Sure a dumb phone won’t record for Google. Current ones don’t and probably can’t be made to.
But recording would be trivial to implement even on a dumb phone if it becomes acceptable to the majority. Hell it could become a legal requirement.
We cannot run away from these issues by using old phones, old vehicles, ‘physical’ media etc. Eventually they will be unavailable. Some, old vehicles, really should be for other reasons.
Or as others have pointed out, you might not be recorded by your phone but you will be by the others’.
We need to persuade more people to actively oppose such measures outright. Defend privacy, control of our devices etc explicitly.
Sure a dumb phone won’t record for Google. Current ones don’t and probably can’t be made to.
But recording would be trivial to implement even on a dumb phone if it becomes acceptable to the majority. Hell it could become a legal requirement.
We cannot run away from these issues by using old phones, old vehicles, ‘physical’ media etc. Eventually they will be unavailable. Some, old vehicles, really should be for other reasons.
Or as others have pointed out, you might not be recorded by your phone but you will be by the others’.
We need to persuade more people to actively oppose such measures outright. Defend privacy, control of our devices etc explicitly.