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Have you been sleeping under a rock for the last 15 years? If the government wants to listen to you, they’ll just use the microphone in your pocket. Or better: they don’t listen to your incoherent ramblings and go straight for your search history, which is much more interesting than what you are generally talking about.

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I don’t know if you know this, but it’s pretty easy for someone to make private their phone, search history, etc. You just need to be a little dedicated and sacrifice some usability.

You cannot do the same with microphones listening everywhere that you do not own.

Have some sense.

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That’s what you think if you haven’t worked in the Telecom sector before.

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Unless there’s something beyond switching DNS, using a VPN and your own router/modem. It’s maybe 100$ up front and ~3-5 per month to be able to circumvent any telecom.

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Your ISP knows all the websites you go to. They might not know the contents due to encryption, but they do know websites.

And for search, well, google knows everything. Unless you use something else than google. But few people do, and bing isn’t much better.

That’s even assuming the phones themselves don’t have backdoors. Unless you run a custom android OS… which definitively almost nobody does.

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All of those things are within the dedication to privacy. A lot of upfront time commitment but near effortless after the fact. On desktop it’s even easier.

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The fact that we have a technology such that do not justify his use nor an expansion of the surveillance. Au contraire it is the time to fight back.

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Well then fight back. Relinquish your phone first, as it’s the easiest thing to.

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