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Israeli Companies in particular are hell bent on acquiring ‘big data’ on the populations of western nations.


I’ve long suspected this as the Facebook app in particular causes the phone to get hot around where the main camera module ic is located. It is also a battery drain. They appear to be doing this in collaboration with Apple as the battery usage for the camera does not increase despite the camera constantly being initiated while using the Facebook app. I’ve also noticed that when certain ad platforms inject their code into Safari taboola/outbrain the same heating occurs. This would make sense as taboola and outbrain appear to be linked to Israeli intelligence. I guess they not only don’t care about our privacy they also don’t care about our battery life / health of our devices either. It sort of reminds me of how windows would spin up your HDD In the middle of the night and scan through your entire hard drive causing it to prematurely fail. All under the guise of windows update or whatever the cover was for what I consider criminal damage.


Or maybe the main processor is near the camera? It’s not a conspiracy.


I’ve long suspected this as the Facebook app in particular causes the phone to get hot around where the main camera module ic is located. It is also a battery drain. They appear to be doing this in collaboration with Apple as the battery usage for the camera does not increase despite the camera constantly being initiated while using the Facebook app.

I’ve also noticed that when certain ad platforms inject their code into Safari taboola/outbrain the same heating occurs. This would make sense as taboola and outbrain appear to be linked to Israeli intelligence.

I guess they not only don’t care about our privacy they also don’t care about our battery life / health of our devices either.

It sort of reminds me of how windows would spin up your HDD In the middle of the night and scan through your entire hard drive causing it to prematurely fail. All under the guise of windows update or whatever the cover was for what I consider criminal damage.


> They appear to be doing this in collaboration with Apple as the battery usage for the camera does not increase despite the camera constantly being initiated while using the Facebook app.

I’m sure any battery usage from this would just be listed under Facebook.


Right, battery usage is reported by app not by hardware function. It seems unlikely Apple would be willfully letting Facebook have special capabilities.


Not too long ago, the idea of the NSA & GCHQ working together to silently strong-arm tech giants to spy on their own citizens/customers was a laughable conspiracy theory.

Then we learned about PRISM. Hard proof that Apple, Facebook, Google, and the NSA secretly collaborate to mass-collect data on US citizens. It's 100% reasonable (and perhaps in our best interest) to assume any large tech company will and does cater to the NSA/CIA/GCHQ/Mossad's interests before their customers' - or even their shareholders'. Revenue and market share are important, but a powerful agency threatening your company takes priority over anything.

Until proven innocent, we should assume that any and every large tech-centric corporation either has been or can be forced to cooperate with PRISM. IMHO now that the public has access to the Snowden leaks and Vault 7, it is irresponsible (and perhaps dangerous) to think otherwise.


Yes, all that is true, and why I used the word "willful" in my comment.


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