Verizon Wireless: 'We Know Where You Go!' - Mobility TechZone

Date: 11/12/2014

Featured Articles » Why Mobility for Small Biz is Taking Over » Samsung Highlights Innovation in Mobile » Mobile Services Main Form of Communication in Africa » Five Emerging Trends: Shaping the Future of Enterprise Mobility Sponsored By: WebRTC Conference & Expo – November 18-20, 2014 San Jose, CA Hear How WebRTC Will Improve Internal & Customer Facing Communications to Drive Revenue Opportunities for Your Enterprise Explore Changes in Enterprise Communications: Economic Impacts, Technical & Developer Issues, WebRTC Standards & Tools Register & Exhibit Today: www.webrtcexpo.com Top Stories » Good Mobility Index Report: Continued Increase of Custom Secure App Launches » Singles Day Sees Record Sales, Driven by Mobile Commerce » Number of Mobile Internet Users to Reach Half of World Population by 2020 » Starwood Hotels Makes Your iPhone and Apple Watch Your New Room Key   From The Expert Corner November 12, 2014 Verizon Wireless: 'We Know Where You Go!' By Carl Ford Partner, Crossfire Media The Electronic Freedom Foundation has revealed that Verizon Wireless has equipped its phones with a special header which, when you browse, that enables advertisers to develop a customer profile on you and may be used by Verizon Wireless to enable advertisers to bid for the ads you see. This is independent of the privacy settings that “you control”, and other than switching to a different service provider (which should not be Straight Talk, which uses Verizon Wireless) you have no ability to stop the monitoring.  One aspect of this that is devilishly clever is that the header is an injection from the network. So Wi-Fi for browsing (obviously not from a Verizon MiFi service) may be OK. Currently this “service” seems to be applied to about 100,000 customers only (about 5 percent of the total subscriber base). To see if you are one of them, you can use your Verizon phone to search by going HERE. Whether this service will grow to include all their customers is unclear, but I would suggest checking regularly...Read More Featured Videos Mobile Integration into CRM System by Phonedeck Featured Resources » How Mobile is Transforming Enterprise Customer Experience » How CIOs Can Guide the Enterprise to Mobile Success » Mobile Test Automation Best Practices TMCnet's Blogs » Wheeler Embraces Technology-Neutral Regulation Featured Channels » Mobile Apps » Mobile Security » Mobile VoIP Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Become a MobilityTechzone columnist! Interested in reaching Mobility Techzone's Global Wireless and Mobile Communications Audience of 70,000 Unique Visitors? Please contact Matthew Gleeson to learn how at mgleeson@tmcnet.com or 1 (203) 852-6800 x145.

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