Iām reading a book at the moment Data and Goliath, itās absolutely insane the amount of information about you that is tracked online. Obviously people are becoming more aware of this and Iāve read a lot on the area but itās still staggering.
Facebook track your movement across any page you visit which also has a Facebook like button. An innocent seeming site like Dictonary.com puts over 200 tracking cookies onto your PC. Sites like thatās main revenue stream is now from allowing marketing and data collection companies to push cookies to your device via their website.
Getting back to your caseā¦ I assume you missus looked at these shoes online and the logic here is that your are her spouse and they flashed up to prompt you to buy as a present.
Thatās what I assumed too, but she is adamant she never looked them up online and that they only entered her head after a discussion with a work colleague. She must have looked them up somewhere though.
This has happened both me and my roommate recently. My roommate was in Dundrum shopping and was close to the Lifestyle Sports store when she got a text from Lifestyle about some offer or other. She thought it was weird but I dismissed it as coincidence and told her she was an idiot. The same thing happened me a few weeks later. What the fuck?? I have GPs tracking off on my phone for virtually everything, how did this happen?
Accelerometers, sensors used to track movement of smartphones, are used in countless apps, including pedometers, playing games and monitoring sleep. Research from the University of Illinoisā Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering found that minuscule imperfections during the manufacturing process create a unique āfingerprintā on the generated data.
The gathered data can be used to identify you as it is sent to the cloud for processing, bypassing privacy settings concerning the withholding of location data and with no need to discern your phone number or SIM card number, leaving you potentially vulnerable to cyber attack.
āJust by looking at the data, we can tell you which device itās coming from. Itās almost like another identifier," said graduate student Nirupam Roy, who worked on the project. āEven if you erase the app in the phone, or even erase and reinstall all software, the fingerprint still stays inherent. Thatās a serious threat.ā
I was reading earlier about the latest tracking technology being pushed by marketers.
Itās basically an inaudible, high frequency sound, embedded into adverts. This sound acts as a beacon to software that installs on your mobile phone as a part of some apps, which then ties the user of a say a laptop or Smart TV to their various mobile devices.
There is nothing you can do to stop your phone responding to the beacon, other than uninstall all your apps. It is not known which apps contain the software.
did anyone ever hear the rumour that Paul McCartney was killed in a car crash in 1966 and was replaced by an actor for public appearances, I have been really delving into it lately
