Reply to post: Re: don't seem like that much of a threat to me

Security bods: Android system broadcasts enable user tracking

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Re: don't seem like that much of a threat to me

Imagine if Google knew that you were passing a Brewery. Then imagine if the main rival to that brewery had a deal with Google so that whenever a phone passes that brewery or a pub that serves their beer, and advert was beamed to your phone telling you that the brewery you were passing was crap than that you could really drink this other beer.

Scale that up and you see what location based target advertising is all about.

You could even get averts that include your name on an electrinic billboard as you go past.

Is that the world you want?

I don't. Personally, I'd nuke all Ad agencies and then do the same to Google but that's just my opinion but as Google aleady know more about each an every one of us one more refusenik won't make a lot of difference in their battle with Amazon for world domination.

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