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RE: Hundreds of Applications Are Listening for Marketing Beacons You Can’t Hear

in #internet7 years ago

Jesus Christ!

Virtually every app I looked at allows it to turn the camera & microphone on, triangulate location thru GPS, and on and on. Shit, it permits the phone to be completely controlled. Even the fucking Aldi app! I have an older Android Phone that doesn't appear to let me alter the permissions though.

I'm going to have to see if I can find a way.

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Just one reason I don't have a smartphone and instead have a piece of crap Nokia from yesteryear :-)

a piece of crap Nokia from yesteryear

That probably has an 8 day battery life and would get 6 bars of signal strength in a nuclear bunker. ;-)

hehe, exactly :-)