r/mildlyinfuriating • u/notworkingghost • 8h ago

Ruined by Technology When we’re not looking, Alexa displays the wrong time. I finally caught her on video.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 5h ago

google phones do

All connected devices are spying on you at all times even those that pretend otherwise.

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u/Reasonable-Job4205 4h ago

You can max out your privacy settings and reduce the amount of data they get from you

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 2h ago

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.

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u/madeinatube 11m ago

I have a very dumb question. Forgive me. I’m an old woman.

What does like when they collect data from a nude on Snapchat? What do they get from it? What do they use it for; like a nude picture?

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u/Reasonable-Job4205 2h ago

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.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 2h ago

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.

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u/JoyconDrift_69 2h ago

Reduce is the keyword though. They're always getting something out of you.

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u/Reasonable-Job4205 1h ago

True. But I'll do as much as I can

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u/Citizen_Empire 11m ago

"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.

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u/kereur 1h ago

GrapheneOS

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u/FloydeFlowerDragon 59m ago

Technically not, if you make it yourself from scratch you can guarentee it isn't.

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u/blonded_olf 5h ago

Apple devices are absolutely not doing that

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 5h ago

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.

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u/blonded_olf 4h ago

Yep its definitely just the "cult" and not their repeated stances and investments into privacy focused features.

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u/MagoLunatico98 3h ago

Poor little sheep 😭

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u/Djungeltrumman 4h ago

IIRC someone was just talking close to their iPhone about getting a child and got a bunch of diaper adverts.

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u/LazyBlueStar 4h ago

And if you disable it they pinky promise to stop? Hahaha

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u/Ok_Reality_7892 3h ago

I have to disable a “feature” that it defaults to listening in on my conversations? Seriously????