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pcernie
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EE defends user-data selling scheme http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22510792Well how nice... FYI. _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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Amnesia10
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Why would the police be interested in anonymised mobile user data?
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big_D
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Possibly useful for demos etc. they can learn where groups of people were and how they moved etc. it can be used for post event analysis...
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Amnesia10
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But that presumes that people actually used their phones. Though if this is simply tracking locations of all users that opens up another problem. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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l3v1ck
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Glad I'm not with them.
Though of course there's nothing to say the other networks aren't doing something similar too.
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mikepgood
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As an EE customer I object to this. And I will tell them as I leave.
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Amnesia10
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This might simply be the tip of the iceberg. Though what practical use would it be to know what apps are installed on peoples phones. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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jonbwfc
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Datamining. The information of itself might not be useful, but it might correlate strongly with other information that is useful i.e. people who buy a given set of apps also tend to buy certain brands of other products or some such. It's pretty much reached the point now where every piece of information about you no matter how trivial has some value, because every piece allows marketing companies to more closely define the model of your behaviour and therefore target marketing at you better.
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Amnesia10
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I can see the commercial benefits, but that does not explain the police interest. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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