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Title: Your Apps are listening...
Post by: Mario on December 31, 2017, 10:49:18 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/business/media/alphonso-app-tracking.html

If the software is free, you are the product  :'(

Thankfully I charge money for IMatch and don't need to resort to selling your data to finance the development.
Title: Re: Your Apps are listening...
Post by: sinus on December 31, 2017, 10:57:19 AM
Quote from: Mario on December 31, 2017, 10:49:18 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/business/media/alphonso-app-tracking.html

If the software is free, you are the product  :'(

Thankfully I charge money for IMatch and don't need to resort to selling your data to finance the development.

Krass ... what is this in English?  ;D

I trust IMatch since 2001 and was never disappointed. :D
Title: Re: Your Apps are listening...
Post by: DigPeter on December 31, 2017, 12:53:44 PM
Indeed - but Twitter and Facebook are just has guilty.

Markus - It is "crass" in English.

Title: Re: Your Apps are listening...
Post by: sinus on December 31, 2017, 01:08:00 PM
Quote from: DigPeter on December 31, 2017, 12:53:44 PM
Markus - It is "crass" in English.

Thanks!  :D
Title: Re: Your Apps are listening...
Post by: Ger on January 01, 2018, 02:49:17 PM
Mario,
I see possibilities for you here...
you track the lens information and camera sellers know what lenses are used most (in combination is ISO, aperture, time of day and focus point), 
or you track the image color pattern and sell the most favorite color patterns to interior designers
... endless possibilities coming up!  :)

Happy new year

Ger
Title: Re: Your Apps are listening...
Post by: Mario on January 01, 2018, 03:13:14 PM
Shush... ;D

It would not surprise me if the modern "cloud-based" Wi-Fi cameras already report this kind of data home...
Title: Re: Your Apps are listening...
Post by: Ger on January 01, 2018, 05:49:33 PM
You might be right... if kindle ebooks report back to Amazon data like how long the reader spent on every page of every book... frightening