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Re: Facebook the invader
@Kristin I am of the opinion that we need to take this matter very seriously (privacy theft) and there needs to be some strict measures against the defaulters. I also believe that the bigger firms consider themselves immune of any punishment they might face as there stake holders come for their rescue. The information theft should be considered as crime and dealt accordingly.
Re: Facebook the invader
I belive that most of us give permission to these sites ourselves without our knowledge before joining.
@nomii, you're probably right, and hopefully people have learned a lesson from that. People can't complain about the information and data Facebook collects if they're not willing to understand it before they press "allow" or "ok."
@nomii, you're probably right, and hopefully people have learned a lesson from that. People can't complain about the information and data Facebook collects if they're not willing to understand it before they press "allow" or "ok."
Re: Facebook the invader
@Henrisha,
I would imagine that they don't abuse the information. But having it all at your disposal is a scary thing. It's like they know what you're thinking/doing most of the time without even knowing you.
I would imagine that they don't abuse the information. But having it all at your disposal is a scary thing. It's like they know what you're thinking/doing most of the time without even knowing you.
Re: 1 Don't download junk apps. 2. Don't worry if you have nothing to hide
@vnewman2> Insane.
I have been asked to create reports in the past saying how many tickets each person on a team has closed in a given week - and I am always a little uncomfortable about doing do, because such reports are meaningless on their own. Some "tickets" represent 6 months of work (a project) so aren't going to be closed regularly. Others are one-line of code to resolve. The rest lie somewhere in between, so how do you compare somebody who closed 20 tickets to somebody who closed just 3 in the same time period? Is one of them lazy? Was one of them on vacation for 3 days that week (another piece of information not revealed by that statistic). My concern is not with the numbers themselves but with how somebody else might interpret them and the inferences and conclusions they might draw because of the lack of context that goes with them.
Sadly it sounds like you're hitting the exact same problem - flawed analysis and conclusions from incomplete data. Somebody, somewhere. should be ashamed.
I have been asked to create reports in the past saying how many tickets each person on a team has closed in a given week - and I am always a little uncomfortable about doing do, because such reports are meaningless on their own. Some "tickets" represent 6 months of work (a project) so aren't going to be closed regularly. Others are one-line of code to resolve. The rest lie somewhere in between, so how do you compare somebody who closed 20 tickets to somebody who closed just 3 in the same time period? Is one of them lazy? Was one of them on vacation for 3 days that week (another piece of information not revealed by that statistic). My concern is not with the numbers themselves but with how somebody else might interpret them and the inferences and conclusions they might draw because of the lack of context that goes with them.
Sadly it sounds like you're hitting the exact same problem - flawed analysis and conclusions from incomplete data. Somebody, somewhere. should be ashamed.
Re: 1 Don't download junk apps. 2. Don't worry if you have nothing to hide
@jgherbert - it's crazy isn't it? Definitely a disheartening experience. The messed up thing is that some floors you need to swipe and others you don't including the ground floor. So in that sense they are only getting pieces of a puzzle yet trying to create a whole picture at the same time.
Re: 1 Don't download junk apps. 2. Don't worry if you have nothing to hide
@nomii. Wow. Just wow! I had no idea where this was going to go when I read the beginning of your story but holy cow what an ordeal for you to go through all because of a key card. I'm totally blown away but can see how easily it got out of hand based on my own recent experience.
Re: 1 Don't download junk apps. 2. Don't worry if you have nothing to hide
@vnewman2> Wow. Your employers seem, uh, a little overactive on their log tracking and user analysis. So if you swipe into the elevator on the way up to the office but take the other elevator down on the way home, will you be accused of not leaving the office, working too many hours, and be forced to accept overtime? That kind of scrutiny is why people fear data collection. The usual argument of "if you have nothing to hide, why care?" gets blown away by your example.
Re: How much of this is dependent on GPS?
@nomii> "you can be tracked through your mobiles even you are not making calls, or puting you GPS on, you can also be tracked with your sims after they are put in the phones before they are actually used"
If you turn the phone on with a SIM in it and it tries to connect to a cell tower, it's logged. Thus yes, you can be tracked (up to a point) with triangulation techniques.
If you turn the phone on with a SIM in it and it tries to connect to a cell tower, it's logged. Thus yes, you can be tracked (up to a point) with triangulation techniques.
Re: Facebook the invader
@Henrisha> "An article about Facebook's Messenger app recently went viral."
It did. But it was wildly playing the FUD card, and in my opinion misrepresented what was going on. Of course that won't stop it being shared...
It did. But it was wildly playing the FUD card, and in my opinion misrepresented what was going on. Of course that won't stop it being shared...
Dumb as a box of rocks
LOL the NSA doesn't have to surreptitiously sniff digital communications - all it has to do is use an internet connection to check up on ignorant/attention whoring Americans eager to give away every detail about themselves up to and including their every move once they set foot beyond their own front doors.
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