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> Because, if we are not careful that can quietly change and AI will make listing to every conversation anyone has in the county a real possibility. Are we sur
by knz 9y ago
> Because, if we are not careful that can quietly change and AI will make listing to every conversation anyone has in the county a real possibility.
Are we sure mass recording isn't already happening? It wasn't that long ago that the idea of bulk metadata collection was thought of as tinfoil hat material by many.
- mattmanser 9y agoThat's pretty trivial to detect by inspecting network traffic. Although perhaps we should make those kind of monitors easier to use and much better UX.
- lovich 9y agohow many people can inspect network traffic on any given device? I don't think that's even a common skill among software developers unless you have a devops/IT focus, much less the entire populace
- HighPlainsDrftr 9y agoIt is pretty common amongst System/Network engineers though. Modify a few switch configurations and setup a sniffer. There are quite a few ways to do it.
- bittercynic 9y agoI expect my android phone exchanges encrypted information with google for updates and other purposes. How would I know if it slipped some other information into one of the encrypted transmissions?
- fnninja 9y agoYou could try something like TaintDroid. Marks data on your phone with a tag that is detected if said data is transmitted off the device without first being encrypted. Disclaimer: haven't personally tried it yet, but that's the general concept.
- bittercynic 9y agoThis doesn't address the concern that my phone, which Google has a large degree of control over, can leak my data to Google without me being able to detect it. As far as I can tell there is no way for me to use Google Play Services and have any assurance of privacy from Google.
- _jal 9y agoOne datapoint from a decade ago is Room 641A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A