Comments by "" (@krollpeter) on "CBC News"
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All social media apps, with the worst being Facebook and their children. And all Google apps. Even their seemingly unsuspicious keyboard logs your keystrokes.
You wonder what they are doing with all this data? I think it's not really the biggest of concerns what any NSA is doing with it, but Foogle, Sugarmountain, and Co.
Weather and Map apps are excellent to harvest your location and where you sleep and work.
Social media apps who are your friends, family, business contacts, and what you do and what you like.
Gallery/Video apps and music players what you buy and what you like.
Fitness trackers, that's obvious.
Cloud storage basically everything what you store there. Who uses clouds to store anything personal like address books, well, can't help you at that marginal IQ-level, sorry.
Fingerprint scanner and Face-unlocker your biometric data.
Now listen, Google has ALL of that. Go figure, the first thing is to uninstall Google apps.
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1. Using weaker parts for switches, capacitors, resistors, mountings, seals, valve, etc., and then offering a replacement only for a complete section or module, with an asking price that's close to a brand new product is common practice in the entire electronics and household goods industries. After so many years the manufacturers now exactly how long a part will make it. They have accurate data for these electronic parts, a capacitor, an air-con compressor, a switch, a light bulb, and so on. A capacitor only one grade higher in a power supply may cost 2 cents more, but degrades after 15 years instead of 3 only.
2. Offering a compensation / extended warranty / making a replacement part suddenly available that previously was not, because a company had been caught in the act, that is like the famous needle in the haystack. It does not stop the bad practice, which needs to stop altogether.
3. The manufacturers will do everything making sure that a repair is not economical, because the basic idea is selling more produce, not creating work for repairmen. As we all know. The regulatory bodies everywhere in the world should implement policies and rules which are suitable to stop this wasteful producing behaviour effectively, and as a side benefit also supports the small local industries - the salt of the earth.
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