Demonstrably not true for my S7 portable #surveillance and #tracking device. You can install #LineageOS if your phone supports it. Better yet: S3 with #Replicant.
(Internet Archive link because the article now 404's.)
This type of tracking of a driver and car occupants can indeed provide useful features---both safety and convenience. But I would only be in favor of this sort of thing if it were free software and the car were under complete control of the user, and the system could be wholly disabled with clearly visible and unambiguous hardware switch, which is also visible to passengers.
But proprietary systems doing this will be incentivized to sell data to third parties. The article gives some examples of some terrible uses of this type of tracking.
As we move further and further into the future where these types of things are going to become more commonplace, the goal IMO shouldn't be to resist technological progress---it should be to ensure that it _empowers_ users, rather than making them servants or products.
Yes, me too! Now it won't be long before those Social #Surveillance Networks refuse to allow 1 January as a valid birthdate because it's an indicator of false ID information.
Comme chaque lundi, un coup d’œil dans le rétroviseur pour découvrir les informations que vous avez peut-être ratées la semaine dernière. Brave New World On a visité une « prison ouverte » en Finlande (usbeketrica.com) À Tokyo, des humains paralysés contrôlent des robots-serveurs
Dystopia of near future: virtual reality games that changes the story and the experience of the game while playn through artificial intelligence based on what behaviours the ruling class wants to stimulate. Individual targeting made through collected data from mass #surveillance.
Comme chaque lundi, un coup d’œil dans le rétroviseur pour découvrir les informations que vous avez peut-être ratées la semaine dernière. Brave New World The Big Hack : la micropuce espionne venue de Chine, un fantasme ? (numerama.com) - voir aussi : Une nouvelle preuve de piratage de matériel Supermicro à U.S. Telecom ([...]
Comme chaque lundi, un coup d’œil dans le rétroviseur pour découvrir les informations que vous avez peut-être ratées la semaine dernière. Une revue web assurée avec maestria par Khrys ! Brave New World L'accès à l'internet haut débit est un problème majeur pour près d'un quart d[...]
"Most worryingly, Google appears to be scooping up information about people who use incognito mode in their browsers – which most people think makes their activities invisible from Google." #privacy#security#surveillance