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Credit company does not have microphone near your bed, they do not know which posts you like, or not, they do not have all your mails, and not necessarily know
by renegat0x0 3y ago
Credit company does not have microphone near your bed, they do not know which posts you like, or not, they do not have all your mails, and not necessarily know where you drive and how often.
Keeping all of the data under one company umbrella is vulnerable, target for hackers, and easy target for governments.
Your post is not correct.
- cornedor 3y ago> and not necessarily know where you drive and how often. They do tough. They know where you refueled/charged your car, hotels you've booked. Not only that, but they also know if you donate money to your local mosque/synagogue, spend just a bit too much at a liquor store, etc.
- AndersSandvik 3y agoYou can still opt for taking money out of an ATM and and pay by cash to not be tracked by the card company. Meta does not offer the same option
- 4RealFreedom 3y agoYou have to use Meta? I'm not arguing for or against privacy here - just trying to point out that you still have options. It might be a pain to contact loved ones, check in on friends, etc. but so is using an ATM.
- phone8675309 3y ago"Simply create your own social media company and get all the people you want to keep in contact with to move to it"
- 4RealFreedom 3y agoWhen did I say anything like that? You can call or txt to check in on friends.
- waveBidder 3y agoshadow profiling doesn't care if you directly use Meta products. You're information about your friends, and another example of trends.
- gpvos 3y agoWell, then we should re-engineer things so that they don't, or regulate them heavily.
- gardenhedge 3y agoWhile I am all for privacy, which companies enable the microphone next to your bed and collect personal data with it?
- sidlls 3y agoAt least TikTok definitely uses data somehow from microphones, without any (explicit) consent.
- gardenhedge 3y agoSo they've hacked the permissions on the phone?
- sidlls 3y agoI don’t know how, I haven’t looked at or reverse engineered the code. What I do know is that topics I discuss with friends and family suddenly appear in the form of ads and user generated content in my FYP, when none of us has done a search or engaged in other online activity associated with them. Sometimes literally while we’re talking.
- gardenhedge 3y agoIsn't this just because they have so much data on you already? e.g. what are 3 30 year olds in Toronto talking about this saturday? likely the drake concert, winter tires and xmas related things..
- sidlls 3y agoEven if your scenario were accurate, it's unlikely their data processing algorithms would pin the conversation down to within the hour of it happening, given that the schedules I keep are not fixed or typical in any way. Also, in my case for some of these, it's exceptionally unlikely given the individuals involved (a 20-something guy and a 40-something guy with odd senses of humor and esoteric interests in a romantic relationship).
- s3p 3y ago>Keeping all of the data under one company umbrella This part of your post is also not correct. What company knows everything about you? There's insurance companies, credit card companies, social media companies... they all have a substantial amount of info about you but they don't all collude to aggregate it.
- IX-103 3y agoDo you have evidence that these companies are using the microphones in their devices for tracking? Or that they are using "all your emails" for ad targeting? If not please quit kicking that strawman. There are real privacy issues here, but this kind of paranoia distracts us from mitigating the actual threats and has us jumping at shadows.