Wasn‘t apple implementing measures to prevent tracking in a way to realy threatening facebooks Business model?
Weren‘t they sueing?
I heard on NPR that this guy with an autistic son started a Minecraft server just for kids with autism to play on as his son was getting harassed on there. That just made me so so sad…
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Perhaps I should have said:
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There’s the initial drama, it’s been good for Apple’s users.
Oh, I was just adding on not arguing with you.
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I’m prepared for when the day comes that my health insurance contacts me:
Dear Mr T, we’ve acquired your average reading time on Elektronauts forum. Your average reading time the last 5 years exceeds our set limits. Besides that we see you haven’t updated your DN and DT from OS1.2. That proves your LED brightness is set to unhealthy values. Our calculations predicted severe eye damage, therefore any future surgery on your eyes will no longer be insured.
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In the early 2000’s I did strategic data analysis for sales force deployment and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry. Even before social media or broad access to internet-related activities, we had purchase access to absurd databases of transactional activities and demographic data that let us make very detailed plans. It was super creepy.
When learning some new predictive analysis software, we were in a class with a few people from the financial industry. The data they had was truly ridiculous: purchase histories for anyone who used a credit or debit card, transactions categorized and clustered to optimize their predictive efficiency. Even then the personality profiles they could form of individuals was terrifying, especially using the machine learning tools that were already well-formed.
So yeah, if you use a credit or debit card to buy anything, “they” know an astonishing amount about you.
Luckily, though, we are all pretty much numbers in that context. They couldn’t care less who we are, except for how it can make $$$.
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P580C
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Tomorrow is my last day working for a bank so I’ll happily spill the beans on what data we have.
Everything.
We know more about you than you.
If you ask yourself the question “I wonder if they know…” the answer is probably yes. We know.
I was always against crypto as a real currency. But maybe I change my mind diggin depoer into that.
Tchu
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Shaolin Temple must be a safe place.
Cancel your cell phone, home internet, and get a landline. Legally change your name to make a mess of all of the previous data collected on you. I can’t remember what it’s called, but there’s a way to tattoo/paint your face in an odd way so that facial recognition AI doesn’t register it. ( I like the irony of making yourself completely invisible to computers while making yourself a million times more noticable to humans. ) Have all of your interactions face to face. Pay for everything in cash, in person.
But the #1 is just not to have a cellphone, and #2 is to just not have any internet.
Won’t make you invisible or untrackable. But should pretty much get rid of all of the impersonal aggregate data collection.
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Become a Thai forest monk!
Located in central China. Undoubtedly video surveilled, bugged, tracked, and infiltrated.
Tchu
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Oh no, here goes my childhood memories!
HBIII
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I was talking with a private investigator and he was laughing about the days when you had to go to the dmv to get a photo of someone just so you knew what they looked like. He says that pretty much the people he is investigating are doing his job for him now, he doesn’t even have to leave the house 
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There is a script blocker addon called matrix (chrome, opra, firefox), its effectice once set up correctly, you could also use duckduck go as google frontend.
Deleting social media is a must.
Digital privacy ended when Kid A leaked early.
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I find that putting something onto Soundcloud makes me invisible… 
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Being invisible online is easy. Just go along with anything that is being presented and discussed and you’ve made it.
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Probably not what you’re thinking but…
The problem with data warehouses/aggregators is that you can’t opt out of their effects on your life. You don’t choose to opt-in, you don’t accept anything to have your life-profile shared with them.
I’m happy that as of yet so far nobody’s suggested using a write-once, read-only public ledger for “privacy” of transactions. For the most part**, nobody’s actively mining your credit card transactions for who you transact with and what you buy, governments leave that diligence to bank onboarding.
That onboarding process isn’t great and TOS can be weird, but it’s mostly structured around making sure vague terms of service are upheld.
**Getting into the specifics of southern US and law enforcement is absolutely something beyond the scope of this topic but it’s also something that crypto does not solve, KYC at entry and exit points is a treasure trove of identifying data and every single transaction with chain analysis makes it a “solution” in search of a real world problem.
