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This doesn't really change anything other than just being more damning evidence against you slightly easier to obtain. If you carry a phone of any kind, it is
by jstarfish 8y ago
This doesn't really change anything other than just being more damning evidence against you slightly easier to obtain.
If you carry a phone of any kind, it is already betraying your movements. All it takes to paint you like a game of Snake is a subpoena to Google (for GPS history) or your carrier (tower associations), assuming they don't pull your location history out of the device itself.
Hell, even cars are starting to get in on it with self-reporting telemetry even if you manage to avoid all the commodity ALPR scans.
Your privacy is already dead. You're objecting to death itself at this point.
- larkeith 8y agoThe crucial difference here is that phone and vehicle data is something you can control - Between disabling location history, moving to a non-apple OS, and turning off your connection, there's a range of steps you can take currently to reduce or eliminate your trackable history. Ubiquitous facial identification is not something we can manage, however, and should be considered deeply concerning. Privacy is only dead for those who allow it to be.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y ago> moving to a non-apple OS Sadly, by all measures Android with Google Play Services is worse for privacy than iOS. Presumably, non-Googled Android (e.g. LineageOS w/o Google Play) is better than that, but that's not the majority use case of Android.
- larkeith 8y agoOops, I meant to say non-Google OS, but had a bit of a brainfart. I agree wholeheartedly that Google's Android is generally an abysmal choice with regards to privacy - significantly worse than iOS, IMO.