[babapapa]

Dont be silly. Companies and institutions can just pay or coerce the data operator for transmission, o do it when your on wifi.

In Sao Paulo Brazil, the mexican-based operator Claro offers free bandwidth for facebook and whatsapp access.

I imagine it would be possible to process media locally into actionable and highly compressed data. For instance use the google text-to-speech toolset on media while the phone is on sleep and even run it though a sentiment analyzer and wordlist. eye tracking and activity correlates are even more compressible.

Earlier in the year the police were monitoring activity on public wifi hotspots and using the info to target people labelled as undesirable in the quickly gentrifying city center.

Since I am a a)foreigner that b)transverses a diverse array of classes, groups, and political affiliations on a daily basis, i go ahead and always assume that i'm being constantly monitored.