So Google is mapping my every move?

[PA Ram]

Call me ignorant.

I had no idea this happens. Really. None.

I found out today, because the other day I got a message on my phone(Android)that Google Awesome had changed a photo of mine with some sort of special effect. Than I realized that Google was just collecting my photos(without my knowledge) and I was just reading how to disable the feature when I also found out about all of the other privacy stuff Google does.

So one of those things is "location". I went to a thing called Google Dashboard and signed in and there's a feature called, "location". So anyway--it's a map with dots and lines of every place I've been, every day. If I click on a different day I get that day's activities.

Of course it's using my phone to track me.

But this is crazy to me. Yes--now that I know I can take steps to change it(I hope)but the fact is I did not KNOW they were doing it.

It amazes me how little privacy there is anymore. I can just see Google collecting my next colonoscopy photos for "GoogleColon". Colon recognition technology.

Is it me or does something seem wrong about all of this? Is it just the price of technology?

Is it just something we have to accept in today's world?

I'm not tech savvy. I admit that. I'm a slow learner with all of this.

But this just feels wrong.

 

[PA Ram]

Here's how to turn it off, if it's on.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?source=gsearch

 

[PA Ram]

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-delete-and-disable-your-google-location-history/

 

[Prime Time]

So Google is mapping my every move? They must be extremely bored then.

 

[PA Ram]

So Google is mapping my every move? They must be extremely bored then.

Lol!

You know, maybe it's a generational thing too. I mean---kids today are growing up with this and they are used to "managing" all of this. These days you have to be aware of passwords and settings and so on. I remember taking a snapshot and watching the miracle of it developing before my eyes as I waved the picture in the air.

Today's world is a balance between privacy and ever advancing technology. How much privacy will we have in the future? Will it matter? Is that something that future generations won't much care about? My wife doesn't now--she posts EVERYTHING on Facebook as it is. Maybe I'm old fashioned. Maybe it shouldn't bother me. I'm not doing anything illegal or interesting for that matter. But the idea just bothers me. With facial recognition technology I can walk into a store one day and have them welcome me by first name. Maybe they have all my usual purchases ready to go. But something just feels "off' about all of that. Like I said, maybe it's just me. My wife is always "checking in" on Facebook and I'm always telling her: "Who cares that we went for pizza?" Or...."Do they really need to know about that mole on your back?"

I guess I'll be dragged kicking and screaming into the world of Big Brother.

But I'll probably end up there anyway--just like everyone else.

 

[Prime Time]

Lol!

You know, maybe it's a generational thing too. I mean---kids today are growing up with this and they are used to "managing" all of this. These days you have to be aware of passwords and settings and so on. I remember taking a snapshot and watching the miracle of it developing before my eyes as I waved the picture in the air.

Today's world is a balance between privacy and ever advancing technology. How much privacy will we have in the future? Will it matter? Is that something that future generations won't much care about? My wife doesn't now--she posts EVERYTHING on Facebook as it is. Maybe I'm old fashioned. Maybe it shouldn't bother me. I'm not doing anything illegal or interesting for that matter. But the idea just bothers me. With facial recognition technology I can walk into a store one day and have them welcome me by first name. Maybe they have all my usual purchases ready to go. But something just feels "off' about all of that. Like I said, maybe it's just me. My wife is always "checking in" on Facebook and I'm always telling her: "Who cares that we went for pizza?" Or...."Do they really need to know about that mole on your back?"

I guess I'll be dragged kicking and screaming into the world of Big Brother.

But I'll probably end up there anyway--just like everyone else.

My wife is a very private person and uses zero social sites. I use Facebook to stay in touch with my son, his wife, and a couple of close friends. My wife and son went to London a few years ago and told me that there are cameras everywhere. America will be like that eventually if it isn't already and we just don't know about it yet. The only way to have total privacy these days is to disconnect from the internet and live in a cave somewhere.

 

[PA Ram]

Unfortunately, you're not even safe in a cave.

 

[PA Ram]

Okay--I just hopped off here and onto Facebook where I posted that link about the story. A friend of mine on there was on it at once complaining about lack of privacy and so on and so on. So anyway when I just bounced back there he has a post about taking his dad to the urologist---with a map showing which urologist.

Lol!

