Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subred…
Oh, my sweet, summer child. Maybe not phone calls (yet?), but they sell lots of other data they maintain about you. Location data, specifically, is a hot seller.
Imagine if phone companies started selling our conversations without giving us a cent for the content.
Oh, my sweet, summer child. Maybe not phone calls (yet?), but they sell lots of other data they maintain about you. Location data, specifically, is a hot seller.
Is that where Google Maps gets traffic data from?
Don’t a lot of calls get recorded now anyway? (I’m just asking, I don’t actually know)
Not without the consent of at least one party to the call, no. Unlike most forms of invasive spying, that one is illegal in many jurisdictions.
Of course security agencies are allowed to make recordings, pretty broadly in the US.
https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/five-things-to-know-about-nsa-mass-surveillance-and-the-coming-fight-in-congress
I’m talking about businesses here. Government security agencies generally aren’t bound by law or morality at all.