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Verizon to Start Tracking Your Mobile Information, Here’s How to Stop It

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Look out Verizon customers, it looks like the carrier has begun sending out emails to customers over the last couple of days informing them that privacy policy changes are on the way. At the heart of this change is Big Red’s plan to start tracking mobile information from those who are using device’s on its network.

In the email, Big Red says that it plans to start tracking things like URL’s you have visited, apps that you fiddle with, the location of you and your device.

In addition to all of those, Verizon also plans to take a look at:

1. Information about your use of Verizon products and services (such as data and calling features, device type, and amount
of use).
2. Demographic and interest categories provided to us by other companies, such as gender, age range, sports fan, frequent diner, or pet owner.

You can read about the policy changes here if you didn’t get an email.

What is it going to do with the information that it collects? Well, it plans to use said information to create business and marketing reports, for other companies to create business and marketing reports, and to better mobile advertisements so they are more ‘relevant’.

Verizon Policy Change

Obviously, this policy change isn’t going to sit well with customers. At least there is something that those of you on Verizon can do it about it though. You can opt-out right this minute.

If you head here, you’ll need to log-in first, you should be taken to a page where you can opt out of two sections. You’ll want to opt-out of the first section, click save. Then, you’ll want to go back in and opt-out of the second option and hit save. And then you’ll want to go in and opt-out of the third section and click save. One of them, in the middle is pretty well hidden.

Verizon

Once that is taken care of, you’re done and Verizon won’t be tracking your mobile movements any longer.

I really want to be able to say I’m surprised by this sleazy move but frankly, I’m not. Not in the slightest.

Via: Droid-Life

10 Comments

10 Comments

  1. Roberto

    10/13/2011 at 8:38 pm

    Thanks for this tip

  2. Kevin

    10/13/2011 at 10:31 pm

    I tried going there…it just linked to the privacy policy….every time I found a link saying I could opt-out it just linked to another part of the privacy policy, which in turn linked back to the same place I was.

  3. Heatwave96

    10/14/2011 at 5:54 am

    Thanks for the info.

  4. Still On Droid OG

    10/14/2011 at 10:34 am

    Much appreciated!

  5. Autrechose

    10/17/2011 at 10:14 am

    Opting out stops nothing except them acknowledging that they are tracking.

    It goes way deeper than this: Read this book.

    https://www.toomuchmagic.net

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