Edward Snowden: How Your Cell Phone Spies on You

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=VFns39RXPrU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFns39RXPrU

Taken from the interview of Joe Rogan with Edward Snowden:
https://youtu.be/efs3QRr8LWw


#snowden #why #phones

Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are #logging the #movements of tens of millions of #people with #mobile #phones and storing the information in gigantic #data #files. The Times #Privacy #Project obtained one such file, by far the largest and most sensitive ever to be reviewed by journalists. It holds more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans as they moved through several major cities, including Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Each piece of #information in this file represents the precise location of a single #smartphone over a period of several months in 2016 and 2017. The data was provided to Times Opinion by sources who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to share it and could face severe penalties for doing so. The sources of the information said they had grown alarmed about how it might be abused and urgently wanted to inform the public and lawmakers.

After spending months sifting through the data, tracking the movements of people across the country and speaking with dozens of data companies, technologists, lawyers and academics who study this field, we feel the same sense of alarm. In the cities that the data file covers, it tracks people from nearly every neighborhood and block, whether they live in mobile homes in Alexandria, Va., or luxury towers in Manhattan.

One search turned up more than a dozen people visiting the Playboy Mansion, some overnight. Without much effort we spotted visitors to the estates of Johnny Depp, Tiger Woods and Arnold Schwarzenegger, connecting the devices’ owners to the residences indefinitely.

If you lived in one of the cities the #dataset covers and use #apps that share your# location — anything from weather apps to local news apps to coupon savers — you could be in there, too.

If you could see the full trove, you might never use your phone the same way again.

Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

#surveillance #privacy #why #thinkabout
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@BlackBox_Archiv

The U.S. Government funded smartphones which come with pre-installed malware

https://www.xda-developers.com/us-government-smartphones-pre-installed-malware


#usa #gov #phones #malware #android #huawei

Google and Apple have conspired to install tracking spyware into your smartphones with the coronavirus excuse in a mandatory update

https://9to5google.com/2020/04/13/android-contact-tracing-google-play-services/

Here are some ways to avoid it:

1 Don't use Apple, it's a closed source tyranny, destroy them

2 Get devices like #pinephone, #librem or other non Android #phones instead

3 If you have an Android, be sure you can unlock the bootloader to be able to install a clean operating system (rom) free from Google spyware (without gapps).
Search on the internet your phone model + unlock bootloader.
Then install a recovery like twrp and from it a rom without gapps

4 Check out these instructions for Android if you don't have unlocked bootloader or root:
https://old.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/g13tyz


📡 @NoGoolag
#google #apple #gapps #mandatory #update #tracking #spyware #why

Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads

A startup gathers data on when you pick up your phone or go out on a run.

Google and Apple have taken steps this year they say will help users shield themselves from hundreds of companies that compile profiles based on online behavior. Meanwhile, other companies are devising new ways to probe more deeply into other aspects of our lives.

In January, Google said it would phase out third-party cookies on its Chrome browser, making it harder for advertisers to track our browsing habits. Publishers and advertisers use cookies to compile our shopping, browsing, and search data into extensive user profiles. These profiles reflect our political interests, health, shopping behavior, race, gender, and more. Tellingly, Google will still collect data from its own search engine, plus sites like YouTube or Gmail.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/companies-can-track-your-phones-movements-to-target-ads/

#phones #tracking #ads #privacy

#Canada #trudeau #phones #laptops