Topic: Companies that are scary - page 10. (Read 2465 times)

You're implying in this that I'm incapable of speaking for the majority of the public instead of myself. And also that all statements are absolute, your thoughts could be influenced but not completely.


I wouldn't even necessarily say that 'idiots' is a fair judgment. It's not that they are incapable of making good decisions for themselves it's just that they either fear doing it or are too lazy to do it. They accept the information that is most readily spoon fed to them by the world.

Does putting a fake address counts? There are some other devices that can change their location if they want to. I know google would ask your location and i guess it already know your location already by sending you a ping to know your IP, so does facebook. I just want to know if this really works on google or facebook.

I quite remember that during the Obama tenure, there was a leak that the USA were spying on Angela Merkel the German Chancellor but in recent times if Facebook alone has been able to influence the elections through fake news then its the most scary corporation currently.

I feel like the best time to make this topic was 10 years ago when people still discussed such things openly without fear. Around 7 years ago, Julian Assange and wikileaks came out with a "if you own a blackberry or iphone: you're screwed" news headline where he claimed he had data proving that there were mass surveillance devices being sold to monitor internet, cell phone and PDA usage of common, everyday, folk.

Link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/01/julian_assange_surveillance/

The private sector has fought surveillance to a degree. You have apple who refused to weaken encryption to help state surveillance programs. There are others in the private sector who fund news and media which publishes objective and accurate data at times to help issues like wealth and wage inequality which could threaten economic stability.

I think if you're looking for frightening surveillance programs, they tend to be more state oriented than in the private sector.

This remind me of a somewhat funny incident that happened three years ago.
I was away on a trip and my (at that time girlfriend) went to a party, then she spent a few more hours with one of her colleagues and her husband.When returning home....no keys. It was 3 AM, she didn't have anyone to call to sleep over, her friends probably turned their phones on silent, no money for a hotel, so at 4 in the morning I was paying online for her hotel room, 100 meters from our home ))).

If we had this Amazon Key things would have been far easier.
But, without it I can still make fun of her every time we arrive late home.

But speaking about AKey if you buy this system just for deliveries why not buy one parcel delivery box and bolt id down on the veranda?
We have one like that in our apartment complex and we had no problems....yet.

Here are some examples for the popular and mighty companies that have the complete track of our profiles:

GOOGLE - Everything that you have ever searched for is saved deeply in the google storages even if you had deleted your history. You age and gender are visible to the google even if you had not told them that because of their comprehensive ads profile of you. If you have the android phone Google will know where you had traveled ( Interesting thing is that your phone also knows how fast you were traveling on your trips - it is good that they dont share that data with the police - yet )

YOUTUBE - They know what kind of videos you have been watching ( be aware of what you are typing in your search field)

FACEBOOK - I dont have to tell you how mighty this company is. Even if you delete your profile all of your data still remains there and if you ever decide to go to Facebook again all the data will magically appear there.

APPLE - Siri is storing every information you had ever asked her ( It would be better that you dont ask her about some strange and criminal things). You never know how will your data be processed later in this time in which our privacy is ruined

AMAZON - They are collecting data about your reading habbits ( hmm, interesting)

Every of this companies is scary in some kind of way because you never know how will your "private" data be used later. If you have strange habits think before you act and remember that every information that you are giving over the network will be stored there and you never know when someone will dig it and use it against you.

To be a big corporation in the world certainly companies must have a lot of tricks to be able to grow the company fastest. I have learned and know that there are many tricks that big companies have used to compete with each other. The market is no different from the battlefield.

We all know that facebook the main useable of all people entire the world so I think the banks usually use Facebook since they know that people becomes aware if they share something.

Even this internet companies know everything I don't think you have fear this things don't do anything but those people who take advantage of our technology  its not what things might do to you we person created this and we have the responsibility if what is the fruit of our doing s

I guess they have to hire ITs which are more expert in keeping data and connections, a fully secured system that has been implemented in your company. In good terms, large-scale companies rarely hacked by hackers itself due to high expertise in technology. There’s nothing to be scared about if we were guided by our professionally inclined Technicians

Most of the time people are intertwined with the internet, so our privacy is compromised with this technology. What scare me the most with this ever growing evolution of technology is that it always able to monitor our daily online activities that seemed to be private. But there is nothing we can do to stop this evolution because as i said earlier, we are intertwined with the internet. We have to live with it especially now that bitcoin caught up with this technology.

Amazon has a service called Amazon Key, which basically is a system that opens the doors for an in-home delivery of packages. Aside from malicious intent of the delivery guy, it's a system that will likely get bypassed at some point, and the tool needed for that will then be sold to everyone interested, mostly thieves. Not in a hundred years will I allow that stuff to be installed in my house. I rather keep picking up packages at the local postal office than 'enjoying' a bit of convenience that might turn out to be nothing but a problem. In most cases people make fun of their grand parents for not being techie, or not having a smartphone and computer, but with everything that's going on, they are the only people with actual privacy. So who's laughing now?

Of all, Google is the most scary. I have never used Amazon, and could avoid using Twitter or Facebook but for Google I don't think there is a way around it. The moment you have a smart phone you are just entangled especially if you're just a basic users and not bothered about staying anonymous on the internet. From the use of Google chrome where sites you visited are used to determine the type of advert you get to see, the apps you downloaded from play store having to grant access to everything on your phone before you can use it, to the synchronisation of all your gadgets.

The most of it is the location deactivation which is more like a dummy because even after putting it off, its still active, to the ability of phone speaker to listen in to conversation you think you are having privately.

We know facebook is more dangerous than others, all data about you can be used by "unidentified organizations", to track and spy on your activities.

Its not that he is not trusting it but there are just scam ICO who's using their advertising tools just to scam people that's why maybe Mr.Zuckerberg implements that altcoin Ads banning law to their site since maybe they doesn't want to get blame by the authorities if their are huge scam leakage will come on future.

I think amazon is a little bit scary since it has your credit card information. Honestly, all online stores are sketchy since you will have a tendency to think their legitimacy and their possibilities of money laundering.

i see facebook dont trust with all cryptocurrency mr zuckerberg the ceo or the founder of facebook dont want cryptocurrency i think thats why they ban all advertisement in their website thats why some of our facebook bounty are deleted.

I think it's Google. We are using much more of their services and they cross-compile a Big Data by that.

People can live without Facebook (like me, I don't use it), but it's very hard to avoid all Google services and work online.

It's really crazy what is going on with facebook on data scratching.

I have seen some experiments that people were talking about something, with their phone on sleep mode, and soon after that when they logged in into their facebook account, they found out that they are getting offered advertisements about the same thing that they were talking about.
For an example, if they were talking about a trip to the USA, they received advertisements from trip advisors.
It should be illegal, what if I will talk with someone about something that I don't want anybody to know, would facebook still process my data?

Also we must accept that there are a lot of easy to manipulate morons who will make the wrong choices.
Hitler was voted by 30% of the Germans, and Stalin would have won fair and square every election.
And this was way before Trump and whatever happened there.



The state is elected by you and me.
If you vote into power people that are going to abuse power, then the fact that your cat is a youtube star is your last problem.
I come from a former communist country ,i f the government wants to enforce something, they will do this without the help of social media.
20 tanks rolling in the streets will make you rethink what's most important in life.

You talk about treating cancer rather that preventing it.


Just as I said above.
If you allow people that are going to abuse power to reach positions of power you are the only one to blame.
Not showing your taste in cars or food on social media won't solve the problem, nor will laws about your privacy.
Prevent the situation, don't try to solve problems that shouldn't be there in the first place.