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[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Your phone/plan carrier using voice data to make a marketing profile is well documented actually. This data is purchased and verified and resold by meta, or in some cases bought and used by alphabet for GAS. Cacti can show you outgoing data for every device on a network, and you can see data being sent from a phone in signed packets going to your carrier when you're not "actively using" it. It seems like you know about network monitoring tools but you haven't actually used them, just talked about them in reference to data collection.

"Why buy the cow" here is also easily answered: not everyone uses Facebook, a fair number of users will deactivate their facebook page but continue to use messenger.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you share this well documented documents?

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The july 2017 verizon data leak was made public.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, with lots of leaked customer data. Nothing about using voice data to make a marketing profile. Unless there is a second leak I don't know about.

But judging by your inability to link it you just made it up.

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please think about what you've just confirmed about yourself

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I confirmed you made it up and can't link a source.