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How Pizza Night Can Cost More in Data Than Dollars
WSJ ^ | 4-10-2018 | Stephanie Stamm, Tripp Mickle and Jessica Kuronen

Posted on 04/11/2018 4:36:44 AM PDT by servo1969

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1 posted on 04/11/2018 4:36:44 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

If you think this is bad, you should see what your banks and financial organizations catalog for analytics.

Big Data is the new whizz-bang thing in the IT world. Your personal lives are being boiled down to numbers for multifaceted analytics on behavior, trends, creditworthiness, fraud, application use, and the list goes on.

Some of it isn’t bad, such as fraud detection, but if you think Facebook is the only game in town doing this stuff, you’re not paying attention.


2 posted on 04/11/2018 4:41:29 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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I used to work for one of the big cell providers, working with their law enforcement relations department. They can travel back in time to get your location.

If you live in New York, but traveled to Montana four years ago and robbed a bank in a small town there, if you ever get on their radar, they can check your phone records and pinpoint the location of your phone at that particular time with ridiculous accuracy. You are busted.

In fact, if you have an android phone you can go to google and check your google account and pick any date in the past (that you had the phone and the account) and see a map of everywhere you went on any given day. It actually can be quite useful not only for prosecutors but, if you’re innocent, for you to support the argument that you were not at a particular place at a particular time. You can access the data with ease. Law enforcement needs a subpoena.


3 posted on 04/11/2018 4:46:46 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: servo1969
What's all this NSA, Google, Facebook data collection about?

It's about using the collected metadata to build social networks.

The NSA has been creating maps of American citizens' social networks

Why do they want to do that?
What could social networks be used for in the hands of government? Consider:

Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere

How will such capabilities be used now?
How They Hunt


Is it already too late?...

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..." US Constitution, Amendment IV.

4 posted on 04/11/2018 4:49:39 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: robroys woman

While I recognize that my personal data is anything but personal, I avoid Google like it’s a plague-infested leper. Everything about Google is evil, and I regularly evangelize against them to those who will listen.


5 posted on 04/11/2018 4:49:53 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: robroys woman
If you live in New York, but traveled to Montana four years ago and robbed a bank in a small town there, if you ever get on their radar, they can check your phone records and pinpoint the location of your phone at that particular time with ridiculous accuracy. You are busted.

That's why I plan to give my cell phone and access code to a homeless guy in New York before I rob the bank in Montana.

:-P

6 posted on 04/11/2018 4:50:41 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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How does one search their android info and can it be deleted?


7 posted on 04/11/2018 4:51:01 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: servo1969

L8r 3


8 posted on 04/11/2018 4:54:07 AM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: robroys woman

FB and data collectors must hate me. Cash a check every couple of days and pay cash for everything - even when I go out to eat.

5 PM the iPhone gets put on the desk until in the morning. Don’t carry it when I go out and about.

Out to eat and I look at the next table. Four people - all looking at their smart phones.


9 posted on 04/11/2018 4:54:30 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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Thanks....helpful comment.


10 posted on 04/11/2018 5:00:23 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: rarestia

I’m no fan of google. I also see the US government as a “candy coated” USSR. I deal with both with eyes wide open.


11 posted on 04/11/2018 5:08:13 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: PeteB570

How old is your car? Do you walk when you go out to eat?


12 posted on 04/11/2018 5:08:21 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: servo1969

Remember your Facebook profile also. People volunteer birthday, who they are married to, career, friend list, high school class, entities liked, etc.

All that can be extracted by marketing companies via a web crawler.

Sure, you can adjust privacy settings but would you trust FB?

Subterfuge is better. Change your birthday, city, middle name for example.


13 posted on 04/11/2018 5:08:25 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Alberta's Child

That’s why I plan to give my cell phone and access code to a homeless guy in New York before I rob the bank in Montana.


EXACTLY!

If you have to have a phone on the trip, get a pre-paid phone and don’t call anyone you know. :)

You can just leave your phone in your charger in NY.


14 posted on 04/11/2018 5:09:32 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: outofsalt

How does one search their android info and can it be deleted?


Yes. I believe it is “myaccount.google.com.” But I could be mistaken. I don’t have full access on the computer I’m currently on. I can tell you that in google when you go to that little grid of blocks in the upper right, one of the options under it is “my account”. That is where you can start. It’s definitely considered a feature, BTW. And I like it.

I’d just google the whole concept and you’ll find what you are looking for.


15 posted on 04/11/2018 5:12:34 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: servo1969

What colors, type and brands of clothing.
Any pets and their breed.
Body ink?

Other types of data available...


16 posted on 04/11/2018 5:13:23 AM PDT by Bitman
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To: outofsalt

How does one search their android info and can it be deleted?


Yes. I believe it is “myaccount.google.com.” But I could be mistaken. I don’t have full access on the computer I’m currently on. I can tell you that in google when you go to that little grid of blocks in the upper right, one of the options under it is “my account”. That is where you can start. It’s definitely considered a feature, BTW. And I like it.

I’d just google the whole concept and you’ll find what you are looking for.

This worked: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6258979?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en


17 posted on 04/11/2018 5:13:24 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: PeteB570

I do not own a cell phone.


18 posted on 04/11/2018 5:18:55 AM PDT by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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To: robroys woman; All

THIS IS WHY SNOWDEN SHOULD BE A NATIONAL HERO!

He exposed that the NSA collects EVERYTHING.

This is useless for real time data discovery- there is just too much. You can’t analyze all of it at once. (ok maybe not ‘useless’... don’t get hung up here, I am making a point)

BUT...

You can go back in history and look at data for a specific person, once they come onto your radar.

Post a comment about a political figure that he doesn’t like? Let’s just see what you’ve been up to online...


19 posted on 04/11/2018 5:20:47 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: robroys woman

I will play with it. Thanks.


20 posted on 04/11/2018 5:21:11 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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