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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 | 3 comments | 26 Apr 25 00:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.852s | 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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DrillShopper ◴[26 Apr 25 23:35 UTC] No.43808225[source]▶
Amtrak and Greyhound do not require those biometrics, nor does renting a car and driving (or driving your own).
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1. Spooky23 ◴[27 Apr 25 04:07 UTC] No.43809366[source]▶
You can also walk. Lovers of freedom can walk from Manhattan to LA in 40-50 days. Of course if you look “wrong”, you’ll probably get rounded up in some flyover town.
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2. HaZeust ◴[27 Apr 25 19:01 UTC] No.43814292[source]▶
I wonder what the chances of surviving that trip is, based on walking pedestrian fatalities on highways.
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3. michaelmrose ◴[28 Apr 25 19:12 UTC] No.43824902[source]▶
Depends on where you walk the US is amazingly poorly situated for long walks outside of major cities. Sidewalks disappear first then lighting then one is liable to run into major stretches with no safe affordance for walking whatsoever where one is either inches from cars or in a ditch.