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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Your phone/plan carrier using voice data to make a marketing profile is well documented actually. This data is purchased and verified and resold by meta, or in some cases bought and used by alphabet for GAS. Cacti can show you outgoing data for every device on a network, and you can see data being sent from a phone in signed packets going to your carrier when you're not "actively using" it. It seems like you know about network monitoring tools but you haven't actually used them, just talked about them in reference to data collection.

"Why buy the cow" here is also easily answered: not everyone uses Facebook, a fair number of users will deactivate their facebook page but continue to use messenger.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you share this well documented documents?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The july 2017 verizon data leak was made public.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, with lots of leaked customer data. Nothing about using voice data to make a marketing profile. Unless there is a second leak I don't know about.

But judging by your inability to link it you just made it up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Please think about what you've just confirmed about yourself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I confirmed you made it up and can't link a source.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is the biggest companies like Amazon, Google, ChatGPT, etc... can't perfect voice dictation when I'm talking directly and clearly to my device, but this company has been able to figure it out. And doing it while hiding from the smartphone OS that it's doing it. While the device is at a distance/hidden in my pocket. And is using it just to sell ads.

👍

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your comment? I'm pretty sure yeah it was, and a really old one

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I asked because it was nonsensical and could have been funny if you were imitating the typical internet child comment but here we are with you making no sense and me disappointed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really?... Wow, not only did you copy pasta one of the oldest trolls online but you can't understand how illogical the troll is. And you want to accuse me of being a child?

Your comment was disproved here.... In 2018. And it wasn't a new idea then either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hey! You can't read after all! Rember when I explicitly posted that you can sniff packets going to your phone provider and not these companies? You have zero reading comprehension and a bad attitude, and it's obvious you're more interested in being right than being correct. If googling unrelated drivel articles to a discussion gets you off, you do you I guess

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I'm sorry I proved you wrong to the point you had to resolve yourself to personal attacks. Do you feel better now?