| > they used the tools telecoms and agencies use to monitor data, sms, call logs with IMEI/IMS mapping. Telecoms use that data for billing. The government, notably, is not allowed to request this data en-masse post-Snowden. > data brokers and mass surveillance are at an all time high, with platform providers requiring biometrics, ID uploads, data being sold, re-sold, re-sprinkled. On the contrary, after GDPR, sharing of this data has become severely restricted, limiting this information to first parties. > Android devices that can not utilize the latest Android OS (16+) to my knowledge can not access these features, by default DoH, DoT are not enabled by default This permission was added in Android 13, also post-Snowden, representing a change limiting mass surveillance. DoH rolled out as the default to all Firefox and Chrome users in the U.S. in 2020. > Yes, it does. Many countries are in favor of it in the EU and even if it fails, they keep proposing it until it'll pass. Speculation. Mass surveillance is more difficult now than it was pre-Snowden, as I asserted. Maybe in 100 years, it will be different, but I made no claims about mass surveillance in the 22nd century. > Those SSIDs have among them, tracking that tracks MAC addresses, which can also be scanned out of the air using basic tools like aircrack-ng Android has defaulted MAC address randomization since version 10 and iOS since 14. This is yet another feature that made mass surveillance harder since Snowden. |