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Google's ability to track you
Posted on 2/13/20 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 2/13/20 at 3:58 pm
It's crazy what these tech companies are able to track. Per the WSJ:
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WASHINGTON—Kenneth Glueck took a road trip to Durham, N.C., a few years ago hoping to prove Google was peering far deeper into the personal lives of consumers than they realized.
He purchased a new mobile phone with Google’s Android operating system, put it in airplane mode, disabled the WiFi and stuck it in the glove compartment of his pickup truck.
During the weekend trip, his phone tracked not just his route and destination, but reams of valuable data, such as barometric pressure that could determine what floor of a shopping mall he was on. When he connected to the internet three days later, the phone sent a catalog of its travels back to Google. He shared his results with federal lawmakers who were drafting privacy legislation, now pending, that could restrict tech giants’ ability to use such consumer information to sell advertising.
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Posted on 2/13/20 at 3:59 pm to Rosyfinchboy21
It doesn't seem like there's very much that can be done to escape the long arm.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 3:59 pm to Rosyfinchboy21
At this point our phones are listening to us anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:00 pm to Rosyfinchboy21
Regardless, deleting my browser history still makes me feel better.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:00 pm to Honest Tune
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It doesn't seem like there's very much that can be done to escape the long arm.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:01 pm to Rosyfinchboy21
What if he had turned it off?
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:04 pm to Rosyfinchboy21
I watched a similar thing a few years ago. New phone on airplane mode. After some time, he connect the phone to a box that intercepted everything that was being sent when he turned his wifi on. It had recorded everything. Told when he was walking. When he got into and out of cars. Told the buildings he was in. Everything. Pretty scary!
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:05 pm to Rosyfinchboy21
Every single large company can do this, though. I'm reading a book right now that talks about how company's like Target get people to shop at their stores forever. They can literally tell when a woman is pregnant, before she has probably told anyone, by using patterns and data from their stores and purchased data from collection companies. They have huge Data analysis team that interprets all of this.
They sent a teenage girl coupons for pregnancy and baby items before she told her dad, dad goes to Target and raises hell, and calls back to apologize because his daughter was actually pregnant. It's mind blowing how much all of these big companies know about each of us.
They sent a teenage girl coupons for pregnancy and baby items before she told her dad, dad goes to Target and raises hell, and calls back to apologize because his daughter was actually pregnant. It's mind blowing how much all of these big companies know about each of us.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:08 pm to HempHead
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:10 pm to HempHead
Sometimes I want to go and unplug from society like the Unibomber minus the whole murder part.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:11 pm to Rosyfinchboy21
his phone measured the atmosphere?
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:14 pm to fallguy_1978
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Sometimes I want to go and unplug from society like the Unibomber minus the whole murder part.
You ever read his manifesto, baw? Ol' Ted had his fingers firmly on the pulse.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:22 pm to Rosyfinchboy21
The tracking is so advanced, if you're walking with a group, they can where you're walking within that group
The person in the front is usually the leader of the group, and they target that person with specific ads to try and influence the group... how about Whataburger for lunch guys... Footlocker has a sale on Nike... Academy has LSU gear on sale... etc
Then there's geofencing that more brick and mortar companies are getting into... If you use a Taco Bell app for ordering, and happed to drive by one, you may receive a push notification as a reminder, in hopes to drive sales... Walgreens does the same thing
shite is out of control
The person in the front is usually the leader of the group, and they target that person with specific ads to try and influence the group... how about Whataburger for lunch guys... Footlocker has a sale on Nike... Academy has LSU gear on sale... etc
Then there's geofencing that more brick and mortar companies are getting into... If you use a Taco Bell app for ordering, and happed to drive by one, you may receive a push notification as a reminder, in hopes to drive sales... Walgreens does the same thing
shite is out of control
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:27 pm to HempHead
Yeah, I read An Industrial Society and its Future years ago. Ted was right about a lot even if I disagree with his methods.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:28 pm to Rosyfinchboy21
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barometric pressure that could determine what floor of a shopping mall he was on
How?
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:30 pm to fallguy_1978
That's a good and worthy exception there fallguy.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:43 pm to Rosyfinchboy21
I recently got a tongue drum, started playing it and within minutes someone else was receiving ads on their phone for... tongue drums. Coincidence?
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:50 pm to Rosyfinchboy21
Nvm
This post was edited on 2/13/20 at 4:51 pm
Posted on 2/13/20 at 4:57 pm to Rosyfinchboy21
I don’t really see what’s wrong with it. Nobody is forcing him to use the device or Google. More government intervention is not the answer
Posted on 2/13/20 at 5:02 pm to Rosyfinchboy21
I notice in the excerpt you posted, and the rest is behind a pay wall that I will never give money to(FU WSJ), that he put his phone in airplane mode.
I have no clue the exact phone he used but my Galaxy S10+ does not turn off the GPS by putting in airplane mode. It also has an "emergency mode" that basically disables everything to save battery. Even then, the GPS still pings in the background for emergency services.
You don't want to be tracked? Turn the damn thing off...
Eta..and don't be naïve, you Apple crackers are being tracked too.
I have no clue the exact phone he used but my Galaxy S10+ does not turn off the GPS by putting in airplane mode. It also has an "emergency mode" that basically disables everything to save battery. Even then, the GPS still pings in the background for emergency services.
You don't want to be tracked? Turn the damn thing off...
Eta..and don't be naïve, you Apple crackers are being tracked too.
This post was edited on 2/13/20 at 5:04 pm
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