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Your phone is a snitch in your pocket, and the law won't save you. It's time to break the surveillance machine. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 hours ago by DefinitelyNotBirds@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[-] Cherry@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

I would love to think its just a hardware and software issue, it is a habit issue too - i am keen to get away from my phone. I am starting to detest it.

But we do still need things that genuinely aid us. People do need maps. and bank apps on the go. I am trying to break my habits. I have been tempted to go back to a nokia flip but i need a map. I miss the days of flips, that satisfying clip closed. The actual physical act of opening it.

I will be moving to graphene pretty soon but its still a touchscreen, and even if i buy second hand it bumps google prices, i begrudge that. Jolla is too far away and a tad on the pricey side. Motorola is still another big brand just producing touch screen smart phones that lean towards bad habits. I would love a physical switch too.

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

lineageOS on 1 of the hundreds of nonBoogle phones?

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

Google gets nothing from you if you purchase second hand.

[-] Cherry@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

It still keeps their hardware in demand and pricier.

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