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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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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 days 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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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What we need most at this point are hardware manufacturers that aren't in bed with the CIA.

for a long time i have had the feeling that basically there's only a very small number of hardware manufacturers in the world, we all know them, TSMC and others, and basically i suspect that the CIA puts some kind of spyware directly into the hardware. maybe i'm wrong here, but i have a gut feeling. we need independent hardware manufacturers, maybe stationed in europe or somewhere else in the third world altogether.

you said it yourself, encrypted apps don't mean anything when the underlaying system is already flawed. that is the operating system and the hardware. first we need better hardware, then we need a clean, non-invasive operating system, then we need good apps. starting with good apps alone doesn't actually do that much when your data gets siphoned off through other apps nonetheless.

[–] diablomnky666@lemmy.wtf 5 points 6 days ago

Not the CIA, the NSA does this all the time. The documents that Snowden leaked confirmed that the agency intercepts hardware being shipped to targets and swaps out the firmware to allow them to listen in on all network traffic going through that device. They also work closely with ISPs to install devices that mirror all network traffic going through that ISP to another device so they can log and analyze it.

[–] alana@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

I agree that systems have their flaws, but that doesnt mean theyre tampered or infected by government agencies, if this were true they wouldnt be forcing tech companies to create backdoors (UK government wanted a backdoor to Apple users ADP encrypted data)

What feels like spyware is that phones and apps collect so much data which then gets shared or sold to data-brokers or third parties, and then to government agencies

And encrypted apps do help, even if theyre in a flawed system

What we need is a more privacy conscious society, which then implements stronger privacy laws