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Everything you do is being recorded
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#252I feel like sooner or later we all hollow out a little more. All this data is either used to prevent crime or to influence your thoughts and what you do in the world. Outsourcing your thinking to something else leads to digital dementia. What is the point of all of this technology?
Somebody makes a lot of money and generates a lot of power with it.
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#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the few reasons to use iPhone is that it doesn't constantly surveil you. If Apple would just pivot and say "next iPhone will constantly record everything it hears and sees to process for our AI (Apple Intelligence(tm))" a lot of people would drop iPhone. Apple Watch is just extension of screen and notifications from the phone, so there is no overlap. AirTags have nothing to do with AI stuff. AirPods apparently…
> Apple Watch is just extension of screen and notifications from the phone, so there is no overlap. Where did you got that impression? Apple Watch have lots of apps. It can make phone call and do voice recording without the phone nearby.
Some models have built in cellular as well, so it's possible to use one without your phone entirely.
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#254we desperately need a separation of corporations and state the same way we have a separation of church and state . we need a government that is antagonistic towards corporations that are abusing us. it’s wild how much influence they have and how little pushback the government ever gives them when they clearly abuse us from every direction.
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#255> Apple is rumored to be developing an AI pin or pendant that would serve as an iPhone’s constant eyes and ears; many other products of this type are on the way. AI accessories could one day be as widespread as AirPods. But why? Don't we already have phones, watches, glasses, tags, and airpods? If they were making a siri version of alexa/echo, then maybe that would make sense, but do we really need a specific apple d…
One of the few reasons to use iPhone is that it doesn't constantly surveil you. If Apple would just pivot and say "next iPhone will constantly record everything it hears and sees to process for our AI (Apple Intelligence(tm))" a lot of people would drop iPhone. Apple Watch is just extension of screen and notifications from the phone, so there is no overlap. AirTags have nothing to do with AI stuff. AirPods apparently…
> One of the few reasons to use iPhone is that it doesn't constantly surveil you.
Curious, do you have a source for this apart from Apple's marketing?
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#256Looking at this from a perspective of someone who's searching for a job, I can promise you that even if you are recorded, there's next to zero chance your recording is being analyzed in any meaningful way.
You'd imagine that if this global surveillance was so ubiquitous, finding a match between an employee and employer would've been an... easier problem. However, even though supply is only a little larger than demand, the nature of this supply is to oversaturate the matching system, which then defaults to... I don't even know what, perhaps dropping 99% of all applications at random? Only taking 1% of those who applied sooner? Must be something like that.
Anyways, recording everything is a way to overwhelm the system with useless data. It would be much scarier if recording was selective.
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#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
Using GrapheneOS makes you a terrorist now. I'm a terrorist.
Since the courts decided you have to use your fingerprint to unlock your phone (because they decided that's not giving up your password and they can't compel you to give up your password), what if you use your fingerprint to wipe your phone? But you don't tell anyone ahead of time when they force you to use it. I'm sure you'd be arrested at the least. I can't be the only person who has thought of this.
IANAL, but I would bet that's still destruction of evidence. Judges are human, for better or worse, and can see the intention behind cute tricks like this.
It might work if your fingerprint was used while you were unconscious, but any solution that starts with "setup a trigger that wipes a device" is already on shaky grounds.
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
Friend of a friend retired several years ago from Intel. He'll go into detail about all the ways you're being spied on. He won't let you into his house with a smartphone; you have to turn it off and leave it in your car. I used to think he was just paranoid...
How about a Faraday box, by the door? Take to the next level with acoustic insulation, just in case there's a record-now, upload-later mode.
> How about a Faraday box, by the door?
Not as easy as one may think. If you put a phone in a generic waterproof metal box (metal junction or biscuit box for instance) and call it with another one, most of the time it will still ring...
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#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don't call license plate scanners AI
Why not? If they use a machine learning approach. AI is more than LLMs. It's a trained model, just like Claude.
Using the broader label to imply good things about the narrow thing sucks. Like being pro "technology" means nothing
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#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
Using GrapheneOS makes you a terrorist now. I'm a terrorist.
Since the courts decided you have to use your fingerprint to unlock your phone (because they decided that's not giving up your password and they can't compel you to give up your password), what if you use your fingerprint to wipe your phone? But you don't tell anyone ahead of time when they force you to use it. I'm sure you'd be arrested at the least. I can't be the only person who has thought of this.
Well, guess what happens:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/duress-password-phone-...