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Ceffer
2017 Apr 18, 1:42pm
The only way to protect your privacy is to go dark. You're in the Cloud, baby, accept it or get out. You're NSA's bitch.
Dan8267
2017 Apr 18, 2:19pm
Damn Google, I hate them and I love them lol
You love the engineers, the ones who bring you all the products and services, but hate the executives, the ones that treat you like the product. This is actually quite common. Engineers create great things and executives fuck things up.
Dan8267
2017 Apr 18, 2:19pm
I always sign in using Dans account when I post antiamerican shit...
Only a false patriot would consider striving to make one's country better as anti-patriotic.
Dan8267
2017 Apr 18, 2:20pm
And in general Google has become absolutely too powerful. Time to break them up!
Good luck with that. Anti-trust laws went out when Reagan took office.
Patrick
2017 Apr 18, 6:00pm
I'm getting close to living a Google-free life. I use Duckduckgo for search, and just replaced a dying Android phone with an iPhone. Not sure Apple is much better, but I'm sure they're not much worse.
You should always surf the web in "porn mode", though even then sites can set cookies that are very hard to remove.
You should be aggressively pirating movies using the latest tech, all the time. Tracking down copyright violators is practice for tracking down all politically incorrect people. If you can avoid the copyright police, that's a hint that others are not so easily able to find you either.
The main problem is inconvenience. Pretty much all privacy-enhancing behavior is inconvenient or expensive. They make it very easy to give away all your personal info.
One of the few good things about ISIS is that they learn these things out of necessity and are quick to pass on what they know about security.
Your every keystroke is captured.
"You have OWNERS"
And you have nothing.
Wonder who's listening to your conversations?
APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says
Run linux in a VM
Use TOR and observe all the guidelines in the set up.
Don't use Facebook or any other of that crap. It's rapeware.
and use a encrypted proxy server.
Patrick
2017 Apr 19, 2:05pm
Actually, that does not work:
Does removing myself from WhitePages listing remove me from WhitePages premium as well?
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No. Once you remove yourself from WhitePages basic site, your listing is advertised on the Premium site. It will NEVER give you the URL you need to remove your information. Additionally, they require you to jump through multiple hoops filling out a manual form and giving them even more information to verify (or rather collect more data). But again you need the URL to remove anything. It's a vicious cycle. Contact your state legislators to initiate congressional intervention. It truly is the only way to stop this kind of unauthorized data linking and collection.
Worse than that, to even attempt to remove yourself, you have to give them your current phone number, which is hardly enhancing your privacy.
The right solution is find the people running WhitePages and mercilessly expose everything about them.
Registrant Organization: WhitePages, Inc.
Registrant Street: 1301 5TH AVE
Registrant City: SEATTLE
Registrant State/Province: WA
Registrant Postal Code: 98101-2603
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.2069735100
BayArea
2017 Apr 19, 2:11pm
Patrick, I noticed this as well and stopped pursuing it.
How are they legally getting away with this??
Patnet,
Are there any precautions, opt-outs, or steps than can be taken to protect our online privacy?
I've already set my LinkedIn profile to private, deleted all my social media accounts.
There is a site in particular that seems to provide more information than I'd care to have publicly available: whitepages.com
I'm not sure how they have the information that they do and I really don't know of a way to get rid of it.
And in general Google has become absolutely too powerful. Time to break them up!