The liberated smartphone: how to have a more ethical use and avoid the trackers included in our applications?

2023-05-17 09:49:10

What are the smartphones and other web applications to respect more humans and the planet? What links are to be made today between smartphone and sustainable development? Olivier Meunier, aartist developer et digital art trainer and Erick Mascart ofEducode answer these questions in First Trends.

For the two specialists, in addition to more or less protected private data, our smartphone and its applications have a negative liability for ecology, societal impacts and the addiction that wreaks havoc with FOMO.

It is a reality, just consult Exodus Privacya French association that analyzes and demonstrates the trackers included in the applications. It basically works by giving our consent when we install an app that is otherwise designed to keep us around for as long as possible.“explain Olivier Meunier and Erick Mascart who specify: “These trackers want to know our location, our actions and gestures… Very interesting for commercial companies, banks, insurance companies. According to them, sensors in the smartphone detect our walking pace, our stops from which we can deduce our health or emotional state. Our intimate and personal life can be violated without our knowledge as shown by the Cambridge Analytica affair in which Facebook, following giving access to users’ private data, agreed to pay $725 million to end the lawsuit launched once morest him in 2018.

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