The mobile carrier is reportedly gathering customers' contacts, app usage, and location information.

By Phillip Tracy

Verizon customers who value their privacy should immediately opt-out
of the phone carrier's disturbing new data tracking service.

As reported by Input, "Verizon Custom Experience" is a program being
pitched to users as a way for the company to "personalize our
communications with you, give you more relevant product and service recommendations, and develop plans, services and offers that are more
appealing to you."

https://gizmodo.com/verizon-may-have-just-enrolled-you-in-a-data-collection-1848156157

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Verizon is opting mobile users in to a new tracking system. You have to go
to their web site to opt out.

I wish they would just be a telecom company and transport bits without inspection or modification.

Harold

Quote from email:

How it works
The program uses information about websites you visit and apps you use on
your mobile device to help us better understand your interests. This helps
us personalize our communications with you, give you more relevant product
and service recommendations, and develop plans, services and offers that
are more appealing to you.

To be very clear, this information is used only by Verizon; we do not sell
this information to others for them to use for their own advertising.


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On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 11:58:49AM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote:

Quote from email:

How it works
The program uses information about websites you visit and apps you use on your mobile device to help us better understand your interests. This helps
us personalize our communications with you, give you more relevant product and service recommendations, and develop plans, services and offers that
are more appealing to you.

To be very clear, this information is used only by Verizon; we do not sell this information to others for them to use for their own advertising.

I think the public interest, convenience, and necessity reuqies that I
provide a satirical "Telecom Digest" translation guide so that readers
can more easily undertand Verizon's "Monopoly Bureaucratese."

What they said:

*-----> This information is used only by Verizon; <-----*

What it means:

*-----> We have a tight lock on your private date, and we make sure
nobody else will ever find out what we know about you, so
thay'll NEVER have enough info about you to offer you a better
choice than remaining in our dungeon. <-----*

What they said:

*-----> we do not sell this information to others for them to use for
their own advertising. <-----*

What it means:

*-----> We'll sell everything we know about you to anyone who is
willing to pay Verizon to steer you away from their
competitor's offers. <-----*

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Bill Horne
Telecom Digest Moderator

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