Does your phone listen to your conversations and show ads based on them?
Creepy as hell
31-35, F
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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
I am in awe of the online business world right now.
I mean one of the biggest online companies gets a roasting from governments around the world for selling it's customers data to companies supposedly targeting ads and causing harassment to it's OWN users and the best response they can come up with is that ALL online companies now issue a DISCLAIMER when you now go on any site TELLING YOU that in order to use this site THEY demand access to SELL ANY information to WHOEVER they want.
Proof that as far as your government is concerned you're not even an asset you're a sellable commodity.
I mean one of the biggest online companies gets a roasting from governments around the world for selling it's customers data to companies supposedly targeting ads and causing harassment to it's OWN users and the best response they can come up with is that ALL online companies now issue a DISCLAIMER when you now go on any site TELLING YOU that in order to use this site THEY demand access to SELL ANY information to WHOEVER they want.
Proof that as far as your government is concerned you're not even an asset you're a sellable commodity.
Faust76 · 46-50, M
@Picklebobble2 The disclaimers were in response to GDPR on 25th May and I don't think it's working even as GDPR should... wanted to post a question about if anybody even actually reads the disclaimers blocking the content before clicking "I agree" now? It's specifically stated somewhere that they must not block the content (Not getting into the legal technical debate here). Actual responses to the Cambridge Analytica etc. scandals are yet to... probably not going to happen.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@Faust76 piss poor excuse for trying to avoid the inevitable regulation that folk will ultimately demand.
There's irony for you !
All that fuss over 'Net neutrality' and here we are with companies saying 'whatever the rules, we'll flout them anyway'.
If you're Joe Public which is worse ?
There's irony for you !
All that fuss over 'Net neutrality' and here we are with companies saying 'whatever the rules, we'll flout them anyway'.
If you're Joe Public which is worse ?
Faust76 · 46-50, M
@Picklebobble2 Hmm, not sure I'm exactly following. Though writing that I was kinda reminded the EU GDPR, while not written in response to the Facebook issues, might eventually end up righting them. On the 25th May, first GDPR lawsuits were filed against Facebook, Instagram etc. because GDPR requires that you must be able to separately consent to things that aren't necessary for providing the service - eg. being able to refuse consent to marketing tracking.
Right now FB et. all are just bundling them in one giant consent. On the other hand I'm not sure how that will play out in the end, because companies will need some way to pay the bills, and make their investors rich beyond their wildest dreams. Well, maybe not beyond those. "If the service is free, you are the product" is the reason we HAVE free services. I suspect that, eventually, citizen are willing to give away their privacy in exchange for free service, after all they're already posting their nudes online and what not. But it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
Right now FB et. all are just bundling them in one giant consent. On the other hand I'm not sure how that will play out in the end, because companies will need some way to pay the bills, and make their investors rich beyond their wildest dreams. Well, maybe not beyond those. "If the service is free, you are the product" is the reason we HAVE free services. I suspect that, eventually, citizen are willing to give away their privacy in exchange for free service, after all they're already posting their nudes online and what not. But it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
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AliceMortem · 31-35, F
@St0ut I have an android Google phone but it does have voice search capabilities even though I never use them
St0ut · 51-55, M
@AliceMortem unless you turn it off it is listening.
St0ut · 51-55, M
@SW-User and your mother would be horrified !!!! Naughty boy
Faust76 · 46-50, M
It's... confusing. I don't want to believe! *X-files music plays* But I've been noticing that too much to think it's a co-incidence. On the technical side, the power-draw etc. from always on eavesdropping would be noticeable, so I'm not certain how it would work (And yes, I've actually developed mobile phones). My theory is they've just got extremely good at mind-reading, yeah that must be it.
SW-User
It's crazy
every time we load /prepaid call time
we automatically sign up for wasp services
they charge minimun like a dollar a day for whatever
they rob us blind
try to disconnect for something you didn't even appy for is so annoying
and the whole thing starts over when you buy "airtime" again
Only yesterday I almost lost my cool with our service provider
every time we load /prepaid call time
we automatically sign up for wasp services
they charge minimun like a dollar a day for whatever
they rob us blind
try to disconnect for something you didn't even appy for is so annoying
and the whole thing starts over when you buy "airtime" again
Only yesterday I almost lost my cool with our service provider
SW-User
Yeah. Smart TVs do the same thing. I was telling my nephews about it and they started playing around with theirs, trying to see what they could get to show up. It was funny (but still sad because the newer generations aren't even going to realize the loss of privacy. They're growing up [i]accustomed[/i] to the lack of it).
Mondayschild · F
I don't have ads.