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Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Friend of Mara said:
Must be the profile pic

You can take certain precautions. The camera isn't really a big issue since it doesn't record unless your device is hacked. But your phone right now is listening to you. I don't know if you speak Spanish or have Spanish speakers in your house or not. If you don't put your phone next to a radio on a Spanish channel for a few hours and see if you start getting adds in Spanish. For extra fun turn off all your apps.

Also there are google searches that will automatically put you on a watch list. There are google searches that you can do from the privacy of your own home on your own computer that can put you on the "no fly list" which will inhibit you from traveling. You won't be notified you are on this list until you try to board a plane. Now as much as these searches are super ****ed up and those people probably deserve to be on a no fly list I still don't like the idea of the government knowing exactly what you do online at any given moment and we have no power to stop this. And again equally for corporations since they will misuse this information the moment it is profitable.
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Rather than corporations misusing data,
I see government's greater power as the
greater threat.
 
Heyo

Heyo

Veteran Member
Friend of Mara said:
If you have an android phone or roku tv they already got your number.
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No, they don't. Well, they do, but they don't know it is my number. Never had a Google account so they are blind to who is using the number. And even though I haven't de-Googled the phone (yet), I usually don't use Google services.
My paranoia only borders at pathological, it's not there, yet,
 
Friend of Mara

Friend of Mara

Active Member
Heyo said:
No, they don't. Well, they do, but they don't know it is my number. Never had a Google account so they are blind to who is using the number. And even though I haven't de-Googled the phone (yet), I usually don't use Google services.
My paranoia only borders at pathological, it's not there, yet,
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lol. I can't say its not totally unwarranted. Everything people fear is pretty much here. The only safety we have right now is that they don't yet have the capability to filter to that much data for use on individual people in a meaningful way. They could but they couldn't for "every" person.
 
sayak83

sayak83

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
Jose Fly said:
Funny thing though, when I talk with younger folks (teens) about this, many of them have a completely different take. Where older folks like me are troubled by tech companies collecting and selling off our information, the younger folks mostly just shrug and say "So what?" To them, it just means they get targeted ads and personalized search results, neither of which they see as necessarily bad.

I think it's the difference between growing up with an expectation of privacy, versus growing up in an environment where it's generally assumed you're constantly being tracked, recorded, monitored, and analyzed.
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I also prefer targeted ads and search results. You just go to the anonymous mode if you don't want them.
 
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