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Re:Privacy: Is That iPhone? by BurningFrog on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @10:03PM (#21520843)
There were mobile phones decades before any of this existed.
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Re:Privacy: Is That iPhone? by krageon on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:59AM (#21522529)
And to the extent that this was practical, they have always been used for surveillance.
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Re:Privacy: Is That iPhone? by BurningFrog on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:55AM (#21524776)
Maybe I'm splitting hairs, but that's definitely not their primary purpose, which is what I think OP was saying.

Sure, once they exist, there are secondary effects who are important in themselves.

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Re:Privacy: Is That iPhone? by api on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:13AM (#21524243)
Yeah I guess people carrying around transmitters is too easy to exploit for surveillance and it's just irresistible.
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