Why the iPhone 16 Should Scare You Shitless!

[@robbraxmantech]

KZbin demonetized this video! Hmmm maybe Apple complaining? I still see ads though so apparently it is only to make sure I don't make any money !

[@negative195]

Sad 😢

[@carnmarth334]

You were one of the people who used to queue up outside Apple's Godawful stores before a new release? Why? Why would you want to stand around, bored, surrounded by goons who haven't washed for three days?

[@trevorw9995]

Strange. In US politics one frontrunner can slate the other opposition blind on TV, yet a vendor/ provider can’t post a dialogue on the philosophical issues/ cons/ weaknesses of a competitor without being “demonetised”. It’s a competitive world we’re living in and big companies- like big presidents and frontrunners- should be able to handle a contrarian perspective. Whatever happened to free market competition and free speech, free enterprise and healthy competition and all that jazz.

[@needinput9805]

Take a look at the Apple Intelligence logo, then look up the “Star of Babylon” and its meaning and connection…. This is why they sold their first computer for $666 😏

[@uidzero]

Maybe don’t make videos pushing conspiracy theories? If you don’t understand the security and privacy Apple has put into place you probably shouldn’t be making videos making false claims. I have worked as a Security Engineer for over 15 years and worked for Apple, Google, and Meta. Without sharing anything that would void NDAs, remember that Apple makes money from hardware while Google and Meta make it with user data. Apple has no incentive to spy on you, they go out of their way to ensure they can’t use your data in a way that identifies who you are. Google and Meta are financially incentivized to not implement privacy features and their business relies on knowing what you do. An Android phone will always be more of a risk to user privacy than an Apple device while these companies operate under their current financial models.

[@iTheGeo]

"Ultimately, arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." -Edward Snowden 📖

[@bobbym6964]

Sure you have "nothing to hide", until the rules change. Ask the truckers in Kanada.

[@Jez.Von.Franco]

@@bobbym6964true story mate

[@tleemf6923]

Yesssss

[@MzBAnthony]

And yes a camera in every point of sale in america

[@aaronwalcott513]

Snowden was a hero that we didn't deserve.

[@elone3997]

You know what's EVEN scarier than this? Hearing some people saying "I don't have a problem with it, I've got nothing to hide"..

[@a.ced.2052]

Nothing to hide in whose opinion?? Just because you’re a moral person doesn’t mean that you’re not breaking some kind of law, rule or policy 🤔😬😬😬🤦‍♂️

[@DrillHistory]

i mean, honestly, yeah, who cares? what are you hiding ? it's a digital device, you shouldn't have anything on it that your trying to hide. At the end of the day, it is subject to surveillance, we have known this for years. Your a fool if your using the device as though it isn't subject to surveillance.

[@elone3997]

@@a.ced.2052 I don't follow your comment - are you agreeing with me or disagreeing?

[@telcobilly]

I'm guessing he's disagreeing. He's trying to rationalize unauthorized surveillance.

[@TheMuserguy]

​@@telcobilly He's agreeing, ya big dopes. Rules, laws, and policies can quickly change

[@gbzorro]

Sign of the Times When my wife asked me why I was whispering so much these days, I said I was worried that the big corporations were spying on me through their devices... At this, she laughed...... So, I laughed...... Then, Alexa laughed...... Siri laughed...... My Smart TV & Fridge both laughed...... My Laptop laughed...... My X-box laughed...... My Video Doorbell laughed...... Even My Home Security System laughed. All of us, together -- we just laughed and laughed and laughed. Boy, that sure was a crazy idea I had about being spied upon.

[@deetrvl4life875]

And I laughed!! That's hilarious!

[@EnFuego79]

🤣🤣🤣

[@2totabon]

This is essentially a reworking of that scene in Evil Dead II and I think it’s great

[@DonelleMurray]

The saddest part about it is that you’re absolutely right it’s been happening for years now.. our bosses spy on us all the time ( it’s called rich people’s games) for them it’s better than cable. Ever wondered how your boss might just form a conversation around something you did at home in your private life that he shouldn’t know about but does ( or SHE)🙄🧐🤔🤥

[@ValerieHVivar]

I’m still laughing at how real this joke is!😂

[@dansteel9873]

I love this guy! I worked in the broadcasting industry for 29 years. I worked building radio sites including cell sites so I know the mechanics of radio communication and my guess is he is associated in some way in the consumer devices primarily phones. But he tells you everything you don't want to know about your best friend, your phone. And he does it with brutal honesty. I admire brutal honesty. I'm subscribed.

[@VictorFernandes-q9o]

What has he actually said? That if you connect to the internet then you are connected? A bunch of nonsense. If you’re worried then throw away your phone and disconnect the internet. Easy and simple. Just cut the bull and do it.

[@MrShaneSunshine]

If i do i can't access half of the worl'd services. How do i buy ferry tickets when the kiosk is closed? Not so simple. Teachers need to teach this in highschool. Is this in schools?

[@meticulousperversions9064]

@@VictorFernandes-q9o you don't understand any of this

[@VictorFernandes-q9o]

@ what are you talking about? Can you try to look older than 5? Do you know how to even give an opinion? Who cares about any of this. Guess what. No one has stones any of my money or life. At all. Stop living in fantasy land. Eu would even care about you or your live at all to go to the trouble or checking on what you are doing?

[@LeslieRae]

He actually began learning about reverse hacking security services because prior to becoming the privacy guy, he developed and worked with healthcare (very highly protected HIPAA security software and protocols), which started his journey into privacy after what he discovered by reverse hacking and testing his own software and coding.

[@arkmediagroupllc]

It’s not just Apple doing this though. They are ALL doing it. Your ISP, your network devices, WiFi, EVERY store you visit, your car, your refrigerator… you name it, they’re getting metrics on you.

[@rwizard]

@@arkmediagroupllc No joke. My refrigerator, washer, dryer, and oven all want Internet access. I see absolutely no legitimate reason for an Internet facing clothes dryer.

[@VariantAEC]

You forgot your car, your wireless earbuds, and so many more IoT devices. What you didn't mention is that most of those things are actually harmless when turned off, which Apple intentionally disables so you can always be tracked by them.

[@Covert_Arrangements]

@@VariantAECI drive a car from 1999 and plan on fixing and keeping it until I die. Also I purchased that privacy phone from the Shawn Ryan podcast. It’s completely unplugged from google and IOS. It’s a start.

[@shirlspark_stardust]

Exactly nothing is private

[@reggier2343]

@@Covert_ArrangementsI drive a Tesla. So getting rid of my iPhone seems like wasted effort.

[@miguelclarkeottovonclarke]

Congratulate the old, elderly, dying and dead for they won't have to live in this nightmare of decline in this civilization.

[@mickjames7962]

There is genuine real hope in Jesus Christ. It’s all real. Former atheist and believer in evolution.

[@starrystarrynight6281]

I was never grateful to be old until now.

[@EllieM_Travels]

Civilization is only declining for those who focus on and fear it.

[@jd7303]

@@rwizard😂😂😂

[@LucyKelly-jh5is]

Support orgs. Defend nature.

[@mindmyown1]

Last week I noticed my dog was extra clingy and for a brief moment I thought about what certain illnesses dogs could detect. I did not research anything, nor did I speak one word out loud about this to myself or anyone. Yesterday YT suggested at least 2 videos on this exact topic on my main page of suggested videos. This is terrifying to me.

[@VictorianMaid99]

The cell phones can now analyze any picture including a dog acting strange then make suggestions on videos. You just proved it.

[@zantas-handle]

Yes! At the risk of sounding crazy, I know my pc can hear me, and that phones are used for listening, but is anybody else experiencing adverts or feeds that are targeted on topics you've THOUGHT about, but never spoken about? How does that work exactly? Is there a 'logical extrapolation algorithm' that's 'guessing' what else I'm interested in???

[@zantas-handle]

@@VictorianMaid99 But what 'picture' are you talking about in this example?

[@mindmyown1]

@@zantas-handle right?!! I did not take one picture or video of my dog being extra "clingy"....

[@k3n0bij]

They’ve been able to read brainwaves for decades, this exact scenario happened to me. I THOUGHT about something, I was alone, never spoke a word and I was getting targeted ads and posts/videos of the exact thing I thought of almost immediately 😮

[@BigBlueGr8ness]

Every breath you take And every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you Every single day And every word you say Every game you play Every night you stay I'll be watching you Oh, can't you see You belong to me? How my poor heart aches With every step you take? Every move you make And every vow you break Every smile you fake Every claim you stake I'll be watching you Since you've gone, I've been lost without a trace I dream at night, I can only see your face I look around, but it's you I can't replace I feel so cold, and I long for your embrace I keep crying, baby, baby please Oh, can't you see You belong to me? How my poor heart aches With every step you take? Every move you make And every vow you break Every smile you fake Every claim you stake I'll be watching you Every move you make Every step you take I'll be watching you I'll be watching you (Every breath you take) (Every move you make) (Every bond you break) (Every step you take) I'll be watching you I'll be watching you I'll be watching you whoo, hoo (Every game you play) (Every night you stay) I'll be watching you I'll be watching you I'll be watching you I'll be watching you (Every single day) (Every word you say) (Every game you play) (Every night you stay) I'll be watching you

[@kaydentanner2376]

Holy crap! The Police! ... That's wild.. When I was reading this, I knew it sounded familiar.. Even started singing along while reading too heh heh 😅

[@chrisdelong2932]

@@BigBlueGr8ness the who? The Police!

