Ford Spokesperson: "we know when you speed".
That was two years ago.
It's off on the Fi and I don't intend to turn it on. Stupid, stupid, stupid, giving any vestige of privacy up for "safety". Same as the black box from the insurers. You have absolutely no assurances worth the paper they're written on that they're not going to track who you are, where you are going, what you are doing, and sell that information to others. None. Ah yes, you might be saved thirty seconds earlier, which *may* be the difference between life and death. Fair enough, I choose death.
You're already glass online - hello Facebook and Whatsapp - and this makes you glass offline, too. Never mind one of the biggest surveillance systems in the world called ANPR.... that's why you don't need a registration concept. Because you're already findable.
This winds me up no end. Thank ********* the anti-terrorism act needs to be re-looked at. From wired:
UK counterterrorism laws violate the right to a free press, a British appeals court ruled in a case involving the seizure of encrypted documents from David Miranda in August 2013. Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, faced a nine-hour interrogation at Heathrow airport while transporting Snowden documents from Laura Poitras to Greenwald. British authorities had previously argued that disclosing (or threatening to disclose) the Snowden files was itself a terrorist act. The court determined that detention of Miranda was lawful under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act, but also stated that the statute itself is incompatible with Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights, which provides the right to freedom of expression and information. This ruling will require government ministers to reexamine the Terrorism Act.
Candy crush is another example: behaviour is taken apart to the level of "we will make this level more difficult so you have to buy something or tell us the names of some of your facebook friends - which incidentally tells us who you are, how old you are, where you are, what you do, who you communicate with, how often, and probably also the contents of your contacts, so we can drop CC onto the adverts on their walls". Why was Zynga (who make CC) worth a fortune? Clue: It's not about the game! Why is Supercell worth so much? Yes, the games make money, but it's the behavioural data they're really after. Then there's stuff like this - Best practices for getting users to forget privacy concerns...
https://t.co/M99jPRkQhz (go have a read, it's worth the three minutes).
If you're going to chat online, use something like Telegram or Threema. Yes, they cost money. They can't track and it's end-to-end encrypted.
Oh, and when you started Whatsapp, you uploaded all of your contacts and their details to Facebook. Wasn't that nice of you?
Google de-facto analyses all email to work out what to show you as adverts. Youtube knows what you're watching and adapts its recommendations to suit. Amazon does the same. Echo essentially listens to *everything you say* just like the voice-controlled TVs and then tries to make sense of it. This is advanced technology - do you really, really, honestly think it's about something more than making as much money as possible from you?
Privacy is dead unless you actively take a role to keep it.
- Bret