party_pants said:

Kingy said:

How long do you think that your smartphone has been listening to you and reporting it back to base?

I’m guessing about 2006.

Nah. Otherwise the authorities would be well on top of drug traffickers, human traffickers, terrorists, sov cits, corrupt politicians, pedo rings… and all the rest of it. The fact that they weren’t I think indicates that the tech can’t do all that yet.

I may be getting as cynical as Capn Spalding, but I don’t think they gaf unless it threatens their income and/or position.