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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Sometimes I am surprised. (David)
2. Re: Sometimes I am surprised. (David)
3. Linux Alive and Well in Sydney (Tom Worthington)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:55:41 +1000
From: David <[email protected]>
To: Link Link <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LINK] Sometimes I am surprised.
Message-ID: <9910528.eNJFYEL58v@ulysses>
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The TechSpot article reads, inter alia:
> Unlike conventional systems that use dedicated, expensive seismic
> instruments, Google's Android Earthquake Alerts system leverages the sheer
> scale of smartphones, which continuously collect motion data unless users opt
> out.
The insurance industry is well aware of this potential for unwitting data
collection, and TachSpot also records:
> Earlier this year, the New York Times dropped a bomb on drivers of connected
> vehicles: manufacturers collect and sell their driving data to insurance
> companies, which use the information to set rates for individual drivers.
> Now, a new report shows that this type of data collection is more ubiquitous
> than even dystopian-minded privacy advocates might have realized.
>
> Information about driving habits is also being collected by apps that are
> only tangentially related to automobiles. You may already have one installed
> on your phone.
Not long ago a DuckDuckGo Privacy newsletter reported that a US insurance
company had lost a Court action because they'd been doing just that (using
their own app) then offering different rates to their customers without
informing them.
Antony Barry's example and this one are great examples of my original point.
_DavidL_
On Friday, 25 July 2025 15:33:22 AEST Antony Barry wrote:
> Very occasionally I read something and my initial reaction is "that's absurd"
> followed by "hang on a moment that's brilliant".
>
> https://www.techspot.com/news/108732-google-using-two-billion-android-phones-detect-earthquakes.html?lctg=1980929&utm_source=digitaltrends&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:1980929&utm_campaign=DTDaily20250721
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:55:41 +1000
From: David <[email protected]>
To: Link Link <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LINK] Sometimes I am surprised.
Message-ID: <9910528.eNJFYEL58v@ulysses>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
The TechSpot article reads, inter alia:
> Unlike conventional systems that use dedicated, expensive seismic
> instruments, Google's Android Earthquake Alerts system leverages the sheer
> scale of smartphones, which continuously collect motion data unless users opt
> out.
The insurance industry is well aware of this potential for unwitting data
collection, and TachSpot also records:
> Earlier this year, the New York Times dropped a bomb on drivers of connected
> vehicles: manufacturers collect and sell their driving data to insurance
> companies, which use the information to set rates for individual drivers.
> Now, a new report shows that this type of data collection is more ubiquitous
> than even dystopian-minded privacy advocates might have realized.
>
> Information about driving habits is also being collected by apps that are
> only tangentially related to automobiles. You may already have one installed
> on your phone.
Not long ago a DuckDuckGo Privacy newsletter reported that a US insurance
company had lost a Court action because they'd been doing just that (using
their own app) then offering different rates to their customers without
informing them.
Antony Barry's example and this one are great examples of my original point.
_DavidL_
On Friday, 25 July 2025 15:33:22 AEST Antony Barry wrote:
> Very occasionally I read something and my initial reaction is "that's absurd"
> followed by "hang on a moment that's brilliant".
>
> https://www.techspot.com/news/108732-google-using-two-billion-android-phones-detect-earthquakes.html?lctg=1980929&utm_source=digitaltrends&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:1980929&utm_campaign=DTDaily20250721
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 09:34:34 +1000
From: Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [LINK] Linux Alive and Well in Sydney
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Last night I attended the Sydney Linux User Group (SLUG) meeting at
Google Sydney. I haven't been to a Slug meeting for years. It is good to
see nothing has changed. The is the same pizza and soda, the same talk
topic made entirely of acronyms and attendees who look like extras from
Big Bang Theory.
https://blog.tomw.net.au/2025/07/user-group-alive-and-well-in-sydney.html
--
Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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