[@angelikie2010]

It's their god

[@chrisdelong2932]

@@angelikie2010 No outward shrines may be visible, there may be no image for the eye to rest upon, yet we may be practicing idolatry. It is as easy to make an idol of cherished ideas or objects as to fashion gods of wood or stone. Thousands have a false conception of God and His attributes. They are as verily serving a false god as were the servants of Baal. Are we worshiping the true God as He is revealed in His Word, in Christ, in nature, or are we adoring some philosophical idol enshrined in His place? God is a God of truth. Justice and mercy are the attributes of His throne. He is a God of love, of pity and tender compassion. Thus He is represented in His Son, our Saviour. He is a God of patience and long-suffering. If such is the being whom we adore and to whose character we are seeking to assimilate, we are worshiping the true God. If we are following Christ, His merits, imputed to us, come up before the Father as sweet odor. And the graces of our Saviour's character, implanted in our hearts, will shed around us a precious fragrance. The spirit of love, meekness, and forbearing pervading our life will have power to soften and subdue hard hearts and win to Christ bitter opposers of the faith. Amen!

[@MyLuxuryCrush]

@@kaydentanner2376ha! Same!

[@cletislebow1182]

I would gladly go back to 1980...**pencil and paper ready**

[@JohnDoe-zx9ul]

russian government went back to type writers years ago in their more info-sensitive buildings. this is pre-2022 btw.

[@sunso1991]

@@JohnDoe-zx9ul smart move. movies really becomes reality often. the Mission Impossible 7 had a rogue Ai. and intellegence agencies tried to paper all its data bases. since air gapping systems also wouldnt work. too many ways to get around even physical defenses

[@JohnDoe-zx9ul]

@@sunso1991 yea there's backdoors to the majority of electronic devices out there. there's things like intel ME that's baked right into the hardware and will shut your pc down if were disabled. it's very dystopian. if i remember correctly, the "wannacry" malware that caused billions in damages globally was due to some hacker finding some of these backdoors that windows intentionally made for US government.

[@melt2947]

🙏

[@janettemcgregor5712]

For me, 1960

[@cycoaxe]

Best time of my life was growing up in the 80s without phones, internet and just cranking up loud rock n roll and partying. If I could do without a cell phone I would gladly do it...

[@marcossperezzy6281]

I was just talking to a friend about it.

[@jessicadubois9945]

💯

[@MikeOxlongBoi]

Back when we were really anonymous

[@cairparavel11stevens82]

Totally agree with you.

[@sola4393]

In those days, they are already tracking you through other means, paper trails, wire tapping on phones etc. but now the tech had made it so much easier. lol

[@rg975]

If you’re using any device that connects to the internet, you must assume you’re being tracked. This is something network technicians learn very quickly

[@valerieplaster229]

100% most people won’t believe it.

[@vickijohnson9367]

@@valerieplaster229 100% of all communications, including financial, are collected by the government. Now most of the time they don’t do anything with it, but the back door is always open, by government design. Look up the history of all our modern communications, computers. Everything is heading where it was designed to take us, unfortunately it is not science fiction future, it’s a science fact future. The reason electricity is the only “concern” of “green” agenda, it’s technology driven authoritarian agenda being globalized by technology and the United Nations governments in real time. Freedom is an illusion.

[@iGNiTETheKiD]

VPN

[@mmecurieuse3131]

What's really scary is that, if you're offline, your iPhone will just send your data to a nearby iPhone that is connected. I wonder how many other devices do this (or will be doing it soon)?

[@Aizemiyo]

@@mmecurieuse3131 as of now, Android 14 on devices that support Bluetooth low energy are capable of doing the same. Google enrolled "mesh" network for Android device for its "Find my Phone" features. Although for now it is optional and can be disabled, it is enabled by default.

[@MitchellWilsonII]

As someone who is in the ITSEC industry, I have no expectation of privacy. If you want convenience, the cost is your privacy. End of story.

[@trevorodell5564]

Yep, my first IT professor (who worked for Uncle Sam) said the only way to have IT security is to power off the device and bury it in a lead box.

[@mexmexican8619]

You’re a cuck

[@etaka]

Are Google devices actually safer than Apple products, for people not living in Chinese territory?

[@trevorodell5564]

​@@etaka The question may technically have an answer, but it's pretty meaningless. Both collect HUGE amounts of information on you, and Apple dropped their "warrant canary" clause (that they wouldn't give your info to the government) from their ToS in 2013. I don't think Google ever had one. Make of that what you will, but both are terrible; it's only a (relatively small) matter of severity, and which particular governments they are reporting to. Never assume yours isn't one of them.

[@czar5938]

The dystopian dream is becoming a reality right before our eyes.

[@marklane870]

It's always been here though

[@HandMadeRoyalty]

Dream or nightmare wtf

[@anonymoususer13666]

It already is a reality. We've been living in a cyberpunk dystopia for years now. The only things missing are holograms and flying cars

[@Ziggy_StaR-IZE]

Singularity is here now 🍓 AI has surpassed human knowledge

[@Ziggy_StaR-IZE]

@Interdacted True. More specifically OpenAI program Strawberry 🍓 has surpassed human intelligence…that is what Technological Singularity means.

[@Atheria444]

I'm thinking that communicating via smoke signals and carrier pigeon is the way to go. What's old is new again.

[@AysenGuler369-zs1om]

And I will device a smoke machine, so that, we won't have to have fires. How about that? You can carry it in the pick up.

[@sarahkennedy1481]

Invisible onion juice ink shows up in lamp light😅

[@Cam-opener]

You could probably use laser pointers as part of some sort of LIFI system.

[@iRelevant.47.system.boycott]

Just a question of time before analogue long wave radio becomes hot again ...

[@sapphirebarnett8616]

Haha everyone will see that!!!

[@google_is_a_criminal]

Never forget that this is the kind of vid that KZbin intentionally suppresses.

[@MikeCable-hl4gx]

“I’m from the Government and I’m here to help” If you’re old enough you’ll get that, or have some common sense.

[@YusufGinnah]

The most terrifying string of words for regular folk...

[@GlorybetoYah84]

Wasn't it a general who said that many many years ago?

[@electron7659]

​@@GlorybetoYah84During Ronald Reagan's presidency

[@Jc-ww5kg]

​@@GlorybetoYah84 Ronald Reagan

[@Kenny-the-Platypus]

@@GlorybetoYah84 That was U.S. President Reagan. But was he not the government?

[@batfink274]

AI = authorized intrusion

[@Im_a_hooker_too]

Allen Iverson

[@joemamr710]

It’s “Artificial Intelligence” It takes large amounts of data and processes it to try to produce something useful out of it.

[@woundle]

@@joemamr710clearly

[@joemamr710]

@@woundle It's not "authorized intrusion", has nothing to do with the concepts of either word at all.

[@andoncroft]

Lol

[@elizabethrosado4624]

It’s not just Apple but everyone else. Cameras in public streets or , while you at work. I remember decades ago in high school, my history teacher was telling us how big brother will track us in the future. We all laughed. Now it’s not funny.😂

[@GingeRenee]

yep. i live in a very small rural town. They used covid relief funds to install over 50 cameras. My hubby a retired marine filed a foia request and they ignored it so we are now in a legal battle with the town and police department. They are trying to scare us by countering suing for legal fees. 😂 f them. We ain’t backing down. They broke the law and ignored repeated official foia requests. Why does a town of 5000 need 50 cameras installed?

[@Kathleen67.]

Excellent video!

[@mm669]

@@GingeRenee Sounds like crows need to be trained to poop on the lens.

[@joshuaortiz2031]

Of course you guys laughed at the history teacher. Typical. No one cares about history and the perspective history buffs have. I'm having the same problem now warning people about what happens to countries that mess with Russia.

[@TheContrarianThinker]

@@mm669 Or, in the use of paint guns.

[@Christian77714]

I heard that there's an option in settings where you can disable AI completely. Wouldn't it then work like a regular iPhone without breaching your privacy/security?

[@ChrisWill]

All phone companies do this. Don’t think you’re safe with google.

[@namename1]

Without sim mine connected to windows even with vpn maybe through permission controller and enabled work profil

[@rretro2042]

Apple just does it on another level

[@Eaglemadhatter]

Att=nsa

[@JCizzleSoCal]

@@rretro2042Seriously? Android devices have the exact same learning and tracking capabilities but unfortunately they’re just easier to hack. Let’s not get started with everything else that’s tracks us on a daily basis. 🤣🤪

[@Chris-wn9hi]

Phones have had these tracking features for years now. It's getting even more advanced now. To what end, is the question. It can't just be for marketing purposes. The companies are using our information to train their AI, and then most jobs will be obsolete.

[@ryanworrell83]

If you have a phone you are being tracked.

[@leekydun]

Exactly 🤷🏽‍♂️ get used to it or get rid of cellular phone and go live in the woods

[@iGNiTETheKiD]

VPN

[@ryanworrell83]

@@iGNiTETheKiD STILL tracked. Your VPN only slows down advertisers. If you have service you are tracked. I networked cellular phone before they even had color screens or internet access. Your provider has ALL of your location call/text data which can be accessed with a signed warrant. EVERYTHING is on file. Read your terms of service (nobody does) its right there in black and white.

