Peeping cellphones....
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Samsung's 'peeping Tom' smartphones can listen and watch what you do on the web while monitoring your emails to target you with ads[^] The fact that Samsung would have the audacity to do this. I'm sure there are others out there doing the same thing, where permission was granted, embedded within 15 pages of "agreement" text. I know Siri and the google version listen at all times, and they are collecting the data. I wonder if we can retreat from this nonsense... going back to a flip phone. Funny, in a recent "I want to fix my own appliance" thread, I lamented on Samsung dishwashers. I wonder if it's listening?
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
charlieg wrote:
Samsung's 'peeping Tom' smartphones can listen and watch what you do on the web while monitoring your emails to target you with ads
So if I pull up a couple of pron sites on the wifes samsung she would get hit with ads for penis enlargement and lonely girls in the area? Too bad she's on an iphone - otherwise I'd do it just for the laughs. As for my own phone, eyes getting old, hardly ever surf on the phone except maybe to check the occasional sports result I may have missed (even then max once a month - usually coz visiting boring in-laws or at some distant aunties cousins wedding that I couldn't excuse out of).
Sin tack the any key okay
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Samsung's 'peeping Tom' smartphones can listen and watch what you do on the web while monitoring your emails to target you with ads[^] The fact that Samsung would have the audacity to do this. I'm sure there are others out there doing the same thing, where permission was granted, embedded within 15 pages of "agreement" text. I know Siri and the google version listen at all times, and they are collecting the data. I wonder if we can retreat from this nonsense... going back to a flip phone. Funny, in a recent "I want to fix my own appliance" thread, I lamented on Samsung dishwashers. I wonder if it's listening?
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Hasn't Samsung already backed out of the idea of adding microphones and cameras on their TVs, as a result of researchers finding out they were essentially running all the time and publishing their findings? It's no coincidence they dropped support for Skype on their TVs, along with anything else that requires those devices...
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charlieg wrote:
Samsung's 'peeping Tom' smartphones can listen and watch what you do on the web while monitoring your emails to target you with ads
So if I pull up a couple of pron sites on the wifes samsung she would get hit with ads for penis enlargement and lonely girls in the area? Too bad she's on an iphone - otherwise I'd do it just for the laughs. As for my own phone, eyes getting old, hardly ever surf on the phone except maybe to check the occasional sports result I may have missed (even then max once a month - usually coz visiting boring in-laws or at some distant aunties cousins wedding that I couldn't excuse out of).
Sin tack the any key okay
Lopatir wrote:
So if I pull up a couple of pron sites on the wifes samsung she would get hit with ads for penis enlargement and lonely girls in the area?
So that's why I'm getting those adverts...
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Hasn't Samsung already backed out of the idea of adding microphones and cameras on their TVs, as a result of researchers finding out they were essentially running all the time and publishing their findings? It's no coincidence they dropped support for Skype on their TVs, along with anything else that requires those devices...
reaching for some tape for my laptop web cam... :)
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Samsung's 'peeping Tom' smartphones can listen and watch what you do on the web while monitoring your emails to target you with ads[^] The fact that Samsung would have the audacity to do this. I'm sure there are others out there doing the same thing, where permission was granted, embedded within 15 pages of "agreement" text. I know Siri and the google version listen at all times, and they are collecting the data. I wonder if we can retreat from this nonsense... going back to a flip phone. Funny, in a recent "I want to fix my own appliance" thread, I lamented on Samsung dishwashers. I wonder if it's listening?
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Earlier this day i just ordered a Nokia 216. I´m really looking forward to it. :-D :cool: :rolleyes:
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Samsung's 'peeping Tom' smartphones can listen and watch what you do on the web while monitoring your emails to target you with ads[^] The fact that Samsung would have the audacity to do this. I'm sure there are others out there doing the same thing, where permission was granted, embedded within 15 pages of "agreement" text. I know Siri and the google version listen at all times, and they are collecting the data. I wonder if we can retreat from this nonsense... going back to a flip phone. Funny, in a recent "I want to fix my own appliance" thread, I lamented on Samsung dishwashers. I wonder if it's listening?
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Me and the missus were at a large box store recently, we stopped in the exercise equipment department for about 10 minutes before heading to the clothing department. Within 2 minutes of exiting the store my wife receives an email with coupons for that stores' exercise equipment. She says "wow what a coincidence!", I say "I'm glad I have my $12 flip phone". Her phones location accuracy is impressive.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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reaching for some tape for my laptop web cam... :)
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
You mean you don't do that already? :omg:
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Me and the missus were at a large box store recently, we stopped in the exercise equipment department for about 10 minutes before heading to the clothing department. Within 2 minutes of exiting the store my wife receives an email with coupons for that stores' exercise equipment. She says "wow what a coincidence!", I say "I'm glad I have my $12 flip phone". Her phones location accuracy is impressive.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
jeron1 wrote:
Her phones location accuracy is impressive.
It's more likely the store was spying on her phone.
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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jeron1 wrote:
Her phones location accuracy is impressive.
It's more likely the store was spying on her phone.
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Quite possibly, in any case it's a bit disconcerting to me, to her not so much. We're very different in that respect.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Samsung's 'peeping Tom' smartphones can listen and watch what you do on the web while monitoring your emails to target you with ads[^] The fact that Samsung would have the audacity to do this. I'm sure there are others out there doing the same thing, where permission was granted, embedded within 15 pages of "agreement" text. I know Siri and the google version listen at all times, and they are collecting the data. I wonder if we can retreat from this nonsense... going back to a flip phone. Funny, in a recent "I want to fix my own appliance" thread, I lamented on Samsung dishwashers. I wonder if it's listening?
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
My phone? A Flip Phone! My "Smart TV" has no internet access. I'm going to go back to changing my MAC address, when browsing, more frequently. You can keep most of the control away from THEM . . . easy habits to develop. Or you can walk around with a dumb grin, let them do what they want . . .easy habits to develop.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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