I am greatly displeased at the smartphone industry. I think it's time for a heavy handed crackdown about all the spying they're doing. The smartphone industry and in particular the company qualcomm I find an intolerable company in their practice, I believe they should be smashed, their equiment liquidated and their intellectual property destroyed.
The smartphone industry is a festering cancer on general computing, a persistent and pernicious assault on human rights. An invasion of our private spaces. A colonization of our lives.
I think it is past the point of reform, not that there are any regulator with to intelligence figure out what is wrong let alone the wherewithal to do anything about.
For those reasons, I think global thermonuclear war is our only realistic option for setting back the clock on this travesty.
I am willing to hear your alternative, I don't believe anything short of that has a snowball's chance in hell to change anything about this.
A crackdown by whom?
The people who have the power to change it are the people who want it the way that it is.
Protests don't matter. Boycotts don't matter. For one simple reason.
You're not their customer. The people buying the data they collect from you are. There will never be enough people willing to do away with their precious smartphones and tablets to make a dent in ithat.
If there is no one willing to step up and protect the interest and wellbeing of common people, it means democracy is dead and it can't be denied anymore. If there's going to be no effort made to force the hand of device manufacturer and carriers to provide a privacy respecting full featured smartphone at the regular price of any other phone while also constructing a society that demands everyone to have one. Then it must mean that society intends to spy on everyone in a way that would make Big Brother blush.
I don't see any solution other than "a vigorous nuclear exchange" as the last hope we have for a reset button before our feat is sealed as human cattle of the oligarchy. And yes, this is far from the only sign that this is happening, it's just the one undeniable smartphone aspect of this upcoming horror.