I've noticed a pattern recently. I'm not sure how long it's going on or if it's been spotted before. I've made sure it's not pareidolia on my part, just so I'm not putting Alex Jones to shame.
Recently on my friend's snapchat stories, I've noticed things like how someone would post several selfies of themselves at a gym and afterwards it would show me an advertisement of things like whey or body building related products. Or how a friend of mine would put up videos of themselves in college and I would be shown advertisements of how a certain college is now taking on applicants immediately after. I've seen this with a lot of things and noticed it's heavily related to where the snapchat pictures/videos are taken. I've also confirmed that all these people have their location settings on, which you can see through the app if allowed.
Has Snapchat committed a Zucc-level intrusion of privacy? Are we going full 1984? What do, Sup Forums ?
Eli Moore
>being on social media >having friends to talk to Lmao
Carter Nelson
>Snapchat is possibly breaching privacy using location. Dumb enough to let them take your facial recognition data and sell it.
If a product is free you are the product. One way or another a company makes money, whether through selling user data or ads you are the product.
Benjamin Baker
Yes every free app sells your personal details that you agreed to hand over to them when you clicked that little install button.
Ethan Allen
Not really that different to facebook friends desu. I don't care about most of these people but that's besides the point if your location is being used to target you with advertisements.
Aiden Cruz
>GUISE IS THE INTERNET SPYING ON ME? nigga google knows where and when youre buying your groceries
Hudson Lopez
Your location settings though? We've seen Facebook help arrest people over hate speech in Germany over posting nazi memes, so what reason is there not to suggest in the future companies will use your location and private snaps as evidence to give to arrest you?
Julian Smith
It is also being sold to various 3 letter agencies.
Walmart has facial recognition cameras, If you are wanted by the police don't go to Walmart...
Ever wonder why you always see people getting arrested out front?
Kayden Roberts
lol then wtf can we do about it? Just boycott these services, use proxies to go on chan and lose out as socialising evolves alongside social media? No one's ever gonna pay for a product for security if everyone else is using the free version.
Michael Anderson
Companies are working on facial recognition with a threat matrix, you could be arrested before even committing a crime.
In New York City every camera feeds into one NYPD system that monitors faces to see when they come and go and where. Another system tracks cars.
Jace Lee
What they want is every public building to have these. They probably want chips they can automatically scan too.
Ryan Clark
Is there any way to stop this big brother level shit? Or do we have to choose either going full AnPrim or conforming to this shit?
Angel Lopez
Wouldn't be surprised if the terms of service of snapchat state that they "sell anonymised user data with third party advertisers"
If a service is free, you are the product that they're selling.
Nathan Rogers
>trusting a company that makes a majority of its money from illicit CP sales
Benjamin Garcia
If it gets bad enough there will be a revolution, they will already be preparing for that though.
I guess just learn to love the bomb or rise up against it and wake people up. I would probably recommend to anyone trying to stop this to learn Linux and python so that you can hack into these things.
Alexander Lee
What if there's not a revolution? There was never a revolution to end taxation, never a revolution to end crooked cops, but that shit just progressively gets worse and people don't care because they can live with it. Plus people aren't going to ditch a free product that the majority still use. A good example is how youtube is a monopoly.
Jordan Campbell
>has this closed-source software which provides me free-of-charge service despite users manufacturing insane amount of bandwidth someone in the end has to pay for breached my demands on privacy?
Yes.
Lincoln Ross
Everything is an oligopoly. People need to know this in order to revolt. So making it apparent would be the first priority.
In 1911 the United States Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil was an illegal monopoly. This was the end to oil monopolies, they got smart and teamed up to make oligopolies and now they own the world.
Joseph Diaz
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Elijah Hill
Cool but how do we know how much data (((They're))) mining? How do we know google doesn't have a gun to our heads with all our private information?
Robert Anderson
But we got to end net neutrality!
Camden Morgan
Lol, do you even know what SnapMap is? It tracks your location constantly for all your friends to see. Its really creepy and seems pointless other than for stalking purposes. Make sure you don't have it activated.
Grayson Rogers
Better yet, don't have facebook, snapchat or google installed on your phone at all.
Adam Lewis
Snapmap was what I was referring to in my original post. How do you know turning off your location really turns off your location?
Ian Gomez
They have everything. Your name, your address, your passports, your phone numbers, your email contacts, your SSN, your credit cards, your drivers license, your location, your shopping trends, your likes and dislikes, your political views.
Deactivating it doesn't stop the app from tracking you, it only stops your friends and yourself from seeing the app track you.
Oliver Torres
What should I do to keep them from knowing all that junk?
Xavier Reyes
Maybe that stops snapchat from seeing you, I don't know. It doesn't stop triangulation with cell phone towers though.
Angel Clark
Well you are lucky because right now they cant sort through all the data without AI. So unless they are looking for you specifically they wont see you.
If you are not worried about it then you don't have to do anything, if you are you could go off the grid, that is a lonely way to live though.
Nathan Hill
>use any social media >have a smart phone >have an Xbox one >have a smart tv >cctv cameras in every store/gas station/public building >worried about your privacy
user, it’s too late.
Jackson Cook
What if Alex Jones is a plug used to make the masses believe people who realise this shit are just as crazy as Alex Jones is painted to be? What if shit like the russians hacking the election is made seem plausible to the public but shit like this happening right in front of us is being frames to be a crackhead's belief's?
Isaiah Rogers
If it's free, you're paying with your information. How did you not realize this?
Dylan Evans
Facebook selling likes is different to your location being used against you.
David White
>Never a revolution to end taxes Because you need taxes for a government >Never a revolution to end crooked cops w h a t a r e b o d y c a m s
Nolan Torres
What the hell is selling likes? You mean ad revenue? That isn't enough to make a profit, much less keep the service sustainable.
Julian Ramirez
Facebook keeps track of what everyone likes, and companies buy that information so they can target people with ads.
If John likes tons of star wars memes, Star Wars will pay to have their video game ads target John.
Angel Moore
Like I said, not enough to make a profit.
Elijah Lewis
Are you literally this retarded? > meme flag Oh wait nvm...
Brandon Garcia
Not exactly a revolution or a real change with cops.
Andrew Reed
>possibly
Michael Myers
OMG DOES SOMEONE STILL NOT KNOW THAT THE INTERNET COMPANIES ARE CORPORATE GLOBALIST BIG BROTHER? Alex Jones has nothing too do with this, were you such a scared little baby frightened of the media calling you a conspiracy theorist to believe the warnings - then you deserve to be spied on.