The Pocket Companion
Phone companies are trying to hide something from their consumers. The privacy of these people is being invaded by various applications as well as the phone companies that provide them.
This is being done so frequently on every device without anyone really noticing up until the past few years. Many studies such as one titled “Your phone is like a spy in your pocket” explain that even when the screen is black, it’s still on.
Without people knowing phones are constantly collecting data, recording, tracking location and taking pictures. A big reason for this is due to long terms & conditions agreements and the fact that the public just clicks agree without reading them.
There is hidden information in these agreements that allows applications and phone companies to take information off phones at any point in time.
There has even been bugs found in iPhones in particular that make it easier for hackers to access our information. Not only is it easier for the government to hack but professional hackers are able to do it quicker and easier with these bugs in place.
Bugs connected to the motion sensor on the front of the phone allow location and movements to be followed at any given time. The bug also gives the phone the ability to track the sounds of the fingers touching the screen in different areas to do several tasks including decoding the passcode.
Applications do not need permission from the user to access these motion sensors and this data can give much more information to the app creators than first thought.
All this data collection that phones are capable gives leeway to hackers, and they can even do things such as track what floor of a building someone is on just by using the barometer readings from the phone.
Most people know the theory about the government constantly watching us through our webcams and phone cameras, but a new video has shown that this might actually be true.
The iPhone X was recently released and has the ability to scan a face as a way to gain access to the phone as a passcode of sorts. Since its release many users have been noticing a red flashing light next to the camera
It is constantly blinking but cannot be seen with just the bare eye, only through the lens of a camera. There has been many videos of this discoveryacross Youtube, Twitter and Facebook.
Whether this is true or not, it is still scary to think about people always being able to watch through the phone camera.
This is very unethical for companies to be doing, and the fact that most of the population knows about the things they are doing to our phones and nobody is really taking action is concerning.
As Americans we tend to live the most simple life we can and getting the government to change their behavior is the exact opposite of that. We would rather do nothing about the matter than get involved.
There is software safety systems that are available (and very expensive) that can be put onto our phones to keep these hackers out, but they are not used by many people. They are only available on Androids because they are so complicated at this point.
Even though the systems are being implemented on some phones it will be very hard to monitor everything that happens because the app universe is so wide it is near impossible to control everything that happens within it.
This doesn’t seem to be effecting consumers in any way, millions of iPhones are still being sold without question. The trend that is the iPhone is overpowering the invasion of privacy that comes with it.
The iPhone is controlling this society but we are just falling into its trap.