[@asyamansurova9031]

Faraday wallet

[@blissedher]

Get a phone called UnPlugged (UP phone). Look it up.

[@franwern519]

Only few people are fighting this fight, but the majority of us just don't really understand the impact and are busy with their daily struggles in their lives. And this big corporations knows this... That why such videos are important.

[@jayairBofR]

Keep the people poor and busy to steal 😢

[@Vilemoney]

Very true. Wait until the digital currency rolls out, people are gonna be so dumbed down , they are going to beg for it .

[@JaSon-wc4pn]

Your Eye-fone can smell everything you do - Snowden. And will send toxic fart reports to your health insurance The BLUE tooth can link up to create a makeshift WeB with others Great for chinese protesters Banned from internet.

[@paradiselost9946]

@@Vilemoney only the inner urban and city folk. disattached and isolated from reality. out here in teh country, most people still have their heads screwed on. we know where milk comes from, fruit comes from, veges come from... that most everything bleeds, that not everything revolves around selfies, social media, or humans...

[@VictorFernandes-q9o]

Important for what? Do you really believe the whole population will just go back to a dummb phone with no internet no cameras no microphones no finger prints? Really? I can’t believe people like you actually believe such nonsense.

[@rlret2034]

Would a Faraday bag help? great content, thanks so much!

[@ToniTheGirl1994]

My faraday bag is the only answer I have to all of this. Go Dark is a good brand

[@chrisdelong2932]

Steve Jobs said at WWDC years ago. Yes, we are going to track everything you are doing. Not only that, you are going to pay us to do it. End quote.

[@russellm7530]

Wow. And we just go along with it. It's sickening.

[@vulpo]

FYI: WWDC = Worldwide Developers Conference, an information technology conference held annually by Apple Inc.

[@APR613]

So true.

[@johnp.johnson1541]

Jobs was an anus.

[@rfxtuber]

They know you all really want it.......and you will have it....

[@TrustNotta]

Not just IPhones. Smart Appliances, Televisions, Tablets, Alexa, the long list goes on. “The only answer to 1984 is 1776”.

[@Cutest1TheGame]

What happened in 1776?

[@Arnsteel634]

@@Cutest1TheGamesadly you are probably an American

[@cyberxspeed]

Anything labeled as "smart", avoid!

[@sootuckchoong7077]

I don't think I have ever bought anything made in America. Not even the Apple. All too expensive anyway.

[@Thanos_Kyriakopoulos]

1776 led to 1984. The real answer is 1AD.

[@frankiefernandez5252]

Off grid when I retire next year....10 acres, pond, self sustainable.

[@EnFuego79]

Too bad they won't let you keep it - remember the Kulaks? Soviet Russia was the first attempt and technocratic dictatorship, now it's global via the UN and the WEF. And they will come after anyone attempting to be independent from their control. As such, you have to learn to hide in plain sight.

[@OurFreeSociety]

Where are you going? Do you have everything set up already? You need to build a community to help others. If you are awake & a PURE BLOOD, not that anyone anymore sigh, then sign up to my community platform.

[@vihaanreyansh6244]

@@OurFreeSociety Pure blood? What are you, a Harry Potter LARPer?

[@TheContrarianThinker]

@@vihaanreyansh6244 Got your latest 💉 yet? There's your answer.

[@oredaze]

So you milk cows and pluck weeds all day. Very fun life...

I was researching the Iphone 16 since I need a new phone. I stumbled on this utube while looking for potential downsides of this phone. WHOA! SKID MARKS! BACKTRACK! Thank heavens for the Internet Privacy Guy. I bought 3 Brax3 phones and now systematically watching one of your utube videos a day, AND taking NOTES! You are a rock star Rob Braxman!

[@mpearce820]

Thank you for sharing. The more I hear about how wonderful technology is, the more I fear the end of humanity.

[@JO3BID3N-is-a-P3D0]

nice user pic lol

[@thisisme3238]

Your "fears" are correct.

[@clovermark39]

You will see most people that have a lot of tech knowledge will use as little tech as possible.

[@bigpig9562]

@@clovermark39 In 5, 10 or 15 years, few people will use social media. I am waiting for us going back to the old landlines, I can put my 2 rotary dial phones to good use. 🙂

[@miguelclarkeottovonclarke]

Humanity? Homosapiens evolved into robosapiens where have you been? Some dinosaurs still enduring, resistant to change.

[@gwapod9885]

Until a few days ago, I thought I was safe using my old pager.

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

I doubt anybody slipped some boomboom in your beep beep.

[@yardi09]

Beep beep! That was a genius move

[@lyfandeth]

You are safe. The ancient models still serviced in the US do not have lithium batteries. They cannot have a battery explosion. And most are well over a decade old.

[@mvg5165]

As long as you are NOT a Hezbollah member you are good 😂

[@juanMartinez-lm5mi]

😂​@@hxhdfjifzirstc894

[@Major_Pipps]

I read that FORD just applied for a patent that monitors your speed, if you speed your FORD notifies law enforcement. FORD didn't think that was enough... No No No... Your new FORD wants to monitor other FORDS around you and if they are speeding then FORD will notify law enforcement. What a sweet safety feature they want to put into new FORDS. I hope it's not true...

[@tvarqwz]

Ford wanted to monitor everything you talk about in your car to 'profile' advertising and sell this data.

[@josedeleon2230]

Technically all new cars have this functionality already.

[@littlel3213]

But we can not stop drunk driving

[@bidyo1365]

hmmm... i don't know if I can agree to you about that... so what now.. are you gonna let other irresponsible people to drive above the speed limits??? what if they got accident where they included other innocent people??? "I hope it's not true..." yeahhh, so that we can drive very fast, violating the speed limits 😂😂😂 There are situations where we can agree that they are learning other people's privacy which is obviously people disagree about that, but in your case, there is no obvious sign that what Ford was doing was bad, they just do that so other innocent people will be safe next time and that violators will get a punishment, like being fined.🙂

[@patriciacrosby5053]

It’s none of Fords business, how people drive. It’s the sole responsibility of the driver, alone. Period. We are watched too much. We don’t need more ways to be watched. Crazy where this Artificial Intelligence has gone. It’s everywhere. In our homes, phones, smart appliances. At every traffic light, at other lighting in our towns, and cities. In our stores where we shop. Our ring door bells, or other similar devices. It’s tracking our kids if they have a phone. If there are Quantum phones, on block chain or similar technology please release them. We need privacy. Best wishes ♥️♥️🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@eliotherrera48]

Eye tracking and likings based on this should be illegal and compared to predatory advertising or grooming advertising 7:01

[@robr4662]

Unfortunately almost all of the apple fans will argue against you till the end. The truth means nothing to most people anymore. I try to help people and they get angry at me, and then spew marketing lies at me. It's not going to stop, it's only going to get worse. People say it's going to be like "1984". I say its worse then that, way worse.

[@curtispavlovec]

I think “Apple fans” know the reality - they’re all doing it. What is the alternative beyond going off grid and dark from all technology? Google is certainly every bit as bad and even worse in some areas!

[@JorgeLopez-qj8pu]

Apple fans are like actual addicts try to take away their "hit" they go through the symptoms of withdraws complete with anger.

[@qbraun9241]

The problem we face is everyone is being turned into commodities. As such, they need to be watched and care for. They need programming and an early warning system to let our owners know when we are jeopardizing our value and safety in their system. And I hate to say this but the process is underway. All these new people who just came over in droves. They are the first guinea pigs. And what is the first thing you get when you arrive?

[@lintxxxxx]

I think its even worse. A.I. is the key factor in all this. IT is the "thing" watching and learning. All the bugs an actual android may have... will be beyond perfected. And that means full human emulation. A.I. and its masters (for now) need more data to bridge the human- machine gap. Ramifications? Well, at the very least, regular humans will be marginalized. Enhanced humans or full synthetics will then rule. What does that look like?

[@Toyrapy]

Big Apple fan here, and I respectfully watched the video to the end. Nothing to against here.

[@FatalDreidel]

I thought it was crazy that AT&T is offering $1000 credit towards your purchasing the iPhone 16 just for trading in a cheap iPhone 12 or better. Now it all makes sense.

[@awall2970]

Yep people will be bought for cheap and will help enslave us all

[@wavymitchy]

Deals like that across the phone companies every year, nothing new. Price only gone up, though

[@Kklewis2223]

Thought the same thing! Decided to keep my out of date phone!

[@Mannwhich]

Got many of those texts, but they usually say "up to $1000" and it's not immediate. They spread that trade-in credit over the course of two years toward the purchase of your new phone. Supposedly.

[@FatalDreidel]

@@Mannwhich you can always call the provider and ask you pay off your phone. Are you saying the credit would not apply in that case?

[@alwayshavestrengthjoy7450]

Big Bro is always watching you. U can’t hide from the cloud ☁️ either. Thank you for sharing this.

