Can people still claim ignorance? Itâs all pretty much out in the open and it has been for years⌠All the big players do it.
Remember the whole scare about facebook messenger that was reading messages, emails, listening in on conversations and basically getting access to your whole life? All the users installed in anyways, knowing what it could do.
Iâve explained these things to âsmart peopleâ and yet they go along with the crowd, letting all those big companies invade their privacy. Itâs not about not knowing, not understanding, ⌠itâs the attitude of not caring or not wanting to think about the consequences.
And then you have those stories that even make it into a movie or a documentary, like with Cambridge Analytica⌠People know now, they understand, yet they keep going at it. They donât care.
On that you have a valid point. It may seem to make @Kinnikinnick look foolish but that isnât the intention. There have been countless stories such as his, so I suppose anyone with a smartphone could pretty much know by now this evil shit happens if they thought about it. But I think the broader point is people probably think they need to explicitly allow it in order for it to happen. It just takes it happening to someone personally before they realize how prevalent it is.
It goes back to stopping it in the first place, and no government has the balls to do it right. Especially since they probably benefit from it too.
And donât forget, thanks to the app store platforms, all the little players do it too. In fact I believe the little players are the dirty ones. Far less to lose, can hide behind the big players, etc.
True⌠âŚsome of the shows coming into the theatre now require the patrons to seal their phones in those during the performance. PIA, but, minimal
recording of the show happens.
AND people actually watch/enjoy the show without ruining it for others around them!
Does it block voice too? Because a phone can just record and upload as soon as it has a connection
And it doesnât stop others with the same devices, friends who have access to your info via Facebook and other social media, all your contact details and what not.
Google, Apple, Mickeysoft, Facebook, ⌠All those companies know more about you than you do yourself. They know when friends and family are visiting, they know to match voices to pictures, they have location data, the whole world is filled with cameras and microphones that are interconnected. Taking one phone out of the equation doesnât do anything.
Itâs sad and frightening but that is where weâre at.
Oh Im well aware, this was only about RF/MF which can disable live features like tracking, once you take it out everything can be uploaded.
There are some be modules on https://www.xda-developers.com/
which can disable some features at the software level but most people arenât willing to modify their phones (and they shouldnât have to) they are making it especially difficult these days.
We definitely need some laws and even then would anything change?
We know huawei isnât going to stop stealing patented intellectual property and trade secrets and the NSA isnât going to want to stop either because of that
This kind of backdoor spying has been happening for over a decade on all sides not just huawei and itâs only going to get worse.
Conveniently forgetting what the NSA has done for years, hacking communication providers across the world, tapping in on the atlantic pipes that carry the internet, ⌠Even politicians from the closest allies werenât spared.
Huawei is probably just another story to divert attention from some other obscure things that are going on or to find a justification for what theyâre doing in case they get caught
Just joking man, all countries do it and it wonât stop⌠technological advances will only make it easier to do so.
It is one of the major reasons why I am so supportive of unions and get disgusted about the current populist rise where powerful people thrive on the divide and rule policies. If weâre all working together and set our differences aside, we can achieve great things. If weâre all working against each other, itâll fuel practices like this.
If the power behind wants to limit your freedom, privacy, rights, they are doing that to get more power over you, your decisions, your life.
No matter if communistic regime, dictatorship, our so called democracies or corporations, itâs never beneficial for us or our kids. Liberty lost always means less freedom. Because we allow it.
⌠More money out of the common taxpayer public pocket⌠Thanks Kirsten! Not!
âŚsome of the shows coming into the theatre now require the patrons to seal their phones in those during the performance. 
Even politicians from the closest allies werenât spared.
