currently being paid for one's data runs into the hundreds, but more likely thousands of dollars annually - that's what is being paid for information about you now! Don't see any clear way out apart from not use a smart phone :( ... I do keep it a good few feet away from me when I sleep and often leave it behind at home when I go for a walk - I rarely speak on the phone, mainly texting and browsing and music when I'm out and about.Hi @lilygolightly, yes this is an issue for me! I too used to think that putting my phone on airplane mode would switch off all functionality. However, I found out that this only switches off the front-end, user functionality - ie ability to make calls, surf etc. The back-end is still wide open and the clip you posted (even from a source like Fox :) demonstrates this clearly. I heard an analyst once say that the amount
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Hey Barge, lovely to have your incisive comments, as always!!! Its a BIG issue this isn't it...and like rats in a trap I really don't see any way out of this labyrithine maze they have baited us with.
I mean how many people can seriously manage these days without a phone? Businesses depend on it, so do vulnerable people, the sick, the elderly and young children. We are damned if we do...and damned if we don't! What a pickle!
Yeah, and although the report is a good one...I was dubious about "promoting" the little sly Fox and its cunning media manipulations!! Sometimes the message trumps the messenger though so on balance I did it anyways!!
One little tip - I heard from an electronics wizard friend that he keeps his phone (when not in use) in an old microwave! He said it was the closest thing to a Faraday cage he could get without building his own! Could be a good way of recycling the brutes that "nuke" all the nutrition out of your food anyway!!!
If you do speak on the phone...keep it on 'speaker' mode, and as far as possible from your head, ears and mouth...this is especially important if you have any metal fillings in your teeth! Seems obvious but not a lot of people have considered this.
Yes, there are so many ways of enticing us into giving our power away in exchange for trinkets :)
Thanks for the tips. I use headphones when speaking on the phone. Reckon I've def. still got some mercury filings from the DelhiDentalDept. of the 80s. No microwave at home, functioning or not, but that is an idea!
Yes, good point, Barge, and how similar that is to what the early settlers did to the native americans giving them beads and baubles for huge tracts of land!!! Seems they have been at this game for a long long time!!
Yep I am also on the look out for an old non functional microwave to build me a Faraday cage for all the electronic gadgetry I have traded my soul for!!! 😊NOT!