[ARC5] Cautionary Tales--Linking Our World

[Bruce Long]

John
I never have any problem with big corporations requesting a cell phone number---i give them yours!  




On Sunday, November 17, 2013 11:12 AM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
 
It has been obvious to me that the 'add your cell number in case you loose
your PW' offered by Google and Yahoo are a complete scam.

The name of the game is data fusion/mining.

Information is like toothpaste--  once out of the tube it's very hard to
get back in.

-John

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> It actually gets worse...Google is working with the cell phone networks to
> link the info they have to them so it can be used for stuff like caller
> ID. Science fiction? It's already under way and people are already working
> on ways too block
> it: http://www.zdnet.com/how-to-stop-google-from-using-your-plus-profile-as-caller-id-7000023191/
>
> So shortly after you search for "FT243 Crystal" on your PC, you will pick
> up your phone to make a call and an ad from Brian Carling will show up on
> your cell phone!
>
> 73 de N3RHT
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Don Merz <n3rht at yahoo.com>
> To: Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>; "arc5 at mailman.qth.net"
> <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 8:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Speaking of Cautionary Tales
>
>
>
> Google has linked the world. Google Adwords offers this as a service. Yes,
> they use info saved somehow (I am no net tech wiz) to bring up ads for
> stuff you previously searched for. I don't think they are searching your
> e-mails (but I have no idea--e-mail is not now nor ever was a secure
> service). Since they own Youtube and have Google search, Gmail, G+, Google
> Drive and the other Google apps all now tied into one Google login ID,
> they can collect information from you and deliver those ads across a wide
> variety of services you might use online. If you also use Google's
> browser, Chrome, it facilitates this tracking and interaction in some
> "advanced" ways--whatever that means. The only reason I am aware of this
> is because my company has been evaluating using adwords. 
> Brave New World indeed...
> 73 de N3RHT
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Robert  Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 7:49 PM
> Subject: [ARC5] Speaking of Cautionary Tales
>
>
> Here's a strange one for y'all to ponder.
>
> A few weeks back John Foster and I were exchanging personal e-mails about
> design of DC to AC inverters. 
>
> Now, for some time I have noted that if I go to some sales websites and
> look some items, when I go to other news and information websites the
> pop-up adverts often will be from those same sales websites showing those
> same items.  Obviously, they are reading the cookies left by those
> websites and are figuring out what I am interested in and showing me that
> in the ads.
>
> But very soon after John and mine's discussions on inverters, on one of
> the news and info websites I got a pop up
>  advert for DC to AC inverters.  I had not gone to any sales website and
> looked for those items, since John and I were discussing the design of
> one I had built a long time ago.
>
> So how did that know about that if they were not reading my e-mails as
> well as the cookies?
>
> Wayne 
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