Is Your Phone Spying on You? | Yes, It Is

[CompOrange04GT]

Dude i will give you some credit. With the advancement of technology and people’s willingness to just post everything online. It would not surprise me one bit when you actually get one of your theories right.

I would hate to go through life living with believing every conspiracy theory

 

[tt335ci03cobra]

Apps off, tracking off, duck duck go primary engine, no socials save this site, and I still get subtle oddities like suggestions for music in Spotify that was playing in the background at friends houses, deals for Home Depot and Lowe’s where I’ll shop in cash.

Big brother 1984. It’s Orwellian, hold on to your guns boys, you know how that book reads.

 

[jeffh81]

I would hate to go through life living with believing every conspiracy theory

Eventually hes gonna get one right . Only problem is what one is he gonna be right about and did we listen

 

[jenkins_1120]

Porn Hub always seems to remember........

This.


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[tt335ci03cobra]

I would hate to go through life living with believing every conspiracy theory

I don’t. I flatly believe flat earthers are misled as the earth is a pretzel. The moon is also made out of dish sponge, not cheese. They make up these Alice in wonderland myths to really screw up the rabbit hole.

In all seriousness, it’s clear with the boarder battle that corrupted government sides with cartel money over American security. Most of my conspiracy theories center on the idea that those who run that crime syndicate have really done a number on most all facets of life the world over.

That said, the phone tracking is more menace than miracle imo.

 

[VegasMichael]

I just go on to hot chick lingerie websites so that all my ads are nothing but hotness. But I'm weird like that.

 

[jeffh81]

I just go on to hot chick lingerie websites so that all my ads are nothing but hotness. But I'm weird like that.

That is brilliant

 

[kevinatfms]

Porn Hub always seems to remember........

This.

Cant imagine being the guy logging my cell phone. His only thought must be "what a sick son of a bitch".

 

[BOOGIE MAN]

I just go on to hot chick lingerie websites so that all my ads are nothing but hotness. But I'm weird like that.

Until they start pushing articles about coming out as a cross dresser

...and Maximus said to Commodus, "the time for honoring yourself will soon come to an end."

 

[Morgan]

An eye-opening documentary, The Creepy Line reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook and blows the lid off the remarkably subtle - hence powerful - manner in which they do it.

 

[BlckBox04]

someone else was talking about this recently to me about how they were talking about something, never searched for it and it popped up as a suggestion ad. I know no doubt the government is listening.

 

[AustinSN]

Your phone isn't listening to you. I mean, it is, but not the way you think. Your smart TV is recognizing the content you're receiving, and in some cases so is your phone, and they're feeding that content recognition back to the mothership, where it is sold to advertisers through data brokers who can target across devices. It's called Automatic Content Recognition and I'm running three ad campaigns using it as I type. We can target (for instance) people we know have been in the room when one carmaker's ad has been played, and play them a competing ad almost instantaneously in apps on other devices we have reason to believe belong to the same person.

You remember talking about drywall, but what your conscious memory doesn't recall is the content you saw that triggered the conversation. And that's what's triggering the ads and recommendations.

That's insane.

 

[MFE]

That's insane.

Your smart TV asks for your permission to "send data back to company X to improve your viewing experience" but everybody just blows through those permissions in the mad rush to get the TV set up before the game. Then the data companies determine what other devices are also used by people based on log-in information across their apps and email, and by geo-location. Furthemore, google is sniffing your Gmail for targeteble keywords.

 

[CobraBob]

I have my phone so locked down it doesn’t share anything... only app with access to microphone is Skype

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The only app that my iPhone has access to is Shazam, which listens to music to name songs.

Privacy settings are important and shouldn't be neglected. I have to admit that this was the first time EVER that I checked my phone settings to see what apps had access to the microphone. I expect privacy infringements will be on the increase as we give way to an ever increasing number of network linked devices. Sometimes my Amazon Echo freaks me out when it hears something on my TV that it responds to.

 

[Norm Peterson]

In related news . . . EarthLink - Top News

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NEW YORK (AP) — Apple says Facebook can no longer distribute an app that paid users, including teenagers, to extensively track their phone and web use.

