Privacy issues aside isn't this going to reduce battery life dramatically?
Facebook May Soon Be Tracking You At All Times
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#12I think Google already does that. There's a Google Map process which runs on Android in the background. It comes back even if you turn it off.
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#13I don't see why anyone would treat places that they go carrying a smartphone as private data. The phone has the data and cell phone networks (in the US, at least) do collect the data (or used to)[1]. Giving Facebook the data basically just de-anonymizes it since it seems perfectly conceivable and natural that some of the collectors of this data would take it in aggregate, anonymize it, and sell it to companies, if fo…
I upvoted you even though I disagree heartily with what you are saying; and I would like to point people to pg's essay http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html to remind them that this site is not reddit, and that the downvote should be used rarely, and mostly to quell noise and abuse. That said, one should not have to give up using a cell-phone to avoid being tracked. Nor should ones willingness to use facebook to ta…
What you describe is not supposed to happen on Reddit either. But idiocy takes over whenever a group of people gets large enough.
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#14I think Google already does that. There's a Google Map process which runs on Android in the background. It comes back even if you turn it off.
At least Google's process has a bit more benefit than Facebook's: you can see the location data they collect from your phone by turning on Latitude and its history app. They also use this data to improve traffic and map data and (if you have WiFi on) to improve their coarse location data.
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#15Eh, disable location services for your facebook app. I assumed they already did this. And if you don't want facebook to know anything about you, you can still use facebook. Here's the secret: just don't tell facebook everything about yourself. It's not hard to do.
The problem with that is your friends indirectly tell Facebook. Facebook can fill in the rest.
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#16This is why I won't carry a cell phone from which I can't remove the battery.
Blocking the location permission or going into airplane mode would be another option.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
My bank knows about most of my purchases, but it is still considered private data. My health care provider knows about my medical history, but it is still considered private data. Why should a cell phone provider be any different?
I see no reason why banks couldn't in principle do the same thing with purchasing data that carriers do with location data. There ought to be a distinction between private as in confidential and private as in "confined to multiple parties each of whom the data's subject knows of". Health data is so sensitive that it is protected under various laws and in most developed countries (the US being the largest exception) h…
> Health data is so sensitive that it is protected under various laws
There is no reason we can't pass laws preventing Facebook from tracking and using such information. We don't have to settle for "don't use a cell phone" or "don't use Facebook."
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#18Eh, disable location services for your facebook app. I assumed they already did this. And if you don't want facebook to know anything about you, you can still use facebook. Here's the secret: just don't tell facebook everything about yourself. It's not hard to do.
The problem with that is your friends indirectly tell Facebook. Facebook can fill in the rest.
I'm curious, a lot of my information is snarky (location: Antarctica, religious views: Nihilist, etc) -- I wonder if they're able to realize that I'm obviously being intentionally inaccurate?
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#19This does not bode well for those people for whom Facebook is a pre-installed (and often unremovable) app on new phones.
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#20Eh, disable location services for your facebook app. I assumed they already did this. And if you don't want facebook to know anything about you, you can still use facebook. Here's the secret: just don't tell facebook everything about yourself. It's not hard to do.
The problem with that is your friends indirectly tell Facebook. Facebook can fill in the rest.
Facebook IQ: you cannot exceed the IQ of the stupidest friend of all of your friends.
Also known as the Randi Conundrum.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/randi-zuckerberg-be...