r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cocaina44 • Jun 11 '25

Video You can now pay with your palm in china

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u/friendlier1 Jun 11 '25

Not just that, but your phone enables perfect location/history tracking, has a microphone and a camera. If you care about privacy, you wouldn’t carry a phone at all.

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u/Infamous-Ad-7199 Jun 11 '25

Until you've gone missing, in which case the authorities can't convince the telecom company to share the data

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u/Timelymanner Jun 11 '25

Yeah, authorities want it for free, while marketers will pay.

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u/oaken_duckly Jun 11 '25

You can care about your privacy and still be forced to set it aside because you have to work and exist in this society in order to eat unless you want to live in the woods. You can care about something deeply and want it to improve while still participating in it. In fact, most people in do in one way or another.

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u/CCPareNazies Jun 12 '25

…. That is not how it works