I have decided to write a longer post on subject of improving privacy of your phone and how to approach it in general. Here is the link to my blog post: https://sergeysh.com/2025/12/22/Privacy-on-your-phone/
New from 404 Media: Flock exposed some of its AI-powered cameras to the internet. We know because we tracked ourselves with them. These cameras zoom in on passersby, sometimes so close we could read a random person's phone screen. Required no login to view cameras
https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/
Android or iOS based phone? Both types that are commercially available are bad for privacy. To minimize number of trackers on Android side stick to Pixels and ignore everything else. On iOS side there is only one. Then depending on how tech savvy you are you can do a lot, goal is simple to make sure no company has a control over your life and you can lose relationship with that company at any moment if they pull the plug.
Deepfakes gaining popularity among scammers, there are stories that nation state sponsored threat actor infiltrated a lot of world wide companies, and they used deep fakes to pass interviews and so on. So it's important to have plan within your own family to ensure that you are not talking to a deepfake. Maybe to resort to a secret word which only your family members would know.
Link:https://www.biometricupdate.com/202512/deepfakes-social-engineering-working-together-to-break-human-judgment
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