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$10 says we'll find out in a few years that the content was included... and this was "just the tip" strategy.
by WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago
$10 says we'll find out in a few years that the content was included... and this was "just the tip" strategy.
- jchw 6y agoIANAL but that seems like something that may genuinely be a legal liability, even hating AT&T I feel a bit skeptical.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoTell you what, you can pay me your $10 out of the settlement check we'll all be getting over this.
- jm4 6y agoLook to what they do for the government now to get an idea of what they will monetize 10 years from now. Most of the crowd here is probably too young to remember when room 641A was exposed. Several years later, we had Snowden reveal even more with the prism program and bulk collection of metadata. Today, we're here discussing ATT's monetization of the metadata they began collecting and analyzing for the government. Post-9/11, the government was all about behavioral targeting to identify terrorists. Every other day, we're on here talking about Google and Facebook doing it for money. What is the government contracting for today? That's the big tech business of tomorrow.
- Scoundreller 6y agoebay now lets you request all of the data they have on you (unsure if that means sold or not). I've requested a ton, and you can too: https://www.sarweb.ebay.com/sar https://www.sarweb.ebay.com/sar
- ChuckMcM 6y agoAnd the same 'mea culpa' that Google gave when it was revealed that yes, they were in fact grabbing your network traffic as well when they drove their street view car past your house. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/may/15/google-admits-storing-private-data https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/may/15/google-ad...