“If you’re a Verizon wireless customer, your online identity is about to take another privacy hit. The company just revealed that its new service agreement will include language that allows the monitoring of your web habits, including websites you visit and even the location data of when and where you use your wireless browser,” Mike Wehner reports for Tecca.
“The company says the data will be used solely for business and marketing purposes, and to present you with more relevant advertisements while you’re surfing on the go,” Wehner reports. “The new policy is enabled by default, meaning that if you do nothing, you are automatically opting in to the program. However, if you don’t like the idea of Verizon keeping tabs on your web habits and location, there’s still a way to prevent it.”
Wehner reports, “Simply head to Verizon’s privacy center, sign into your account using your phone number and password, and review the new policy. On this page there are two places where you can specify that your information not be used for marketing or any other purposes. Simply check these boxes and save your changes.”
Read more in the full article here.
This should be an opt-in situation, not opt-out. How many would voluntarily choose this?
No one would, that is why it is a opt-out.
Exactly!
And given to the Government without a warrant whenever they ask. Given the possibility of an up coming Republican administration, it’s time to go to using pay phones.
ROFL. Pay phones… haven’t been out and about lately have you.
That’s right because the Dems and Obama have completely transformed things, and aren’t following the same policies as the previous administration. (Oh wait, yeah, Obama hasn’t really done ANYTHING different than Bush would’ve, from the wars to the stimulus handouts. And at least, under the Bush TSA, I didn’t have my crotch fondleld at airports.)
Really, the political sides today are two sides of the same coin using semantics to make you think they’re different– when they’re not.
This isn’t a Republican or Democrat issue.
“The company says the data will be used solely for business and marketing purposes, and to present you with more relevant advertisements while you’re surfing on the go,”
Solely for business purposes. HHMM what does that mean..
Why do we continue to allow this crap? It should be opt in, not opt out. Who wants to be tracked? Who wants information about them sold to strangers? Who wants advertising in their browsing experience at all? Nickel and dimed on data, and yet crap I don’t want is pushed at me, and then adding insult to injury my browser habits are tracked and sold??
Bastages…..
I am so glad that I am still with T-Mobile (for as long as there will be a T-Mobile).
Privacy Erosion:
Where Google leads, other unethical companies will follow.
Went to the link, signed-in, saw no checkboxes or other options to change settings. Useless, half-assed article.
it said the changes that are coming…. it may not be 100% in place yet.
could be rolling this out in certain areas first.
Done!!! Thanks for the heads up!!!
Done. Thanks macdailynews!
All I have is a Mifi, but there were still two checkboxes, requiring two separate Save’s (wouldn’t let me check both and hit save — one would uncheck.)
Sneaky bastards!
And who will be monitoring this to see if Verizon actually follows your wishes?
Yeah..
1984 has arrived…
Thank you very much for spreading this information.
I just opted out for myself.
BTW you have to opt out 2 times, separately once for each instance!
smp