damn about you enough to care that you went out and bought milk this morning? Of course not. Will they care about you when it’s time to round up guns? You better believe it.
Yep... All carriers do this, they just haven’t got caught yet. Any app that requires location access permission is tracking and logging it in real time. Useful “weather apps” and “GPS apps” are the worst violators. Where you work, where you shop, where you live, where your kids go to school...
Ever wonder why all that shows up are ads for competing pharmacies right after you just visited a pharmacy? Or competing grocery store ads right after you just went grocery shopping?
Turn off all permissions for all apps, the convenience is not worth the lack of privacy.
Gee what about Google, Facebook, Twitter,.... Maybe a few hundred thousand complaints to the DA about the exact same thing would earn the DA a few Million Dollars in Campaign Funding??
What gets me is how many willingly give permission to access “contacts” without ever questioning the fact that the app has no just or needed reason to even access their contact data at all. There is probably not one app that truly needs access to your private contact list to function as advertised.
Almost all ask for it but never truly need it for any reason at all, but we foolishly give it anyways just because they asked. This is in your face personal data mining. If it won’t work without this access, fine, there are other resources or you don’t really need it and can do without it.
All the carriers are selling your location too.
All this spying needs to be stopped.
ML/NJ
Here’s a reality... Phone apps are remote controls controlling your brain. lol
I wish they would give an accurate weather report!