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?
Very well said. Everything you said I agree about 100%.
I’m doing my best. It’s hard tho. They just… don’t care. They don’t understand why it is important. Important for their future, and for all of our future. They don’t seem to grasp why it matters so much, and what price we have to pay when we get it wrong.
I try to find concrete examples for them. But when people are invested already in some big tech ecosytem, it’s easy to discount the examples. “That wouldn’t apply to me”.
I’m trying so hard, but it is an up hill fight :(.
Yeah, it’s hard. People don’t want to see the problems because they don’t want to change. Law makers are the ones we really can’t fail to convince.