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Is this a computer generated sentence?
It's perfectly good sentence (or 3, rather) once you insert the missing punctuation; a full stop before each of the capitalized words (except the first.)
Perhaps this is a good reason to use Google Voice and not give anyone the underlying real phone number with cell service.
any reason to think google doesn't sell your data
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any reason to think google doesn't sell your data
google monetizes your data (targeting), but doesn't sell it to others.
For EU folks: anyone tried a GDPR request to their phone provider to figure out what do they collect and what do they store? I'm thinking any of the following are within the realm of possibilities: - Call history, including metadata and potentially also contents; - Text messages, same as with calls: metadata and potentially the contents; - Location history; - Data connection activity, again: metadata and potentially…
> “The allegation here would violate our contract and Privacy Policy,” an AT&T spokesperson told Motherboard in an email. That pretty much sums up how much carriers care about this. But it is nice to see Senator Ron Wyden is still doing good work, almost restores my faith in politics.
Perhaps this is a good reason to use Google Voice and not give anyone the underlying real phone number with cell service.
I’ve set up a DID that leads directly to a voicemail box that emails me the recording. It’s worth the $1/month expense to have a number to hand out to people I don’t want to be available to. And, in a way, it keeps me available when I’m overseas and don’t have my usual SIM card installed. I use VoIP.ms
I wonder if the fact that services like this won't work on VoIP numbers is a reason why. Regardless of the motivation, it's annoying because I don't give out my real mobile number to hardly anyone for this--and spam call/text avoidance--reason.
It would appear that sometimes even paying for the service doesn’t mean you won’t end up as the product anyway. How can one avoid this kind of aggregated location tracking?
Write your representatives, explain the problem, and ask them to fix it.
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It's perfectly good sentence (or 3, rather) once you insert the missing punctuation; a full stop before each of the capitalized words (except the first.)
It’s true that they are correctly formed sentences. But they seem to lack context. What does it mean to pay an operator to auto-rotate my number, and what relevance does it have with the subject of the posted article? What’s “free real estate” refer to?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's perfectly good sentence (or 3, rather) once you insert the missing punctuation; a full stop before each of the capitalized words (except the first.)
It’s true that they are correctly formed sentences. But they seem to lack context. What does it mean to pay an operator to auto-rotate my number, and what relevance does it have with the subject of the posted article? What’s “free real estate” refer to?
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-free-real-estate
The other two bits are probably meaning that the phone company can make money selling your location and make money charging you to change phone numbers every so often to avoid tracking efforts by people who only have your old number.