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Ehm... Does someone think ALL smartphones are not spying devices controlled by many more than their formal human owner?
by kkfx 2y ago
Ehm... Does someone think ALL smartphones are not spying devices controlled by many more than their formal human owner?
- IshKebab 2y agoI don't think smartphones are "spying devices". I mean you'd have to have medically worrying levels of paranoia to think that. Are smartphones a juicy spying target for governments and corporations? Yeah obviously. They aren't "spying devices" though. Nobody said "guys! let's invent smartphones so we can spy on people".
- vaaino 2y agoI personally would classify most targeted advertising as "spying"
- kkfx 2y agoDoes it matter if the chicken came before or after the egg? You have a big tech company, born out of a small piece of Xerox PARC research having found a good way to make it anti-user, you finally be able to sell very cheap computers where users can only touch with fingers, have essentially no control over them, to the point they have no "administrative account" and some apps even refuse to operate if the user have cracked his/her own system to have a root access. Such small devices are essentially just "endpoints" of some remote services, and they are next to useless without those services, they collect gazillion of data and they normally mirror/send them on remote. What you want to do? Offer free 15Gb/user storage without using such data for anything? You probably have read about car's collected data, sold to insurances, to craft better prices (for the insurance), and you do think smartphones are not used for similar way? You probably read about Google GPS data used by the police to wrongly accused some people "nearby" crime scenes etc and you think all this examples are isolated stuff?