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Patrick
2025 Dec 16, 12:41pm
Patrick
2025 Dec 16, 12:41pm
https://slaynews.com/news/uk-lawmakers-push-mandate-surveillance-tracking-smartphones-child-safety/
https://slaynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/children-wellbeing-schools-bill-amendments-11-dec-2025.pdf
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
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HeadSet
2025 Dec 17, 6:05pm
HeadSet
2025 Dec 17, 6:05pm
Patrick says
Does that mean the mic is recording? Smartphones already track your location.
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.
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Patrick
2025 Dec 17, 7:22pm
Patrick
2025 Dec 17, 7:22pm
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.
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.
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Many others have attempted Open Source phones and failed. I hope this one works, especially since I just discovered that you cannot turn off wifi or Bluetooth on Android or iOS. "Turning it off" in the controls on those phones merely disconnects you from current access points, but leaves them on so they can spy on your location with great precision and open you up to various exploits:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/ios-11-apple-toggling-wifi-bluetooth-control-centre-doesnt-turn-them-off