I called Verizon and they said this is a phishing scam... Has anyone else independently verified the original claim with Verizon, other than through their website/privacy TOS?
Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data
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#72These are the steps to opt out of Verizon “selling your personal data”, as far as I can tell: Visit http://www.vzw.com/myprivacy . If you are not already signed in to My Verizon, you will be prompted to sign in – after doing so, return to that myprivacy page. Click the link “Manage Location Privacy settings” near the bottom, which points to https://locationmanagement.vzw.com/ You should now be at “Location Management…
No, I had several options on the page linked by OP. When I went to the locationmanagement.vzw.com page, it says, "There are no services available. A location service must be downloaded on the handset to be listed here."
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#73Offtopic: This is the first time I'm seeing a post "on" app.net and not "about" app.net
Might be something to do with people usually not linking to tweets unless they're really notable. And app.net items are effectively just long tweets.
This would make it seem more akin to Google+, right? G+ is linked to around here quite often.
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#74Thanks for the PSA. While I understand why these things tend to be opt-out by default, I'm surprised there was no email from Verizon updating users about these new settings with a link to opt-out if they wanted to. I used to think that the telecom industry is a lot more regulated than social network companies like Facebook, but I guess that's not really true!
I received an email a while back from them basically saying they were going to start taking privileges with my data if I didn't go to a page and opt-out. I don't remember the text, but that was the gist. [Edit] Did some digging and the email subject was: Important Update Regarding Your Privacy It has various sections on what will be used and how with a call to action at the bottom listing your options. Opening text:…
I received the same kind of email from AT&T awhile ago. I immediately called them up, and asked to opt-out. After 30 minutes on the phone, the representative told me that the "feature" hasn't been rolled out yet, and I should call back a month later.
Guess what? I completely forgot about it. That was probably the intention all along....
Thanks for the reminder, though!
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#75These are the steps to opt out of Verizon “selling your personal data”, as far as I can tell: Visit http://www.vzw.com/myprivacy . If you are not already signed in to My Verizon, you will be prompted to sign in – after doing so, return to that myprivacy page. Click the link “Manage Location Privacy settings” near the bottom, which points to https://locationmanagement.vzw.com/ You should now be at “Location Management…
As far as I can tell, the Location section applies to Verizon-made apps, like their $5/mo navigation app.
(Dunno who would sign up for a paid Verizon mapping service, though...)
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#76I called Verizon and they said this is a phishing scam... Has anyone else independently verified the original claim with Verizon, other than through their website/privacy TOS?
This isn't a scam - I found that link last night when I was going through my billing paperwork from Verizon.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Might be something to do with people usually not linking to tweets unless they're really notable. And app.net items are effectively just long tweets.
This would make it seem more akin to Google+, right? G+ is linked to around here quite often.
Not to be overly harsh, but perhaps the difference is that Google+ is having more things published to it that people actually care about.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's exactly what the down-vote is meant for. If you think a comment is off-topic, down vote the post and perhaps add a comment as to why you think it deserves to be down-voted. Flagging is expensive, in that it requires mod (human) attention. It should be reserved for spam and other egregious posts. Let the mods spend their valuable time on more important tasks.
I wasn't aware that flags required moderator attention. I assumed that once an article was flagged enough times, a mod would be alerted, but not that each flag would trigger an alert. I would very much like to get moderators' attention or feedback on this. I don't think these kind of comments should be banned, but I think they would be curbed if there was a community guideline.
Good point. I don't know how the HN software is written but my guess is that when it's time to take action (X number of flags), it's something a looks at.
There could be a level of automation built into this where X number of high reputation members flag something, it could automatically be banned.
Either way, I think flagging is more fitting to abuse than off-topic. I agree with you that it would be great to get a mod to weigh in on this.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's exactly what the down-vote is meant for. If you think a comment is off-topic, down vote the post and perhaps add a comment as to why you think it deserves to be down-voted. Flagging is expensive, in that it requires mod (human) attention. It should be reserved for spam and other egregious posts. Let the mods spend their valuable time on more important tasks.
Do moderators actually go through all flagged items? If so, that would probably explain why I can't flag anymore. I assumed flagging was automated, so I basically used it as down-vote for articles. I emailed info@yc about my lack of flagging ability a couple months back. They said nothing was wrong with my account. Now I feel bad that I wasted someone's time. :(
I should have been more clear that I was speculating that a flag ultimately required mod attention. I'm going based on personal experience with forums and software development.
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#80Will using https prevent them from doing this? I imagine it would stop data gathering and referrer gathering but the source URL request they would still be able to see? A VPN would be the only option to keeping them completely blind? I can set up a VPN on an Amazon micro instance for free. The amount of data used should be nothing or mere pennies per month to Amazon. The only trouble is keeping a VPN up. I find on an…
I am already looking forward to the upcoming VPN witch hunt. When US provider are really going through with the six strikes "warning" system [1], VPNs will become more and more mainstream. It is going to be interesting which kind of CP/Terrorism yadayada they are going to pull this time. As a VPN user for closed to ten years nw (yes, I am that paranoid/live in a tough-on-downloads region) I can honestly say, that its…
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always had the understanding that VPN providers would give you up to the feds in an instant if they came knocking on their door with a court order for suspected criminal activity.
I'm in the process of looking for a solid VPN provider myself, and this is the impression I'm getting after reading the terms & conditions for services like Private Internet Access and VyprVPN.