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> Smartphones and webcams don't spy on people. People spy on people.

Well yes, but those smartphones were designed by people, and many of them are designed to spy on people. While it’s true that there’s (almost) nothing about smartphones that makes them inherently intrusive, that’s cold comfort when surveillance is the industry standard.

(But yeah, I’m keeping a close eye on Linux smartphone development for that reason.)




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