Verizon Up Offers Rewards in Exchange For Customers' Personal Information (wsj.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: A new Verizon rewards program, Verizon Up, provides credits that wireless subscribers can use for concert tickets, movie premieres and phone upgrades. But it comes with a catch: Customers must give the carrier access to their web-browsing history, app usage and location data, which Verizon says it uses to personalize the rewards and deliver targeted advertising as its customers browse the web. The trade-off is part of Verizon's effort to build a digital advertising business to compete with web giants Facebook and Google, which often already possess much of the same customer information. Even though Congress earlier this year dismantled tough privacy regulations on telecommunications providers, Verizon still wants customers to opt-in to its most comprehensive advertising program, called Verizon Selects. Data collected under the program is shared with Oath, the digital-media unit Verizon created when it bought AOL and Yahoo. Since access to data from customers could make it easier to tailor ads to their liking, Verizon hopes the information will help it gain advertising revenue to offset sluggish growth in its cellular business.See a current list of Verizon plans here.
The name was different but they had something like this for a while... the advert talked up the points being able to pay for new phones and so on but the terms were the same as the creepy ones above. They can probably already do all sorts of squicky things with your phone data legally, giving them further permissions seemed unwise.
They can have full access to the VM I create for them for all I care.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Just with more information and not paywalled?
I mean this one.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
To Verizon and AT&T. They're Ma Bell reincarnate, without any of the good parts.
I'd rather have a cell phone with worse reception than give money to those monopolists.
Verizon still wants customers to opt-in to its most comprehensive advertising program
Credit where it's due: they at least made this opt-in instead of opt-out. That's the way this should be handled, and it's also the way Google, Facebook, Instagram, and others should be doing, rather than blanket mass surveillance.
Now, people who sign up for this are foolish. But that's a separate topic.
You're trying to be "better" than google/facebook, but all you're doing is drawing attention to how terrible you all are in the first place.
Learn from the best: Collect absolutely everything you want, bury the consent in the ToS, and if anyone complains tell them to fuck off because you're too big to avoid doing business with. Your competitors will soon follow your lead and within a year or two everything you're now so visibly guilty about doing will become industry standard, and everyone's profits go up.
While this program is a horrible violation of privacy, as long as the entire program is opt-in it is acceptable.
It'd just be slow news if it was only originally on Ars, but it was posted right here on slashdot too. Same story from a month ago.
Oh no... it's the future.
correct is WHILE ... while verizon products browse the web, they are to be tracked, folder, spindled, and occasionally, mutilated.
Speaking of mutilated, the time for talk has long passed. Time to release the NUKES is at hand, to end this mess once, and for all.
Because Rule 34.
Dude, take your pills. And I mean the ones the doc gave you, not the ones you get from the guy on the street corner.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Opportunist shill for losertechnica: Change your fake name for your FAKE LIFE to "Projectionist" instead, lol - you're projecting!
* All those meds mentally weak LOSERS (that seem to congregate @ the arsehole, lol) like you PROJECTING your issues onto me, make me LAUGH (priceless)...
APK
P.S.=> It is, as always, a HUGE pleasure & highly amusing for me to SHIT ALL OVER you arsholetechnica do-nothing "ne'er-do-wells" publicly https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11076629&cid=55140795/ & especially you in the conclusion of that in my 'p.s.' terminating my post (& YOU with it, lol)... apk
FYI, the link in the orginal story is pay walled.
Is there a third party company that all of these opt-out services (Including the Evil Windows 10 which probably has privacy off sliders just to make you feel good?) can go for verification so they can display a verified seal? Seems like a good business.
Oh, Orwell must've had a tardis.
So which oath is it exactly?
The F*** one ore the S*** one?
Inquiring minds want to know.
The editors are getting more and more sloppy in here... I miss the good old days...
..for ownership of the island of Manhattan.
Also: Does anyone actually believe that they don't collect all that information anyway? They just want people to make it easier for them to do so. At least, until things get so bad that they force people to be monitored like this is China.
It'd be a fun project to build a Linux VM that allows you to trivially spoof a bunch of random data to get access to this programme. And distribute it. I think amping up the noise against these things while trying to take advantage of the benefits is probably more effective than flat out boycotting.
well, DUH. everybody has a fucking phone already. you want to "grow" your business? start thinking of CUSTOMERS instead of your executives' bonuses. start putting the CUSTOMER first instead of extra profits. LOWER prices, provide BETTER services, including an unadulterated internet, no customer data gathering, standing up for the customer against the great surveillance empires, and no fine-print shenanigans. THAT IS HOW YOU GROW a stagnant business in a saturated market.
