So I am recently looking up the options to buy a new EV and, clearly, I’ve been discussing it with my family and close friends.
There was one constant tho, anytime we ended up discussing it, THEIR phones would light up with a plethora of Car adverts.
This has made my mother snap, she has told me she wants to buy the same phone as mine and I’ve finally been able to discuss with her other ways these devices are made to work for the manufacturer, not their buyers.
So far so good! I personally can’t wait to setup the GrapheneOS phone for her.
If you’ve got an Android phone, you can turn your microphone and camera off at the system level with the whatever-it’s-called quick menu thing you pull down from the top.
I just keep them off always, unless I need it specifically to make/answer a call or take a photo.
If you receive a call, you get a pop up with yes/no about enabling the mic to answer. If you hit yes, you get the permissions pop up for the phone app and can allow it for “this time only”. The microphone will automatically shut back off when the call is done.
Never once had this happen to me.
This assumes nobody circumvents the software control of you’re microphone and camera hardware, bit at least it increases the difficulty barrier to do this without informing the end user.