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Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing

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369 points zeech | 4 comments | 26 Apr 25 00:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.6s | source
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limbero ◴[26 Apr 25 17:01 UTC] No.43805260[source]▶
This article reminds me of this excellent tongue-in-cheek piece of writing by Jonathan Zeller in McSweeney's:

Calm Down—Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/calm-down-your-phone-isn...

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Spooky23 ◴[26 Apr 25 20:09 UTC] No.43806692[source]▶
There is so much time spent “debunking” audio recordings being shared with various entities it makes me more suspicious.

Just like Facebook’s “we never sell your data (we just stalk you and sell ads using your data)”. I’m sure there’s a similar weasel excuse… “we never listen to your audio (but we do analyze it to improve quality assurance)”

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LgWoodenBadger ◴[26 Apr 25 22:11 UTC] No.43807661[source]▶
It’s similar with the TSA facial recognition photos. “We delete your photo immediately” but what they don’t say is that they don’t delete the biometrics from that photo.
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bsimpson ◴[26 Apr 25 22:14 UTC] No.43807689[source]▶
It's a crime that were compelled to concede our 4th Amendment rights in order to travel.
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spunker540 ◴[26 Apr 25 22:30 UTC] No.43807795[source]▶
Same with drivers licenses and passports having a photo requirement too
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1. gruez ◴[26 Apr 25 23:16 UTC] No.43808130[source]▶
>drivers licenses and passports having a photo requirement too

You're free to take the bus, or hire a chauffeur. A private pilots license doesn't have any pictures either.

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2. hammock ◴[26 Apr 25 23:55 UTC] No.43808300[source]▶
For better or worse, we didn’t have to make such hard choices for the first 80 years of aviation. And Greyhound etc require photo ID these days as well
3. asteroidburger ◴[27 Apr 25 06:15 UTC] No.43809815[source]▶
A US pilot certificate itself does not include a photo, but you must have a photo ID to use it. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/part-61/section-61.3#p...
4. ornornor ◴[27 Apr 25 07:27 UTC] No.43810125[source]▶
That’s not a freedom. That’s a restriction that reduces the amount of choices you have for potentially worse ones.