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Your Location Data Is Being Sold—Often Without Your Knowledge
WSJ ^ | 4 Mar 2018 | Christopher Mims

Posted on 03/04/2018 7:26:37 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT

...Marketers spent $16 billion on location-targeted ads served to mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers in 2017... .The data required to serve you any single ad might pass through many companies’ systems in milliseconds—from data broker to ad marketplace to an agency’s custom system... There are plenty of ways to track you without getting your permission. Some of the most intrusive are the easiest to implement... The spy in your pocket... Your telco knows where you are at all times, because it knows which cell towers your phone is near. In the U.S., how much data service providers sell is up to them.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; locationdata; smartphones; surveillance; tablets; tracking; watching
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Fron the comments "Your phone is your Big Brother...no surprise here."
1 posted on 03/04/2018 7:26:37 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I dont know about any of you, but if you’re buying my data to mine for profit, you’re losing money.


2 posted on 03/04/2018 7:28:23 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Wonder if they can see the big FU I painted on the roof ?
3 posted on 03/04/2018 7:33:12 PM PST by tomkat
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To: tomkat

That will simply bring more adverts for paint and painting services to your screen.


4 posted on 03/04/2018 7:37:37 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: Jonty30

That said, I want the lions share of the value they receive on ‘my’ data.


5 posted on 03/04/2018 7:40:18 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: Jonty30
but if you’re buying my data to mine for profit, you’re losing money.

Same with me and ads and commercials. I don't watch TV, but when I did Commercials meant it was time to pee or refresh my drink. Same thing now on the internet. I don't know the last time I bought anything because of a commercial. I liked some of the old Budweiser commercials, but they never convinced me to buy their swill.

6 posted on 03/04/2018 7:40:21 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

LOL !


7 posted on 03/04/2018 7:40:41 PM PST by tomkat
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Actually I do know about it.

That’s why my smartphone has the battery removed except during the rare times I’m actually using it.


8 posted on 03/04/2018 7:40:55 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: DUMBGRUNT
I don't care if it is to my advantage to be tracked. I have nothing to hide and it might even be helpful to me.
But I hate it because in the hands of unscrupulous people it can be misused. And we know that it will happen if it hasn't already.
9 posted on 03/04/2018 7:41:38 PM PST by oldbrowser (The media is not biased, it's complicit.)
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To: oldbrowser

In the wrong hands this sort of location data being available in real time could lead to all sorts of nastiness for those who have attracted the wrong sort of attention from those with access to it. For the rest of us we’re just a blip they’re making a little money off of, they don’t know anything about us other than the data captured.


10 posted on 03/04/2018 7:48:18 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Jonty30

Same here. My attempts to make myself appear to be a person of the opposite gender who is 15 years older than me have apparently been very successful. LMAO.


11 posted on 03/04/2018 7:59:45 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: oldbrowser
When they find out who you are you can be fired for your politically incorrect opinions.

If you're already retired then they can use your location info to find out who you interact with and fire them.

12 posted on 03/04/2018 8:04:57 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: DUMBGRUNT

My only comment is: OF COURSE IT IS!


13 posted on 03/04/2018 8:06:18 PM PST by PGR88
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Bkmk spies near hom


14 posted on 03/04/2018 9:03:31 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

It would be interesting to find out how many of us already have tails.


15 posted on 03/04/2018 9:10:33 PM PST by oldbrowser (The media is not biased, it's complicit.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Not me
https://pi-hole.net/


16 posted on 03/04/2018 9:42:49 PM PST by klimeckg
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I keep saying it:

More technology = less freedom.


17 posted on 03/04/2018 11:56:43 PM PST by Noamie
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I turned off the function that kept asking me to do surveys/ratings, etc., as my phone ‘recognized’ the establishments I was in/around. Zero input from me = wasted $ for those who buy the info.


18 posted on 03/05/2018 4:11:30 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: klimeckg

Good info. Thanks for sharing.


19 posted on 03/05/2018 4:38:32 AM PST by Dacula
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To: DUMBGRUNT

One of the biggest reasons I do NOT have a cell phone & I refuse to have one.

I got raised with a crank telephone on the wall of the farm kitchen. I don’t need a ‘phone’ in my picket.


20 posted on 03/05/2018 6:10:37 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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