An open community 
of Macintosh users,
for Macintosh users.

FineTunedMac Dashboard widget now available! Download Here

Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
And you thought Google was bad
#59973 11/18/21 11:41 AM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 14
ryck Offline OP
OP Offline

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 14
A parking lot owner in L.A. seem to have decided that it needs to collect on-line activity information from its customers....and not in a small way. If this is a new revenue source, can it be long before it comes to a parking lot near you?

Last edited by ryck; 11/18/21 11:42 AM.

ryck

"What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" The Doobie Brothers

iMac (Retina 5K, 27", 2020), 3.8 GHz 8 Core Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 2667 MHz DDR4
OS Ventura 13.6.3
Canon Pixma TR 8520 Printer
Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner c/w VueScan software
TM on 1TB LaCie USB-C
Re: And you thought Google was bad
ryck #59997 11/21/21 09:18 PM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 15
Online

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 15
In a completely different vein...
After parking his car in the garage — seldom an easy task, as any SoCal TJ’s customer will attest — he was instructed by an attendant to download an app to his phone, register for service and use that for payment.

“Not wanting to give some random app a ton of personal information, I declined,” the Hollywood resident told me.

The parking-lot attendant, he said, “let me off with a warning that I wouldn’t be so lucky next time.”
[rant]The world is becoming an unfriendly place for non-cell phone owners!

I'm getting sick of asking for a menu and being pointed to a QR code.[/rant]


The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.

In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
Re: And you thought Google was bad
artie505 #59998 11/21/21 11:55 PM
Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 7
Offline

Joined: Aug 2009
Likes: 7
Originally Posted by artie505
The world is becoming an unfriendly place for non-cell phone owners!
Amen to that! mad


Jon

macOS 11.7.10, iMac Retina 5K 27-inch, late 2014, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 1 TB fusion drive, 16 GB RAM, Epson SureColor P600, Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC, MS Office 365

Moderated by  alternaut, cyn 

Link Copied to Clipboard
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.4
(Release build 20200307)
Responsive Width:

PHP: 7.4.33 Page Time: 0.013s Queries: 20 (0.009s) Memory: 0.5765 MB (Peak: 0.6324 MB) Data Comp: Zlib Server Time: 2024-03-29 06:53:11 UTC
Valid HTML 5 and Valid CSS