"Almost 20 years ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the iPhone as "an iPod, a phone, an internet communicator." The world swooned at the time because that one device was all those things, and more. Today it is our wallet, our identity, our social media, our likes, dislikes, fitness levels, bank accounts, as well as our personal, sexual, and political identity."
"With so much information packed inside each and every smartphone, no wonder governments everywhere want to take a look inside. If there isn't an enemy to justify such intrusion, authoritarians will invent one. And if that doesn't work, they'll talk about protection, taxation, or salvation to justify their attempt to turn everyone's experience on a digital planet into usable data."
Smartphones have evolved into comprehensive repositories of personal information, serving as wallets, identities, social platforms, health monitors, and financial instruments. These devices collect extensive behavioral, biometric, and preference data that often exceeds user awareness. The phone in each pocket operates as the primary portal to the digital world, centralizing communications, transactions, and intimate details. Governments and authoritarian regimes increasingly seek access to that data, using or inventing threats and invoking protection, taxation, or salvation to legitimize intrusion. The aggregation of such sensitive data raises profound privacy, civil-rights, and misuse risks, enabling surveillance, discrimination, and political control.
Read at Computerworld
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