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Investigatory Powers Act 2016 literally nicknamed Snoopers' Charter. Means ISPs keep all your traffic for minimum a year, police are given access to it, but politicians are exempt and need a warrant to have their data viewed?!?!?
UK police have been rolling out Live Facial Recognition in London and Wales for the last few years. Seven new regions are being added. 10 new vans coming in.
Supermarkets are using facial recognition to keep a database of people they deem criminals.
UK tried to make Apple put in a backdoor to its encrypted storage. Apple removed the ability for UK citizens to use that feature.
Online Safety Act forced online services to implement age verification for "adult" content. Many niche forums closed down because they would face large fines and jail time if they didn't comply. Larger businesses offloaded this requirement onto third party companies so now if you want to see "adult" content online you need to share your face or bank details or government ID with a random third party likely from a different country.
None of the major political parties care about digital rights and in fact want MORE surveillance.
What world are you living in?
It's nice to see people ensuring that you can truly own digital goods 100 years before it becomes the obvious standard.
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Wow!
Here's a classic example on this topic: https://imgur.com/a/AzX2kc8
You'd prefer to listen to audio on tiny tinny speakers?
You'd prefer to type with two thumbs rather than 10 fingers?
You'd prefer to multitask on a screen that can only show one program?
You'd prefer to play games just two thumbs that cover the screen you're looking at?
You'd prefer to have an incosistent internet connection as opposed to ethernet?
You know none of those are true. Like it's been mentioned already the strengths lie in portability. GPS and Camera. Those things are inherently linked to being able to carry something small around. And even then for specific cases dedicated GPS devices and dedicated cameras are used.