Your smartphone tracks your location, listens to your conversations, and sells your intimate moments to data brokers.
The law pretends to regulate this, but lobbyists write the rules and enforcement is a joke.
Encryption apps aren’t enough when the hardware itself is designed to betray you.
The phone is a spy device marketed as a lifestyle accessory.
We need radical technical solutions, not incremental privacy policies that change nothing.
The surveillance economy depends on your ignorance and inaction.
Break the chain: use open hardware, de-Googled Android, or build your own tools.
#privacy #surveillance #digitalrights #antitrust
How much of your life are you willing to sell for a slightly more convenient map app?
Not having a map when going to a new location is one of the most anxiety triggering things for me. They have been lifesavers in helping me get out more.
But OSM provides a map. What exactly are you talking about?
I thought the problem was people depending too much on Google Maps because its privacy invasive data harvesting.
It often gives incorrect maps simply because of update schedule and them encouraging not reporting construction <3 months or whatever.
We have construction all over in Belgium and tons of detours such that it makes open street map pretty much unusable as it will just incessantly reroute you to a blocked path even after you are well on a different route.
You said precise maps apps and ‘an app to fit your life’, not closed source corpo map sources.
I’m fine with using open source if it’s capable of navigating me around without issue, I’m not fine with not having an app too fit my life or be precise.
Yea but the main thread of this comment is talking about:
Usually when people say that on a privacy perspective it refers to how impossible is to ditch Google Maps because of its live traffic things and other things like Android Auto.
So I replied saying you should change your life to not depend on such apps, not your apps to fit in your lifestyle.