The IT experts from Trinity College Dublin have examined Apple and Google smartphones and found that, on average, they communicate with their home servers every 4.5 minutes. They do this even when idle and when users have explicitly disabled the corresponding functions.
Participant identifiers, IMEI, serial numbers, phone numbers, and much more are shared with Apple and Google. Together with GPS data, the manufacturers are theoretically able to capture and analyze, with centimeter accuracy, who met with whom, where, when, and for how long, and much more…
Andreas Popp discusses with Chris from PRVCY.world how the digital recording of our lives works and what can be done about it.
