Brokers want to track me....

Anyone talking tinfoil hats...do you drive in numerous states? Just curious because if you do and you listen to nothing but the hundreds and hundreds of local news radio stations out here you really do get a feel for whats going on in the world. It really sucks that we can't ALL get the REAL news daily from OUR entire country. You really have to get around a bit to get it IMO. If it could all be assembled in 1 easy place it would be non stop 24/7 bad friggin news pretty much....

For example....did anyone not from North Ohio hear about the guy they just busted locally after he hacked thousands of phone/tablet/laptop cameras for a decade!!?? The most I ever heard from authorities was, "he had a massive amount of very incriminating and/or embarrassing video on file", along with the other obvious stuff! Malware is malware......PUP's are PUP's......willingly installing garbage apps that have foreign tech support which actually pre-emptively/aggressively call you and say you will lose the load (you are already under) has zero place in my world you can have it and stick it where the sun don't shine.

My PC and electronics are spotless and controlled. (edgewaterpcdotcom for 25 years).

I have seen with my own 2 eyes things that are not even written about in tech world articles.

 

Man that TWIC is golden though....cuts the BS right away...if they ask for it/use it that is...

 

Dude, news is not news, it is entertainment and treated like entertainment.

We don't have journalists, we have opinion givers, people who depend on others to gather facts.

I have so many examples of crap reporting, the one I hate so much is leaving out information that we need, like telling us where there is an accident, just a blanket statement - there is an accident on I-94 in Detroit, you may want to go around - really ********, where is it?

 

I can guaranty certain good paying freight REQUIRES tracking. But you won't see the tqls and chrs of the industry peddling it.

 

To me it's no different than a shipper or receiver wanting you to wear a vest, or stay in your truck, drop the trailer and wait over there.

When I did concrete, if you were inside the containment area at Palo Verde Nuclear Plant, several gentlemen with 16's watched every, and I do mean every, move you made maybe 5 or 8 feet away at all times.

When you entered the plant, full search, same as going on base, they take your license and put it in a little safe, instant background check, dog, the whole nine.

 

That's a whole lot more than the nuclear research facility I delivered to in Virginia. Went inside the wall and all they did was hold onto my electronics. (You don't realize how much you have till they count it out.) No M16s or anything, but a whole lot of razor wire. They did go over me with Geiger counters, though.

 

Well Palo Verde is the biggest in North America.
That's inside the second level.
First level they are pretty stiff as well, and you never exit the cab unless instructed to do so.

 

BWXT Lynchburg was where I delivered. Hard to keep me in the cab when you're delivering flatbed.

 

Here's what bugs me about tracking and data slurping: I'm out there working for a living and some guy with nerdy glasses and a smirk on his face is sitting there with his feet up making money off my data.

So you go to KFC and think it's no big deal, but he sells that info to them. You become a walking data generator for his company. And profit generator.

Nearly the entire internet economy is based off tracking, snooping, slurping and advertising now, Facebook and Google are both advertising agencies, and you and your preferences are their product which they sell to advertisers.

You want to go on strike, here's a place to start, you'll never be paid anyway. Use their stuff but don't give them data. I keep Location services and GPS turned off. It's not like they care about me, they care about what I do and where I go and who I talk to. It's an authoritarian dream, esp. to have it voluntarily given, to have people pay to be spied on. Read up on GPDR and the people who are fighting the slurp.

I bought an unlocked phone, can go with any carrier, put a Verizon SIM in it, have no info or account on it. I don't save my phone book to the cloud (although Google probably slurps it anyway, so I use odd names for contacts that won't fit nicely in database fields. but are easy for me to recognise) and have no account at an app store, much less any apps.

I did sideload Firefox because I can run Noscript and uBlock Origin and block all ads and pop ups, I use the Chrome browser that is stock from Google for stuff like Craigslist authentication when I want contact info for an ad, otherwise nothing of personal interest.

But you wanna give away information that advertising clients used to pay thousands of dollars an hour to have gathered, be my guest. I don't like those kind of people (advertisers and salesmen, general shiny shoe types), and I'm not giving them any more freebies than I have to.

My current employer wanted me to put the Peoplenet app and some other app I've forgotten on my phone at orientation. It would make it convenient for me, they said. The HR guy turned red in the face when I refused nicely and kindly.

Here's what it does, right from the Play Store... do you want your employer to have this?

This app has access to:
Location

• approximate location (network-based)
• precise location (GPS and network-based)

Phone

• read phone status and identity

Photos/Media/Files

• read the contents of your USB storage
• modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Storage

• read the contents of your USB storage
• modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Wi-Fi connection information

• view Wi-Fi connections

Device ID & call information

• read phone status and identity

Other

• receive data from Internet
• view network connections
• full network access
• change your audio settings
• control vibration
• prevent device from sleeping

 

So basically you're angry because someone has built a better mouse trap?