"Give me as much service as you can while keeping me as far off the grid as possible" is a skill that is sorely lacking in this market. I don't have this problem with weed dealers, but I have this problem with information dealers. Internet companies could seriously learn a thing or two from the black market on how you treat your customers.
Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information
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#12The reason I never give fb my mobile is if you use a pseudonym account, it will suggest your profile as a friend to anyone who has your mobile in their phone contact list (eg ex-partners, stalkers, employers, drug dealers). Found that one out the hard way. I know Zuck wants me to preemptively upload my nudes, but still.
Lucky you already have your account. These days you can sign up for one without a phone number, but then you flat-out can't sign in without giving one.
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#13This is exactly the kind of abuse that GDPR is designed to curtail.
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#14Facebook gonna Facebook. It's long past time to consider regulation of an ethically bankrupt corporation.
Why have costly government regulation when users can just quit?
Plenty of other online and offline ways to connect with the people in your life.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if the more relevant ads are robocalls like in this case?
Who is still answering phone calls on their cell from numbers not in their contact book? If you call me and you're not in my phone my phones just dumps you direct to voicemail. Not excuse this behavior in the least, but robo calls in general are a solved problem for me.
The answer is many folks depending on lifestyle.
But more importantly, increased robocalls seriously means more life interruptions. Work nights? Sleeping while sick? That phone still rings, and there are many reasons to leave the sound on. Direct to voicemail simply doesn't really solve all the issues.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if the more relevant ads are robocalls like in this case?
Who is still answering phone calls on their cell from numbers not in their contact book? If you call me and you're not in my phone my phones just dumps you direct to voicemail. Not excuse this behavior in the least, but robo calls in general are a solved problem for me.
> Who is still answering phone calls on their cell from numbers not in their contact book?
Anyone with kids.
Anyone who works as a B2B customer contact.
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#17As a security engineer, I cannot overstate just how horrible this is. Phone numbers might not be an ideal 2nd factor for authentication, but to punish users for setting up 2FA by using the provided phone number for ad targetting is incredibly unethical.
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#18This is exactly the kind of abuse that GDPR is designed to curtail.
Yes using information for a purpose other than it was collected for. Hopefully this means in Europe we won’t see this spam.
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#19Facebook gonna Facebook. It's long past time to consider regulation of an ethically bankrupt corporation.
you generally don't regulate companies, but whole industries. Then you punish companies for breaking the industry regulations.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if the more relevant ads are robocalls like in this case?
Who is still answering phone calls on their cell from numbers not in their contact book? If you call me and you're not in my phone my phones just dumps you direct to voicemail. Not excuse this behavior in the least, but robo calls in general are a solved problem for me.
People call me all the time to offer me work, and they're not in my contact book until I've talked to them at least once.