Have gnu, will travel.
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I was technical lead for the client-side of this.
Best moments: "the cone of silence" ritual, and being deposed by David Boies.
See subject: Ask Peter "not too Bright" how his IRC server room did when I ran ars out of it (lol) & he was helpless vs. it. Tell him to get meds for his GOITER CHIN while you're @ it projecting on your meds problem (he needs it), lol!
Ask Jeremy Reimer & his henchman Jay Little (the WANNABE expert on exchange I dusted on that very note) how them getting caught in email harassing me got their servers removed from their hosting providers @ Shaw of Canada & Crystaltech in the USA felt. I handed them their ASSES EASILY.
* RoTfLmAo @ U "arseholetechnica" (Home of the blowhard bullshitter do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" online)...
(Happy to see you here 'shilling' for that shithole - gives me the opportunity to crap ALL over you & "your kind" publicly)
TRYING TO DOWNMOD HIDE FACTS & TRUTH I PUT OUT YOU CAN'T DENY 6x TOO? Priceless:
https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11076629&cid=55140795/
https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11076629&cid=55140931/
https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11076629&cid=55141077/
https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11076629&cid=55141101/
https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11076629&cid=55141225/
SEE SUBJECT: Whipslash the owner is a LYING BULLSHITTER - he deleted almost all of those!
Proving my point you're cheating losers, nothing more.
APK
P.S.=> Of course, I also got to CRAP ALL OVER "Maritz" too (another FAKE NAME for his FAKE LIFE arstechnica shill, like you Opportunist) this a.m. too no less (lol) https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11072697&cid=55140543/ - LOL - YOU TOO RAN FOR THE SAME REASON https://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9818817&cid=53162837/
Read 'em & weep - it's all there in black & white (I love it, lol)... apk
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See subject: It's classic & hilarious + yes, I did get screenshots of the whole debacle - I actually PITY that trustfund baby do nothing zero "whipslash" (Logan Abbott) @ this point.
APK
P.S.=> All I can say is "Hahahahahahahahahahaha" @ this point... apk
See subject & I've just publicly BET slashdot's owner whipslash/Logan Abbott about this for a MILLION U.S. dollar - he'll run https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
* Personally? I don't think he has it - still, watch him "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" (/. doesn't delete posts, eh? BS https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11076629&cid=55143893/
Lastly - it has TRULY been MY pleasure showing you ALL the lying SCUMBAG that bought this place... for what he is (a lying cheating little douche).
APK
P.S.=> That is, unless he feels like making me a MILLION dollars wealthier - that's on him, my challenge is made, fairly, as always... apk
Don't worry; In 12 months, when Verizon needs to meet its quarterly growth target, customer participation will be mandatory.
When Telcos have the same information, allowed by the law they 'wrote', information buyers will benefit from a bidding war driving down the value of holding that information. Since the Telcos get to see every data packet, they will have an advantage over Google and Facebook: Interesting times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyBzSx92kdA
Can't you read? "Rinse, Lather & Repeat" & get your "hooked on phonics" out to do so here (you need it) https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11076629&cid=55144705/
* I'll provide screenshots when the owner here, Logan Abbott/whipslash takes my bet on it (which he KNOWS he'd lose & why he's outright running from a FAIR bet to him...).
Lastly - Posts aren't deleted either fool - even downmoderated ones - they ARE always there so you know (unless our "gracious & honorable hosts" (not) deletes them as he has that is).
APK
P.S.=> It's pretty pitiful when a site that says it doesn't delete posts lies about it but even WORSE being caught in it - says a LOT about the owner's character (liar)... apk
See subject: It's all I have to say to shut you down. Funny whipslash won't take my bet either eh? Not.
APK
P.S.=> All your ridiculous illogical off topic ad hominem attacks do is make my points stronger - especially considering you issue those via UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts (proving you have no balls & nothing solid to stand on)... apk
See subject: You DO project your own homosexuality though & just because you say it about me doesn't make it fact.
* You clearly have issues.
APK
P.S.=> Go away now little UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous troll - 'shoo'... apk
I said I'm not gay. I never say otherwise - you lose as usual (nothing new for "your kind", unindentifiable anonymous trolls)!
APK
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I said I'm not gay. You have no factual proof that I am. It all makes you nothing but another unidentifiable troll liar.
APK
P.S.=> Nobody would believe a nobody do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" like you anyway & you know it - you are pitiful... apk