There are also roundabout ways of "selling" the data, or at least elements of it.
On Saturday, March 12, 2022, Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: > Never said they could sell the data, just free to use the data. But that > applies to all commerce. > > *From:* Jan-GAMs > *Sent:* Saturday, March 12, 2022 12:36 PM > *To:* af@af.afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Did you just call a business? > > > Google is not a telco and therefore should not have any of the privileges > of a telco. A telco cannot resell your phone call history. Your phone > call history requires a court order to get access to. I think Google is > just being Russian: belligerently doing what they damn-well want to until > congress makes a specific law against such activity. Tapping phone-lines > is illegal without a court order, I'm not sure if that law was updated to > include wireless cell calls. Anyway, wanting to know if that last call was > to a business is crossing some serious privacy red-lines that should exist. > On 3/11/22 22:31, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: > > Umm..... hasn't pretty much every phone company, and particularly cell > phone companies, been doing this for years? The private enterprise > keeping records part that is. > > This seems more like an attempt by Google to verify business phone > numbers, possibly to help improve caller ID and search. I suspect this is > more of a situation where they look up the number you just called and if it > matches a business number they need to verify is correct they prompt you. > > In other words, it's croudsourcing data, not building a database to track > who you've been calling. Not saying they aren't doing the latter as well > for some percieved business purpose as they very well could be doing that > as well. > > > > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 7:42 PM Jan-GAMs <j.vank...@grnacres.net> wrote: > >> Google just searched your phone and made a record that you called a >> business, a specific business. The fact that they knew it was a business >> must imply they know the other phones you called earlier were not >> businesses. This doesn't bother you that a private enterprise is keeping >> records on who you call without a court order? >> >> I feel this crosses a line into privacy invasion. Just because you can >> do it, doesn't mean you should. >> >> >> On 3/11/22 18:24, Mike Hammett wrote: >> >> I see it. >> >> It seems like a reasonable step to shore up data quality. >> >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >> >> >> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *"Jan-GAMs" mailto:j.vank...@grnacres.net >> *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" mailto:af@af.afmug.com >> *Sent: *Friday, March 11, 2022 8:22:41 PM >> *Subject: *[AFMUG] Did you just call a business? >> >> How many of you get that message after dialing a business on your android? >> >> When I see that message I feel violated. How about you? >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > >
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