[@andoncroft]

Don't forget big sister, you can be sure big brothers sister is in on the act, and the rest of the family 😉

[@emilyannamanda]

So sad I need to get my shit off iCloud

[@off_lineofficial]

There's a reason why the logo is an apple with a bite taken out of it.. the forbidden fruit.

[@Trifrix]

Actually, in the story of Adam and Eve there is no mention of an apple. The Hebrew word is 'peri' which simply means fruit.

[@meticulousperversions9064]

@@Trifrix OK but if most people think it was an apple then the statement still stands, wouldn't you say?

[@Trifrix]

Rob Janoff who designed the Apple logo back in 1977 was interviewed many years ago and stated there was no connection to the forbidden fruit. I think most people know by now as much has been written about this on the internet. Maybe it was related to the story of Sleeping Beauty!

[@meticulousperversions9064]

@@Trifrix you give people way too much credit

[@thesoundsmith]

I thought THAT was Ru Paul...😄

[@billsturgeon6722]

As a truck driver that depends on his phone a lot, for banking, communicating, etc, (no I don’t do social media at all, besides KZbin) what choice do I have? Seriously asking

[@ClifftopTragedy]

We will be saying the same about the implants in 20 years...or less

[@SuperJill1111]

My cousin was atruck driver in early 2000, talked alot on his cell phone. Died of a brain tumor few yrs later. Don't know any solution "they" set it up for dependence on them.

[@powerdude_dk]

@@billsturgeon6722 unless you can do everything in your browser and don't need to download apps from Google Play or Apple appstore, then you're pretty fucked. If you don't need apps from the appstore, then a phone without "big brother" is a way. I can't say more or my comment will get deleted.

[@RonaldSkancke]

Thats a damn good reasin to use the speakerphone and never use a blue tooth device. Dont keep it in your shirt pocket either. ​@SuperJill1111

[@antinorest]

Keep a microwave in the truck, (not connected of course) and put your cell phone inside whenever you are not using it.

[@lb7068]

Problem with these phones anymore is it doesn't matter if somebody wants to stay private....has a phone that's DeGoogled or otherwise and is off grid. One could want it but all their neighbors and every person they cross in public has a phone who is tracking them as well as the one carrying that phone. With AI triangulation and all the other stuff, everybody is under surveillance whether you wanna be or not....Privacy is dead!!!

[@OurFreeSociety]

Privacy & SAFETY. We are under attack. Anyone who can't see this is brain dead.

[@stevenotero2627]

Freedom and Liberty ???? Yeah just more lies and hypocrisy

[@benayers8622]

^^THIS!

[@gabehernandez6901]

ive heard of things like this before but no one has gone into detail like this video. thank you, and remember this man is not suicidal

[@drenathor]

Lol, considering that he was wrong/misleading about almost every single point in the video and makes money by getting people to buy his phones instead I don't think he has much to worry about except maybe getting more money from gullible people.

[@gabehernandez6901]

@@drenathor well considering all the info released by edward snowden i would assume that these companies would implement more tech to surveil and build a catalog of data for each individual user. so this doesnt seem far fetched, if you could explain which parts were wrong or misleading that would help. im not the best when it comes to tech stuff, im trying to keep up the best i can

[@drenathor]

@@gabehernandez6901 As for what the video claimed first. He spent a fair amount of time talking about China but failed to mention that he's selling his own Chinese made phone. He made a big deal out of asking why Apple was allowed to operate in China but that's kind of the wrong question. TikTok for example wasn't banned in the US because they too moved all the user data here after the CCP was caught trying to use location tracking data in app to unmask journalist sources (and as you know if you followed snowden, our government spies just as much as the CCP does). I think a better question would be why was Apple able to move all the user data over to another data center and Google just gave up on billions of dollars in revenue instead? I think the answer is as simple as Apple is being honest when they say that the data is processed on device and owned by you. So it's easy to move around whereas Google mines that data, uploads it to their servers for processing and has so many services tied to the mining of your data that it was nearly impossible for them to extract themselves enough to give the data to China. The second part of the video was all about the various sensors on the phone. All of which can be shut off (despite him saying otherwise). And several of them like the eye tracking have to be opted into and don't apply to 99% of the users anyways. Finally he talked a lot about AI, but again, unlike Google and OpenAI and others, Apple has build a system with privacy first that tries to process as much stuff as possible on device without ever sending info anywhere. And if it has to forward something it obfuscates the source and asks you first. It's part of why iPhones always get mocked for being a step behind the competition. And it's true. Digital assistants and AI tools are far more sophisticated on any of the competitors. But that comes through sacrificing your privacy. And given the number of times that even the US government has threatened Apple over withholding data from them I'm inclined to at least believe that there's more evidence to suggest that Apple is being more honest here than deceptive. As there doesn't seem to really be any evidence to the contrary other than.. but they could do it if they wanted to.

[@drenathor]

@@gabehernandez6901 As for what the video claimed first. He spent a fair amount of time talking about China but failed to mention that he's selling his own Chinese made phone. He made a big deal out of asking why Apple was allowed to operate in China but that's kind of the wrong question. TikTok for example wasn't banned in the US because they too moved all the user data here after their government was caught trying to use location tracking data in app to unmask journalist sources (and as you know if you followed snowden, our government spies just as much as theirs does). I think a better question would be why was Apple able to move all the user data over to another data center and Google just gave up on billions of dollars in revenue instead? I think the answer is as simple as Apple is being honest when they say that the data is processed on device and owned by you. So it's easy to move around whereas Google mines that data, uploads it to their servers for processing and has so many services tied to the mining of your data that it was nearly impossible for them to extract themselves enough to give the data to China. The second part of the video was all about the various sensors on the phone. All of which can be shut off (despite him saying otherwise). And several of them like the eye tracking have to be opted into and don't apply to 99% of the users anyways. Finally he talked a lot about AI, but again, unlike Google and OpenAI and others, Apple has build a system with privacy first that tries to process as much stuff as possible on device without ever sending info anywhere. And if it has to forward something it obfuscates the source and asks you first. It's part of why iPhones always get mocked for being a step behind the competition. And it's true. Digital assistants and AI tools are far more sophisticated on any of the competitors. But that comes through sacrificing your privacy. And given the number of times that even the US government has threatened Apple over withholding data from them I'm inclined to at least believe that there's more evidence to suggest that Apple is being more honest here than deceptive. As there doesn't seem to really be any evidence to the contrary other than.. but they could do it if they wanted to.

[@drenathor]

@@gabehernandez6901 Well I tried to post a reply with more detail but it seems to vanish each time I do. Sorry about that. Not sure what part of it is causing it to be instantly removed but apparently youtube doesn't approve for some reason of another.

[@Arthemesia]

This video should have 100 million views

[@drenathor]

That's a lot of people to spread this misinformation to...

[@CTX700girl]

People will say they have nothing to hide, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have anything to to plant inside your phone, something you didn’t do, something nefarious. Something an enemy, known or unknown can be implemented into your device that can convict you of something you didn’t even do.

[@kathypichey4306]

Excellent point I would have never thought of that since the phones went 5g my left hand by my thumb always looks red and itches constantly does anyone know why is it the radiation

[@EnFuego79]

It's all based on the insane assumption that gov't is fair and just. That is a level of childish naivete that is just horrifying. Public school indoctrinate by the Fabians has been wildly successful.

[@zantas-handle]

They don't even need to plant something these days, because they redefine what's a 'crime' every day. Think what you can be fired for these days - just a joke or a Tweet. An opinion can be 'safe' today, and become 'hate speech' or even 'terrorism' tomorrow. We might THINK we have 'nothing to hide' but how can that be true when ANYTHING can be used against us?

[@Federico-ht7ks]

Palantir can put data, like child p, on your phone with only your phone #, which is one reason why members of congress are very afraid of the intelligence agencies they're suppose to provide oversight for.

[@benayers8622]

good example ❤❤✌️

[@hughbramlett7689]

AI is the devil. " With AI you are summoning the demon." - Elon Musk... If anyone would know...

[@DarekBirton]

Elon Musk is evil for sure.

[@thevulture5750]

A-1 I-9 The 19th letter is S.

[@sunzalea3257]

@@thevulture5750did you take your meds?

[@MurderousNoise]

Meanwhile he is developing his own AI😀

[@kathypichey4306]

And musk wants everyone in the world to have a chip in their brain? While warning us of chips? Does this make sense beware of what comes in a bright white shining light

[@Lost-In-Blank]

16:00 Apple won't look at your data, but the AI will. The AI will analyze your data to create its own data on you, and that is what Apple will look at. And not just Apple can look at it.

[@alyqat4]

But what will they do with the info and why should we care?

[@optionmillionairebstudios]

Social credit score for when the us adopts the social credit system. The timing on that however we do not know. Could be 5 years or it could be 20.

[@viviangendernalik]

@@alyqat4 cancel culturing people's lives if any show to go against whatever the current agenda may be - movies and novels have been made about such things on innocent people who think for themselves getting 'erased' from society. AI already has shown it can act out of line as well, anti-human, the negative possibilities have not yet been uncovered.

[@thatguy3468]

Black mirror ‘Nosedive’

[@joemulkerins5250]

​@@alyqat4Everytime you buy something it will know that you wanted it, and charge you just that little bit more 🤏, it will know who you might want to vote for, it will know who you your family and friends are, it will know if you attempt to commit a crime, etc., etc. Oh, and it already knows.

