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Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye as Mastermind Grows
More than 6,000 dealerships now have access to the Mastermind technology that uses thousands of data points, gathered from the dealer management system (DMS) and combines it with Big Data – social media profiles, financial records, product and consumer life-cycle information, socio-demographics among other privacy invasion data – to calculate when a customer is ready to buy and why. Continue reading
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Cramming, the Latest Assault on Your Privacy and Pocketbook
The latest scam in our largely unregulated computerized world is ‘cramming,’ a criminal practice that imposes small charges on your phone bill for false services or products. The root cause is the lack of adequate security at phone companies, which allow thieves to corrupt the billing system and arrange for fraudulent charges. Continue reading
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Tagged auto informed, autoinformed.com, automotive news, cramming, department of justice, doj, fcc, internet privacy, Ken Zino, phone fraud
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