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Ask HN - let's say hypothetically, our phones are as bad as some think. Face camera taking covert pics, regular screenshots sent back home, microphone recording
by disambiguation 2y ago
Ask HN - let's say hypothetically, our phones are as bad as some think. Face camera taking covert pics, regular screenshots sent back home, microphone recording every conversation, every message, email, and bit of internet traffic scraped and harvested for ads and anything else - how would you change your habits if you knew this was happening?
Answer - you wouldn't.
- simonw 2y agoI'd write to my representatives about it.
- disambiguation 2y agoHave you? I can't be bothered to cite but all of the above can and does happen in certain contexts - the covert face camera is admittedly a stretch, but all your personal photos are usually whisked away to the cloud without warning, which is just as bad (see the recent apple photos news)
- simonw 2y agoI haven't, and that's an interesting prompt for me to think about real privacy issues that I do think should involve legislation (while avoiding the risk of more cookie banners).