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I have sent a report to them as it seems to be the only way to contact them over their website here in Australia.
It is chocker block full of Elephants and Sunshines, it also asks them to insert a pineapple backwards.
I have given them my mobile to call on and the one in the account spells Elephant Off or Elephant You.
Got an email advising they were to send me new contacts and charge my credit card. I set up the Easypay last year as I got a dicount voucher that was large but ran out too quickly. It was also how my Optometrist of 24 years advised it is to be done from then on. Not any more, I will pay the extra to get it ordered by the Optometrist.
I cancelled the Easypay, deleted the order (or so I thought) and tried to delete my credit card. Can't do any of it.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Its a bit short-sighted of them, can't they see they are going to loose a customer. Hopefully if you cornea customer services they can examine you file and you can both see the aqueous humor side of things.
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No option to update your card to something blatantly invalid like 0000-0000-0000-0000 with a November 2015 expiration date?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: No option to update your card to something blatantly invalid like 0000-0000-0000-0000 with a November 2015 expiration date?
No they validate the card you enter by applying a $0.10 charge. Faarrrkkkkers.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: Faarrrkkkkers
The correct term is, I believe, "Elephanters".
Life is too shor
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You should have gone to Spec.... oh wait.
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Okay, as of this week I no longer have a car.
Earlier, I asked questions, and got feedback from others here in THIS THREAD[^] about Uber (Thank you community).
Love them or hate them, I'm going to try them.
The problem: Google
Actually, Google's "Terms"
i.e., agreement to allow Google to track your personal transportation, and use that data for any purpose. Wow, anybody with a gMail account; duh.
Anyway, the next thought in my mind is to acquire a second "Uber Phone", i.e., an Android just for Uber.
- I don't like this because it defeats the purpose of a single smart phone
- The alternative (Google transportation behavioral tracking) is even more scary
Question for the experienced: Does Uber keep the data to the minimum needed to do the job ?
i.e., does Uber flood the data stream with 10x more ads and obfuscation than data ?
My thinking at this moment: Get a prepaid phone which is not directly connected to my bank / doctor / etc.
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Where do you go that you don't want Google to find out? 
On second thoughts, I don't want to know either... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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How about friggin' everywhere?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: everywhere
Wow, you summed up my response far more succinctly.
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By the power of infallible logic I deduce that Google is you!
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No, I only like to think I know everything!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Where do you go that you don't want Google to find out?
* The doctor
* The bank
* The dentist
* The bank
* The grocer
* The bank
* Kmart
* The bank
* Target
* The bank
* BigLots
* The bank
* DollarTree
* The bank
* 5-Guys
* The bank
* Souper Salad
* The bank
* Golden Corral
* The bank
* Vitamin Shoppe
* The bank
* The Sprint Store
* The bank
* The bank
* The bank
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Then they probably don't need to go where you go, AT ALL 
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One option is to get a dual-sim phone, one for the Girlfriend Google and one for everything else.
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Maybe, but that doesn't stop the app from collecting your data?
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I've never tried it, (got nothing to hide  ) but there is the option for multiple user accounts on Android phones.
I'm assuming each account has its own storage and are separate from each other, using that feature with two Sim cards should be the same as having two entirely separate phones.
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I would not care. If they don't get your data this way, they will probably get it another way. This is a lost battle.
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Indeed.
In a couple of years time, you will have to have an in-car video camera to record your journey in order to get insurance, a few years after that they will be compulsory in all new cars as standard, and the footage will be available to the police. At that point, any last hope you might have of keeping your destinations private will be to walk (wearing a hoodie and a false mustache).
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hoodie an mustache won't help. By that time iris scanners will be cheap and small and mounted everywhere (Minority Report anyone?)
--
"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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So there will be a black market in stolen eyes!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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rark rark
The sky is falling in!
veni bibi saltavi
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I'll use a monkey to do my bidding instead 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Agreed.
Amendment #4 was just getting in the way of too many corporations' profits, so, it was erased.
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It'll probably go for security reasons - cleaning up after themselves for what they are already doing. The UK government is trying to do that at the moment as far as the internet and phones are concerned.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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