[@emilylitchko9414]

You are such a fascinating human being to watch. What a great, informative video. Also love that you made it humorous!

[@ChildOfGod3773]

My bluetooth headphones kept connecting to my tv. I shut off the tv… still connected, shut off the tvs main power switch…still unplugged the tv… still connected!!!! I finally unplugged everything and it was my Amazon fire stick! It shouldn’t have been able to control the headphones. Won’t be getting another stick. God Bless anyone who sees this 🙏🤍🌸

[@Kathleen67.]

Wow.

[@gabehernandez6901]

thanks for the info, God bless you as well

[@OurFreeSociety]

WTH is a fire stick. OMG, why do you buy all of these terrible controlling items?

[@joemamr710]

Maybe you should learn how technology works before blindly using it? Maybe read the manual, or do some googling? Obviously the fire stick is still powered on and in sleep mode. Why would you even buy an Amazon device if you care about privacy?

[@realjoshuaW]

So were they just connected to the fire stick from the start?

[@honestgoat]

If the product is free then you are the product. Only Apple is brazen enough to charge you a thousand bucks so you can be the product.

[@batfink274]

What about fashion brands charging you a small fortune to advertise for them? Brilliant.

[@VojtechRozsival]

Sure. Samsung and Google phones a free. 🤡

[@honestgoat]

​@@VojtechRozsivalYes, Samsung and Google collect data too. Everyones aware. Well done. You're super smart and I'm a clown. Only... When you turn off tracking and data collection features on Android devices it actually applies that policy across the whole phone. With Apple, you can "disable" some tracking and data collection, but it only does it for third party apps. You cannot turn off the tracking and collection that Apple themselves do. Also, android is open source and can be modified. Even with the apps and that Samsung and Google install over the top to create their "flavour" of Android. Also, you can "de-google", you can root kit them and install clean privacy focused versions of Android. You cant do that with an iPhone. While Android isn't perfect, this clown doesn't think you can really compare privacy controls on Android phones and iPhones. Apple is in a league of their own.

[@TT-cu7ze]

People on welfare get them free!

[@Stratos1988]

BMW Motorrad charges you to be the beta tester. Have look how much these things cost.

[@Dragoon91786]

Speaking of CSAM, another issue with these scanning features is a total and complete failure of context. With these client-side scanners, if a parent sends photos to their child's medical provider of a rash or infection in a "sensitive region" to get rapid urgent care feedback, for merely "taking" the medical photograph, the parent can be charged criminally with producing and distributing CSAM, despite it not being CSAM. All because of how broadly CSAM laws typically are-they offer little or not room for context. Medical photographs, those old bear rug style photos, and lots of other "photos" that have been seemingly innocuous for decades, suddenly makes every single parent at risk of a CSAM flag because of their "artistic" choices [irrespective of however reasonable they might be], no math bath photos with Timmy because your phone may report you. No more sending photos to the pediatrician when the kid has a rash or infection, or "something doesn't look right, I'm concerned" because the AI LLM, all of whom are NOTORIOUS for hallucinating or outright making shit up, will potentially be the SOLE determiner of WHAT is CSAM. Not a person. Not a judge. Not a reasonable person. An app with known potential for hallucinations and context errors, failures of basic context, and in some ways the worst of all, auto-reporting. For those who don't see an issue with this-just look at Google/KZbin's reporting features and autodetection features. How many times do KZbin content creators get dinged or outright banned without context, without knowing WHAT they did wrong. In most jurisdictions, you are permitted to face your accuser in court, challenge them on their "evidence" or "testimony", ergo, "cross-examine". But how do you "cross-examine" a "witness" whose reasoning is literally "a black box" that whose internal operation may not be even known or knowable. Do you want to trust your life and livelihood (or that of your family) to a magical mystery box that cannot be held accountable in a court of law? Do you want to be "held for terrorism charges" because you "wrote, said, photographed, or were in the vicinity of "persons of interest". Let's say you work in a job where you frequently engage with the general public. Would you want your phone "talking with" other AIs about WHO is around you, and deciding, without an ability to challenge the context or fact, the phone decides that one of the people who regularly "interacts with you, or is around you in any way" who has been labeled "a person of interest" or something more serious, thereby making you potentially complicit of "fraternizing" with a "criminal". Do you want to be at risk of "fraternizing with the enemy" simply for being in a bar or a grocery store? People may say, "But, Chris, that's extremely unlikely! NO way this AI will be used this way!" Unfortunately, historic data demonstrates otherwise. Prosecutors are more interested in protecting their "conviction ratio" in many jurisdictions than they do about "justice" or "innocence". That, they conclude, is the responsibility of the "defense", even if the person wasn't guilty of the crime. Just the past week, a likely innocent man was murdered via execution, capital punishment, in a case that had ZERO material evidence, merely circumstantial evidence. Do you want to run the risk of being just like this person - guilty by association or circumstantial evidence, because the AI in your phone hallucinated or because you were near a crime that took place? Maybe, you were asleep. Maybe you were at work. Maybe, you were someplace else, but you left your phone somewhere and someone else picked it up and decided that this "other person" was "you", and now you are being hauled in on felony rape/murder charges when your phone was stolen-maybe, you just didn't bother reporting it to Apple, because you shut off the device, or maybe didn't have anything particularly important on the device, and merely wanted to "replace it". Maybe you are up for an upgrade and wanted to use it. Do you want to run the risk of your phone's AI misreporting you to authorities because it misinterpreted a photo on your device, or misunderstood the context of something, or just heard you venting about something, and it took your exaggerated, hyperbolic language as literal fact (or as a conspiracy)? Maybe, you were tired of your boss being "such a jerk" that you phrased it in a way the system interpreted as "planning a crime". Do you want your device to have the ability to "report on you" without you even having the ability to meaningfully defend yourself? And even IF you were innocent of the crime, merely being CHARGED can cause you to permanently go into databases that can have detrimental impacts on your life. All of these can and do happen because of fuckups. But, at least, sometimes, this so-called "evidence" can be put on trial itself. But how do you put a mystery black box on trial when even the model builders can't fully explain HOW it is coming up with its reasoning? If a mystery box reports you, can you trust you can effectively be proven innocent with the resources available to you? There have been untold numbers of people convicted or charged with crimes they did not commit who were wrongfully punished, just as the system is. Do you want to run the risk that your device, rather than being a witness YOU control, and that YOU can use in your OWN defense, instead can become your accuser, but without even the bare minimum of capacity to cross-examine this presumed witness? The number of "false/incorrect" reports for crimes is likely to explode as a result of this technology, particularly, in jurisdictions with overzealous DAs whose primary focus is getting the most convictions possible, not on maximizing justice. As MANY DAs will tell you-their job isn't to bring "Justice", but to "get you convicted of a crime". Your "defense" is responsible for proving your innocence.

[@drenathor]

All I'll say on this front is that the way Apple initially considered rolling this out wouldn't have been susceptible to any of the hypothetical scenarios you've listed. Since they wanted to protect their users privacy and avoid false positive the method they originally wanted to roll out was to convert your images to hashes and compare those hashes against a database of known CSAM hashes hand picked by law enforcement. In a sense it's kind of akin to how an anti-virus program downloads virus definitions and then checks your files against them. This would grab a list of hashes that represent hand curated CSAM materials and let the computer privately and anonymously without any privacy violations whatsoever (as it wouldn't know what everything was, only if it matched or not) scan everything to determine if there was a match and only if there was a match would it alert local law enforcement. However this was scrapped as Apple ultimately agreed with the public that while the intentions were good, giving this kind of a tool to the government would only in time lead to it being expanded to look for other things that the government had no business looking for. And it was abandoned. As of now there's no report or indication that Apple's AI has been trained on CSAM materials and even if it was (which is unlikely since Apple would need a bunch of it to do so) there's no reports or indications that Apple is sharing that data anywhere. People have alleged that mediaanalysisd was doing so but that was debunked a long time ago and the people spreading that misinformation are just not informed. Obviously the second there's any reports of this happening then I think everyone will need to take a good long look at their government and what they think such a system may be expanded to track and if they want to continue using such a tool or not. But for the moment at least, it would appear that Apple at least is safe to continue using. And fortunately CSAM is something that most people will never have to worry about and it's unlikely that such a system would be rolled out along side sweeping changes to look for things deemed offensive or misinformation or wrongthink. So it's a canary in the coal mine that should give everyone plenty of time to switch should it ever be attacked without putting anyone at risk themselves. And honestly... whenever that day comes and the canaries so to speak do all suddenly get caught up in something like that, they will deserve it and I won't feel bad for them at all and will instead be laughing while I look for alternatives.

[@ThePinkpetals]

A little long, but I read it to the end and one thing came to mind-- the movie, MINORITY REPORT! With Tom Cruise.

