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Smartphones are eavesdropping on you?
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Came across this today…
Brilliant headline pun on the famous song by the “Police”
m.economictimes.com
Brilliant headline pun on the famous song by the “Police”
Every flight you take, every call you make... they’re tracking you
Your data can be exchanged for as little as Rs 150-Rs 300 by informants who sell "datasets" to employees at call centres, BPOs, or telemarketers, as per an investigation by ET. Digital privacy experts point to multiple sources of data leaks that feed this proliferating industry.
jaiwant_alex
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Came across this today…
Brilliant headline pun on the famous song by the “Police”
Every flight you take, every call you make... they’re tracking you
Your data can be exchanged for as little as Rs 150-Rs 300 by informants who sell "datasets" to employees at call centres, BPOs, or telemarketers, as per an investigation by ET. Digital privacy experts point to multiple sources of data leaks that feed this proliferating industry.
One of the richest and most overlooked sources of these 'datasets' is the register kept with the watchman at the gate/security office of every building (at least in urban India).
Any commercial or residential building with the slightest semblance of being run in an 'organised' way will grab your data before letting you enter.
My hack is writing in the worst scrawl possible and certain level of forgetfulness about the digits of my phone number.
Large collection of Amazon and other delivery agents’ phone numbers?
Also they write down whatever number they are told it seems. (No verification)
But apps like “My gate” would certainly be collecting some data efficiently
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And let’s not forget fitness trackers and smartwatches and other wearables constantly sending data on your body to a server somewhere.
The Musk is on a quest with Neuralink implants to make zombies in the future
So imagine what someone or a group or a party could do armed with a range of data:
1. Demographic - your age, sex, social group, religion, wealth and economic, geographic location, marital status, family and social networks etc
2. Your education, profession, job, income, savings
3. Your social, political and religious beliefs mined from your online posts, forwards, news feeds, clicked articles, comments, biases and prejudices, likes and dislikes, travel and holidays, flights, trains, toll paid, location data
4. Your spending behaviour (vehicle ownership, fuel, food, markets, orders, restaurants,clothes, fashion accessories, phones, entertainment, investments, loans, home ownership, loans and credit ratings, insurance, jewellery (and audio- visual equipment) purchased etc
5. Your health data, insurance claims, data from fitness trackers, smartwatches, phones, hospital records
6. Eavesdropping and surveillance - computer, tablets, phone, smart watches, smart glasses, any network devices- Siri, ok google, Alexa and home security cameras, WiFi routers, public security cameras
7. Our photographs, selfies, locations, voice recordings, music collections, e-books, screenshots, keyboard taps
The often heard or repeated reassurance is that the data is anonymised, but if we bother read the small print of several pages before clicking on the “I agree” button nothing is clear or guaranteed in the elaborate obfuscation
So anyone who controls and has access to all this data has incredible and unprecedented power over anyone who is “connected”
They can build a scarily accurate profile of each of us. (Using algorithms that are pretty efficient)
And target us with ads to sell goods, recommend reads, entertainment, gossip, news and misinformation to deepen and encourage our prejudices, influence voting behaviour and much more.
…?
Nah! It’s all just imagination…
Nothing to worry.
I think I will watch TV or listen to some nice music
1. Demographic - your age, sex, social group, religion, wealth and economic, geographic location, marital status, family and social networks etc
2. Your education, profession, job, income, savings
3. Your social, political and religious beliefs mined from your online posts, forwards, news feeds, clicked articles, comments, biases and prejudices, likes and dislikes, travel and holidays, flights, trains, toll paid, location data
4. Your spending behaviour (vehicle ownership, fuel, food, markets, orders, restaurants,clothes, fashion accessories, phones, entertainment, investments, loans, home ownership, loans and credit ratings, insurance, jewellery (and audio- visual equipment) purchased etc
5. Your health data, insurance claims, data from fitness trackers, smartwatches, phones, hospital records
6. Eavesdropping and surveillance - computer, tablets, phone, smart watches, smart glasses, any network devices- Siri, ok google, Alexa and home security cameras, WiFi routers, public security cameras
7. Our photographs, selfies, locations, voice recordings, music collections, e-books, screenshots, keyboard taps
The often heard or repeated reassurance is that the data is anonymised, but if we bother read the small print of several pages before clicking on the “I agree” button nothing is clear or guaranteed in the elaborate obfuscation
So anyone who controls and has access to all this data has incredible and unprecedented power over anyone who is “connected”
They can build a scarily accurate profile of each of us. (Using algorithms that are pretty efficient)
And target us with ads to sell goods, recommend reads, entertainment, gossip, news and misinformation to deepen and encourage our prejudices, influence voting behaviour and much more.
…?
Nah! It’s all just imagination…
Nothing to worry.
I think I will watch TV or listen to some nice music
I fake both my name and number
Naah this is reality and the key is in accepting it and find peace .
No matter what you do "Big Bro " get the data...unless you move to a cash economy, dumb phone you just make it more difficult but then you make it difficult for everyone else as well!
if any of you contacts have TrueCaller they have that anyway.
We are in a matrix where we can't stop leaking our personal data these days; it seems very impossible. If it's in the foam of anything—phone, computer, TV, all other smart devices in home—then through banks, hospitals, CV's, train tickets, airtickets, and many more.
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