This is What Happens When Your Phone is Spying on You

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[–]Brewdabier 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

My plane old vinalla oneplus 6t has no social media, I turn off wifi when I leave home, I only use the phone for calls and texting (textra). And even then I never talk or text about anything that might be illegal, questionable. People who buy a phone with use social media on it are stupid.

[–]passionflounder 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You are the commodity... you location, text and call history, purchase record, etc.. That's where the technology is headed. It will facilitate universal surveillance.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This kind of neglects how Google Play, Samsung Store, Facebook, Twitter, GMail, Google Search, and all those per-installed bloat-ware apps are already doing this to you and selling the info to conglomerate companies who sell it to anyone.

Spying on you is not a one off activity done by one app, it is a whole industry. Anyone allowing for "anonymized data collection" is empowering this industry, whom anonymizing service is done by big-daddy Oracle.