To many people, not putting an app that you cant see the code of is being a privacy nut.

I worked at a place that used customer phone numbers for internal market research in a less-scummy way.

For instance, if the same customers (tracked by their phone number) purchased lots of X and Z, but not Y, we'd market X and Z together.

I'm the kind of guy who'd let McDonalds read my emails if it gave me a free burger. The only one I don't want in my private space is my guvermint.

edit: damn, illegal to make jokes about privacy huh

It was a social commentary on the Patriot act, BatMan turned the whole population's cell phones into surveillance devices to map out Gotham and find {villain} I can't remember which at this point.

Alfred was like "this is wrong" and I think he peaces out and said "batman ur a dick" and Batman did it anyway. It's been a while since I saw this movie but I think that sums it up nicely.

With this many screens, I can watch all the Yu-Gi-Oh.

Depiction of burger king

It’s 5G maaaaaaan

Spotify has partnered with a company essentially trying to do this exact thing apparently

The funny thing is that the industry seems to float an even worse explanation than them actively listening: they already know what you're going to be interested in based on usage patterns, and can figure out that you'll be talking about those things approximately when you're doing so. As such they show ads.