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  • How exactly are big techs spying on users?

indigomadelin Its not a research paper but if you take the time to read googles terms and conditions Here that does pretty much detail things, its not like they are secret about what they do its just that most people dont take the time to read and understand the terms and conditions, focusing instead on the convienence i guess.

The guts of it is they record, monitor and analyse mostly everything they can from the services of theres that you interact with, and you licence your intellectual property to them to be analysed and shared with 3rd party contractors as they see fit.... Essentially.

      7 days later

      Stayjuice

      "I’m forced to have google nest in my home but I have it on a remote on off switch, controlled over an infrared remote control and it lives off 99% of the time and only powered on when it’s needed for voice controls but even then I’m weaning on to an open sourced offline assistant and encouraging the household to move over to that instead."

      I take it you don't use Nest on your GrapheneOS phone? Seems like it won't work anyway.

          argante
          Um, so...

          • An unsecured link
          • to a state-run news site in China
          • to a PDF that we'd have to open on our devices

          3 reasons why I wouldn't want to click on that.

              AtavisticPuma
              If you are afraid, then you can do this:

              curl http://www.news.cn/world/20250325/02ba448744ac4b75a81df613a88b4d26/2025032522b55fd15b244a5fac54e424c62be9b7_1616350dfed1c44ba786a82d574c86c30f.pdf > f.pdf

              and then use dangerzone to convert to safe pdf.

                New2MeOS no I mainly use home assistant but not on my phone. Google best spends its time asleep now