How much does a data broker pay for an individual's location?
A few cents. It wasn't that good since it would just give you what cell tower their phone was pinging off of.
FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data
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#32why don't they fine them for delivering spam? like $1 per instance or something motivating?
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sprint - 0.0003 of revenue T-Mobile - 0.0009 of revenue AT&T - 0.0004 of revenue Verizon - 0.0003 of revenue
I appreciate the point, but the numbers there are the proportion of revenue, not the percentage of revenue, so they're off by a factor of 100.
You're absolutely right; updated!
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> I'll be honest, a Republican president would never have give us this win. The announcement makes it clear that a republican president started the investigation and in turn had a clear contribution to this.
But if we don't have completely unfounded attempts at saying "my side good, other side bad!", what political discourse would remain?
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#36The core issue is transparency. I don't want to see a 'privacy policy', I want to see who a company has sold/given my information to and what limitations that sale has. The concept is simple. If you collect anything about me and allow some other entity access, you tell me about it/make it easy for me to see -and- block. Most of this abuse of personal data would go away if people knew it was going on.
> Most of this abuse of personal data would go away if people knew it was going on.
GDPR proves this wrong. Most people click OK/accept even in front of relatively clear information (to be fair sometimes the options are "accept for you to be tracked and shared with 'our partners' or pay a subscription/fee", which is an easy choice for many.
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#37Drop in an ocean. Should've done 5% of annual revenue. That would send a much bigger message.
perhaps. but guess who gets to pay that fine? it sure will not be phone companies. it will be in your next bill.
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#38The core issue is transparency. I don't want to see a 'privacy policy', I want to see who a company has sold/given my information to and what limitations that sale has. The concept is simple. If you collect anything about me and allow some other entity access, you tell me about it/make it easy for me to see -and- block. Most of this abuse of personal data would go away if people knew it was going on.
AND if people had viable alternatives. (Sorry, I see now that you mentioned blocking, which would also work.)
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sprint - 0.0003 of revenue T-Mobile - 0.0009 of revenue AT&T - 0.0004 of revenue Verizon - 0.0003 of revenue
I appreciate the point, but the numbers there are the proportion of revenue, not the percentage of revenue, so they're off by a factor of 100.
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#40I used to work for a hedge fund that bought data for 125 million americans a month, all of their mobile phone pings. All sorts of deep learning algorithms analyze shopping, warehouse, and other foot traffic. People have no idea the level of understanding some private investors have. It goes far beyond anything you see in public numbers. Some of the smartest people on the planet, teasing out wild facts about daily hab…
> People have no idea the level of understanding some private investors have
Is this to be able to analyse "the market" (how regular humans are consuming)?