Hmmmm....Google, FB, Yahoo etc

[Mark V Guitars]

Google, Bing and other search engines are simply ways to store data. Facebook and other social media sites are simply used for the nefarious purpose of compiling personal data.

Sites like Yahoo, with it's ubiquitous comments section is used primarily for compiling and gauging public sentiment on mainstream stories, for use in determining how to procede with other stories intended solely to further control the direction of public opinion. (if that made any sense at all)

Data phones, or "smart phones"....ironically called in my opinion, are simply used as data collection tools. We are being spied on with these.

I recently got a Galaxy S5. Love it, but have you ever looked at what all these "apps" want to do when you accept their use terms? They want to, and in fact tell you that they will intercept credit card transactions, messages and emails, your contact lists, and all other media on your phone, including your pictures and memos.

I uninstalled my apps. Got the phone down to the bare minimum, and run a program to block outgoing data transfer. Not that it will matter much.

Just my observations.

 

[lucidspoon]

FYI, you're probably being tracked by a dozen sites just being on here...

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

FYI, you're probably being tracked by a dozen sites just being on here...

Not if you have Disconnect installed.


OP I know exactly what you mean. The 'permissions' most of those free APs and Games ask for is ridiculous.

Like why does a text editor need access to your contacts and phone logs?

F'k that.

I use my phone as little as possible, have GPS and Bluetooth turned off, etc.

 

[lucidspoon]

Not if you have Disconnect installed.

I tried Collusion, mostly out of curiosity after seeing Morgan Spurlock's Inside Man about information security, but it didn't seem to actually do anything... Just checked out Disconnect. Looks pretty cool!

 

[hecube]

Don't have a cell phone. Never have, never will.

My browser has ad-blocking extensions and Disconnect.

I try to leave as little personal info on the web. I know it's impossible really but I try...

 

[Caoimhin]

Not if you have Disconnect installed.


OP I know exactly what you mean. The 'permissions' most of those free APs and Games ask for is ridiculous.

Like why does a text editor need access to your contacts and phone logs?

F'k that.

I use my phone as little as possible, have GPS and Bluetooth turned off, etc.

It seems like the GPS function on some of these phones are more accurate than an actual GPS. Google Maps gives the worst directions I've ever seen but I pulled into a parking lot and turned the map on Satellite Image and it showed the exact parking spot I was in. I don't know if my Garmin can do that.

 

[kmk108]

This is news to people? I still have a laugh when people are so freaked out about the whole data compiling. Maybe it's because I've grown up in this age, but if someone wants to know I downloaded an app that makes fart noises, cool.

 

[lunchmeat]

Phone and everything else...

"The National Security Agency might be tracking your phone calls. But private industry is prying far more deeply into your life.
Commercial data brokers know if you have diabetes. Your electric company can see what time you come home at night. And tracking companies can tell where you go on weekends by snapping photos of your car’s license plate and cataloging your movements."

"Private companies already collect, mine and sell as many as 75,000 individual data points on each consumer, according to a Senate report. And they’re poised to scoop up volumes more, as technology unleashes a huge wave of connected devices — from sneaker insoles to baby onesies to cars and refrigerators — that quietly track, log and analyze our every move".


Read more: Who watches the watchers? Big Data goes unchecked - Josh Gerstein and Stephanie Simon - POLITICO.com

Brokers use ‘billions’ of data points to profile Americans - The Washington Post

 

[rockstar232007]

Don't have a cell phone. Never have, never will.

My browser has ad-blocking extensions and Disconnect.

I try to leave as little personal info on the web. I know it's impossible really but I try...

If you really new how much of your personal info is already on the web, it would blow your mind.

The internet as we know it was invented by a government official so why anyone is surprised by this is beyond me?

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

I tried Collusion, mostly out of curiosity after seeing Morgan Spurlock's Inside Man about information security, but it didn't seem to actually do anything... Just checked out Disconnect. Looks pretty cool!

it'll freak you out sometimes, ...forewarned.

MLP in general hits you with 2 requests per page, ... sometimes more,..but usually 2.

You'll read a Yahoo article or something and watch that little number climb so high and fast it'll make your head spin. 100+ 200+

...all those times your computer is loading a page slow and it says, "waiting for www.blahblah.com" ...it's loading all those ads and trackers.

Turn em off and your connection 'seems' to be faster.

Sometimes though, rarely but still, it'll block a photo posted in a thread. But you can 'whitelist' that page if you really want to see it.

Glad you're digging the program, it's a pretty good one I think.


still creeps me out though, 100+ programs running in the background, watching you, just because you clicked on a news article.

F**k that.

Having grown up with privacy I seriously miss it.

 

[Mark V Guitars]

This is news to people? I still have a laugh when people are so freaked out about the whole data compiling. Maybe it's because I've grown up in this age, but if someone wants to know I downloaded an app that makes fart noises, cool.

That's cool. But they have the right to read your private messages, collect your list of contacts and turn your camera and mic on. Whenever they want.

I'll go look at that program...

 

[kmk108]

That's cool. But they have the right to read your private messages, collect your list of contacts and turn your camera and mic on. Whenever they want.

I'll go look at that program...

Everyone has the ability to do that. At least they tell you they're going to do all that instead of backpedaling after the information is leaked (like our great government).

 

[stinkfoot]

FYI, you're probably being tracked by a dozen sites just being on here...

nope.. only 2..

 

[James Carney]

 

[Mark V Guitars]

Aint that the damn truth...

 

[stinkfoot]

it's not the "Internet" trackers that worry me.. it's the Forum trackers..

those are people who will go to no ends to dig up any and all dirt on a person, online and offline, then send that shit to family, friends, employers, and even the police..

those are the kooks you gotta watch out for.