• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Imo, the only solution is every device with an antenna must be legally required to put a manual off switch.

    Cell service, wifi, Bluetooth, any future service. If it broadcasts it needs a physical off switch.

    If I sold my car to a government official and they found out I had hidden a camera, microphone and GPS in the car, I’d get a visit from the FBI. Yet companies do it with impunity. Does the CEO of Subaru have recordings of Bernie Sanders driving in his car?

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      7 months ago

      And each type of communication needs it’s own switch. Don’t let them pull some BS trying to make you enable all the hardcore tracking via a cell network just because you want to connect to Bluetooth.

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      For phones, Pinephone is very nearly this. The only thing is that GPS and cell service are on the same switch (because they’re handled by the same chip on the board)