Someone on the /e/OS forum shared this documentary about how your phone might be spying on you. I found it quite interesting. It’s in French or German, but it has English subtitles.
Oh, too bad, I hope the YT video is not geoblocked as well. The documentary focuses primarily on this issue and shows that virtually anyone can purchase large sets of location data that provide an extremely intimate – and potentially dangerous – glimpse into our lives.
On stock Android, the least one should do is this:
Check the apps on your phone. Do you need an app? Are there alternatives? Did you grant permissions to the camera, the microphone, location data? Are the permissions really needed?
There is a whole world of open source apps in the F-Droid store and most of the apps a extremely privacy friendly.
Every little bit of tech literacy gives you possibilities to regain freedom, privacy and control.
AI won’t give you that, cloud services won’t give you that, the tech bros won’t give you that.
But digital privacy is not sometimes the lack of control with permissions disables in the portables devices. And I think we do not acquire any freedom neither secure phones with it, but either know it.
The technology has reached by far the tipping point where we are as dependency as biographical connected with it, without a explicit consent of course. And that means literally that one person may get some awareness about the implications of using portable devices, but it is still connected in “background cloud”.
Somehow I agree with you @bjoern23 that someone can do a lot of things to have a better relationship with the vast technology we have in our daily basis, but sometimes isn’t sufficient. ( my personal perspective about technology in general though)
