Report: NSA using smartphone apps to track people

[fan_since79]

Google Maps, Angry Birds, and others. They can get all sorts of personal information on you. The British are doing it too.

 

http://www.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/Report-Spies-use-smartphone-apps-to-track-people-5179176.php

 

 

 

[Tank]

i tried to warn stickboy not to download angry birds: tranny city democrats.

[St1ck]

This why I just stick to porn for 99% of my internet usage. 

[Adam]

Wait until the facial recognition software is the tits. Someday, you'll walk in front of a camera and it will be able to track you to all of your social media activity, DL, location, etc. Some asian broad will snap of pic of her stupid husband at spaghetti factory and ol' tanky pooh will be in the background getting down on some tofu parmesean. Once that badboy its flickr, you best be sure your garage is locked. 

[mrwicked]

Wait until the facial recognition software is the tits. Someday, you'll walk in front of a camera and it will be able to track you to all of your social media activity, DL, location, etc. Some asian broad will snap of pic of her stupid husband at spaghetti factory and ol' tanky pooh will be in the background getting down on some tofu parmesean. Once that badboy its flickr, you best be sure your garage is locked. 

 

they have actually been working on this since i was a college nerd doing security / privacy research. was called "total information awareness".

it was a pipe-dream them but given what snowden has shown im sure they can already do it now.

 

just think what google alone knows about you.

your interests: google.com

who you email (and what you talk about): gmail

who you chat with (and what you chat about): gchat

where you go: maps

when you're home/away: nest

who you call: google voice

etc etc etc.

[gotbeer]

1984.  Oddly, the company that got famous for spoofing 1984, is the leader in making 1984 become reality.  

[mrwicked]

I assume you mean Apple?

Apple doesn't make money hoarding your data - Google does.

Apple makes money selling pricey gadgets with huge margins. Google makes money getting people to use it's free services so that it can sell your data to advertisers.

Totally different business model.

 

But I suppose your point re: peoples' reliance on Apple gadgets is only fueling this trend in the mobile space.

Which I would agree with you. 

Edited January 28, 2014 by mrwicked

[Hollyw00d]

F*** the NSA

put that in your pipe and track it

[fan_since79]

they have actually been working on this since i was a college nerd doing security / privacy research. was called "total information awareness".

it was a pipe-dream them but given what snowden has shown im sure they can already do it now.

 

just think what google alone knows about you.

your interests: google.com

who you email (and what you talk about): gmail

who you chat with (and what you chat about): gchat

where you go: maps

when you're home/away: nest

who you call: google voice

etc etc etc.

 

New York Times: Google's Road Map to Global Domination

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/magazine/googles-plan-for-global-domination-dont-ask-why-ask-where.html?_r=0

 

[Tank]

they have actually been working on this since i was a college nerd doing security / privacy research. was called "total information awareness".

it was a pipe-dream them but given what snowden has shown im sure they can already do it now.

 

just think what google alone knows about you.

your interests: google.com

who you email (and what you talk about): gmail

who you chat with (and what you chat about): gchat

where you go: maps

when you're home/away: nest

who you call: google voice

etc etc etc.

What you're working on: Google docs

[Tank]

Wait until the facial recognition software is the tits. Someday, you'll walk in front of a camera and it will be able to track you to all of your social media activity, DL, location, etc. Some asian broad will snap of pic of her stupid husband at spaghetti factory and ol' tanky pooh will be in the background getting down on some tofu parmesean. Once that badboy its flickr, you best be sure your garage is locked.

It always comes back to the spaghetti factory for you, you mizithra snob.

[Spencer]

in b4 skynet reference

[mrwicked]

note fate...

not fate but what we make for ourselves!

dyson.

shes gonna kill dyson!