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They're cameras and microphones and local compute that you don't actually control rented from an evil corporation.
So an Android or iOS phone?
Bro do you seriously need convincing that walking eye-level cameras that record and tag every fucking person you meet on the street and feed that info to Meta is evil? Some asshole walks past you and bam, real-time geotag. Doesn't really matter if you're not on facebook after it gets into the hands of data brokers anyway. wtf
Do you walk around with your phone constantly in your hands, recording everything, everywhere, all of the time?
It is illegal in a good number of places to film, record, surveil people without their consent or a warrant or some kind of exceptional circumstances.