Post reads: "❓ Do you know who are the inventors of the hardware-level kill switch for smartphones?

🤫 Stay tuned! We’re teaming up with them to offer you more privacy.

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    4 hours ago

    auto delete all the telemetry /e/ collects by default, including the Voice data Sent to OpenAI?

    You are back with your FUD. I don’t know what you have against /e/OS specifically or if you are genuinely paranoid but in this specific instance you are making stuff up! I clarified in https://lemmy.ml/post/35472063 so maybe a language barrier because the post you linked to was in French but the STT service is

    • NOT on by default
    • for paying customers only (0 chance that a random person would activate it and thus be shocked)
    • tries to anonymize the data

    So… that’s not even telemetry, that’s like activating a service which the company explicitly said relied on OpenAI in the first place, people STILL paid for it AND activated it. They can’t be surprised that it’s sending anything to OpenAI then.

    Come on, help us make this community better. We have enough problems with BigTech, small tech and more that we do NOT need to invent problems!

    PS: also the reasoning about the presence on kill switch is … just plain silly. The PinePhones are running Linux, no Android, no /e/OS/ or whoever actor you might dislikes, OSes built by others, e.g. PmOS, Ubuntu, etc and yet still have hardware kill switches.

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      Not commenting on the other stuff but people should get used to the fact that anonymized private data is still private, so a so-called privacy app should not be leaking or disclosing or selling it. It might be LESS invasive than personally identifiable data, but it’s not NON-invasive.

      Who is willing to pay for it after all? Almost certainly, someone who is up to no good. And if you can think of a way it can possibly be misused, then enabling that misuse is invasive.

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      4 hours ago

      You are back with your Spam

      NOT on by default

      This is a Private OS. They should not have this integration, since there are more than enough FOSS alternatives.

      for paying customers only

      Dosent change my point.

      tries to anonymize the data

      Tries. Tries. Tries.

      They claim to be private. They incorporate a non private Service even though there are valid alternatives. Thats where this discussion starts and ends.

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        4 hours ago

        back with your Spam

        Try it, report me for spam to the mods I’d be curious to hear their opinion.