Our Sneaky Phones
The government and private companies spy on us. My former employee, Naomi Brockwell, has become a privacy specialist. She advises people on how to protect their privacy. In my new video, she tells me I should delete most of my apps on my phone.
I push back. I like that Google knows where I am and can recommend a "restaurant near me. I like that my Shell app lets me buy gas (almost) without getting out of the car."
I don't like that government gathers information about me via my phone, but so far, so what?
Brockwell tells me I'm being dumb because I don't know which government will get that data in the future.
Looking at my phone, she tells me, "You've given location permission, microphone permission. You have so many apps!"
She says I should delete most of them, starting with Google Chrome.
"This is a terrible app for privacy. Google Chrome is notorious for collecting every single thing that they can about you ... (and) broadcasting that to thousands of people ... auctioning off your eyeballs. It's not just advertisers collecting this information. Thousands of shell companies, shady companies of data brokers also collect it and in turn sell it."
Instead of Google, she recommends using a browser called Brave. It's just as good, she says, but it doesn't collect all the information that Chrome does. It's slightly faster, too, because it doesn't slow down to load ads.
Then she says, "Delete Google Maps."
"But I need Google Maps!"
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