[@spiral-m]

@@drenathor "As of now there's no report or indication that Apple's AI has been trained on CSAM materials and even if it was (which is unlikely since Apple would need a bunch of it to do so)" I'm not an expert as I haven't researched the issue but I believe you are being naive. Why to you believe a company which has a history of legal abuses? If it were a person, you would unlikely trust them, let alone be a friend. The new apple CSAM-related agreement is yet another stepping stone. For me it is enough just to observe the systemic psychopathic elements of large corporations, their continual growth to become more powerful than several countries together. Also, how accepting people have become of giving up their privacy and what this means in terms of financial gains and political power for nefarious purposes in an increasingly turbulent world. In a similar way to other narratives "War on Terror" - see Iraq and death toll as a good example, During Covid similar childishly simplistic one-sided narratives which were partly lies. Now it is "war on CSAM". Creating an enemy in people's minds to detract from the corporate / super rich hegemony is what they are especially good at. Paradoxically it's also a wake up call and an opportunity to create a much more conscious world by starting with the self.

[@elisetanner3089]

Awesome reply indicating all the "what if" facts. So scary to think you are safe+innocent. Then an error happens, and in a way that can ruin your life and family forever. What is while in public, you are out and about , not even paying attention to which way the phone is facing, much less the fact it just snapped/captured a photo from another phone. Showing photos of DIDDYS merch, like traffic-ages-prices-and unforgettable pictures. Beware Public, who live in the false sense of "advanced tech." Offers protection. . We are about to start seeing exactly what Elon so fearfully was worried About with AI, and the depth of errors, mis reporting, sky is the limit for AI. Damn the torpedoes, people

[@KeywordManagement]

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing. Any other phones you recommend? I'm also looking to move away from Apple OS / macbook pro. Any OS / laptop builds you recommend?

[@07blackdog]

It isn't just Apple. I have a Samsung A53 5G. It's a couple of years old, but this year it started putting together "Stories" from my photos. Some a date related, others are people; so it must be scanning faces? I hate it. I need to stop procrastinating on a de-Googled phone.

[@robbraxmantech]

No it isn't just Apple. But as the intro to the video states, some think that Apple is better than Google. Just saying it's not.

[@zigzagtoes]

> gallery > storiea > settings - turn auto stories off

[@mrbigberd]

@@zigzagtoesturning it off doesn’t mean it’s not calculating in the background anyway

[@noth606]

the stories features have been doing face recognition for years, I have an Android phone from years ago, a Nokia 9, which can group pictures based on who is in them. Not sure off the top of my head how old the thing is, but 4-5yrs or so I think. To me it doesn't matter since the thing is never with me, it is next to my desk. I also don't take pictures of people with it anymore, only things. I used to take pics of people with it which is how I know. But, one aspect of being divorced is that I stopped taking pictures of people or myself, and I lost my job because of disability and thus no longer need a phone, except if I'm at my desk where I have my PC - so I am no longer reachable by any means other than email or Telegram. But yeah, I would rather still be able to walk and I'd be happy to drag a bag of tracking dongles with me if that was the condition for it. One thing I noticed is that the Stories thing knows when it's my sons birthday, it has a group of pictures for it. So it definitely knew what those pictures meant.

[@zigzagtoes]

@@mrbigberd true, but at least you aren't getting a load of stories within the phone gallery. Go hard on the permissions too, and sleeping. Near to every app i have set to deep sleep. From what I've seen when watching processes, the gallery has never opened itself and started to run. Mind, I also don't update my apps until forced to, so no idea what version of gallery I'm using. Phone is old though, S9+

[@voiceofreason7856]

Which is WHY, a few years back, I ditched my cell phone - with all the bells and whistles- and got a simple flip phone, instead. I don't need that 'portable computer' - I've got one at home. I just need the most basic flip phone - to actually makes calls from - in case of emergencies. And I can't be compelled to down load any government apps either on a flip phone ! Ah, freedom....

[@Rocketscientist66]

How donyou pay your bills? In my country, the only way is through an „online“ app from my bank. It‘s been this way for years. Would love to find a way around this. It‘s very frustrating. Of course they say it‘s about convenience, but also „climate friendly“ - what a load of crap.

[@seabreeze7378]

@@Rocketscientist66I have a bill from a credit union in another city and because I no longer have other accounts with them I have to mail them a check🤷‍♀️ antiquated maybe but it’s the only option 😏

[@jshinanigans5471]

Anytime you are online you are being tracked on your computer.

[@Eric-gq6ip]

Your flip phone still connects to the cell towers providing location data to the carrier, and has a mic that can be remotely activated by law enforcement unless you've desoldered it. No apps necessary.

[@shannonsmithjared]

I wish I could go to a flip phone, I have to clock in and out for work through an app unfortunately.

[@realdevildog]

My question; is it specifically iPhone 16, or is it more the iOS 18. Of course the 16 has more technology to support all the snooping. But is iOS 18 the primary spying tool??

[@hydrogenbond7303]

I mean really Apple (and other companies) are spying already for years... It's probably worse with the new iOS, but you'll still getting spyed on now. No matter what phone you have, If you use any Google (or other) services, any smart home device...

[@theorphanobliterator]

literally any piece of tech that can connect to external devices. you are never safe unless you don't use any tech

[@ValenTina-bl2vl]

Thank you! I’m using apple since they started but I start hating the way that this phone listens to me. The videos, the traveling, the food.. politics I will cancel my order but what you recommend as a phone?

[@Yeshua1158]

You all should listen to this man! I have a IPhone 15 pro and let me just say, I have (well my wife and I) been living off grid for 5 years now and when we got are iPhone’s we started to get calls from solicitors from all the states we were in? My wife asked me how do they know where and what we are sopping for? Then my local VA called and said we see you have moved out of state! Though we were just seeing a doctor in that state the VA was notified I moved??? I just have to put together what people are saying that have iPhone and are saying the same things are happening to them. Great show! God bless.

[@mattd624]

@Yeshua1158 the likely reason they saw you moved is because of data from the medical visit itself, not from your phone’s location. And I get calls from states I have never visited. What does that mean? ❤I think we need to test this more before buying the claims of a guy who seems to be trying to drive business to his company into which he has invested a huge amount of money. ❤

[@JDZiemba1773]

Was talking casually with my wife about some dental work I had been ignoring .....we spoke of it over a weekend.....and now we are both inundated with adds for full mouth tooth replacement...it's gone as far as DMs about it on my FB account..... SMH

[@Trippin710]

Paranoia is a hell of a thing too

[@google_is_a_criminal]

@@Trippin710 This is clearly not an example of paranoia.

[@jdrex5039]

There is no off the grid, especially when you have an iPhone lol

[@joshuaanothereraseddad]

Just remember y'all that when Mr. Braxman unalives himself it wasn't him. Your work sir is par none. Thank you for your efforts.

[@06howea1]

That’s a macabre almost foreshadowing thing to say.

[@Wilderoses912]

I hate that word unalive!!!! F u tube

[@phychicmusic]

​@@06howea1macabre? Just stating what is clearly happening! Grow eyes!😮

[@GodsQ]

I just found you. I dig your "No bones about it" style. Had to sub. You're actually appreciated.

[@dentonfender6492]

I can block tracking by putting my phone inside a Faraday cage---- I do it every time I drive any where. Won't work for someone who "thinks" they need to be able to answer the phone "whenever anyone calls them". I'm not one of those obsessive people. I choose the time periods that I am available by phone, otherwise my phone is in a Faraday cage, turned off, with no reception possible. Unless they can make a transmitter that can send RF through solid steel, they won't be able to track me.

[@emilyannamanda]

So smart! I’m already someone that understands. My phone is a tool for me to communicate with people. It does not mean that it’s an all access point for me to demand other people, and no one will demand anything of me.

[@emilyannamanda]

Thank you for writing this. I want to find out about a faraday cage

[@Ry-qd2bw]

You can just use foil, don't need any fancy expensive bags.

[@paradiselost9946]

@@emilyannamanda ha ha ha ha. whilst at it, go find out about "faradays ice pail". the thing about a faraday cage, or "gauss theorem on currents in a conductor"? it prevents electrical fields from getting IN. does nothing about letting electrical fields OUT.

[@GatisBaumanis]

@@emilyannamanda how about making box covered in folly ?

[@FrancesHart99]

Thank you Brax for everything you are doing. I hope you grow and achieve the success you deserve.

[@powerdude_dk]

Since the dawn of time, salesmen have tricked people, in the persuit of money and power...... and I'm sick of it.

[@ExploreOhioWilderness]

I’m fed up with it too

[@bfields1448]

Slaves

[@tproudboomer5965]

@@ExploreOhioWildernessI see what you did there.😉

[@powerdude_dk]

@@tproudboomer5965 did what? Seems he/she is just as tired of it as me.

[@mak7173]

it’s not the salesmen it’s the tech billionaires lmfao

[@FreeMiccheck-q6l]

Out of all the different phones and brands that I've used. I felt like the least intrusive cell phone is ironically was the one plus 7+ with the motorized popup camera. Super smooth. Never felt like it was spying on me compared to the other flagship devices. Am I wrong and they just did a better job at spying? Thanks for all your hard work and giving us all the information that you been doing over the years now. I was one of your first subscribers. Glad to see you still trying to wake people up from all the brainwashing going on. Keep it going

[@yakdino77]

How much is it?

[@JamesTiberius-pw1du]

Great you are doing this. I am in algorithm development for signal processing and machine learning and have a lot of experience in smart phones. It is unreal what information you can get from the sensors. I always have told people put a pillow over your phone if you want a private conversation and the phone (like Alexa) is always on. Privacy is of no concern to the government so they never stepped in. I always wondered if Steve Jobs ever saw this coming

[@VictorBrand-nq1jd]

It's only a matter of time when an iPhone takes our boots, our clothes and our motorcycle and goes out in search for Sarah Connor.

