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In their beginning, Uber was a special purpose vehicle for Big Tech (=their investors) to perform political changes in all kinds of foreign countries, making them compliant, using methods that the others couldn't use openly.

Could you talk more about this / link things to read about it?

I think that other comment was sarcasm

At this point we just need a large compiled list of every instance of it. There's so much that I can't think of an example right away.

It's all EM, but you're thinking along the right lines

I think the term you want is "non ionizing" radiation

Yup

People said it in the other threads, but this is just boring regulatory processes at work. It's just a story because popscience type outlets ran with the word radiation

Garmin devices are generally better, and some of them have features to keep data locally only. There's also an open source program that you can get to handle data from various smart devices, which might work if you keep yours or go with a different brand. I haven't tried the program and don't remember what it's called, but someone will probably chime in with it.

The Garmin devices are pretty solid as well. I got a mid range one that does all the health stuff I was looking for.

Also this is a nice starting point when exploring privacy respecting products in some category

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/

Not just on Lemmy, it's everywhere

I think it's partially because of how much content they put out. If you look up something, chances are they'll have an article for it. They're also super active on social media & YouTube, so it's just everywhere.

So then people see it more often and it gets posted on here more often

also https://lemmyverse.net/communities

I take it so often that I can't think of anything.

There is usually a door I enter by and a seat that I go for. We also thank the bus driver when we get off from the front doors, but that's something everyone does.

What do you do?

I had a google thing which I used as a speaker for a bit. If it has Bluetooth, you could just not let it connect to the internet? As an assistant I found it useless, even without privacy concerns, but as a speaker it was alright.

It's nice that you are trying to find a use for it though! Hopefully it works out long term and you could talk about it the privacy stuff before you get a Facebook Portal next

Ah ok that makes sense, that's what I was wondering in another thread. If a phone COULD output a dangerous level of EMR.

Can you provide me with articles about that?

I was referring to the stuff you described, just didn't know the specifics. Edited my comment to stress that

I feel like the limit itself COULD be reasonable (there's more to the potential harms than ionizing radiation /cancer), but popscience news sites are going to make misleading headlines anyways