Re:Airbnb wants to GPS track you also when not using the app
by nonrandomstring on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:09AM
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> I run a tech company and have not used any proprietary apps in
several years, not had a cell carrier in well over a year, and a few
months ago I ditched my phone entirely.
Same here. I'm a "high functioning" :) tech person who ditched my
smartphone years ago now. I get more done. More focus. Vastly better
relationships with business partners, family and kids. I learn more,
retain more, think about things more clearly.
It was my involvement directly in smartphone tech around 2012-16
(during which Snowden happened) that flipped my switch.
Recently I've been looking at the psychological evidence around what
these systems of smartphones, "always-on living" and social networks
do to our brains and, as a fairly conservative scientist, I find it
terrifying.
I really think you'd have to be mad to carry a smartphone at present.
Same here. I'm a "high functioning" :) tech person who ditched my smartphone years ago now. I get more done. More focus. Vastly better relationships with business partners, family and kids. I learn more, retain more, think about things more clearly.
It was my involvement directly in smartphone tech around 2012-16 (during which Snowden happened) that flipped my switch.
Recently I've been looking at the psychological evidence around what these systems of smartphones, "always-on living" and social networks do to our brains and, as a fairly conservative scientist, I find it terrifying.
I really think you'd have to be mad to carry a smartphone at present.