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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 | 2 comments | 26 Apr 25 00:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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caminanteblanco ◴[27 Apr 25 04:52 UTC] No.43809508{3}[source]▶
It literally says right on the facial recognition sign that you're free to opt out, just let the TSA employee know
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arcfour ◴[27 Apr 25 06:17 UTC] No.43809819{4}[source]▶
The TSA is - objectively, by their own audits - complete security theater. Why bother to defend them, exactly?

Also, the spirit of the 4th Amendment is most certainly not "here, this is the easy way!" (yes, we are conducting mass surveillance but you can sort of opt out of one piece of it by going through a manual process over here that we will make you feel like you are burdening us by requesting)

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1. 93po ◴[27 Apr 25 11:59 UTC] No.43811305{5}[source]▶
correcting disinformation isn't defending something. do you want to live in a world where we dislike someone and so we just make up random terrible things about them that aren't true, and it's fine and encouraged because they're someone we dislike, and people aren't allowed to say "hey that's not actually true, at all"
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2. syeare ◴[30 Apr 25 07:43 UTC] No.43842295[source]▶
but we do live in such a world tho?