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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by gizmo on Sunday October 15, 2017 @12:48PM (#15477921)
What the telcos are doing here is crossing the line by a mile. A case can be made for anonymized bulk analytics. Stalking individual users like this is totally unacceptable. The executives who came up with this and the engineers who implemented this are absolutely in the wrong, and should be held responsible.
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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by jimktrains2 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @01:07PM (#15477992)
Evil is a pretty strong word. I just wasn't sure if this is evil or just dishonest and super super shitty. They've definitely crossed the acceptability line.
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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by alsetmusic on Sunday October 15, 2017 @01:46PM (#15478155)
After saying it once in the thread, it is not useful to repeat a comment one minute later in a new post. I see that you added a sentence, but this does not suddenly make the previous word-for-word reiteration a new idea.
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Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by jimktrains2 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @02:28PM (#15478408)
I agree that it clutters the thread, but the flip side is that many people don't come back to the full thread and only view replies.
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