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Too much Of Us Tied Into Cell Phones?

i need it, especially when talking to my boyfriend who lives in japan. although, i could go a few days without using it. it's nice lol
 
zuben el genub said:
IRS checking out your Facebook and twitter to help keep you honest - CBS 21 News - Breaking news, sports and weather for the Harrisburg -York -Lancaster -Lebanon Pennsylvania area

The ATF Wants 'Massive' Online Database to Find Out Who Your Friends Are | Danger Room | Wired.com

Don't put anything on it. Mine's a glorified PDA.

I don't use Twitter on the phone. I only follow the Mars Rovers and don't post.
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Trust me, I don't have any personal info that could be beneficial to anyone hacking it. I also don't do any financial transactions on it.
It just the fact that so many people do, not knowing that a person smart enough can have their entire life at their disposal.
 
We've all forfeited some privacy in using them.

Frankly, Im not sure that by itself is a bad thing. Its all in how its being used
 
If someone wants to find out something about you they will. The government already knows everything about you that you never even thought of.
 
Kamau said:
Can you find me now? How carriers sell your location and get away with it | The Verge

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/verizon-rigmaiden-aircard/

You know, I get the feeling that cell phones will be our downfall. There's just waaaaay to much of us and our daily lives in them. Personally, I cannot think of one single thing about us that isn't directly tied into smartphones, and can't be discovered.
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None of my financial information is on my phone, nor do I use it for banking or purchases other than the Play Store (which is unavoidable - and even then the financial data aren't on the phone, and Google get less info on me from Wallet than most internet shops I use).

I don't use social networking on the phone (barely use it at all), keep location off most of the time, firewall most apps, I don't back up anything but contacts and messages to the cloud, and only have a low traffic personal email account on the phone, not my main accounts.

So TBH I doubt the smartphone gives away that much more about me than my dumbphones did. The spooks would do better to hack my laptop ;)

("Spooks" is British slang for spies - just remembered that that TV series was renamed in the States, so you may not know that term).
 
Rxpert83 said:
We've all forfeited some privacy in using them.

Frankly, Im not sure that by itself is a bad thing. Its all in how its being used
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Indeed.

I get the feeling that what will define personal power/privacy/security in the 21st century will be a person's ability to know what technologies are being used to monitor them, and ability to block or spoof them when the need arises. With spy satellites examining every inch of the earth's surface, and mandatory ID laws, it's going to be next to impossible for anyone to truly elude the all-seeing eye of governments. The most we can hope to do these days is to get so deep into the noise floor that the odds of finding your specific needle in a haystack of people would at least be a lot more difficult. Security through obscurity.
 
Hadron said:
"Spooks" is British slang for spies - just remembered that that TV series was renamed in the States, so you may not know that term.
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Actually I can't think of anything else that "spooks" might mean, aside from actual ghosts, or the occasional gunship.

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Take that! :eek:
 
I'm just getting a couple of rather nasty ideas about where marketing might wind up.
Even now various sellers are trying to get you to go with only their products from birth to death. With a lot of free income dwindling and mergers making multiconglomerates that can sell from soup to nuts --- the pestering will be incredible.

As for the spooks - if they can decipher the "baby or inventive" talk the kid used to use---
(Twins will often develop their own language for a bit)

We still use a lot of those words, some make sense.
 
What can we do about it? Cell phone companies will always want our data, but we don't always know if we can trust them. Soon enough we will not need carriers like AT&T because we are heading in the direction where we only need data, and there are companies that just sell data, and not mobile connections like talking and texting - which is a rip off in the first place.
 
Hadron said:
None of my financial information is on my phone, nor do I use it for banking or purchases other than the Play Store (which is unavoidable - and even then the financial data aren't on the phone, and Google get less info on me from Wallet than most internet shops I use).

I don't use social networking on the phone (barely use it at all), keep location off most of the time, firewall most apps, I don't back up anything but contacts and messages to the cloud, and only have a low traffic personal email account on the phone, not my main accounts.

So TBH I doubt the smartphone gives away that much more about me than my dumbphones did. The spooks would do better to hack my laptop ;)

("Spooks" is British slang for spies - just remembered that that TV series was renamed in the States, so you may not know that term).
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No worries. I Understand the term in that sense. It's used here as well.
But I'm like you. If they're spying on me, the only thing they're getting is practice.
 
Why do carriers want to 'spy' on us? I really don't understand.
 
Why do Facebook or Google want to collect information on you?

At the end of the day they want info they can either use to sell their products to you, or so they can charge other people to use that info to sell their products.
 
zuben el genub said:
NHS/NSA and a few others require/wants it. ATT has a facility in Utah. They want all emails, etc. kept.
https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying. I've seen this discussed quite a few other places and forums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy

By itself, the carrier isn't "spying" The carrier wants to know what you are doing to encourage you to buy more or upsell services.
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So in conclusion, the carrier simply wants to know what's your hobby in order to provide relevant 'ads'?
 
Carriers collect all sorts of data about location and signal strength, data speeds, call quilality, dropped calls, ect.

Its to identify places to improve the service
 
Truth is we have no right to privacy. Corporations are acting in legal ways which is why we cant sue them. A simple search by anyone with a small amount of knowledge about you can result in them knowing more about you than you wanted and that is just by going into public information.
 
So that is why you should not post random shit that may offend many people
 
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