“Samsung phones use technology which can spy on what you’re reading and watching online – and monitor emails in your inbox,” Margi Murphy reports for The Sun. “The phones switch onto spy mode after they are alerted by a ‘beacon’ often embedded in web pages or sent as an ultrasonic signal hidden in telly or online adverts.”
“Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group warned that ‘Samsung want to get to know you – but they are behaving like a peeping Tom,'” Murphy reports. “He added: ‘Samsung have taken spying on their customers to a whole new level. What you can’t see, and can’t hear, won’t worry you — or so it hopes.'”
“If you use a Samsung phone, it’s likely that you’ve already agreed for the phone maker to snoop on you,” Murphy reports. “The Korean manufacturer makes reference to it on several pages in on its privacy policy.”
“Samsung’s beacon technology lets it watch EVERYTHING you’re browsing – even porn,” Murphy reports. “German researchers claimed these ultrasonic beacons can ‘link the watching of even sensitive content such as adult movies or political documentations to a single individual – even at varying locations. Advertisers can deduce what and how long an individual is watching and obtain a detailed user profile to deliver highly customised advertisements,’ they wrote.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Ignorant and/or foolish consumers often get reamed.
Now to be fair, this is only because Android is an inferior product peddled to tech illiterates who do not value their privacy and/or who are unable to recognize a half-assed knockoff from the revolutionary original.
Android is a BlackBerry clone that was hastily rejiggered to mimic iPhone at the last minute. Obviously, mistakes were made.
So, the Android rush-job is a security nightmare. It’s fragmented. It’s too many cooks in the kitchen. It’s crap-by-committee junk.
And anyone who rewards blatant thieves by settling for Android deserves their fate. — MacDailyNews, May 23, 1015
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Study: iPhone users are smarter and richer than those who settle for Android phones – January 22, 2015
Why Android users can’t have the nicest things – January 5, 2015
iPhone users earn significantly more than those who settle for Android phones – October 8, 2014
Yet more proof that Android is for poor people – June 27, 2014
More proof that Android is for poor people – May 13, 2014
Android users poorer, shorter, unhealthier, less educated, far less charitable than Apple iPhone users – November 13, 2013
IDC data shows two thirds of Android’s 81% smartphone share are cheap junk phones – November 13, 2013
CIRP: Apple iPhone users are younger, richer, and better educated than those who settle for Samsung knockoff phones – August 19, 2013
iPhone users smarter, richer than Android phone users – August 16, 2011
Study: Apple iPhone users richer, younger, more productive than other so-called ‘smartphone’ users – June 12, 2009
I’ve had a spooky experience with my iPhone that made me wonder about things – I was listening to a baseball game on the MLB AtBat app, and a commercial came on about Ford Motor Company. While it was playing the commercial, Siri came on and started reading info from Wikipedia about Ford. It is almost as if the phone was responding to itself! Weird. Anyone else had a similar experience?
Nope.
Noooooo! This can’t be true. Those phones where authorized for the secret service during Obama’s administration. CIA couldn’t authorize such security hole in the White House, or could they?
“Android is an inferior product peddled to tech illiterates who do not value their privacy and/or who are unable to recognize a half-assed knockoff from the revolutionary original.”
And exactly why would one wonder why they don’t understand how they are being monitored, or even know enough to care about it?
How could anyone want to own a samsung cell phone???
Unbelievable!!!!
Samsung has an evil twin who has already been doing that for years … Facebook.
Facebook’s apps are secretly recording and documenting …
Just search Google for “facebook’s secret recordings”
Informed folks do not use Google period.
Ok, DuckDuckGo.
This is why LineageOS/CyanogenOS/CyanogenMod is a good option. It’s Android without spyware and bloatware. Trouble is, only BQ (as far as I know) sells phones with an option for LineageOS, and the list of recent compatible phones is rather short.
Andy Rubin supposedly has a better idea and $300 million or more to try it.