20-07-2020, 07:24 AM
I can see there are strong views here indicationg both the problems of companies running the service and service users. My view, I think although still valid, was flavoured from reading an article not too much earlier about things like facial recognition and people tracking via their interaction with various services. One of the things I read descibed experiences with software which did random searches etc when browsing the internet so as to deliberatly cloud your browsing history. The suggestion was that algorithms can now look through this due to the randomness of the browsing to see your true history. My thoughts were that if modern software is so good why is it not being used to track what are obviously at times attempts to defraud people. I presume companies do do this but my feelings are that they could do more.
Personally I have noticed that far more dodgy emails are now caught. It is not uncommon that I have to check the folders to see if a new company contact has been labelled as spam by mistake. The email providers are getting far better at sorting the problem. It does not stop me from having to be careful though. I had one the other day which almost caught me out as it was labelled as from an organisation I had only just been dealing with. It did push me to do all kind of checks, and I am still wondering if an information leak somewhere prompted a timely scam.
Tracy
Personally I have noticed that far more dodgy emails are now caught. It is not uncommon that I have to check the folders to see if a new company contact has been labelled as spam by mistake. The email providers are getting far better at sorting the problem. It does not stop me from having to be careful though. I had one the other day which almost caught me out as it was labelled as from an organisation I had only just been dealing with. It did push me to do all kind of checks, and I am still wondering if an information leak somewhere prompted a timely scam.
Tracy
