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Verizon assaults customer privacy

06 Monday Dec 2021

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Misc.

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cell phone, privacy, spyware, verizon

Warning to Verizon customers: Your privacy is under attack!! Read the linked article or details. We have 2 Verizon cell phones. When I checked the settings documented, BOTH LINES HAD SPYING TURNED ON and we NEVER OPTED IN.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/5/22818783/verizon-app-data-collection-browsing-history

How Ring equipment uses 3rd party spyware

28 Tuesday Jan 2020

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Geeky article that details how Ring doorbells and other gear uses 3rd party trackers as spyware. Once again, big tech is not your friend.

link: https://wolfstreet.com/2020/01/28/ring-doorbell-app-packed-with-third-party-trackers-to-surveil-its-own-customers/

Windows 10 Spyware Backported to Win 7 and 8

31 Monday Aug 2015

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Computers

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adware, privacy, spyware, windows

If you’re a Windows user, and I feel sorry for those trapped on Windows, you likely have heard that the upcoming Windows 10 is free and is loaded with Microsoft spyware and adware. Now it turns out that Microsoft is adding this spyware and adware into Win 7 and Win 8 via software updates, a processes called backporting. To make matters even worse, this spyware communicates with Microsoft’s servers through nonstandard channels within the OS, so the only currently known way to circumvent is with a customizable router firewall.

Here’s the link: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/213183-once-more-with-tracking-microsoft-backports-privacy-invading-windows-10-features-to-windows-7-8

How to Keep Yosemite Spotlight From Spying On You

21 Tuesday Oct 2014

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apple, os x, privacy, spyware, Yosemite

Shame on you, Apple!

Yosemite’s enhanced Spotlight search can spy on your searches unless you disable a few features in System Preferences and Safari preferences. Instructions in the link. Come on Apple, are you taking a bad behavior lesson from Google? Very disappointing!!

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/how-to-fix-os-x-yosemite-search/

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