Is spam really worse than every phone being rather precisely trackable?Why isn't the FCC and telcos a little more concerned about spam and spoofed calls?!? Seems like that should be more pressing.
The carriers are selling their data, not our personal data. The data they are selling is about where and when the carrier sends/recieved data.
Taxi analogy. I can track where my driver goes and when and who he picks up and drop off. That is my data and I can sell it.
Unequivocally YES! Why can’t they address both issue though. It’s not an either-or.Is spam really worse than every phone being rather precisely trackable?
Questioning... the US is so dumb not to protect whistleblowers. This might be the only way to find out what’s really happening.
Privacy is sadly dead.The cost of having a cell phone should not be giving up the right to privacy any third party being able to purchase your location data without your consent.
Except when you whistleblow the US government, lolThe US has extensive whistle blower protections.
With spam, you'll get probably 4 fake calls a week, wasting like 15 seconds of your time. With this tracking, anyone who wants to know where you are at all times can do so for under $1K. This includes disgruntled coworkers, ex-wives, assassins, etc.Unequivocally YES! Why can’t they address both issue though. It’s not an either-or.
Do you really think the FCC or other agencies really care about consumer privacy issues?! They do not! If they did, they would impose tougher penalties like other countries do. FCC is funded and lobbied by the telcos, they will not bite the hand that feeds them.
It's not too bad. If you live like it's 1999, you'll get 1999 levels of privacy.Privacy is sadly dead.
not more, equally maxWhy isn't the FCC and telcos a little more concerned about spam and spoofed calls?!? Seems like that should be more pressing.
LOL, FNC facts?The carriers are selling their data, not our personal data. The data they are selling is about where and when the carrier sends/recieved data.
Taxi analogy. I can track where my driver goes and when and who he picks up and drop off. That is my data and I can sell it.
Rather an irony that one branch of the US government, the FCC, is supposedly all in a fluff over data sharing by the four big carriers, while another branch, the NSA, after having been exposed in spying on American people with aplomb by Edward Snowden six years ago, is merrily continuing its own snooping policies unabated. Snowden, meanwhile, is exiled and wanted for exposing the corruption. The FCC is less a regulative agency for the carriers than it is an enabler; the NSA no longer protects its citizenry from foreign enemy spying, but treats its own citizens as an enemy which must be spied upon.
If "Liberty" is promised, the location of someone not wanted/warranted is not sharable. Selling your location in real-time violates the Fourth Amendment, IMO. IANAL.
In a reasonable world, very public and very expensive penalties are in order for each one them found to be guilty.
The carriers are selling their data, not our personal data. The data they are selling is about where and when the carrier sends/recieved data.
Taxi analogy. I can track where my driver goes and when and who he picks up and drop off. That is my data and I can sell it.
Why isn't the FCC and telcos a little more concerned about spam and spoofed calls?!? Seems like that should be more pressing.
Meanwhile, at least in Massachusetts, what are all these camera towers on the roadways, how is the information collected by electronic tolls being used, when my license is scanned when purchasing alcohol what info is being collected.
The corporate world is selling information just like credit card companies, banks, and other businesses. We are merely a commodity.
Public penalties aren’t justice. Justice would be the people who had their privacy violated receiving a large settlement. Public justice would be the offending company executives serving time. Fines just go to the government.
And do companies like Apple send the data out for sale without your consent, except what is needed to run the business?
Just guessing they don’t, unless it’s a legal request.Probably.
How would you know?
The issue is the carriers are making money off selling of data. We as consumers should be able to opt out. If we opt in. Consumers should be rebates back money from sell of consumer data. It’s always about the money.