AT&T, Verizon Using 'Perma-Cookies' to Track Customer Web Activity

[anthonyondre]

(post ended up on wrong thread after login)

 

[Naimfan]

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I was furious when finding out about this.

Rather than taking it off my account myself, I decided to call AT&T and force them to do it. They put it on my account, they can take it off. I have been on with them for 2 hours educating them as to what they are doing. It is clear that the rank and file of AT&T has no clue as to this going on.

I would encourage EVERYONE to call their support lines and get them to remove this from your phones (don't do it yourself). Such surreptitious violations of your / our privacy are unacceptable.

The point of forcing them to take it off is to use their phone line, hit their help desk statistics, show a cost of supporting this deceitful practice and violation of **our** Second Amendment rights.

There needs to be a class action law suite filed.

Violating my under-18 daughter's web privacy is tantamount to being a digital pediphile.

Is this make the perma-cookie a virus? Does each browser that uses the cellular network via tethering though the smart phone or tablet will also get the tracking applied them?

What does this have to do with our right to own a firearm?

 

[campyguy]

Verizon stopped using the Broadcast UID supercookie today on my iOS devices

After seeing a request for a Carrier Update on one of my VZW iPhone 6 handsets (from 18.0 to 18.1) earlier today and I accepted it, I thought I'd check to see whether it affected the perma-cookie. To my surprise, there was no Broadcast UID anymore!

I also did not accept the update (by delaying it until later) on my work iPhone 6, and noticed there was no Broadcast UID. A check with my VZW iPad Air yielded the same result.

I did not call or email VZW or visit the My Verizon web portal. I used the lessonslearned.org/sniff web page.

 

[Wicked1]

Heard about it yesterday and opted out. (AT&T)

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