Comments on: Your Phone Is Watching You

By: Web Design Company Buckinghamshire

Web Design Company Buckinghamshire — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:45:59 +0000

I think it’s one thing to be exposed to adverting in environment where you expect it but your mobile device is a tool, something you use for many different applications. If you opt in for your data to be shared and sold then that would be fine but to have to opt out is goes against the grain.

Wasn’t this the same conversation that lead to a change in email marketing laws a few years back?

By: Flipsem

Flipsem — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:38:30 +0000

There has always been data available on our mobile phone activity. Mobile phone companies know the location you switched your phone on and at what time. It is obvious that if they have marketing data to sell then they will unless we request they don’t.

My current understanding is the consumer has to take the action to stop their data being shared or sold.

This is a big debate as to what is right and what is wrong.

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:13:20 +0000

opt-in vs opt-out, people…

its funny how many will join if asked, but make a fuss if dragged into same…

By: GoodThings2Life

GoodThings2Life — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:22:32 +0000

@Bob… Exactly right!

We post our underaged drunken party photos on Facebook and Myspace and Flickr, videos on Youtube, and every other detail on Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter, and then sit around crying about all the results. Go figure.

Granted, I have these accounts too, but I at least try to be responsible about them, and I certainly don’t complain if I screw up.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:11:57 +0000

And yet we use sites like wakoopa to tell the world exactly what we’ve been doing. Seems a little backwards to worry about privacy when we’re all searching for new ways to share our habits with the world!