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The thread also mentions https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i-tracked-down-the-surveillants/ https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-
by asicsp 6y ago
The thread also mentions https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i-tracked-down-the-surveillants/ https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i... which would be a better link than twitter.
- nbzso 6y agoThanks, I don't like Twitter for long form content. It's not designed for this.
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- SamuelAdams 6y agoI agree with you, but a hacky workaround is @mythreadreader
- nbzso 6y agoThanks.
- SkyMarshal 6y agoYeah, hacky and annoying af when fifty people use it on the same thread, as is usually the case. Makes Twitter’s long-form readability and usability even worse.
- olvy0 6y agoThere's also nitter, it's slightly better than the twitter interface https://nitter.net/martingund https://nitter.net/martingund
- nbzso 6y agoThanks.
- lode 6y agoMuch more readable in Thread reader form: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1334465877153095680.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1334465877153095680.html
- baxtr 6y agoSo we have a very successful short messages app, that now resulted in another service to be successful, which combines the short messages into a long format. Innovation and evolution aren't always straightforward I guess!
- PeterStuer 6y agoOr you can just read the article on the website https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i-tracked-down-the-surveillants/ https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i...
- mmgu 6y agoI hacked the tweet thread together in 15 min so I think the article might be a better (although longer) read.
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- jnsie 6y agoThat is a fantastic but very unsettling article. It's a somewhat dystopian present we live in
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoThere are way to fight back. If you choose to. Convenience usually comes first it seems.
- strwbarie 6y agoHow? What are the best ways to fight back?
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoI don't have a smartphone. That alone will prevent browsing habits being picked up by parasitic apps etc on a phone. What I browse at home I have more control over with blocklists etc and disabling js. I rarely carry my dumphone around, if someone needs me they can leave a message. That takes care of tracking by cell station. There are times I'd like to have a dumphone on me, eg. when meeting people, so at some point I'll get dumphone #2 not linked to me. If possible, pay cash rather than a credit card. I have done this before but in the uk this was getting more difficult and may not be possible, I don't know. There are always ways around that with grey areas. At higher levels pressure your government or use the local regulations to push back when a company seems to be behaving unethically. I'm sure there's more. But convenience triumphs and all you can see is "I need smartphone". You won't do any of this. People who ask how will never do, or they wouldn't be asking the question to which the answer(s) are obvious.
- ApolloRising 6y agoGPS chip in the car? License plate readers all around you? Face recognition cameras? Chip in the credit card that you are not using? Friends with a iphone that have your number? ID cards that swipe you into places?
- rossng 6y agoThis is a great illustration of why the GDPR - and enforcement of it - is so important. The average user has absolutely no chance of navigating the digital advertising sewer without all of their data eventually being sold to the US military.
- surround 6y ago> For the sum of 35,000 NOK (3,300 EUR / 4,000 USD), we got access to location data showing where tens of thousands of Norwegians had travelled in 2019. > One of them was 31-year-old Karl Bjarne Bernhardsen from Stavanger. The information made it easy for us to identify him in the data that – according to the data provider – had been anonymised. Here’s that article: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?tl=en&u=https://www.nrk.no/norge/xl/avslort-av-mobilen-1.14911685 https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?tl=en&u=... And the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23136612 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23136612
- Moru 6y agoWhat causes me the most irritation (to put it mildly) is that I bought the Sygic navigator that seems to be the source of this data. And still they sell my data? Just last week they forced me to agree to some new rules to be able to use the app but I already bought it 7 years ago. I will be requesting my money back as stated by that agreement, and request a GDPR data dump for moving my data to another provider.
- Moru 6y agoLink for anyone else wanting their money back: https://www.sygic.com/company/eula-gps-navigation-google-play https://www.sygic.com/company/eula-gps-navigation-google-pla...
- krono 6y agoUnsurprisingly, they're refusing my request. So, essentially, I'm now locked into this agreement with Sygic for the duration of my "lifetime" license. This is one of those situations where I'd wish I had some "fuck you" money to throw at an expensive law firm.
- Lio 6y agoSygic don't even have a Privacy Policy link on their homepage, you have to dig for it a buried legal documents page. Your privacy is not something they care about except as something to sell to others.