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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A smartphone being the same as a corporate listening device?

I might have got the wrong end of the stick here, but are you insinuating the smartphone is the lower privacy risk?!

I mean, hypothetically if one is being used nefariously why not the other, it would be a hell of a lot harder to know a smartphone was spying on you than a smart speaker. Even people running phones with supposedly private OSes like graphene still typically have several black boxes running blobs of proprietary code (the modem being the big elephant in the room).

A smartphone is a much bigger risk to your privacy than a smart home speaker. It can do anything the speaker can do, but with magnitudes more processing power and a load of extra sensors. Plus you carry it with you everywhere and it's constantly broadcasting your whereabouts to every cell tower nearby that'll listen.

FWIW, people have been trying to find evidence of these speakers spying on us for like a decade now, if they actually were, it would have been found and we'd all know.