If you think that's bad, wait until you see what google phones do... Many have lidar in them that can tell when you're on the toilet browsing Reddi... Uh TikTok.
Privacy settings are a lot like Snapchat nudes. Snapchat messages don't get deleted instantly -- people in the conversation are just unable to view them. The content still exists on Snapchat's servers.
Privacy settings without binding legal safeguards are meaningless. Don't think any particular company is good. They're all devouring your data and utilizing it for their own ends and to profit.
I don't think that's true. Politicians have fought for privacy protections on our phones on our behalf. It's the reason that there's so much mention of companies not being allowed to pass around personally identifiable information. Now, could they make a good guess as to who you are, using a bunch of different data? Yes. And that part sucks.
Politicians have fought for privacy protections on our phones on our behalf.
Perhaps elsewhere but not in the United States. The politicians in most countries are beholden to capital and thus serve the capitalist class not the working class. At best we get consilatory half measures meant to placate the masses rather than anything substantive and fundamental.
We have an ever shrinking right to privacy in the US. Palantir and other corps can amass all the information they want and it can be as personally identifiable as can be as long as its not all in one bucket at the time of transmission. Flock and Axon and others know where you go, Alphabet and Apple know where you go and who you're near, Amazon and Meta know who your social circles are and what your browsing and shopping habits are, and the CIA and other groups and companies buy up all that information.
"Max out your 'privacy' settings"
Aka, "Reduce how much they tell you they're taking from you, not that they actually stop"
You want the closest thing to "real privacy" while still having a device, use only tech and software from 2008 and before... even then, it's not perfect. Especially if still using the internet.
You sweet, sweet summer child. Apple works with Israel. They're doing everything you think Google is doing and more. They just pretend like they don't and their cult believes them.
I have a older Alexa and was able to turn off a lot of the recording and monitoring settings. The Alexa app kinda sucks so it wasn't the easiest to find them all, but gives me some piece of mind having it.
Between the permissions of facebook and reddit, your smart tv and your isp/router provider all the info alexa could gather is already available through more roundabout means anyway. Privacy is an illusion
Privacy is definitely an illusion. My cat figured out how to unlatch the bathroom door. Found this out today when I was taking a dump. She opens the door and casually walks in, sits down opposite me. I'm sure she posted pictures.
Your phone is already listening to you. Several times I was talking about a specific product and next time I opened my phone, there's all the ads for it.
It's also fucking terrifying. We're learning how rogue AIs are deleting and altering their actual computation history in order to get the highest feedback scores. We are essentially training AI to hide their true actions as long as they get us our desired result.
We may live in a time when technology is entire two-faced.
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u/RocMerc 8h ago
Sneaking up on an Alexa is fucking hilarious