[PEAKINT]

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[SeaGypsy]

Typical. So are just about all mobile cloud devices. How many people bother reading permissions? Who the hell in 'Candy Crush Saga' needs access to- OS settings, contacts, microphone, locations, pictures, text?
Decently the ozguv set up an app supposedly to make doing business with various departments easier. Just like Candy Crush Saga, the permissions are effectively licensing the government to track your every geographical move, every keystroke, every send & receive data. Yet the MSM hasn't even noticed.

[PEAKINT]

"Third party doctrine"....

People are throwing their rights away with Windows 10. Windows 10 ushers the death of the fourth amendment as we knew it to be. Effectively our 'papers and effects' are now, thanks to Microsoft and Cloud, forever waived from any reasonable expectation of privacy.

Everything, fingerprints, face, voice are given to Windows/Microsoft. Cortana is listening in on your conversations 24/7/365. Windows 10 has build in keylogger, snatching your passwords, secret letters and the likes. OneDrive is baked into the system and uploads all your documents to the cloud. You know sign in with an online Microsoft account, that syncs all your home computer activities to Microsoft servers. Microsoft knows every keystroke, every mouse movement, every website you visit, every purchase you make, it even knows your facebook and other social networking activities and signs in as you, it shares your passwords with your Outlook/Skype/Facebook and other social network contacts without your consent or knowledge, it piggybacks and uses your residential internet connection to spread itself and its updates to other people, computers and random users on the Internet in an out of band manner so that you don't even know it is happening... siphoning your network bandwidth and your cpu processes again without your consent. It pushes news feeds and delivers ads to you straight in the OS level, right in the Start Menu, and has nagware that asks you to pay for its games monthly into perpetuity in order to turn off the ads.

[sjn]

This is what people expect and accept today. When it came to light that WhatsApp was allegedly selling user contact info [their business model!] nobody bat an eyelid. Users have been commoditised along with everything else.

[vox_mundi]

US bill requiring carriers to report 'terror' criticized

... People who know their online service providers are required to turn over a broad category of communications and 'activity' to the government will face a serious chilling effect on their willingness to access information and speak their minds online."

The groups said the Senate was set to consider passage by unanimous consent, or without debate, before Senator Ron Wyden objected, temporarily blocking the bill.

They noted that the reporting provision was added during closed proceedings of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and would require social media platforms, telecom providers, cloud services and websites to provide authorities with their users' personal information and communications content if terrorist activity was suspected.

"Unfortunately, this provision would create strong incentives for providers to overreport on the activity and communications of their users in order to avoid violating the law," the letter said.

"This provision risks bringing wholly innocent people under the scrutiny of the US government in a procedure that includes no limits on the use of the reported information and no safeguards against abuse."