* Posts by Droog

2 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Mar 2018

Wifinity hands customers bills for Wi-Fi services they didn't want but used by accident after software 'glitch' let 'fixed term' subs continue

Droog

Quick note

Usually this service is used by those on course or otherwise at the base on a short, temporary basis.

Those resident will have some form of wifi to their room..in my last barracks where I was for a number of years, I changed my ISP a couple of times.

These services are to capture the passing trade if you like.

It's a reasonable charge as it serves some transit camps that don't have any infrastructure bar basic telephone lines such as some of the small ones around Salisbury.

Also, as pointed out elsewhere, if you have 200 or more soldiers descend into a base and jumping on free wifi, the service would soon break.

The pay for use service has been around for over a decade now, the bad billing is relatively new.

Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago – total slurpage

Droog

Sorry, I've got to say it...

I just...... don't care.

I live a blameless life. I don't commit crime, I don't cheat on my partner, I don't indulge in anything online that could cause me issues were it public. I browse a bit of scuff, but then, so does everyone else. It's fairly vanilla stuff. Wouldn't really care if anyone knew.

My shopping habits? Limited and unexciting.

I have FB and the FB app, but only to manage a group page for a sports club I help. I have Snapchat, but don't have Twitter.

Do I care what data they get off me? No, not really. Calls from my phone to people? Fair enough. Is it any use to them? Really, probably not other than to profile me a bit better.

What does that mean? It means I see fairly relevant adverts for stuff when I'm browsing which is not a bad thing. I'd rather see semi-relevant adverts than completely irrelevant adverts. So by exchanging my data, I get an enhanced service in return.

Ultimately, and I've said this before, we have been getting profiled for decades now, through thousands of different mediums.

Use a debit or credit card? There's a very complex and detailed profile there of your movements and spending habits.

Use a telephone (not just a mobile)? There's a profile there of your associates and contacts.

Use any, any form of online booking more than once? There's a profile with that provider.

Have home insurance or car insurance? There's another complex profile.

Feel free to get your knickers in a twist about your data privacy, but this is not new. If you aren't doing anything compromising, then relax a bit about it and have a chuckle at the effort they're wasting on profiling you.

I just feel this is another wash of moral outrage from people complaining that will soon be forgot about. It's also worth remembering that this is a fight that will go on forever, because Facebook is not the be all and end all. There are hundreds of other sites out there and messaging apps that profile you as well. There will be other, bigger beasts that Facebook that will come along in time and do it all again.

My data? They're welcome to it. It's worth nothing to me.