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?
We need bots, automations… I don’t know… we need a new category called “telemetry jammers.” If the tools existed, I’m almost certain people would not mind running them. Spam the hell out of telemetry sensors of all kinds, with random data… destroy the usefulness altogether. The more spam, the fewer people we actually need to participate. The more transparent to the actual user, the better.
At some pint the extra data being sent to the trackers might start to consume more battery power and heat from CPU usage.
Pokemon GO did something similar to this and those were the side effects
Could be done on another device though, a computer could pretend to be your phone and start sending tons of useless data maybe? I don’t know how feasible it is.
You’d have to automate the retrieval of IDs for each data harvesting platform (including web based cookies to be feature complete) and manage to send the properly formatted data on each platform.
Funnily enough though, the kind of fuzzy data generation that just looks plausible enough could be a great usecase for LLMs
So like what, just Faraday cage bags?
Nah, a reverse faraday cage, something that would make telemetry useless by flooding it with trash. We can try all we can not to be spied on, but it’s an uphill battle. If we start being so noisy that they’d have to sift through tons of crap to maybe perhaps get a tiny speck of useful data, it won’t economically make sense to continue harvesting the data.
It’s one of the things I do with a combo of trackmenot + adnauseam, spam web search & click websites and all their ads automatically while I use my computer. Good luck profiling me correctly
Faraday pants.