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It's a choice. Duh. Don't have a phone so they can't monitor you while you are not at home.
by x5n1 11y ago
It's a choice. Duh. Don't have a phone so they can't monitor you while you are not at home.
- agd 11y agoHow easy is it to be part of society without a phone? The way people communicate, organize, meet, is all via these devices. Yes, whether to have these devices is technically a choice, but when the social cost of choosing not to have one is so high, the choice is made for you.
- mquander 11y agoFor people on Hacker News? Easy as shit. You have employable skills and Internet access. Life will be strictly better than it was when you didn't have a smartphone fifteen years ago.
- nickik 11y agoDont be so dramatic. You can have a phone and leave it at home if your gone do something where you don't want to get tracket. Thats just the most simple option. Its not a binary choice.
- devishard 11y agoI don't want to be tracked when I go to work (or ever), but I have to bring my cell phone to work because I need it to do my job. So, yes it's a "choice": I can have my privacy or I can have my job.
- ambicapter 11y agoGet a dumb phone for work.
- Freak_NL 11y agoIt is fairly easy. I have a fairly dumb feature-phone I almost always leave at home unless I want to be reachable away from home. During work hours I work on a computer connected to the Internet, and can be reached quite reliably via e-mail, or via my employer's office phone. You do need a mobile phone these days because (in The Netherlands) the government requires SMS authentication for some services, but I don't feel the need to own and carry a smart phone with me all the time.