Privacy ?

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Why do people buy a device to let others listen in?
Apple contractors 'regularly hear confidential details' on Siri recordings

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Facebook gets $5,000,000,000 fine from Federal Trade Commission.

Despite repeated promises to its billions of users worldwide that they could control how their personal information is shared, Facebook undermined consumers choices

Facebook $5,000,000,000 fine

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This article is more than a year old.  But I just ran across it.

Facebook suspends another analytics firm amid questions over surveillance

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/20/facebook-crimson-hexagon-analytics-data-surveillance   

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Be cautious who you give your telephone number to

Separately, some people complained this year that the social network allowed them to look up a person's Facebook profile just by typing a phone number into its search bar.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/technology/personaltech/i-shared-my-phone-number-i-learned-i-shouldnt-have.html

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Here is an email I got today offering to help me use "facebook pixel" to track you.
Yes, this means even if you are not using facebook, facebook is tracking
you.  No way I would subscribe to this crap.
No way would I help them track you, profile you, build a dossier on you.We do NOT use the facebook pixel!

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monitoring implants' in iPhones

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/30/hackers-monitoring-implants-iphones-google-says

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The doorbell-camera company Ring has quietly forged video-sharing partnerships with more than 400 police forces across the United States, granting them potential access to homeowners' camera footage and a powerful role in what the company calls the nation's "new neighborhood watch."

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Doorbell-camera-firm-Ring-has-partnered-with-400-14383981.php

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One reason I wont use Ring or any other of those "subscription" security cam companies. Just buy a REAL one, preferably power over ethernet ones. You can set them up so you can view them online also WITHOUT paying some monthly fee for cheesy cameras.

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More sad news about facebook.

"tens of thousands" of apps ...  misusing and mishandling data"

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-suspends-apps-cambridge-analytica-data-misuse-developers-investigation-2019-9

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Read this.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html   

Did you read that?  Seriously... go read that.
They can figure out where employees of the pentagon or cia live.  They can figure out where you have lunch.
Put your phone down.  Turn it off.   

If you 'need' a cellphone, have one for work and leave it there. Never take it away from work.
Have another cellphone for home. (Or better yet, just use a landline and save big time.)If you 'need' a cellphone at the gym, get another phone and leave it there in your locker.

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US Taxpayers Funds Program With Free Android Phones For The Poor — But With Permanent Chinese Malware

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/01/09/us-funds-free-android-phones-for-the-poor---but-with-permanent-chinese-malware

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Before you use a free anti-virus program (or any free software), ask yourself "what is in it for them?"

The findings prompted him to call out the extensions as spyware. In response, Google and Mozilla temporarily removed them until Avast implemented new privacy protections. Still, Palant has been trying to understand what Avast means when it says it "de-identifies" and "aggregates" users' browser histories when the antivirus company has refrained from publicly revealing the exact technical process.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-cost-of-avasts-free-antivirus-companies-can-spy-on-your-clicks