Our mobile devices listen to and collect a significant amount of data on us, even without using our microphones.

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      1 year ago

      Whether anyone is manually connecting to specific phones to listen in live to conversations is a very different topic. I’d say it’s a more important one then whether Google are recording everything so they can advertise things at you.

      But yeah, that’s not what this article is about.

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      The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense

      So, is the United States Department of Defense interested in some random dudes in Belgium, or Namibia? That US-centrism is sickening sometimes.

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        Considering that Belgium shares signals intelligence with the USA under the Fourteen Eyes agreement, they’re most certainly interested.

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        They definitely are interested in that.

        The lack of understanding about how broad-reaching and arbitrary USA’s surveillance web is, is sickening sometimes.