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Re:Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hos... by armada651 on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:39PM (#38051194)
People are always unconcerned until their data leaks, then it turns out that the stuff they considered uninteresting was actually something they'd rather have kept private.
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Re:Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hos... by Belopolye on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:41PM (#38051220)
At that point I think my challenge is to not have anything you’d rather be private on a platform you don’t actually have control over, or why have it on a phone in the first place.
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Re:Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hos... by AnthonyMouse on Saturday October 28, 2023 @01:31PM (#38051751)
One of the most private things your phone knows about you is where you are at any given time. It's completely possible to design phones and cellular networks in such a way that they don't reveal that information to third parties, but we haven't, and that's bad.
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