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I'd bet that all Apple products funnel your "private" info to the NSA just like Google products do.

Apple censors emails. I have a friend with whom I was emailing during the scamdemic. I sent him a link to how bad was your batch, and Apple bounced it.

Apple's privacy thing is a facade - they are building silos and bubbles like the worst of them.

Google just forwards all your shit to the deep state and would prefer you to hang yourself with your own rope.

Six of one and half a dozen of the other. The point is that corporations work hand in glove with the deep state one way or another.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/khashoggis-widow-sues-israeli-spyware-company-nso-over-phone-hacking-2023-06-16/

Khashoggi's widow sues Israeli spyware company NSO over phone hacking
By Raphael Satter
June 16, 2023

The widow of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi says in a lawsuit that surveillance software built by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group was used to spy on her messages in the months leading up to her husband's death.

In a civil suit, opens new tab filed Thursday in the Northern District of Virginia, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi said that NSO "intentionally targeted" her devices and "caused her immense harm, both through the tragic loss of her husband and through her own loss of safety, privacy, and autonomy."

Saudi use of the Pegasus spying tool has come up in other controversial cases. Last year, Reuters reported that an attempt by Saudi authorities to wield Pegasus against Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul backfired, allowing researchers to uncover thousands of other victims and triggering a cascade of legal and government action.

Question: Is there a safe phone that does not spy on you?

Patrick says

Fuck retailers who require you to install their app to get discounts. My family will instead never shop there again unless it's an emergency.

"Fuck you I won't do what you tell me . . ." Yeah I know they are libtard cunts but that is a good song.

https://slaynews.com/news/india-mandates-government-surveillance-apps-installed-all-smartphones-track-general-public-24-7/

India’s government has ignited nationwide backlash after quietly ordering private companies to preinstall a controversial government app on every smartphone sold or imported into the country, allowing bureaucrats to track members of the public night and day. ...

The order, sent out last week, gave companies 90 days to ensure the government app Sanchar Saathi was “preinstalled on all mobile handsets manufactured or imported for use in India.”

Officials claimed the requirement was designed “to identify and report acts that may endanger telecom cybersecurity.” ...

The moment Reuters exposed the order, the uproar exploded online, especially among critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s increasingly tech-authoritarian government.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-orders-mobile-phones-preloaded-with-government-app-ensure-cyber-safety-2025-12-01/

https://slaynews.com/news/eu-approves-new-mandate-blanket-scanning-public-private-messages-protect-children/

The Council of the European Union has quietly approved a sweeping new mandate that gives unelected bureaucrats direct access to “scan” the private messages of the general public, all under the guise of “protecting children.”

Eurocrats have taken another major step toward resurrecting the EU’s infamous Chat Control surveillance regime.

However, this time the dystopian agenda has been advanced this time behind closed doors. ...

Officials still insist that the chilling plot is about “child protection,” but critics across the political spectrum say the plan is simply Chat Control 2.0, a massive surveillance framework disguised as reform.

You see, we had to spy on and then murder all political opposition for the children! For the children! That makes it OK.

Child protection when they allow Immigrants to rape children? Hmmmm
https://en.protothema.gr/2023/09/22/in-germany-migrant-muslims-the-rise-in-sexual-assaults-at-swimming-pools/

https://slaynews.com/news/uk-lawmakers-push-mandate-surveillance-tracking-smartphones-child-safety/

UK Lawmakers Push to Mandate Surveillance Tracking on All Smartphones for ‘Child Safety’

Privacy advocates are sounding the alarm over the most sweeping attempt at digital control ever proposed in a Western democracy, as UK lawmakers advance plans to roll out an unprecedented public monitoring program under the guise of “protecting children’s well-being.”

A new set of amendments quietly slipped into the United Kingdom’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill would force nearly all smartphones and tablets sold in the country to come preloaded with tamper-proof government-mandated surveillance software.

Under the legislation, the monitoring cannot be removed, disabled, or opted out of.

https://slaynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/children-wellbeing-schools-bill-amendments-11-dec-2025.pdf

Patrick says

UK Lawmakers Push to Mandate Surveillance Tracking on All Smartphones for ‘Child Safety’

Does that mean the mic is recording? Smartphones already track your location.

I think some experiments have shown that your phone is always listening to you anyway.

And probably tracking your location at all times.

Maybe this one is better:

https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/

Claims to have physical off switches for mic and GPS.

$2K though, and maybe they're just another front for the NSA anyway.

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-wegmans-is-storing-biometric-data-on-shoppers-eyes-voices-and-faces

NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces

Wegmans in New York City has begun collecting biometric data from anyone who enters its supermarkets, according to new signage posted at the chain's Manhattan and Brooklyn locations earlier this month.

Anyone entering the store could have data on their face, eyes and voices collected and stored by the Rochester-headquartered supermarket chain. The information is used to "protect the safety and security of our patrons and employees," according to the signage. The new scanning policy is an expansion of a 2024 pilot.

The chain had initially said that the scanning system was only for a small group of employees and promised to delete any biometric data it collected from shoppers during the pilot rollout. The new notice makes no such assurances.

Wegmans representatives did not reply to questions about how the data would be stored, why it changed its policy or if it would share the data with law enforcement.