Carrying A Spying Phone
Your phone is tracking you and so is your mobile carrier company.
Ever wondered how your phone gives you an update on where you parked your car or even if you were driving a tab will show up with directions to your home address without you putting the address in?
Every now and then as I go out and park my car a tab on my phone would come up and show me where I parked my car and that also goes with me driving back home and a tab will also show up giving me my home address. At first, I was amazed by this feature and to have it on my phone, but after a while I was like that’s weird how does my phone know I’m heading back home as my home address tab comes up.
According to a study done by Stephanie K. Pell and Christopher Soghoian about government cellphone surveillance “Any phone that is connected to a cellular network will regularly transmit data to nearby base stations, even if it is not making calls, sending text messages, or using the Internet.” Your phone is continually transmitting data to any cell tower near you thus, keeping records of how long you are staying in one place and how often you come across a certain cell tower on your way back home and creates a map that in the end will give you an update on your home address if you need it.
With that being said, in a recent podcast on the Joe Rogan show, Joe interviewed Edward Snowden the former CIA employee that leaked NSA secrets to news outlets around the world. In that interview, Snowden talked about how our cellphones spy on us without us knowing and without our approval from cell carrier companies. He explains how cellphones are spying on us by transmitting information to two nearby cellphone towers in which the data that is being collected is being saved to the benefit of those cellphone carrier companies.
Phones are recording our every move at any given time and place, saving this information and using it against us as they exploit us and manipulate our every move in our day to day life decisions, in a study done by Maher Pedersoli, Stephen Derek Ost, and Anthony Scott Hollars for the U.S. Patent Application, they state “the system may be able to collect the surveillance information from the various streaming devices and analyze a large amount of information on backend servers in near real-time. If the analysis includes image recognition, a person or object of interest may be identified, along with the approximate location,” if the data that is being saved and used in this way what if there are other uses for it.
Information like this can be sold to companies without us knowing and it could be used against us, especially with what happened to Facebook and how our private information was leaked to business companies that had their ads pop up on our devices without us knowing. Sure the government is doing something about this issue but are they doing that for our benefit or theirs as they can also use this information that is being saved without our knowledge against us.
Cellphones are one of the most powerful technological inventions to humankind, as they brought us closer to each other than anything in the world. Yet, they serve a great danger to our privacy as they are being used to collect data on us without our approval.
But one can say that Facebook leaks and issues were a social media networking site and that it is structured in a different way than cellphone carrier companies. And that it is one of Facebook’s revenue is to have the data collected sold to marketing companies to insure ad revenue.
Our phones are spying on us in every step we take and in every way we use our cellphones. Whether we are using it or not, data is being collected from our phones and stored for who knows. Thus, bringing the lack of privacy to our world yet again with a new issue how do we stop our phones from spying on us.