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With the high churn of devices and increasing privacy intrusion, there's probably a small market for burner phones that will re-emerge just for apps in the next years.
This is really no different than what other countries do, e.g. US border officials extensively questioning foreigners or asking for usernames and passwords for social media. As a visitor you have to abide by the law of the country, which may be different from your own country, and whose interpretation may be stretched by border control at the point of entry. The only difference here is that they were able to build an…
I’ve never encountered this when crossing a border and don’t even know how I would sensibly answer any of this. I don’t use social media and don’t travel with a smart phone. So what now? Would they make me buy one in the airport and sign up for Facebook there?
The permissions mentioned sound like someone that doesn't understand the permissions systems used by Android and iPhone tried to translate them. So this part of the article is almost useless as it is hard to figure out what permissions the app actually has. I don't understand the Android permissions system well enough here, but I would be especially curious about which API version this is targeting as I don't know ho…
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There is no way to answer your trolling without a significant amount of sarcasm. Good day to you.
You're acting like the US invented democracy and is a champion of freedom and acceptance which is confidently wrong. Try growing up as a gay kid in the bible belt. It won't be so different from doing so in Qatar.
Wouldn't an easy work-around be to get a cheap new Android phone? I assume you only have to install the apps on one device, if you take two; otherwise, just take the new one. I doubt that the expense would be an issue for somebody attending the World Cup. It seems like this would be good practice these days for any international travel.
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> The only difference here is that they were able to build an app to do all the tracking in plain sight. I'm sure governments in the US and Europe would love to be able to force all visitors to install a similar app. Yet, we do not because unlike in Qatar, the UAE and other religious dictatorships, we are a democracy and we have the ability to change our government. You can do better than whatbouatism.
"It's okay when we commit the same immoral acts that authoritarians commit because we're a democracy" American democracy commits heinous crimes across the world. Being a democracy doesn't absolve them of the moral degeneracy.
With the high churn of devices and increasing privacy intrusion, there's probably a small market for burner phones that will re-emerge just for apps in the next years.
Even using a burner phone doesn't fix the situation if you're still required to have the said phone with you all the time and it can't be turned off, it tracks your location, other phones you meet with etc.
This is really no different than what other countries do, e.g. US border officials extensively questioning foreigners or asking for usernames and passwords for social media. As a visitor you have to abide by the law of the country, which may be different from your own country, and whose interpretation may be stretched by border control at the point of entry. The only difference here is that they were able to build an…
> This is really no different than what other countries do, e.g. US border officials extensively questioning foreigners or asking for usernames and passwords for social media. I’ve never encountered this when crossing a border and don’t even know how I would sensibly answer any of this. I don’t use social media and don’t travel with a smart phone. So what now? Would they make me buy one in the airport and sign up for…
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"It's okay when we commit the same immoral acts that authoritarians commit because we're a democracy" American democracy commits heinous crimes across the world. Being a democracy doesn't absolve them of the moral degeneracy.
He's right about the whataboutism though.
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There is no way to answer your trolling without a significant amount of sarcasm. Good day to you.
The US is a flawed democracy[0]. You're acting like the US invented democracy and is a champion of freedom and acceptance which is confidently wrong. Try growing up as a gay kid in the bible belt. It won't be so different from doing so in Qatar. 0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index