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[-] Gutotito@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I have shit to hide, but precisely zero of it is on my phone. I wouldn't hand you my unlocked phone because I don't want you fucking with it.

[-] BornVolcano@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Right? Like between them messing with it and the person mocking or judging you for it, there's a huge difference between bulk data collection and just handing someone your device. I'll forego a bit in the name of national security but I'm not just giving up everything to everyone.

[-] trynn@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Some of us use our phones for work and letting other people have access to work content would violate NDAs.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Came to say something like this. I don't like smartphones so my only one is for work which, of course given they have 100% access to, does not have anything hinky or kinky on it.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't let my wife touch my phone. Not because I'm hiding anything, it's because last time I let her touch it she started absent-mindedly closing out of my emotional support browser tabs.

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Good thing Firefox gives you a list of recently closed tabs.

[-] BornVolcano@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I mean for me at least, there's a difference between the government accessing info from my phone, and random people. My info would be part of a mass pool of info for the government, nothing in particular stands out that would be weirder than what anyone else has. They won't bat an eye, they probably won't even care. But a person standing in front of me with my phone will take my info immediately in the context of me, without anything else for comparison or any sort of desensitization to the topic. I could get mocked or made fun of, because it isn't a mass data pool with mine in there, it's just my data, because they want my data. And I don't know why they do, either, or what they'll do with it in the immediate, since they know me personally. I'm not an open book to everyone, but in the face of government security, my info isn't going to be eye-catching in the least.

[-] ruination@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

That is only if the government is not authoritarian, and you're not someone standing against them (activist, journalist, etc.) It was in fact a government, that of Saudi Arabia that murdered Jamal Khasshogi and put spyware on his wife's phone for speaking out against the Saudi royal family.

[-] keeb420@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah even if it's not illegal people don't want you snooping through there stuff. Shocking.

[-] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t have anything to hide but I also keep curtains on my windows.

[-] fartsinger@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

What are y'all doing on your phones???

this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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