Break Them Up

Into a hundred thousand million pieces.

Last year, Facebook was forced to admit that after months of pestering its users to switch on two-factor by signing up their phone number, it was also using those phone numbers to target users with ads. But some users are finding out just now that Facebook’s default setting allows everyone — with or without an account — to look up a user profile based off the same phone number previously added to their account.

And they wonder why people don’t like them.

More here.

9 Replies to “Break Them Up”

  1. I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone
    Nervously, I gave a bounty hunter a phone number. He had offered to geolocate a phone for me, using a shady, overlooked service intended not for the cops, but for private individuals and businesses. Armed with just the number and a few hundred dollars, he said he could find the current location of most phones in the United States.

    The bounty hunter sent the number to his own contact, who would track the phone. The contact responded with a screenshot of Google Maps, containing a blue circle indicating the phone’s current location, approximate to a few hundred metres.

    Queens, New York. More specifically, the screenshot showed a location in a particular neighborhood—just a couple of blocks from where the target was. The hunter had found the phone (the target gave their consent to Motherboard to be tracked via their T-Mobile phone.)

    https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hunter-300-dollars-located-phone-microbilt-zumigo-tmobile
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    L- So, any stalker, criminal(whose crime you are a witness to), jihadi, who objects to your ham sandwich, having a dog, or support of government “by the people, of the people and for the people”, or harbouring a refugee from Sharia, or … .

    Your Witness protection program, now has an exclusion clause for anywhere there are cell towers.

    “You can run, but you can’t hide !” – the term of service you see, if you click on the highlighted link “more”.

  2. “to read this exclusive story sign up for business insider prime”
    NOT GONNA HAPPEN DEAR KATE
    (the irony of it)
    appears ‘Big Brother’ was just a metaphor, aye, but a metaphor for what?
    A: a conglomeration of techno giants working randomly and in concert to, to, to do what exactly?
    well, the sheep are NOT gonna find out THAT until waaaaaaay too late if ever.

    aint technology wunnerful !!!!

  3. Interesting that Fauxcahontas supports breaking them up. I would normally expect that from a progressive but she is on the same side as the progressives who run these near monopolies.

    1. hehe i did a double take on that one too – if Poco got it right here it was only by mistake!

    2. She is happy to see them broken up and the pieces sold below fair value to fronts for China Inc.

      If you want to reform social media, that won’t do the trick.

    3. Apparently the CIA is heavily involved with FB, as it’s LifeLog project was folded the same day that FB was incorporated……coincidence?

  4. As if flying wasn’t stressful enough, a Canadian student’s story of being stung by a stowaway scorpion mid-flight is adding a whole new dimension to air travel anxiety.
    Those with a fear of flying are generally concerned with the idea they might have to use the flotation device under their seat rather than what might be hiding alongside it. This is poised to change, however, after Quin Maltais detailed feeling a sharp sting – only to later find out the culprit was a four-inch scorpion hiding in the fold in the back of her chair.

    Maltais was on the last leg of an Air Transat flight between Toronto and Alberta when she felt a fluttering motion on her back. While she initially brushed aside the sensation imaging it to be the air-conditioning, things got a lot more serious when she felt a sharp intense pain in her lower back.

    “As soon as the lights turned off again, closer to when we’re literally about to land, I felt the piercing pain on my lower back, like, oh, my God, something bit me.”

    Read the rest here

    https://www.rt.com/news/453564-scorpion-stings-student-canada-flight/

  5. “With your permission, you give us more information about you, about your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches. We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”
    Eric Schmidt

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