Originally Posted by Catfish
New mobiles and tablets offer no possibility to remove the battery, but even then internal capacitors etc. could still run the device for a while, but i digress. Everything you search, type in, look at, at which time you use it, for what, your position, the direction of your current moving and so on can and is being detected.
And this are only the so-called metadata. The providers are also using algorhythms to predict what you will buy, what interests you, where you will go tomorrow and so on, it is all being stored. Permanently. You also get a "score" evaluating your financial capabilities, your political views, and all else.
They have your face (unlock your phone by looking at it - camera - sent - stored), they have your fingerprints, all you call privacy is gone.
Any phone can be switched on by remote, maybe only microphone, camera, movement detectors, or altogether, without the user being aware of it. Since people nowadays write their thoughts directly into facebook, to Whatsapp, you name it, it is all being exploited and stored, and no one seems to have any problem with that. It is all only for your wellbeing, of course.
edit: all new Samsung TVs have cameras and microphones. While you can switch off the camera (if you really can, no way to control), you cannot switch off the microphone. So all you say and comment, behaviour during films, advertising and whatever, is being recorded, and processed. Samsung openly admits this, all for your benefit and to "widen the user experience". Samsung is not the only one, but was the first to openly admit it.
I am always wondering how and why certain types of people willingly develop tools and methods that will make the life of their children and grandchildren unbearable.
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