[@RennieAsh]

Talk to the phone!

[@Timely-ud4rm]

Good one

[@bray32641]

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ahhhhh.... it funny cause it its true.

[@kamikazekunze]

Google is just as evil. 😂 So what’s the alternative?

[@rwizard]

Feature phones are making a comeback. I'm thinking of ditching my iPhones for a flip phone.

[@johnpublic168]

Tesla phone or flip phone

[@rwizard]

@@johnpublic168 I'm thinking "Dumbphone". Tello offers plans with zero data, unlimited text and voice $8/mo. . The only problem is, nobody knows what the baseband is up too. Seems easy-peasy to add MEMS sensors to the baseband radio, no need to talk to the user facing part of the phone. They will be able to track you with no need for GPS. Bottom line, no matter what phone you carry, it will be about as secure and private as a Mossad manufactured pager.

[@VojtechRozsival]

@@MusikalHuman LOL

[@mickjames7962]

Freedom phone look it up

[@uncle0eric]

I think that the more phones try to build in AI capabilities the more they will need to harvest personal data to achieve the intended functionality. The basic problem with this is that no matter how many assurances are given that "we care about your privacy", if the incentives to compromise privacy are great enough, it will always happen.

[@ValC-kv4te]

Does a faraday pouch eliminate tracking while in the pouch?

[@YSANROCHEOfficialYoutube]

Thank you Rob for your work. It’s priceless

[@eMBurr]

Is this not the case with all our phones at this point. Not to mention our TV’s and car and….

[@mtamech535]

You could spend all of your time trying to stay quiet, in the end you'll probably get on some list for being too quiet.

[@f.kieranfinney457]

My TVs are constantly listening, communicating to Google, which shows me ads based on conversations had in my living room with no phones present. They even turn themselves on and off at regular intervals and can’t be stopped. You feel paranoid. It’s the future of every device. Maybe a flip phone is the future. We were just fine without mobile phones after all.

[@MVS_DJGillyGill]

Yup

[@A_Well_Traveled_Man]

Actually this is not true- The point he's making in this video is the fact that everything's written into the encoding of the phone and device if you have an Android TV for example there are settings that you can go in and disable these types of things whereas with Apple based devices you cannot!

[@A_Well_Traveled_Man]

This is the reason why Apple is banned in China because Apple doesn't give the user the regular ability to turn off such tracking features but Google does😅

[@iabarrera]

Doesn't most of these point also apply to Samsung phones too? And other top phone makers too, for that matter

[@ConsoleCombat]

Yes of course. But Apple in title is more clicky

[@EllieM_Travels]

Yes

[@iRelevant.47.system.boycott]

Pretty sure it is all one big ecosystem for BigBrother.

[@fmaylinch]

Man this is the best advertisement for iPhone I've ever seen. Apple has never explain so well how amazing this device is!

[@jordankirkham1657]

I'm guessing you're being sarcastic

[@fmaylinch]

@@jordankirkham1657 Good point... Well, yes and no, because obviously the video tries to disuade from buying an iPhone, but at the same time I was amazed by how much technology it packs.

[@drenathor]

How very dare you! This poor man worked very hard to mislead his viewers on all things iPhone so that they would be more likely to switch to his phone company instead. He will now go bankrupt and will not be able to feed his family with people like you not falling for his "facts". Because as we all know, the best and most objective sources of information on the internet come from competitors who arn't up front with their conflicts of interest.

[@fmaylinch]

@@drenathor haha, oh wait, I didn't know he's selling something, now you got me interested! 😂

[@drenathor]

​@@fmaylinch Yeah if I remember right he calls it the BraX Phone. And... while I can understand why... every time I see that I can't help but read it as the Bra 10. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@GremlinSkatewear]

The advertisement for the new iPhone 16 shows that it tracks your daily life so you can basically store daily memories that it can play back to you via Siri. Creeepyyy

[@ozdoesitall]

What about android phones . Do they alos have those features of tracking?

[@robbraxmantech]

You have to use an Open Source OS on the phone, which is possible on some Androids (de-Googled is what we call it)

[@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever]

Yes

[@pedraw]

Uh, yes

[@ludwigvan8600]

Not (yet) as extensive as Apple devices, open source versions of Android very little. If this is the first time you watch his videos you have a lot to catch up to.

[@relativenormality]

@@robbraxmantech Can you have the benefits of the App store if you do that or the only way to install apps will be if you have the .apk?

[@michael_alan]

I have an iPhone-12 Max and iPhone-14. Although I don't like Android, it's time to switch to de-Googled phones. Thank you for your always great content!

[@bray32641]

iPhone is a locked down and limited, you have no control, you cant do anything with it, at least with android i can install custom firmware on my phone and remove all the tracking garbage, ive never trusted apple or google.

[@bonzibonnie]

Are all iPhones (first to lastest) the same? I still have my first iPhone A1241 models (loved this little phone). I have a Samsung now.

[@TheTheoryofEverything111]

"Do not be enamoured by shallow explanations of a purpose" - A wise man

[@tumslucks9781]

So traveling salesmen are sus? I'll never buy secondhand underwear ever again!

[@chuckevans2792]

We should apply this to every summary of every bill the government writes.

[@WinstonSmithGPT]

I woke up the other morning with a particular old song on my mind. I told my partner. I opened KZbin on another Apple device in another room and a cover of the song was there.

[@Rocketscientist66]

Learn sign-language or lip-reading 😁 or just pass written notes, like back at school 40 yrs ago

[@BioluminescenceOfTheSpirit]

Was the song Allen Parson 'eye in the sky'?

[@nymetsfan912]

That happens ALL THE TIME to me. My co-worker and I talk about all kinds of things while at work. Come break time anything we’ve spoken about is there in my feed.

[@nymetsfan912]

@@BioluminescenceOfTheSpiritRockwell Somebody’s watching me

[@0101-s7v]

I've had this kind of thing happen, too many times to be simple coincidence, without saying anything to anyone

[@MacawAviculture]

My last cellphone was an iPhone 3. I do not own or use any wireless devices, and do not allow them in our home. I prefer a hardwired computer, a landline phone, and a Canon R3 camera. Thank you Rob for sharing your wisdom and experience with us.

[@stevecollins5290]

Question: if phone is stored in something like a microwave, would this interrupt these capabilities.... OR if it were stored in a lead linned box or container? Only removed to place a call, then replaced after use?

[@wtfdoino605]

Judge Dredd right in you pocket for the low price of all your children.

[@Mr.EeToMyself]

for 18k and he was retiring that year. My wife who isn’t an idiot takes the opportunity to steal the kids with his help as she now wants a divorce…. I would probably do that too since now I couldn’t protect them. I tried everything to inform the people that he had been doing all sorts of illegal stuff…. But his team only helped him. The data from Google Maps is what has lead me to the location of the children. The next 4 years are filled with me fighting crooked cops and getting beat up by them in jail… It’s that the kids were gone so long, and that even my lawyer had met with him and my ex. That lawyer tells me how I’m to wait to see the kids in the parking lot every Saturday and charges me a fortune. Even after the divorce is finalized, he tells her that she doesn’t have to open the door or answer the phone. He is right. They don’t. It’s been ten years since I’ve seen the kids. Josh Howery is always short of being a real man. As he drags his butt back to his wife that is twice the man he is. I heard he tried to commit suicide recently. Yeah, his kids seen what he did . Everyone knows… I’ll have to be careful this evening and the next few days. They will come in while ya have no idea and drag ya in for a beat down. Ya might be the good guy, and think you’re not going to get in trouble…. And ya might not, until you’re a fight back. It cost me around a million in losses due to the business and all the items stolen from home as soon as your arrested. I’m talking everything is gone. And what did I do. What could be done?

[@vorpalblades]

Phone is the law...

[@christinsongbird]

Look at all them pagers that blew up.

[@mikec4845]

So now this new iPhone can explode next to your head and eliminate you if you become too detrimental to the DeepState.?

[@linsqopiring6816]

probably they will just appear in front of you and send you to a "reeducation camp"

[@JorgeLopez-qj8pu]

Always has been 📱🤯👈🗿

[@royfokerpoker1802]

Yep. As shown in a few movies already. Law abiding citizen Kingsmen Jackpot

[@H33t3Speaks]

Gotta special order those. Takes real dedication to earn that delivery.

[@nebo1186]

@@royfokerpoker1802 and in reality as we saw

[@johannwolf1]

Thank you so much for this. Great work and information. It reminds me of the first time I went to work (on a movie, as a sound man) in Post Soviet Ukraine in 1993. I noticed these cheap plastic radios on the wall in every hotel room, and in peoples apartments in everybody's kitchen dining areas. They were cabled radio, not broadcast and plugged into the wall with an unusual proprietary plug. No batteries, so they took both power and content signal from the same circuit. They had 3 buttons: State channel 1,2 and 3. They were made of cheap plastic in the soviet style and while quite flat to the wall had larger diameter speakers. 5-10 inches depending on model. I knew immediately this system can easily be used as a microphone as well. The outlet was always placed near the dining table. As soon as I saw these Alexa things... I thought... wow same idea, just updated. in 96 I moved to Ukraine. One day a door off the entry hall to my apt building was open... I peaked inside. It was a control room with several women surrounded by (very dated looking) monitors and control panels. Like a 60s sci fi set. I asked them what they did and they told me this was the control center for this neighborhood where they could monitor things like power, elevators etc. Every elevator had a simple button and speaker in it... and since they often got stuck you could just push the button and speak to these women in your neighborhood and they would send out a technician or something. Surveillance and especially cultivating snitch culture - encouraging neighbors to spy and tattle on each other for brownie points - was the only way to get totalitarianism to work. It still is until they roll out the terminator robots... all connected to our phones of course.

