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This is frustrating, and scary, downright 1984-ish, but, what can we do? Simply shun all the technological advances we’ve had for the last 100 years? Move to a cabin in the woods with no power and hunt, fish, and gather again for sustenance?

Even sending a paper check through the mail has your account number on it.

Well, I use a smart phone (iphone) and before this story I dismised this stuff as no big deal but this is over the top. This is wire tapping pure and simple. I'm now officially tired of hearing about this sneaky crap monitoring my phone.

While I always hesitate to say we need legislation, but in this case I think we do. We need to make secret collecting of data from private phones absolutely illegal and subject to criminal prosecution as well as civil litigation. If any data no matter for what purpose was taken off of my phone without my consent I should be able to sue their asses off then have the DA hit them with criminal charges. In the day of the old land lines if some company figured out a way to monitor your phone without your knowledge they would have been thrown in the slammer so fast they would not know what hit them. How is this any different other than it's clearly worse as they are deliberately collecting secure information.

This is frustrating, and scary, downright 1984-ish, but, what can we do? Simply shun all the technological advances we’ve had for the last 100 years? Move to a cabin in the woods with no power and hunt, fish, and gather again for sustenance? Even sending a paper check through the mail has your account number on it.

Yeah, you're right. From government mandated brain implants to sending a check through the mail, there's no way to assess any difference in appropriateness

And anyway, we are helpless to do anything no matter what we learn.

Jerk.