Verizon Draws Fire For Monitoring App Usage, Browsing Habits 136
An anonymous reader writes "'We're able to view just everything that they do,' Bill Diggins, U.S. chief for the Verizon Wireless marketing initiative, told an industry conference earlier this year. 'And that's really where data is going today. Data is the new oil.' From the article: 'The company this month began offering reports to marketers showing what Verizon subscribers are doing on their phones and other mobile devices, including what iOS and Android apps are in use in which locations. Verizon says it may link the data to third-party databases with information about customers' gender, age, and even details such as "sports enthusiast, frequent diner or pet owner."'"
Re:Root that phone and run a custom ROM (Score:5, Informative)
Doesn't help you if what they're monitoring and analyzing is your upstream data traffic.
Re:PUCS? no more privacy in changing use-agreement (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Should be a limit (Score:4, Informative)
They disclose what they do with the info and offer an "opt-out [verizonwireless.com]" (may need to be a customer to view that page) and if you don't trust that, no one is forcing you to use their services.
"Moral" doesn't mean what you think it means.
Re:Now people have tags (Score:4, Informative)
Verizon's the first, but watch Google
Verizon is hardly first. Telefónica (fifth largest provider in the world) has been collecting this information since forever (and many more, they even log radio tower stats and correlate with traffic). There i
Last time I posted this I got modded troll for pointing out naked emperor :)
Users are not customers anymore. Today big data is the commodity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzS83BGdWco [youtube.com]