While You Watch Your Smartphone, It Watches You Back

Are you paying attention?

The truth about biometric backdoor features.
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Just a decade ago, the notion that your smartphone was watching and listening to you was dismissed as a ‘crazy conspiracy theory’. Today, hidden features in these devices openly monitor your face while you scroll, and listen to your conversations for ‘targeted advertising’.

How did the military-industrial-complex manage to make society put themselves under surveillance voluntarily? To what extent are your personal details being catalogued in databases?

In this video, Ethan takes a look at the rise of ‘Attention Aware’ smartphone features, including invisible infrared dots scanning your face and creating 3D ‘depth maps’, the companies behind the technology, the history of government agencies and device infiltration, how gadgets are monitoring audio as well, the ‘driver assist’ push in vehicles, surveillance by stealth, and more.

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Much like we have witnessed with the diamond industry, luxury clothing brands, pop culture trends, and more – the very nature of ‘value’ itself is a mass illusion, with the perceptions of millions shaped by a select few to keep the consumer hamster wheel turning.

In this video, Ethan takes a look at The Value Hoax, including PSA controversies and consumer backlash, Logan Paul and the inflation of ‘worth’, centralised management authorities and determination of quality, how ‘meaning’ is different to each person, Baudrillardian value systems, and more.

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