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Verizon Sues to Stop Privacy Rules; Wants to Sell Call Data
Jake writes "Verizon has asked a federal court to stop state regulators from enforcing new privacy rules that would prohibit telephone companies from using or sharing details about customers' calling habits without permission. Verizon, which serves nearly 1 million customers across Washington state, had plans to begin a data-sharing system that allowed the company and its affiliates to collect information on when, where and how often customers make telephone calls. It would use that data to sell new products and services to customers." "We believe we have certain rights as a corporation to use this information," Verizon's PR person says. Great.
I really really want to sell private information about others
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Can't I PUH-LEASE Daddy
Only if they will sell the data to telemarketers. And then sell me telemarketing blocking services. Then sell the telemarketers blocking work arounds. That would be cool. Oh wait, they already do that!
TO start following some of these yahoos around with a camera, and report their every move. See how they like it.
1:00 had lunch
2:15 in bathroom for 15 minutes.
2:30 goofed off
3:00 met girlfrined for lunch
4:15 called wife to say he was going to be late.
4:45 left office
6:00 went to girlfreind, see attached picture with her street address and bra size.
6:15- 8:35 freaky circus sex, see film from clandestine video hidden in tree.
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Welcome to the information age. The question is no longer whether you are being served, but to whom.
Can you hear me now? Good! Now GO TO HELL!
Duffman can never die! Only the actors who play him!
All they need is a recording that plays everytime you pick up your phone...
"Press the * key to acknowledge acceptance of the EULA in operating this phone..."
Australia having a higher rating of phone taps than the US
I think all prisons have their phones tapped.
Wish I was a Physics Genius
I recently got a letter from Verizon telling me to call them to opt out if you didn't want them to make sales pitches to you. I called, and at the end of the call, he tried to sell me additional services (to help me avoid unwanted sales pitches).
Somehow, I only swear on the phone when I call Verizon...
-- Don't Tase me, bro!
You have the right to choose a different phone company.
What makes you say that?
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Do ya feel happy-go-lucky, punk?
Something inside of me wants to start killing the people responsible for the way things are getting, but I don't know who to blame and I don't know what would help. All I know is that something needs to be done before it gets much worse and I...
I don't even know. Somewhere along the line the American Dream became the American Nightamre. Growing up, I used to hope I'd be able to live better than my parents; these days I just hope I'll be able to pay back my student loans. Yet still, at every corner somebody is trying to sell me something and somebody else is making money by telling them about my cock size so that they know how to actually get me to buy it.
My ancestors came here looking for streets of gold & rivers of cream; a chance at a fresh start; the land of Golden Opportunity. I look arround me and I see the land of greed, where I'm stuck paying for the mistakes of those that came before me, of living my life so that Corporations can thrive.
At least the French knew who to execute when they had their revolution.
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
However, the watriess sould not be allowed to stick her finger down your throat to make room "in case you want dessert"
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Temptation Island, the Candid Camera Edition: Follow a bunch of people with the best technology you can put your hands on, WITHOUT them knowing or consenting. Petty privacy invasion allowed, like hidden cameras and microphones in subjects homes, offices, etc. Broadcast from a server hidden somewhere in Central Asia or Eastern Europe. Each 3 or 4 days you let paying viewers vote for the participant with the most boring life. The most voted is dropped. Go on until there is only one person left.
I bet those guys at ECHELON play this game all the time.
Verizon announced a merger today with the Department of Homeland Security.
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Safeway lets you type in your phone number as your card number. I always put (my area code)555-1212. If they want my phone number they can call information like everyone else!
Follow a bunch of people with the best technology you can put your hands on, WITHOUT them knowing or consenting.
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That sounds like the Monty Python sketch called "Blackmail"
But right now, yes everyone is the moment you've all been waiting for; it's time for our 'Stop the Film' spots! As you know, the rules are very simple. We have taken a film which contains compromising scenes and unpleasant details which could wreck a man's career. (gasp) But, the victim may 'phone me at any moment, and stop the film. But remember the money increases as the film goes on, so,.... the longer you leave it, the more you have to pay! Tonight, 'Stop the Film' visits the little Thames-side village of Thames Ditton.
(music--announcer's voice over)
Well, here we go, here we go now, let's see...where's our man. Oh yes, there he is behind the tree now.... Mm, boy, this is fun, this is good fun.... He looks respectable, so we should be in for some real...real shucks here.... A member of the government, could be a brain surgeon, they're the worst.... WHOW! Look at the *size* of that.....briefcase. Aah, yes, he's, he's up to the door, rung the doorbell now.... O-oh, who's the little number with the nightie and the whip, eh? Heh-heh. Doesn't look like his mother....
I think that I will start harvesting every last bit of information that I can about any employee or business partner of any company that behaves in this manner, and then proceed to make THEIR information available free. I'm saying post entire lists with every available name, phone number, email address and even their personal information if I come across it, all over the internet in thousands of locations, and actually call telemarketing firms and provide the lists to every telemarketer firm that I can get my hands on. That way they can't get any business done, since they will be recieving literally thousands of unsolicited contacts per day. See how they like it for a change, and also send a polite (anonymous) email to everyone on your list, explaining exactly why they are recieving all of these contacts all of a sudden, and urge them to stop selling customer's information before more *drastic* measures have to be taken. If they can sell my information, is there any reason that I should give their's away free?