BUSTED Spincar caught selling dealer data

[Carluminati]

Want to see which vendors are on your website? Goto: https://builtwith.com/ I've known about builtwith.com for 3 years. It's a glimpse into the guts, then you can also see all the other competitors that share the same platform it's ridiculously amazing.

Prepare yourself to be amazed.

 

[Alexander Lau]

Although this probably deserves its own thread, for sake of keeping this one bumped...

Google Tracks Location Data Even When Users Turn Service Off, AP Report Finds
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...tion-data-even-when-users-turn-service-off-ap

 

[craigh]

Every App and Every Phone and Every Network Provider Tracks Location Data Even When Users Turn Service Off, AP Report Finds

There, I fixed it for you

 

[AnthonyMaher]

Unfortunately the only way to avoid this is with a javascript blocker, but then alot of sites don't work. Plus Facebook has the 'pixel' which does not even rely on JS.

The only way that you could justify selling user data collected by your customers is if you were providing your product for free, selling a platform and then using it to harvest data is pretty scummy

 

[craigh]

A few things I've done to make my own life more complicated to track:

• Block all facebook related domains on my hosts file (facebook.com, fb.com, etc)
• use PrivateInternetAccess VPN on all devices except my iPhone (it causes too many issues with the iPhone)
• use the Brave browser to neutralize most tracking data - https://brave.com/how-brave-works-for-you
  
• use a fake name and email address to signup for any services that have no business knowing who I am and have no inter-personal communication functionality
  
• Stop installing free phone applications I have no intention to use
• Stop leaving phone applications open in the background
• Disabling cellular data for any phone apps that I don't want phoning home with my location
• Turn Google's Ad Personalization off - https://adssettings.google.com/u/0/authenticated

There are many more things you can do, but I'm already at the point where my Facebook and Google profiles are entirely drunk and have no idea who I am, so it seems to be working well so far.

 

[OldHoster]

I have been in the IT business for many years and Spincar isn't the only company selling your data. My ex used to own three stores and there are DMS's doing it as well. I can't say anything more due to NDA's.

 

[Baron Ringler]

I've run that site before, and here's what's worse. When you shut some of those items down you will find that they belong to your DMS or other major vendor and they will pull out your contract showing that they are allowed to do it. Reynolds is by far the worst offender (read your contract carefully and you will see that they you've basically sold to them your customer database - you are paying THEM to profit from your customer data) but ADP and I'm suspecting Cox, plus others, do the exact same thing.

 

[Brad Burlingham]

Huge shout out to Jeffrey Tognetti at DealerX for pointing this out. Folks, there is no other way to say this other than….

It is soooooo fucked up when a vendor you trust, and pay, takes your customer's data and sells it for their own profit.

How much of this is going on? Can we start a list of the assholes doing this crap?

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How do we find out if they are doing this on our website? we use them at our porsche dealership

 

[craigh]

How do we find out if they are doing this on our website? we use them at our porsche dealership

The script they use appears to be the same on all client sites, so it is no longer firing (the way that it was) on any sites.

 

[Alex Snyder]

How do we find out if they are doing this on our website? we use them at our porsche dealership

At the moment they seem to have done the right thing and stopped the script. But I don't buy for one minute they aren't going to fire this right back up as soon as they think the smoke has cleared

They'll probably get smart and not make it so obvious next time. I hear they have deep relations with a data broker. Hard to believe selling dealers' data isn't a big part of their revenue stream.