Bruce, here's your 2018 Timeline See the places you’ve visited in 2018. It shows a map of everywhere in the country/world I went to last year. (I guess I can turn it off but shows how much we are being tracked)
I wonder if anyone has used it for alibi when accused of crime? Could have used something like this when my ex was running around....could have saved a lot of alimony $$$$....
Ya, most of us are carrying around a GPS locator in our pocket.. (your smart phone). You bet they track and use that info, to sell you stuff. You can turn the GPS off, but it still can track you thru cel tower usage. And with the GPS off, the one thing I use it for, directions when I am traveling, does not work.. Explains the popularity of the "burner phone" for those folks living outside of the law. JW
Deep in the settings is a box that is pinging wifi and bluetooth as well, even when wifi is turned "off".
Im thinking of going back to the flip phone.. the new 5g system they are getting ready to drop will have i think 3 times the 4g radiaition. Our brains are electrical and the radiation coming off the smart phone dumbs us down... Once i had a phone that smoked up and caught fire randomly, could of set my old apartment on fire with me in it.
Those smart phones are not only tracking, they are listening, always. Just say "OK Google" I got a new propane heater for Christmas. I hooked it up and told my Son I'll need to start shopping for a bigger propane bottle. I go in the house, open Facebook, lo and behold, ads for propane bottles at Home Depot. I'm sure most of us have similar stories.
I use my Google time line for motivation to stop going to the fast food places so much. It shows how many times you stop at each one Its actually interesting to see how many miles you travel and where over the month. I don't really care if I am tracked since I don't plan on hiding anything from the law (or my wife ).
I never advanced to a smart phone , still on an 8 year old Samsung Rugby flip phone , call/talk/text, battery lasts about a week before needing a charge!!!! . All I need , anything more than that , I wait til I get home and use the laptop .
I'm still using a flip phone I've had for almost 10 years now. I can't tell you how many times its been dropped down 3 story elevator shafts
If people 30 years ago were told that they would be carrying a device that would track their every move, listen to every word they say and would spy on all their communications, they would have revolted. Now we pay a lot of money for precisely such a device We will have chips implanted at some point. For our convenience...
Prior flip lasted 7.5 years. I think the current one is about 5 years. Going to get a new phone this year, later in the year.... may stick with the flip. I'm afraid a smart phone is a mental black hole; gonna suck me in like it does everyone else.
Agree. The targeted marketing is annoying, but in reality, we've been constantly marketed forever. Now, it's just easier to recognize, being instant and individually targeted. As for "always listening," not quite. Google et. al. are "listening" for wakeup strings...but it's programmatically easy to switch to "everything." Actually we're already there...can you say "NSA." If these things bother you, there are countermeasures, at a cost of paranoia...
On a smart phone, you can turn off "location services". Then the closest they can locate is the cell tower. New 911 technology can locate you exactly from cell phone call. Even what floor you are on in a high rise. Handy in an emergency. Scary for all the tracking and AI.
If you haven't checked out this site, go to https://www.familytreenow.com and plug your name in (as well as celebrities - Jimmy Kimmel is there). Although I found some inaccuracies with mine, it listed old phone numbers I'd forgotten about and addresses I couldn't remember. The good part being that they have links to remove your information, and it works. As someone mentioned, smart phones and devices (Alexa, etc...) are always recording. They need to be 'aware' when they're being queried. I think there have been legal challenges relative to crimes that occurred in homes with these devices and whether or not access to these recordings can be acquired. The NY Times did an article on the tracking and how that location information is used to target advertisers: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html
