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13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You (www.rd.com)
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We were promised a technological future with ways to search for things of interest, find out how to get to places on a map, etc. Instead the government can now track us in our daily lives anywhere and everywhere we go 24/7. That would be great in a world where the government is of the people, by the people and for the people. However in reality they want to find us and send us to el Salvador. WTF!

Until things change, I am not buying a single electronic device. Not an iPad or a TV or an empty-tree player. This is ridiculous. And now we can't even know anything because all news is coming from the Murdocks and they just killed off NPR and PBS. This is how the bad part of the story starts.

See you all in a fire pit somewhere!

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[–] Feyd@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Couldn't you just, like, turn it off?

[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Off really isn’t off anymore, more like standby and it can still send data.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would you mind sharing why you think that?

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm not the person you're replying to, but I don't think it's paranoid to think the three letter agencies have this tech. Back in 2013 NSA could do it, seemingly through a virus. Now? It's probably more trivial on certain phones. Apparently the "find my iPhone" feature works on the most recent generations of iPhones even when they've powered off, and some phones will ring a set alarm when when off (I'll get back to you with an edit if my older smartphone has that feature).

If you're being specifically targeted by three letter agencies it might be a concern. Everyone else I don't know.

[–] eleitl@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago

GrapheneOS does have modem isolation, and when it tells the modem to be off, then it's really off.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I think acknowledging that there may be things we don't know and if you're trying not to be tracked not carrying a phone is probably smart makes sense. The people making these sweeping assertions about how phones work in general with no evidence not so much.