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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 Dec 2016

    Aral Balkan Retweeted Justin Nel

    Android phones *are* Google surveillance devices.https://twitter.com/Cyberlane/status/809323141243801600 …

    Aral Balkan added,

    Justin Nel @Cyberlane
    Wait wait wait wait! How the heck does Google know this? Any ideas @aral ? You need mega surveillance data to make this! pic.twitter.com/S43SfKlzCQ
    1:40 AM - 15 Dec 2016
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      2. Andy‏ @iamalsoandy 15 Dec 2016
        Replying to @aral

        Is there a way around this? Is using iOS a solution or is there a better way to do mobile?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 Dec 2016
        Replying to @iamalsoandy

        It’s the best stop-gap I know at the moment. (And, of course, don’t install Google apps on it.) :)

        3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Andy‏ @iamalsoandy 15 Dec 2016
        Replying to @aral

        That's a shame! But thanks for the information. Any chance you can get on with developing a privacy considered mobile?

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 Dec 2016
        Replying to @iamalsoandy

        Going directly for a phone isn’t going to work (looked into that at depth) without a decentralised infrastructure it can use…

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      2. M‏ @cryoshk 15 Dec 2016
        Replying to @aral

        It's not only about indie apps, what's missing is the Indie OS.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 Dec 2016
        Replying to @cryoshk

        Yes – what I mean re: apps is that we must move beyond the app concept: app = data + functionality. We must separate those.

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      2. M‏ @cryoshk 15 Dec 2016
        Replying to @aral

        HW is there, thousands of indie designers and devs too. But where is the project to bring all of these together?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 15 Dec 2016
        Replying to @cryoshk

        It’s not a phone – we must create the decentralised infrastructure that a phone & other devices can use to move beyond ‘apps’

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      4. M‏ @cryoshk 15 Dec 2016
        Replying to @aral

        totally agree but even with the decentralised infrastructure all which sits on top of that must be sovereign from company control

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      1. Falling Stone‏ @falling_stone 15 Dec 2016
        Replying to @aral @goddesseldiablo

        this is filed under "duh" and "of course they are" they're little machines that continually broadcast position.

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      1. Shubhanshu Mishra‏ @TheShubhanshu 15 Dec 2016
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        .@aral @profkeithdevlin this information can also be ethically collected by tracking the searches and map directions to the place.

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      1. M‏ @cryoshk 15 Dec 2016
        Replying to @aral

        And so are iPhones. The key problem is the lack of an community driven OS which gets all the hard stuff right (UI, UX, HW support)

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