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Apple Patents Bank Account Balance Snooping Tech

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-do-you-got-in-there? dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Apple's latest patent filings shows that the company is looking into displaying advertising based on your available bank balance. If Apple moves forward with this type of technology it would be a complete 360 on its previous direction to not monetize everything they know about customers. Tim Cook has even said multiple times that companies are targeting consumers on multiple fronts and that he's completely against using customer information in this manner and it's not the kind of company he wants Apple to be.

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  1. Complete 360? by slickwillie · · Score: 3, Funny

    So they are back to where they started?

  2. Dogbert's Guide to Conversational Geometry by Geoffrey.landis · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://dilbert.com/strip/1992-...

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    1. Re:Dogbert's Guide to Conversational Geometry by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 3, Funny

      http://dilbert.com/strip/1992-...

      A quantum leap in 360 degree flips. I literally blew up when I read that. But I could care less

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    2. Re:Dogbert's Guide to Conversational Geometry by SJ · · Score: 3, Funny

      But I could care less

      That means you do care
      At least a little

  3. Re:Defensive versus Offensive Patents by NostalgiaForInfinity · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, it's not like Apple has ever been litigious about "their" patents! Oh no, never!

  4. Re:360 degrees is not what you think it is by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 4, Funny
    I checked out the patent.....

    Aaaaaaannnnd What the fuck?

    So to put it mildly, the article is 100 percent Bullshit, a fucking lie, yet will be held as gospel truth by Apple haters.

    This article needs taken down now, It is not factual, and the patent is for available credit, not bank account balance. there is a huie difference in both availability and ethics.

    Thank you Shanghai Bill, for exposing the truth in the increasingly clickbaitish and not at all concerned with actual truth, Slashdot.

    6 Weeks of shame on you Samzenpus. So were you lying, or just performing the worst fact checking since people made up shit ot get Pulitzer prizes?

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