On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 12:54:06 PM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:28:51 -0800 (PST), dsi1 <>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 11:16:38 AM UTC-10, Roy wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 10:09:04 AM UTC-7, Sqwertz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Be prepared to give up all your privacy by using an Android device.
> > > >
> > > > -sw
> > >
> > > My Tablet keeps asking for my location but I refuse to give it to them. Surely they have it by now anyway. Yes, Google is sneaky and devious.
> >
> > I just let my devices do whatever they want. I can pull up a diagram of my daily travels over the mountain. The points are all connected together and it comes out in the shape of a boot. I'm just happy that somebody is watching over me. :-)
>
> I love that feature! The problem I have with it is it also shows
> triangulation points so it has me taking trips to places I didn't go.
> They can show them, but put them in a different color, please!
>
> I have to laugh at all these people who are so weirded out by google
> tracking where we've been. How is that any different from web sites
> tracking us? How do people think all the ads they're seeing that are
> pointed at something they just wrote on FB or in email or searched?
> Why do you think we're getting geriatric ads and our newly pregnant
> children/grandchildren suddenly are getting ads for babies even though
> they haven't told a soul? The internet knows more about us than we
> do.
>
> --
> A kitchen without a cook is just a room

The younger generation has different ideas on what "privacy" is. The elders are positively paranoid in comparison.