Even mainstream media outlet CNN is openly admitting this new “Minority Report” style technology is rather invasive and scary. Retailers are using video surveillance and tracking signals from your smartphone to figure out how to get you to spend more. The in-store analytics makes it possible for retailers to understand things like where they go, where they stop, and ultimately how all of that translates to sales at the register.
– See more at: http://www.ingeniouspress.com/2013/07/18/stores-tracking-every-step-you-take/#sthash.0hWkLX8L.dpuf
Track away.
Good luck trying to sell me something I DON’T need.
ps I don’t have a (so-called) Smartphone anyway.
Use fake names and addresses when signing up for stuff. Provide phony answers to all survey questions.
The problem, is that all these people support these big business’s relentlessly, just to save a few dollars, while giving up every ounce of their freedom that they once almost had.
Then they buy everything that they are told to buy, especially smart phones, because with a smart phone, the big business has (honest to God) nearly 100% control over the consumer victim (and will get that kind of control with time. They will make the smart phone like a remote control, to control your brain (guaranteed).
“They will make the smart phone like a remote control, to control your brain (guaranteed).”
They already have television for that.