Privacy International: Facebook is just the tip of the iceberg.

[pnwmom]

Better check your cell phone apps, too. (Among other things.)

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43465968

You can of course, simply leave Facebook, but the campaign group Privacy International warns that privacy concerns extend beyond the social network.

"The current focus is on protecting your data being exploited by third parties, but your data is being exploited all the time," said a spokeswoman.

"Many apps on your phone will have permission to access location data, your entire phone book and so on. It is just the tip of the iceberg."

[backtoblue]

1. "The Right to Privacy" Caroline Kennedy

Recommend EVERY ONE read.

[Alsteen]

2. Android

If you use a phone that runs the Android o/s every single thing you do is recorded and sent to google. That is the entire reason google designed it.

[Leith]

3. Then They Should Do Something About

all the scam phone calls I get.

[Stallion]

9. Phone Scammers Pay Campaign Bribes too

F-R-E-E-DUMB

[pnwmom]

4. Welcome to DU, Alsteen! n/t

[Egnever]

5. somewhat true

that said no one makes it easier to erase your data than google if you so choose. You can even export it first if you want.

and with your sharing of data you gain a wealth of services. From location based notifications to easy driving directions to restaurant recommendations based on my actual tastes.


There is no real privacy in our digital world and if you are like me and use those services for hundreds of daily tasks the trade off is more than worth it.

[continentalop2]

8. Do you think they really delete it?

I'm of the opinion that Google has been saving all of our search data connected to our IP addresses (and ultimately our real identities) since they started.

[Egnever]

10. of course they do

it would jeopardize their whole business if they were found to not do so and eventually it would leak. These guys depend on your trusting them to continue doing business. The the current facebook fiasco is showing how valuable that trust is. Once it is gone it is very difficult to get back.

[continentalop2]

7. The same goes for any Google product.

The Chrome browser, gmail, etc.

[Volaris]

11. Wouldn't it it be nice if there were a freeware OS for cellphones?

Like can't we ask Linux to build one that DOESNT do this kinda shady shit?
I'd

[Egnever]

6. of course it is

this is not new. The credit card companies have been tracking and selling your info for decades.

Target even correctly predicted someone was pregnant based on their purchases that were somewhat innocuous.

As Pole’s computers crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25 products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a “pregnancy prediction” score. More important, he could also estimate her due date to within a small window, so Target could send coupons timed to very specific stages of her pregnancy.

One Target employee I spoke to provided a hypothetical example. Take a fictional Target shopper named Jenny Ward, who is 23, lives in Atlanta and in March bought cocoa-butter lotion, a purse large enough to double as a diaper bag, zinc and magnesium supplements and a bright blue rug. There’s, say, an 87 percent chance that she’s pregnant and that her delivery date is sometime in late August.