We do not disclose or publicize the specific capabilities of our technology. This practice is central to our security strategy, as revealing such details could provide potential criminals or malicious actors with an unintended advantage

Lmao fuck them 😂 the grapheneOS forum is exactly where this info belongs so the devs can patch any vulnerabilities. As if companies like cellebrite care if (other) malicious actors get their hands on the exploits. They just don’t want the the vulnerabilities to be fixed so they can keep using them

IRL : I’d argue most security cameras are, AFAIK, on closed circuits. I don’t think they can upload the data somewhere nor keep it for a long time

It does depend. Most big retailers share CCTV footage with each other through a central company to build a profile on shoplifters (though I wouldn’t trust them to use it only for that)

Most online shop I know do NOT require a mobile phone number.

This definitely hasn’t been my experience though. I can’t remember the last time I saw an online retailer that didn’t require one, or at least require that the field be filled out. I suppose you could just enter a dummy number but then if there’s a problem with the delivery they’ll always try to contact you by phone first

Apologies I must’ve replied to your comment accidentally, I was meaning to post it as a general comment in the thread. It’s interesting though, there’s a middle ground somewhere but people shouldn’t need to take extreme steps to not be recorded everywhere they go. The only thing we can be certain of is that the government and companies aren’t going to give us privacy back. We have to be proactive ourselves. I just wish it didn’t have to be this way

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I hate this argument that people use. Technology has fundamentally redefined what it means to be observed. Someone casually glancing at you in public is a completely different thing to having your movement tracked, permanently stored, and linked to you wherever you go. People absolutely have a right to expect a degree of privacy even in public settings

Gone back to paying for nearly everything in cash (good for budgeting I find too, can’t make impulse purchases if I only have enough money to buy what I came to the shops for). I also got a couple more friends to switch to Signal and make some other privacy-related changes. Slowly getting there

Depends where you live. I’m in Australia and phone companies aren’t allowed to activate a number without tying it to an ID. So criminals just use stolen IDs and regular people don’t get privacy. Also YMMV but virtually every service that needs phone verification won’t accept VoIP numbers anymore

It’s just a bullshit game of political pride at this point. Anti-privacy pundits criticised the UK gov for “caving to the US” after they dropped the previous order so now they’re doubling down on trying to take away their citizens privacy in the name of standing up to the US. How brave. Not that the US gov gives a shit about privacy either