Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm
This seems like much bigger news than it&#x27;s being received as.  Sure, other chip makers do sketchy things, but is that really where we&#x27;re at in 2023?  We&#x27;re so beaten down by proprietary user-disrespecting hardware&#x2F;software that we just shrug it off?<p>&lt;rant because I hoped for more outrage on this and am not seeing it&gt;<p>This makes me mad.  I&#x27;m so sick of this type of thing.  It&#x27;s a horrible time too because the embedded 5G chips are about to be part of <i>everything</i>, sending telemetry back about where they are and what they&#x27;re being used for.  I think it&#x27;s utterly ridiculous that if you aren&#x27;t ok with this type of thing, then you have to go way out of the mainstream to find products, and often there&#x27;s no viable option.  &quot;Ownership&quot; now means nothing.<p>Imagine if you bought a car from somebody, and they secretly kept a spare key and periodically used your car to run their personal errand.  Would you be ok with that so long as they always had it back before you needed it so you never knew they were doing it?<p>That&#x27;s what is happening when you &quot;buy&quot; a device and the device maker uses it to run code that serves only themselves (without receiving permission), to the detriment of your privacy.  I can only hope RISC-V combined with people willing to care can lead to a return to a time when people actually <i>own</i> stuff and ownership is something we respect.<p>&lt;&#x2F;rant&gt;