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[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 18 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Thanks for that input!
Just came back from a business trip in Spain.

Maybe I missed it in the article, but do you know, how they do it?
I guess on the phone network level, my phone isn't shouting "GrapheneOS here!!".
So how do they profile me?
Only after they already control me somehow or...?

Still, this is getting more and more Orwellian

Hopefully my Jolla will be to exotic in the first period, but on the long term, this all is a really worrying development with the aim of mass surveillance

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[–] detren@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They profile you by looking at you. Cop sees you use your grapheneOS phone and thinks you’re a drug dealer. There’s no tech involved. They just use it as a sign, same way they’ve used hoodies, skin colour, or nationality to suspect you of something.

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[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

How should that work?
My GrapheneOS Android doesn't look any different than any other Android - and they'd need to look at my screen while walking by or something.

They can't even see the exact Android version without trying to access it - or having me show them explicitly my "About phone" screen or something

I really don't see how that should work in practice

If they pick me out and want to scan my phone, then it could be used against me, that they can't access my data.
But hey, that's what GrapheneOS is here for, to don't allow anyone access to my data, who shouldn't have access

So, in practice this is not really relevant or do I misunderstand something?

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[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

They're profiling people carrying pixel devices, per the article.

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[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah I think it's like "this guy that we suspect of being a drug dealer uses grapheneOS, which proves that he's a drug dealer".