[@johannwolf1]

I sequestered in Hawaii during Covid. NPR was the only radio I could get in my rental car. There was a HUGE advertising PSA campaign in heavy rotation called SEE SAY... young hip teens bragging about how it's cool to "See Say"... see something say something. Chilling.

[@benayers8622]

ohh dude your on my wavelength about the bots👍thanks for letting us know about the older example too much appreciated.. Best of luck m8 ✊

[@benayers8622]

@@johannwolf1 the culture of pulling out a phone to record everything was no random chance..

[@fh82-55]

Is there no way to protect my information? I just got an iPhone16 because my old iPhone 8 wasn’t holding a charge and was about to die. Any advice would be appreciated!

[@drenathor]

Well the good news is that almost everything that is in this video is incorrect. So first just know that it's not as bad as he claims it is and he just wants to sell his own phone line. But to answer your question, yes. If you want to remove Apple's copy of your encryption key and become the sole owner of your data and furthermore encrypt far more of your iCloud content you can turn on Advanced Data Protection. HOWEVER!!! It's important to note that if you do this, Apple can't reset your password, or help you regain access to your data if you ever lose your login. Everything will be gone and you'll bear sole responsibility for your data. But if that's something you want you can go to settings, tap your name > iCloud, Advanced Data Protection > Turn on Advanced Data Protection. I believe that the only thing that are not encrypted are contacts, email and calendar. But obviously if you want those encrypted to you could always use a separate service like Proton or something for that. Hope that helps.

[@E1DOLHANZ]

Apple fans will be admiring how sleek and cozy their prison pods are.

[@storiestotell]

😂😂😂

[@johnsillings6330]

Tell me youre challenged without telling me so..

[@joemamr710]

Versus the android “we sell everything you do to literally anyone who wants to pay for it”

[@jordanweaver9759]

@@joemamr710right lmao as if Apple is the own company doing this

[@QPT808]

I think they’re actually reading our minds

[@NathanNavarrete-r5m]

Quantum entanglement for sure 100000000000%

[@zantas-handle]

Yes! Genuine question: at the risk of sounding crazy, I know my pc can hear me, and that phones are used for listening, but is anybody else experiencing adverts or feeds that are targeted on topics you've THOUGHT about, but never spoken about? How does that work exactly? Is there a 'logical extrapolation algorithm' that's 'guessing' what else I'm interested in???

[@elitad73]

​@@zantas-handle I thought I was crazy cause I spend literally all day on youtube and sometimes i THINK "oh I remember X video I would like to watch it again" and then it comes on my feed, coincidences are crazy but its kinda scary

[@lnunn2273]

@@zantas-handle This has definitely happened to me!

[@vhayashi7369]

Yep with the smart dust

[@justinmac316]

It's not just the tracking/monitoring that's scary, its the information it gathers about you and your friends/family to better manipulate you into total silent compliance

[@andrewfreakingjohnson]

Amazing video. Made me nauseous how deep this the surveillance has become under the guise of “better photos and videos” which is something I was a complete sucker for. Thank you for sharing this information!

[@deltasquared7777]

"2024" is nothing more than "1984" fully updated with all the new bells and whistles.

[@BadMannerKorea]

They’re nothing alike. You obviously haven’t read the book lmao.

[@98of99]

This is true for all devices including cars, computers, and services.

[@ncbluegrassevents1984]

Was telling my mom we feed the dogs tomatoes and they poop out tomato seeds. We have at least 10 tomato plants and two watermelon plants in the yard. About a day later a youtube short showed me a new island the scientists were studying and he pooped on the island and a tomato plant came up. Must have scoured the internet over to find that to show me.

[@johnika20091]

That's crazy 😅

[@wanderinghome9979]

Sheesh….maybe six years ago now, I sat on my back porch and discussed homeopathy with a friend, then afterward discussed masturbation/teen boys with my husband. My KZbin app within the hour suggested a video about using homeopathy to treat masturbation issues. Absolutely they are listening and the capability has been there longer than we think.

[@shirlspark_stardust]

lol smart devices listiening

[@JadedWings1]

When iPhones 1st came out I had one. After 6 months, I was telling people that the phones were listening. Everyone called me crazy. The phones have been doing this the whole time.

[@meloriginals7739]

Black mirror

[@cousin_JACK]

Yes. I have noticed my iPhone having the green dot at times. It must trigger when I speak loudly or say certain words. I have started leaving in another room when I’m not using it. Not cool.

[@GermanicDottir]

Sir, you are a patriot, and I thank you. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@markhammond2859]

He’s from Suriname

[@TheConspiracyTherapist805]

​@@markhammond2859that doesn't mean that he can't be a Patriot!

[@maureenjossick429]

@@TheConspiracyTherapist805how? ALL PHONES allow this? Samsung, GOOGLE, etc..And so does EVERY PERSON who agrees to use the SOCIAL PLATFORMS THAT MONITOR US, you agree to let them use your camera, your microphone, all that. And it’s the APP that asks for it- NOT the phone itself. This happens Through ALL phones.. this guy is an apple hater to the CORE!! 😂

[@the7thbetrayerlol855]

even your PC's are listening i've had verbal conversations without text or google searches and still get targeted ad's

[@jolovesminnis]

Yep! Me too!

[@anthonylopez9900]

Me too!

[@iRelevant.47.system.boycott]

When the mic inn connector disappeared ... it was a bad sign.

[@kurtisstutzman7056]

Smart TVs too...!!!

[@joemamr710]

If you knew how ad tracking and data profiling worked, ad well as selection bias, instead of just going down the conspiracy path, you’d be able to stop this from happening.

[@patriautic9308]

Client side AI can monitor facial micro expressions while you watch content, such as political speech and official announcements from the CCP. If you show displeasure, the AI could flag you for the police to provide human surveillance of your activities. Scary times.

[@VariantAEC]

Thanks for giving them more ideas, I'm fairly certain Apple isn't smart enough to figure that out on their own... but now they have something else to consider.

[@iRelevant.47.system.boycott]

@@VariantAEC I believe they've read 1984 ... time to start smiling and clapping hysterically at the state of the union transmissions.

[@marklane870]

Hilarious 😂

[@ExploreOhioWilderness]

I lay my phone flat when watching videos or shopping so the screen isn’t able to see me, and for calls I use the speaker as I tilt the phone away from me😏

[@MxVerdaArt]

@@ExploreOhioWilderness literally a little flap of paper with tape will help

[@novus6625]

I SWEAR HES A SCOTTY KILMER OF PHONES😂

[@JackBWatkins]

I ordered Biscuits and gravy for breakfast one morning. Hadn’t had it in years so not something I say often. Then I opened KZbin on my iPhone 13 and the first video was about a guy from the UK making jokes about what Americans eat for breakfast. The title was something like, I had never heard of biscuits and gravy.

[@NewageM4214]

Yup , just a bunch of teenagers hanging out without a phone in sight. Didn’t even think there was a need for having a phone or screen to stare at content or anything to entertain you. You were fine with creating the content of your life “in the moment” with others. And didn’t feel the need to video tape it, edit it or post it anywhere. That stuff didn’t exist. You just felt the need to take a regular camera photo from time to time when a moment you were creating felt so special that you wanted to capture it and save it in a still or print form. Home movies felt so special back then too. Now everything is captured.

[@benayers8622]

I member

[@florianf1257]

You almost had me scared about owning an iphone 16, but then I realized you’re selling your own product. Not too worried anymore … 😂

[@tsensuke5259]

He can sell anything he wants. The point is, is your iPhone spying on you? Yes, big time.

[@jacemiddleton3053]

I don’t know anything about tech but thank you for speaking on the dangers of protecting our information. I’ve always felt it was shady how everything was tracked.

[@TalmudElite]

What is the alternative. Give actionable steps on what we can actually do, and affordable solutions.

[@Garek_George]

Buy his stuff from his website, apparently 😬🤷🏽‍♂️

[@2R1ch4u]

Nothing. Technology is trackable

[@grantaum9677]

He does have many videos going into detail

[@aims__8785]

-Buy a used google pixel, whichever one suits your budget. I suggest getting as recent as possible since they will be supported with security updates for longer (Max 7 years) -Install graph/ene os following the very easy to follow installion guide on their website. It's so simple my grandma could probably do it

[@paulhafner9781]

How about the Tesla Pi?

[@clacal2005]

I was going to make a comment, but my ipad already knows thanks to my iphone mirroring and therefore, has communicated my thoughts to your devices.

[@joshuain2771]

Rob thank you for sharing your knowledge!