Privacy & Information Tracking

Good Stuff Mike.

Luckily it doesn't effect me since I still carry a 7 y/o Motorola Razer with everything turned off but the ability to make and get calls and VMs.

Another slightly related lesson for some, is to also turn OFF the GPS in these phones referenced if you like to post lots of pics of your kids on Facebook and such. Anyone that can see the pics can Rt Click Save As to their own PC, open it in photo editing software and get the GPS coordinates of exactly where your children live and play.
 
My thought is that we lost our privacy or the illusion of privacy many many decades ago.

Perhaps thought of in another way is what we are trying to do is minimize our blatant exposure, i. e. information predators with intent to cause financial harm to us and our loved ones.

We are all a part of the information age whether we like it or not. Point: Try and arrest junk mail in your physical mail box, email box, bill boards, magazines, blogs you visit or shopping sites, radio, xm radio and the lists goes on and on. There is no escaping the constant unwelcome marketing assault whether data was collected or not. As an example, Amazon offers an option to not use your recent purchase for pushing recommendations. Ok, so you opted out. Instead, they push other crap. It's a loop. You keep circling back to the same ol same old junk.

The only thing we can attempt to do is minimize the abuse...and it does seems to at times cross the lines and become somewhat abusive.

Tip: Something I do when I surf sites via desktop, cellphone or tablet for reading only is disable javascript and images. This knocks out 99% of the junk, which is nice.
 
o0OBillO0o said:
I just want my habits to be tracked in a way that they sell me stuff I want.
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At first glance when I read your reply, Oxymoron - so I thought. But it isn't. I'm tongue tied or at least, my brain is. Hmmmm.
 
David, embrace the fact that you create a pattern. Accept the fact that pattern analysis is done on your behaviors. You're Human and many behaviors that we do are known. :-)
 
o0OBillO0o said:
David, embrace the fact that you create a pattern. Accept the fact that pattern analysis is done on your behaviors. You're Human and many behaviors that we do are known. :-)
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
 
o0OBillO0o said:
Good one. I have a desire for more knowledge on specific human behaviors, including my own.
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As you know, for our other emails back and forth, I'm just too lazy for all of that. I'm all for going rogue. I wonder how Privacy and Tracking interprets that behavior. Doh! Wait, I don't want to know. That requires effort.
 
We started losing this battle years ago. No matter what you have or do it is being tracked, judged and cataloged somehow by both government and corporations. It's just a sad fact of life now. I also get tired of hearing the same old lie about rights to privacy in the norm, "Well, if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to be worried about", that is BS. As humans we need some privacy in order to function. They say that to make us believe that asking for privacy is admitting to being guilty of some criminal act or something and so we fear demanding privacy.
Honestly, how many of us want everything we do and say and etc, under a microscope 24/7 365 days? I know I don't and I feel bad for some celebs that have to live with what we do plus tabloids, trash hunters, etc on top of that!

As for Cell phone, I have an old LG clam shell cell phone that does not have GPS or anything fancy except a camera, which I can't work anyway. I think it has to be at least 13 years old now. It says it has web access, but that is false because there is literally nothing you can do with it on the web and I never tried. It can not use data plans or anything, so I don't know why they put a web function on it. Anyway, when I got it (and I have always done this even before all this stuff) I had everything deactivated except the ability to make and receive calls. (Besides it was fun watching the sales guy practically cry as he deactivated everything one by one asking me if I was sure). I don't even have voicemail on the damn thing. (Something else I can't seem to work). The carrier (Verizon) keeps trying to get me to grab a new phone for free (yeah, right) and I refuse. When this one dies, that's it, no more cell phones for me. I hate those fancy jobs, they are useless and unreliable in an emergency in my opinion, which is what a cell phone is strictly for in my book, but I'm stubborn old school, so that has to be taken into account in my case.:)

As for the PC..hell, these days you can have every anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-spyware and anti-everything else there is behind at least two firewalls and still get trouble. I never click on drive-by stuff or ads. I never open any emails I am not expecting or don't know and I always check the headers.
I also don't run adobe except the pdf reader and I try to be careful with java. Java is tricky though because sometimes it is absolutely required in certain aspects, but when it is not, I don't let run. That's just been my experience.
 
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