In doing so, Apple closed off Facebook's efforts to sidestep Apple's app store and its tighter rules on privacy.

The tech blog TechCrunch reported late Tuesday that Facebook paid people about $20 a month to use the Facebook Research app. While Facebook says this was done with permission, the company has a history of defining "permission" loosely and obscuring what data it collects.

"I don't think they make it very clear to users precisely what level of access they were granting when they gave permission," mobile app security researcher Will Strafach said Wednesday. "There is simply no way the users understood this."

He said Facebook's claim that users understood the scope of data collection was "muddying the waters."

Facebook says fewer than 5 percent of the app's users were teens and they had parental permission. Nonetheless, the revelation is yet another blemish on Facebook's track record on privacy and could invite further regulatory scrutiny.

And it comes less than a week after court documents revealed that Facebook allowed children to rack up huge bills on digital games and that it rejected recommendations for addressing it for fear of hurting revenue growth.

For now, the app appears to be available for Android phones, though not through Google's main app store. Google had no comment Wednesday.

Apple said Facebook was distributing Facebook Research through an internal-distribution mechanism meant for company employees, not outsiders. Apple has revoked that capability.

Facebook is still permitted to distribute apps through Apple's app store, though such apps are reviewed by Apple ahead of time. And Apple's move Wednesday restricts Facebook's ability to test those apps — including core apps such as Facebook and Instagram — before they are released through the app store.

Facebook previously pulled an app called Onavo Protect from Apple's app store because of its stricter requirements. But Strafach, who dismantled the Facebook Research app on TechCrunch's behalf, told The Associated Press that it was mostly Onavo repackaged and rebranded, as the two apps shared about 98 percent of their code.

As of Wednesday, a disclosure form on Betabound, one of the services that distributed Facebook Research, informed prospective users that by installing Facebook Research, they are letting Facebook collect a range of data. This includes information on apps users have installed, when they use them and what they do on them. Information is also collected on how other people interact with users and their content within those apps, according to the disclosure.

Betabound warned that Facebook may collect information even when an app or web browser uses encryption.

Strafach said emails, social media activities, private messages and just about anything else could be intercepted. He said the only data absolutely safe from snooping are from services, such as Signal and Apple's iMessages, that fully encrypt messages prior to transmission, a method known as end-to-end encryption.

Strafach, who is CEO of Guardian Mobile Firewall, said he was aghast to discover Facebook caught red-handed violating Apple's trust.

He said such traffic-capturing tools are only supposed to be for trusted partners to use internally. Instead, he said Facebook was scooping up all incoming and outgoing data traffic from unwitting members of the public — in an app geared toward teenagers.

"This is very flagrantly not allowed," Strafach said. "It's mind-blowing how defiant Facebook was acting."

Norm

 

[jeffh81]

Its like the device the insurance companies want to install in you car to watch your driving habits. Its bad news. On the bright side of thing though if i ever get lost all i have to do is call apple and they can help me get back to where i need to go

 

[1996slowbra]

Its like the device the insurance companies want to install in you car to watch your driving habits. Its bad news. On the bright side of thing though if i ever get lost all i have to do is call apple and they can help me get back to where i need to go

"wire tap.. I mean Siri, how do I get home?"

 

[Smooth]

In related news . . . EarthLink - Top News

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Norm

That yellow font is impossible to read. It's the best color for a Terminator Cobra, not recommended for easy reading on the forum though.

 

[Norm Peterson]

That yellow font is impossible to read. It's the best color for a Terminator Cobra, not recommended for easy reading on the forum though.

What color background are you using for quoted material, and is there anything other than grey (apparently the default?) available?

Yellow seems to provide the best contrast against black-ish colors, which is why I chose it. Boldface white wasn't cutting it at all.

I can try "unbolding" it, maybe the thinner brushstroke would be better.


I make no claims regarding expertise with forum softwares and HTML stuff. I do find XenForo much harder to work with than vbulletin.


Norm

 

[jeffh81]

Apple sued over FaceTime eavesdropping bug after attorney says it listened to testimony