Verizon is making a significant change to its privacy policy for mobile users this week. By default, the company will now use a bunch of your info for “certain business and marketing reports” and for “making mobile ads you see more relevant.”

 

This info includes the URLs of websites you visit over Verizon’s network and also your device’s location data. Some of those details may be shared with outside companies as well. Verizon says none of it will personally identify you

 

If you don’t want Verizon to use your data in this way, you need to go to verizonwireless.com/myprivacy (http://www NULL.verizonwireless NULL.com/myprivacy) and opt out. The page has two different places where you can check “Don’t use my information” for any or all of your Verizon cell numbers.

By default, you will be opted in to this new program — so if that isn’t what you want, take a minute now and change those settings

 

• **(Tech Geek and More Note) One of the comments on the original Computerworld post says “There’s also a 3rd area on that myprivacy page that’s hidden under the “Customer Proprietary Network Information Settings” section”. You should check and see if you have this setting as well.

Post Originally by JR Raphael at (LINK) Computerworld (http://blogs NULL.computerworld NULL.com/19089/verizon_mobile_web_privacy)