Verizon To Start Spying On Customers To Improve Ad Selection

You think they haven't always known? Verizon and the government know everything you do. Verizon is now just going to start selling the information.

As if they didn't already know this information? The cops and ping your phone if they're looking for you. We all live in an "internet Filter Bubble" (my search will bring up different things than yours based on my search history). We are always being watched, recorded, tracked… you name it. The downfall to "progress."

They are ALL spying.. only news I get now is entertainment & celebrity gossip… if you go to those articles you will see. Give it a try, visit only political, celeb, etc.. for a few days & watch what you get on your home page. Another way to manipulate people lol.

As if they didn't already know this information? The authorities can ping your phone if they're looking for you. We all live in an "internet Filter Bubble" (my search will bring up different things than yours based on my search history). We are always being watched, recorded, tracked… you name it. The downfall to "progress."

cut my cell bill in half and you can sell my basic personal information to make more profit. if not then you do not have my permission to use my personal information.

"If you don’t want to let Verizon use your data for marketing purposes, you can log into your account and go to Verizon’s privacy center. On that page, you should find a button that allows you to opt out of the program."".
So…what's the big deal again?

I've been seriously changing my hi-speed IP from Comcast to Verizon. NOW, I won't have to make a decision, since Verizon just made it for me! (And, yes, if guessed that it WILL NOT Verizon, you guessed correctly!

the big deal is you shouldn't have to go to the privacy center and opt out when you're the one paying for a service. You didn't add to that service so it shouldn't be added to your default. If they want to add this crap they should have an 'opt in' option.

Companies already do this. Next time you go to a website to view a product, whether that be Netflix or JCP, watch for the add to appear next time you are on the web, it may be subtle, but it's there, trying to draw you back in to finalize that purchase.

I wonder if going into the private security section really shuts it off though.

I HATE the spying. They already have people's addresses for billing purposes. If they want to target a local ad, they can use that. They don't need to find out more info. I'm leaving expensive companies when my contract is up. They charge an arm and a leg and sell your info too? Hah! Never again.

and this is why I hate Verizon…

What's the real story behind this? it violates the Constitutional right to privacy.

Sure you can "opt out" but how to you verify that they have actually stopped tracking your activity.

actually, if you look carefully at all the small charges on your bill to date, I believe they have been charging everyone a fee monthly (12 cents or something like that) to let them sell your info….so you already pay them to make money selling your info…i know that comcast has been doing this…..

there is an opt out procedure on EVERY smartphone, simply check that…yes, you can say that how do we still now they are not spying with another software? then don't use a smartphone, a computer, a tablet, or anything and live in a shell…

this is the media again spinning things out of control to make it news worthy.

Can you say goodbye to me? You do not have permission to spy on me. Period…

Does anyone think those statellites are there for our protection? Think again, this is the Orwellian society at its best. Think about that.

I think it's cute that anyone thinks we have any privacy anymore LOL

"To be GOVERNED is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."
–French socialist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon