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?
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