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> In a world where cellphones have all sorts of radio antennas on at all times, there are more ways than you'd think.

That doesn't explain why soldiers can be identified by their location traces at known military sites; the data must be sent from the device.

> The entire point of my comment was that cynicism induces FUD that's not necessarily backed by direct evidence.

That is exactly the kind of deflective attitude common in big tech I was referring to: There is concrete evidence for these effects (e.g. [0][1][2][3]). Google, Netflix, Amazon et al. would falter if it weren't for the violation of their user's privacy. Even if we leave dogma out of this, lots of negative effects would simply not be possible without their data collection practices.

You cannot participate in—and profit off of—something bad and then distance yourself by claiming your specific part in it was not inherently evil.

  [0]: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.ade7138
  [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16941
  [2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01032
  [3]: https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jscp.2018.37.10.751