{"id":12651,"date":"2011-10-13T12:36:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T17:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=12651"},"modified":"2024-01-06T06:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T12:03:09","slug":"verizon-courteously-opts-you-in-to-its-new-tracking-service-heres-how-to-opt-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/10\/verizon-courteously-opts-you-in-to-its-new-tracking-service-heres-how-to-opt-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon courteously opts you in to its new tracking service, here’s how to opt out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Privacy is a serious issue that grinds the gears of many consumers and advocates around the world. Just take Facebook’s controversial privacy controls that can be absolutely mind-boggling at times, and it is widely known that whatever personal information you don’t put a block on gets recorded and used for internal analysis and is also sold to third parties (of course, your personal information is not transferred). Well the mobile market is a gold mine when it comes to people’s habits and Verizon Wireless is definitely not going to be left out in the cold in such a lucrative data mining opportunity. Knowing that your privacy is also quite important to you and that it would be a hassle to annoy you with notices that you are being tracked, Verizon updated its privacy policy and automatically opted you in to its new tracking service. How considerate of them! Even more considerate, they claim that they are doing this for your own benefit by using this information to send better and more relevant ads your way! Here’s the list of things Verizon will track:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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