All I can think about now is midget rodeo clown milf pr0n.......but I don't dare say it out loud.

And my children and grandchildren wonder why I still use a flip phone.

PC

thanks AK

You know why I know this is happening. I dont give a care for what google and apple 'report' to the media. I watch my own students use the sdk to write slick scripts that do this using software built into android. They get it in your phone and the rest is history.

Bottom line, read the EULA. Yes, they are getting better about policing what the apps are doing but Google does this to make money, and they make money through ad revenue.

And no, I dont teach at a Gun forum, but I do frequent one.

Well, a few days ago I asked a friend if she ever made poached eggs. As I just can't seem to get it right no matter what I do. She told me that she has never made poached eggs.

Now she tells me she keeps getting recipes, and pictures on Pinterest.....



ARman

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Originally posted by ARman:
Well, a few days ago I asked a friend if she ever made poached eggs. As I just can't seem to get it right no matter what I do. She told me that she has never made poached eggs.

Now she tells me she keeps getting recipes, and pictures on Pinterest.....



ARman

Did you ask her in person? How many recipes have you searched for?

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Originally posted by PCWyoming:
And my children and grandchildren wonder why I still use a flip phone.

PC

Me, too, and it's always OFF unless I'm making a call. My desktop computer doesn't have a microphone or camera, either. And I won't have one of those listening devices in my home.

flashguy

I'm the odd man out. Mobil phone is just that. No contact number listed, no FB, Amazon. It is a phone for my with to call me and me to call her. I read the news once a day and that's it. Any social media interests, email and such, are done on home Mac. Period.

For those who are not aware.

Ring Is Using Its Customers’ Doorbell Camera Video For Ads. It Says It’s Allowed To

https://law.stanford.edu/press...says-its-allowed-to/

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Originally posted by Jupiter:
For those who are not aware.

Ring Is Using Its Customers’ Doorbell Camera Video For Ads. It Says It’s Allowed To

https://law.stanford.edu/press...says-its-allowed-to/

...and sharing with LE.

quote:

Originally posted by AKSuperDually:

quote:

Originally posted by Jupiter:
For those who are not aware.

Ring Is Using Its Customers’ Doorbell Camera Video For Ads. It Says It’s Allowed To

https://law.stanford.edu/press...says-its-allowed-to/

...and sharing with LE.

If I trusted these Tech Companies to do the right thing, I probably wouldn't mind.
I don't trust any of these companies. It's open season on our privacy with a Government blessing.

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Originally posted by Jupiter:


If I trusted these Tech Companies to do the right thing, I probably wouldn't mind.
I don't trust any of these companies. It's open season on our privacy with a Government blessing.

Totally agree.

Can't we run a test for this? (not me of course, I have a flip phone).
Say we pick a product, here in this thread. Everyone read that product out loud while their smarty phones are near by.

For example (read out loud):
"I need more Hanes underwear."
"I love Hanes underwear."
"I'm out of my Hanes underwear."
"The cowboy midget rodeo clown in that MILF video was wearing Hanes underwear."

It should become apparent over the next few days.
You know, for science and all.

Every I talk about something to buy my coworker starts getting ads on his FB. We have unlimited service so we're never hooked up to work's wifi. I have airdrop turned off. My bluetooth is only connected to my glucose monitoring device, nothing else.

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Originally posted by Chowser:
Every I talk about something to buy my coworker starts getting ads on his FB. We have unlimited service so we're never hooked up to work's wifi. I have airdrop turned off. My bluetooth is only connected to my glucose monitoring device, nothing else.

Bluetooth? What's that?

flashguy

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
You should understand that this was happening with OnStar navigation back in the 1990s. This is nothing new.

Anyone ever wonder how Oracle got it start as a database company? Federal contracts for surveillance captures in the IC.

My wife car is equipped with Onstar, we don't subscribe, it WILL respond to an emergency situation because it's on. And if it's on, it's using GPS to track you. The operator has come online to check us when they inadvertently got a signal we might be in distress.

Same with your cell phone, at the rudimentary level they can see what tower you are pinging in series to a destination. So, with Onstar and two cell phones, traveling to the Gulf Coast is obvious. Oh look we stayed part way there and went shopping at flea markets. The car moved, parked. We got out, walking, in an older downtown area, then back to the car after two hours, car moved.

It's not rocket surgery, the issue is how important are you? Did you just shoot up a subway car with the security cameras off? What about the cam in the subway car, which phones left the scene immediately, what persons of interest passed any other cam, does that match a description, Hey, we got a potential, verifying, it might be this guy, all these are similar items, no others like that, what's his social media, Oh look, he's posted about these issues.

On a daily basis most of us don't slide under the radar, we are just one of 320 million blips on it. There's so much clutter it takes a good reason to even focus. Are YOU or ME being individually tracked? At this level, not really. It takes a lot of people to track a lot of people, there aren't millions employed to do that. Only the person of interest gets that scrutiny for as long as it's needed.

I am amazed that people intentionally install apps on their phone designed to harvest information on themselves and their contacts.

I'm even more amazed when they realize that they are being monitored, and they don't have a clue why.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Wanna read something really creepy? Last summer I'm out in the desert with a retired NYC cop and a retired UHP sergeant (I think that was his rank). We are shooting at 900+ yard gongs. Can't really hear my phone so I turned it off. I mean off, off. Not just asleep. I put it into an empty ammo box and set it in the shade in the cab of my truck with the window down. We commence shooting.

About 20 mins into our day long session, I hear a weird tone coming from my truck. It sounded like a screeching alert type noise. Like an alarm. It was loud enough that we all stopped and turned toward my truck. I walked over and the sound was coming from inside the ammo box. I pulled it open, slipped my phone out and there was a 911 screen up. I put it to my ear and an operator was on the other line. She asked me questions about my location and the gun fire. She was going to send the sheriff out to check on us. I told her who was in our group and we talked her off the ledge.

That was so creepy that we all looked at each other with the WTF expression.

I'm curious. Was the ammo box metal? Was it closed or was the lid open?

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Bluetooth? What's that?

flashguy

Short range wireless communication with a range of around 30 feet or so. One example is your smart phone sending music to wireless earphones.

Another is my phone connecting with my Bronco so that I get hands free phone and texts.

Some larger stores are using facial recognition for this.


I will say it happened once without my saying a word. Walked in a rural hardware store displaying a unique item out front. Got home and had ads for it.[/QUOTE]