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How my sexual health searches ended up in the hands of big tech companies

199 点作者 humanetech超过 6 年前

7 条评论

donjoe超过 6 年前
Last week, I got hit by a car while riding my bicycle. You won&#x27;t believe in how many colors an upper arm can shine. Anyhow, I took a picture of the arm, shared it to a friend on WhatsApp and promptly got a newsletter from Pinterest promoting tattoo posts. I do not have the Pinterest app on my phone, barely use it otherwise and would never search for tattoos since I&#x27;m just not interested.<p>I&#x27;ve been trying to find out since then where and how Pinterest might have gotten my blue&#x2F;red&#x2F;yellow&#x2F;green arm picture from to analyze it, interpret it and link it to my account. They might be able to search my friend&#x27;s phone&#x27;s pictures (in case he&#x27;s got the app which I&#x27;m not sure) and link the picture back to my account. Spooky though.
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13of40超过 6 年前
I had a related thing happen a couple of months ago: I started getting some lower back pain that I thought might be kidney stones based on a couple of Google searches. Went to my doctor, who prescribed a muscle relaxant, which I got at the pharmacy across the street. It went away.<p>Over the next few weeks I got several robocalls on my cell phone from a pain clinic offering me relief for my &quot;chronic pain&quot;, so it was either triggered by my online searches or my doctor&#x27;s office or pharmacy sold off my private information.
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cbanek超过 6 年前
&gt; Indeed, large sections of the site&#x27;s privacy policy were updated overnight.<p>So basically you get caught, so you change the rules. Companies shouldn&#x27;t be able to violate their own privacy policy, or say they can change it at any time without any warning, especially retroactively - which usually these things are covered in the privacy policy. What use is that?! Why bother having a policy at all?
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013a超过 6 年前
One of my &quot;wake up&quot; moments was when I searched for the phone number of a local physical therapy office on Google. Within the day, I started getting Youtube video recommendations for massage techniques to relieve shoulder pain.<p>Google and all of its employees who make products like this are on the absolute wrong side of history. Society will only take so much before breaking; they need to figure out their business model, and fast.
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jlangenauer超过 6 年前
Further proof, as if any was needed, why other countries require something like the GDPR, backed up be significant penalties, and well-resourced enforcement.<p>It won&#x27;t happen in Australia though, as we are governed by fools who barely understand technology, and if they need to, rely on the representations of business to make any decisions.
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seba_dos1超过 6 年前
I use DuckDuckGo, XMPP, ownCloud, Firefox with bunch of privacy enhancing extensions... My main phone is Maemo based, and I keep one with LineageOS and microG (so no Google Play Services) around as well. I access Facebook and Twitter only via webapps, with isolated wrappers like FaceSlim on mobile. Not only I feel somewhat safer about my data - battery usage, speed and user experience is so much better! Win-win :D
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wagutina超过 6 年前
If you block 3rd party cookies, can the (exact) scenario described in the article still happen ?
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