NSA style snooping...@ your neighborhood watering hole (I mean,coffee shop)

[la_fille_intellectuelle]

This makes me sick so I’m just going to link to this article & be happy that I’ve done my good deed for the day.Slowly I’ve realized that we as humans are no longer valued as what we are,people,just trying to make it in this world.

NOW WE ARE NO MORE THAN A COLLECTION OF DATA TO BE STOLEN & SOLD TO CREDIT REPORTING AGENCIES.

THE GOLDEN RULE:IF SOMEONE KNOWS ME,& THEY KNOW DARN WELL IF THEY DO,THEN THEY UNDERSTAND I’M A PRIVATE PERSON.WHEN THE PHONE RINGS,I WON’T PICK IT UP UNLESS I KNOW THAT PERSON IS GOING TO CALL.IF YOU CAN’T JUST LEAVE A VOICEMAIL THEN YOU’RE COUNTING ON A SLIP OF THE TONGUE.

MANY A TIME I’VE FUNNELED CALLS FROM PEOPLE SPEAKING SPANISH LOOKING FOR SOMEONE…I WAS BORN IN THE USA.

How Retail Stores Track You Using Your Smartphone (and How to Stop It)

How Stores Spy on You - Consumer Reports

Retailers turn to smartphones to track customer shopping habits

THIS SCARED ME A LITTLE BUT IT ONLY CONFIRMS THAT I NEED TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT HOW I LIVE MY LIFE.

Au revoir

[Smapti]

…you’re selling what now?

[silenus]

Timeshares, I think.

[buddha_david]

Meh. This type of consumer-targeting data collection has been going on so long, they may as well call the NSA’s proclivities: "Amazon-Style Snooping."

[Czarcasm]

@la_fille_intellectuelle

this makes me sick so i’m just going to link to this article & be happy that i’ve done my good deed for the day.slowly i’ve realized that we as humans are no longer valued as what we are,people,just trying to make it in this world.

Now we are no more than a collection of data to be stolen & sold to credit reporting agencies.

The golden rule:if someone knows me,& they know darn well if they do,then they understand i’m a private person.when the phone rings,i won’t pick it up unless i know that person is going to call.if you can’t just leave a voicemail then you’re counting on a slip of the tongue.

Many a time i’ve funneled calls from people speaking spanish looking for someone…i was born in the usa.
How Retail Stores Track You Using Your Smartphone (and How to Stop It) | Lifehacker

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2013/03/how-stores-spy-on-you/index.htm

Retailers turn to smartphones to track customer shopping habits | CTV News

this scared me a little but it only confirms that i need to take a closer look at how i live my life.

Au revoir
:d

WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT ME?

Aloha

[not_what_you_d_expect]

I think it’s adios that’s scaring her.

[la_fille_intellectuelle]

Walmart Rolling Out Facial Recognition System To Identify Customers!!!

Google Glass App Identifies Everyone With Criminal Records Using Facial Recognition

- YouTube

Next time you decide to stroll into WalMart for your toothpaste (organic NON sodium laurel/alaureth anything/NON flouride is the best),the cameras in the shelves know what brand you picked up.
This growing entrusion of government in our lives is scaring me since for the longest time I was very unaware.

Noone seems to be interested in the fact that anyone with evil intentions could use this technology to violate your privacy.

[Czarcasm]

@la_fille_intellectuelle

Next time you decide to stroll into WalMart for your toothpaste (organic NON sodium laurel/alaureth anything/NON flouride),the cameras in the shelves know what brand you picked up.
This growing entrusion of government in our lives is scaring me since for the longest time I was very unaware.

1. Cameras don’t “know” anything.
2. Walmart isn’t a government agency.

[Alley_Dweller]

@la_fille_intellectuelle

Next time you decide to stroll into WalMart for your toothpaste (organic NON sodium laurel/alaureth anything/NON flouride is the best),the cameras in the shelves know what brand you picked up.

And so does the scanner at the check out.

It seems rather redundant to record what I’m buying with cameras in every shelf when they can just get all my purchases at the cash register. (I suppose it’s a deterrent to shoplifting.)

[El_Kabong]

OK, I’m completely lost. What does Wal-Mart collecting shopper data have to do with the government, and with Spanish-speaking people calling on the telephone?

[jtur88]

@la_fille_intellectuelle

Next time you decide to stroll into WalMart for your toothpaste (organic NON sodium laurel/alaureth anything/NON flouride is the best),the cameras in the shelves know what brand you picked up.

Maybe so, but they don’t know who I am. They only know that somebody picked it up. Only the credit card company knows WHO picked it up.

[toofs]

@El_Kabong

OK, I’m completely lost. What does Wal-Mart collecting shopper data have to do with the government, and with Spanish-speaking people calling on the telephone?

Nada.

[grude]

So use cash to buy it, ever heard of that? Turn off bluetooth and wifi on your device when you’re not using them.

I knew some guys that regularly shoplifted tens of thousands of dollars of merch from walmart, and returned some of it. Also got all their food there. They would just bag the shit in the store and make sure there were no beeper tags, and walk out like they came from a checkout. They said walmart was the easiest to steal from, so sure walmart has a NSA style surveillance op IDing customers off facial recog lol.

[Chefguy]

Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland.

[Doctor_Jackson]

@toofs

Nada.

How can you think of swimming at a time like this?

[Filbert]

@la_fille_intellectuelle

Next time you decide to stroll into WalMart for your toothpaste (organic NON sodium laurel/alaureth anything/NON flouride is the best),the cameras in the shelves know what brand you picked up.

I normally avoid buying flouride, except when making breadide of course.

In all honesty, what do you possibly think the government would do with the knowledge that you bought a specific brand of toothpaste? I’m really trying to think of anything, sinister or innocent, and I’m coming up with a total blank. Help me out here.

[Chefguy]

@Filbert

I normally avoid buying flouride, except when making breadide of course.

In all honesty, what do you possibly think the government would do with the knowledge that you bought a specific brand of toothpaste? I’m really trying to think of anything, sinister or innocent, and I’m coming up with a total blank. Help me out here.

They can break you by denying you your addiction to Mallomars. The horror.

[Lucky_13]

Has she considered that maybe her current phone number once belonged to someone who spoke Spanish?

[Capt_Kirk]

True story, my ringtone goes…

“Que Malo, Que Soy”

There is a connection to the OP somewhere.

Capt

[Mangetout]

@Alley_Dweller

And so does the scanner at the check out.

It seems rather redundant to record what I’m buying with cameras in every shelf when they can just get all my purchases at the cash register. (I suppose it’s a deterrent to shoplifting.)

8 out of 10 shoplifters prefer brand X.