Posted on 01/06/2019 2:21:10 PM PST by Chickensoup
Anyone that thinks they have privacy on a cellphone, particularly a “smartphone”, is kidding themselves.
From an interesting piece titled “Business Users of Smartphones May Be Breaking the Law” in Epoch Times:
“T-Mobile has admitted that smartphones that are supported by the Android and Apple operating systems (OS) aren’t private or secure forms of telecommunications and computing, because of preinstalled surveillance and data-mining technology developed by Google and Apple.”
More here and it’s well worth reading:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business-users-of-smartphones-may-be-breaking-the-law_2728442.html
I have always used TracFone. I like the LG phones, I am on my second one. They even sell phones, refurbished. Look and serve like brand new. I don’t use it heavily, but they use the Verizon network. As long as you buy minutes every 3 months to keep it active, they have many plans available. When I bought my last one they gave me triple minutes for life so I spend 19.99 every 3 months. All the excess keeps rolling over. I could never use what I have banked.
I had a bag phone in 92 or 93. But for life? landlines, and my lovely code a phone phone answering machine.
one would come home and the answering machine would be blinking.
It was like getting mail! So much fun!
(realize that from the time chickenoup could toddle, Grandmother used to sent her through the front hall to the vestibule to fetch the mail! Loved it, and all these years later, still do!)
no privacy.
and ovaltine.
pretty bleak.
Why not talk to some of your business contacts
and see what they use and why. Things such as
this are personal to the user and opinions will
differ I guess.
Consumer Cellular Dittos!
Thank you for your technical response.
Get the cheapest one. It will probably be a Samsung Android. It will be pretty much just as good as the most expensive Apple iPhone.
I store my client list on my cell, hmmmm to be able to manage appointments.
Personally I like a Samsung phone. One of the reasons is that it has a genuine keyboard.
You can buy it unlocked here:
https://www.electronicsforce.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=59566
Check with your wireless provider whether they will accept unlocked phones and whether they will help you set it up.
My provider is AT&T and n their website they said they will.
I am about to get the phone above, because someone dropped my phone I had for a long time and I need a new one.
Thank you, had not heard of them.
do you know the joke with the punch line upchuck and di?
“So all the Hipaa drama continues to be a lie?”
A complete lie. From the NSA, to the states prying, to the way physicians handle the information, to data breaches-hacking...Might as well post the info on twitter. ;)
No, Android is an operating system. As is Apple. Google provides apps, content, services and support to either system.
Me? I have an Apple iphone. But I hate Apple, so I use Google for all my support services. If you’re worried about privacy, forget it. I know of no phone, no system, no provider, or no one that will provide you the services you need in 2019 without harvesting and mining all your personal data and details.
I like LG phones. Thank you
does it search the internet? and run WWW?
CopperheadOS will sell you a Pixel phone with their OS preinstalled. It's pricey. You can do it yourself, but Copperhead only works on the Pixel series.
If you have the know how, or a friend who has it, you can install Lineage OS on a number of different phones.
You will not have to move your mail, just configure the new phone to use your service.
Nothing is in the cloud unless you put it there, or let it go there.
If you want privacy, you wouldn’t use your internet provider that’s under your name and address for email. Keep it separate.
Wow it it has a great keyboard.
I know, but for providers it is there if they want to hurt you.
“So how do medical pros get privacy with hipaa requirements and phones??”
They fake it or only use web based secure email accounts and/or programs like MyChart.
PS - - “I am not a fan of clouds.”
Good luck - even if you get a phone with 128 gigs of storage, you wont be able to live sync your email on your computer with your phone without using some cloud based system.
I mostly know Apple’s iOS - its possible you could synch your mail each night by plugging your phone into your computer and sync up your email, but it sort of defeats the purpose.
Freeper Swordmaker knows more (I don’t agree with him that Apple is as benign as they claim, but I do believe they are the least of the worst).
If you can buy the phone/ pay for the service with a non personalized store debit card...
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