 

[Angry Ram]

Okay--I just hopped off here and onto Facebook where I posted that link about the story. A friend of mine on there was on it at once complaining about lack of privacy and so on and so on. So anyway when I just bounced back there he has a post about taking his dad to the urologist---with a map showing which urologist.

Lol!

Hahahaha that's awesome man. That just made today a good day.

Honestly, I don't care if they are mapping my every move. I'll wave to them.

 

[Ramsey]

My wife and I share the same Facebook site. Now I can't go shopping for wife's birthday presents on Ebay or Amazon without the items popping up on our Facebook site seconds later. "Are you still interested in naughty Black Bodices and Steam Punk Corsets or Eau de Paris Skunk perfume? I can't keep my anniversary gifts for my wife or Christmas presents a secret.

On the other hand...I am reminded of my gift ideas and I will never forget an anniversary like 2009 again!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knp9-GY6fHE

 

[bluecoconuts]

Home - School - Home - School - Home - School - Work - Home - School - Work - Home - School - Work - Home - Work - Home - Work - Repeat.


Its some boring location gathering, that's for sure.

 

[beej]

it shows up that I've been all kinds of places that I haven't been. I guess that has something to do with pinging towers, but some of those towers were a long way from where I was.

 

[RamBall]

As long as they dont report to the CHP how fast I get from Tracy to Stockton after work.

 

[RhodyRams]

Want a reality check... Read "Future Crime" by Marc Goodman

And remember, someone is always watching

 

[LesBaker]

Apple does the same thing without the option to turn it off I was told. I don't know if it's true or not.

PA there are some other things happening too. Do you know what geofencing is?

 

[PA Ram]

Apple does the same thing without the option to turn it off I was told. I don't know if it's true or not.

PA there are some other things happening too. Do you know what geofencing is?

No,what the hell is that? Did they put something in my brain? It couldn't have been anything large.

 

[CGI_Ram]

It is insane the data they are gathering. While they might not be tracking YOU, they are tracking us as it relates to the mainstream things we are doing. Pretty powerful data.

 

[RAMSinLA]

I think all of the info gathering is about sales, profit. At least that's what it's used for now. I bought a new Weber last weekend and I'm getting ads for Weber Grill accessories on some web pages. Coincidence?

 

[Mojo Ram]

I'm still using one of these

so i'm not concerned....but i do feel the same as PA Ram. I'm a fairly private person too, and that shit bothers me.

 

[Mackeyser]

It's worse than anyone imagines.

We're in the gathering stages now, but big data tools are in their infancy.

Analytics is nascent. Arthur C. Clarke said that any sufficiently advanced technology to the uninitiated would seem like magic.

Well, analytics is about to get there for the common man. Target a few years ago predicted that a girl was pregnant based on her purchases. It wasn't intentional. The goal was to increase grocery sales and research showed that people only change stores during life events and by the time the stores could know about that event (change of address, baby announcement, wedding announcement, etc) the decision had already been made. So the analytics department put together a list of 40 items a first trimester woman might buy and if someone purchased a combination of them, they got both baby coupons and target grocery coupons. So, a month later or so a dad in Tennessee comes in raging about why's Target sending his 16 year old daughter baby coupons. Turns out that the analytics department with only a few items in combination could predict the shopping behavior of people AND were correct: the girl was pregnant.

As the tools get exponentially better, we'll see stuff so much better than targeted banner ads that it will look like mind reading. It won't be. It will be ultra sophisticated analytics and other big data tools that allow corporations to track, sort, parse, measure and target with super fine precision exactly which product at exactly which price point they can sell you RIGHT NOW!

And they're using this not only in the marketplace, but politics as well.

Privacy is a barrier, but not the end game.

The eradication of free thought is the endgame. Sound radical I know, but then again, the call to end public education is gaining steam.

When you have no physical privacy AND you have no internal mental capacity to create a private space, then all is lost. There are already people who fit that bill who essentially are Matricized and would be lost WITH privacy or the need or requirement for free thought.

Ask them to "unplug" and they recoil.

I do not wish to share this fate.

I don't know if it's inevitable or if these folks are going to simply going to be the "digital" culture going forward. I dunno. I hope there will be room for choice and free thought. I have my doubts.