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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

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Volume 42 Table of Contents Issue 17
Re: Panasonic call blocker
Re: Panasonic call blocker
Apple Fined $8.5 Million for Illegally Collecting iPhone Owners’ Data for Ads
Message-ID: <tq40td$vah$1@usenet.csail.mit.edu> Date: 16 Jan 2023 17:18:37 -0000 From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org> Subject: Re: Panasonic call blocker In article <20230114230515.GA1280341@telecomdigest.us>, Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> wrote: > Those lessons are still being taught, although by different > means: I doubt there is anyone under 40 years old who could stand the > thought of letting the electronic leash in their pocket buzz more > than three times before they strike a pose and push "answer," just > like all the actors on TV shows taught them to. You must be joking. If someone is so rude as to make an unscheduled voice call, they go direct to voicemail. If it was important they would have sent a text. -GAWollman --
Garrett A. Wollman | “Act to avoid constraining the future; if you can, wollman@bimajority.org| act to remove constraint from the future. This is Opinions not shared by| a thing you can do, are able to do, to do together.” my employers. | - Graydon Saunders, A Succession of Bad Days (2015)
Message-ID: <20230117013514.GA1295278@telecomdigest.us> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 01:35:14 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Panasonic call blocker On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 05:18:37PM -0000, Garrett Wollman wrote: > In article <20230114230515.GA1280341@telecomdigest.us>, > Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Those lessons are still being taught, although by different >> means: I doubt there is anyone under 40 years old who could stand the >> thought of letting the electronic leash in their pocket buzz more >> than three times before they strike a pose and push "answer," just >> like all the actors on TV shows taught them to. > > You must be joking. > > If someone is so rude as to make an unscheduled voice call, they go > direct to voicemail. If it was important they would have sent a > text. It's possible you're observing a cultural shift that I haven't been exposed to. I know that my son, who is 32, ignores voice mails and didn't even set up a mailbox until he'd had his cellphone for over a year. However, I have always been surprised by how quickly both he and his friends check ANY signal from their cellphones, so I think my point is valid, at least for the millennial generation. Bill Horne -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies)
Message-ID: <E849B30E-C631-45C9-A5A0-F456BE6D92E6@roscom.com> Date: 4 Jan 2023 19:02:33 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Apple Fined $8.5 Million for Illegally Collecting iPhone Owners' Data for Ads The company harvested iPhone owners’ data for targeted ads without proper consent, a French regulator ruled. It's a rare privacy misstep for Tim Cook. By Thomas Germain Your iPhone protects your privacy—from everyone except Apple, apparently. France’s data protection authority, CNIL, fined Apple €8 million (about $8.5 million) Wednesday for illegally harvesting iPhone owners’ data for targeted ads without proper consent. It’s an unusual sanction for the iPhone maker, which has faced fewer legal penalties over privacy than its Big Tech competitors. Apple makes privacy a selling point for its devices, plastering “Privacy. That’s iPhone.” across 40-foot billboards across the world. The French fine, though, is the latest addition to a growing body of evidence that Apple may not be the privacy guardian angel it makes itself out to be. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-france-ads-fine-illegal-data-1849950163
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