I saw this title and immediately said "fuck off" then clicked, and ..glad to see OP sharing my immediate sentiment.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2026
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JFC, I don't need tech tracking every goddamn word and fart.
Dumb phones are about to start trending more and more every day.
I recently got rid of my smart watch when Samsung enshitified it and locked a bunch of features like weather updates behind an account, years after I bought the watch.
Now I have a dumb mechanical watch (quartz crystal, not spring winding) that will last years before I need to replace the battery. Everything it does, it does better than a smart watch. Not having to do the wrist flick gesture 1-3 times to check the time has been amazing. And I'm not constantly broadcasting Bluetooth anymore.
And graphene OS, maybe
Until Google decides to lock them out of any sort of verification process.
First setting change, turn off audio memory.
And somehow, it automatically gets re-enabled in a next update. Urgh...
The people who called me crazy because "there's no way your phone can be listening in on you all the time" are the same people who are going to be the most excited about this "feature"
Doesn't need to track you all the time to know exactly who you are and what you're up to.
Continuously monitoring is such a waste of their resources, they already know everything about you, they just need to check in now and then to make sure you're buying the correct t-shirts.
Just switched from Pixel 8 Pro to iPhone. Looking like that was a good decision even though iOS is a shitshow to use in comparison.
Even if no one else could access it because it stayed on my device, I'm sure it'll be used for categorizing "advertising cohort" stuff again.
It sucks having to be so skeptical. With my severe ADHD something like this would be enormously helpful for remembering conversations others I talk to remember just fine but I don't.
Now turn it into a black mirror episode where the corporation controls your memories
So what could be a really useful thing is now just a 24/7 surveilance device that will record everything, even when you have sex, when you talk about fantasies and so on.
I guarantee you that in no time the justice department will be interested in having access to all that
Minority report coming true daily
Funny thing is I already thought of two angles that might make people willingly use that:
- Sex coaches review your recent experiences and give you advice (good or bad, just like other life advice fields).
- Proof of consent so neither party can change the story after the fact. Though the proof won't be at a scientific rigor level so it won't help as much as people will hope, though it probably will clear up some less complex cases and complicate the shit out of others.
This would be such a cool thing, too bad it will only be used to scrape our data in order to sell us more ads. There are far too many technologies and concepts that have been ruined already due to bloody greed.
Hey, don't be so pessimistic.
For sure it will be available for government agencies to subpoena or even outright purchase.
This is the free market. Everything about you is for sale.
So, my options are iPhone or Graphene?
I m trying SailfishOS with the new Jolla Phone. Only a suitable choice for nerds I suppose, but that's not an issue for me.
How's banking working on Sailfish? Seriously considering Jolla for my next phone but it must work with my bank app.
Constant surveillance 😡
Audio memories 😍
BIG BROTHER IS ~~WATCHING YOU~~
HELPING YOU REMEMBER YOUR IMPORTANT CONVERSATIONS
I love the idea. Having a sortable, searchable list of everything that hits my plate day to day would be an awesome boon, I simply don't want anyone else to have that data :(
And this is why I de-googled my phones. Fuck off with that surveillance bullshit.
If a song isn’t recognized, a short digital fingerprint may be sent to Google to securely search the cloud. Background conversations and audio are never sent to Google.
And, of course, Google will honor this and any other setting, as always, right? Right?
If you've got an android, go into your phone's dev options and try to turn off Google's location tracking service, or the one that tracks screen inputs, or the one that checks what wifi networks are around you.
They've been dishonourable from day 1 :C
As soon as they got away with "federated learning" (basically use your phone to train ai then just phone the results home rather than your data) 🤢 they knew they could just keep pushing and pushing and pushing until they have it all
Any soviet officials still alive must be going crazy: "wait, they actually pay to be surveilled???"
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Honestly, I thought they already did that.
One of my motivations for becoming more privacy minded, was the amount of times a subject of conversation was delivered through an algorithm later.
It was creepy, talk about hose pipes> receive hosepipe content/ads.
I think so but now it's being marketed as a feature which is nauseating.
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