Surprisingly this worries me more than government spying

[Q Classic]

If a company does this, it loses me as a customer.

[Dinner]

What happens when they all do it? Stop using phones & the internet and go back to two cups with a string?

[Q Classic]

Yes.

Barring that, violating the TOS by deliberately using anonymizers and the like.

Also, bombs.

[notyoueither]

Q seems to be getting madder than the usual suspect, and can be suspected of not taking very much any more.

[Q Classic]

I'm out of booze.

*sob*

[Q Classic]

[q]nd can be suspected of not taking very much any more[/quote]

Isn't that from a song?

[Pekka]

Oerdin, Hacking. **** the corporate jerks invading my privacy. Same goes for the government. Bypass them all. I hope they can organize more concentrated attacks to any of these companies that are doing these kinds of things and bring those ****ers down.

One more reason why I won't ever want to catch skilled hackers. We will need them some day.

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Here's how they'll go about getting "consent". They'll bury it in 20 pages of ultra small legal print where it is explicitly said that if you use a phone then you consent to have all of your conversations wire tapped, recorded, analysised, and sold off to who ever they wish.

Nah, they'll simply sell the service with ads cheaper than the one without. Soon you'll see that most people don't value their absolute privacy very highly and that recieving some spam in exchange for cheaper calls is acceptable.

[Kropotkin]

Once or twice my own telephone company have spammed me with the same special offer three times in a row within one hour. Highly annoying. I would never accept that on a daily basis. In fact, I would probably go bananas.

[Mercator]

SMS encryption?

That'd prevent contextual SMS spam... It wouldn't prevent the phone company finding out your location, and sending ads at all, though.

But then, I don't have a mobile anyway...

[Pekka]

How about just "NO, you can't listen my calls or mine my messages". PERIOD.

End of discussion. Not even about "choose another phone", just FU, don't do that, that's not cool you Orwellian bastards, leave it alone. Just leave it alone. Walk out. The amount of money can be extracted from people without you giving better marketing information on consumers to your buddies. There must be other ways than this. This is frankly too much. Any company that will do this will gain an instant enemy from myself and I hold to my word. I will use every opportunity to boycot, trash talk and influence the purchasing decisions others do. And if there was a hacker or any other type of person and I knew they would go under attack... I might forget who it was or when or what or never heard of it. Too bad.

[VetLegion]

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by VetLegion

I don't understand your point. Very different reasoning behind this advertisement compared to random corporate advertising.


If you see a bag on a tube and it belongs to no-one as far as you can tell, you tell a guard. That is plain common sense for a public transport system with a past and existing threat of bombings.

[PLATO]

"Really? What sex is your baby?"

...receives ad for kiddy porn.


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This is another bad idea by advertisers.

[Arrian]

Companies using this stuff is more concerning to me that governments wanting to do it.

The companies are doing some of the heavy lifting for the gummint. All the gummint needs to do is lean on the companies to cough up the info.

-Arrian