The New York Times' Privacy Project - A Series of Articles Detailing Phone Tracking & Data Collection

[higemaru]

The NYT's Stuart Thompson & Charlie Warzel are doing an incredible series of articles detailing exactly how accurate and invasive the data from our phones is. Through data given to the journalists by a whistleblower at a private data collection company, the New York Times was able to track individual's commutes, dalliances, and entire lives nationwide. Absolutely chilling stuff. I'll add in quotes when I get back from work, but in the mean time, check out the Google Maps Location Tracker to see how accurate this stuff is, just for yourself.

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[Futureman]

did someone already make a topic on this so there's no replies here? or no one really cares ha?

It's a long article and I'm on Part 3 right now, but the whole "You're not going to believe how you're being tracked!" seems a little silly to me. I think most people understand this but just assume they are boring enough or not important enough for this to ever really matter. But maybe that's just coming from someone on a tech-related forum and the general public really doesn't knwo what's going on

For what it's worth I turned off location services on my iPhone for everything but Camera, Google Maps, Apple Maps and Transit (bus app).

It also reminded me that I just switched to Verizon and I had to go into the Privacy section of the user account and turn off all the tracking they do.

 

[gutshot]

It's crazy to think about how accurate this stuff is but yeah, not really something that affects me all that much. Now, if I was someone important, this would be a lot more worrying.

 

[Eye for an Eye]

I turned that stuff off after seeing notifications of "It'll take 11 minutes to get to destination" that I regularly visit on sundays.
Ad tracking is annoying enough. I don't need some company watching over me. The next thing you'll know is they'll start creating ads for those sitting on the shitter at work for too long.

 

[Deleted member 18944]

Wild that this thread died out. This is essentially detailing what Bruce Wayne was doing in the Dark Knight.