Recently, the Singapore govt used the TraceTogether data from the COVID tracing app to assist in solving a criminal case.
And suddenly, everyone was concerned about the govt “spying” on them. Many posts were written on both sides – for and against. Personally I don’t see what the issue is – the govt used it to bring a criminal to justice, not like it’s using that data to see what you have been up to. Besides, the amount of info that effort gathered is so minimal – GPS location, time, and other device IDs that your device was less than 10m to (Bluetooth tech).
What people don’t realise is that they are leaking much more data to the Internet than they know. Posting a pic on Instagram, tagging your friends, and geo-tagging it (or tagging a restaurant/resort etc), immediately exposes more info to Instagram (which is a private company, not govt) and you have zero control how they use that info. Since Instagram is owned by Facebook, you know they’ll use it for ads and other “personalization” uses.
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Jays A-Six Earbuds review (cuz my jaybird X4 died)
My Jaybirds would no longer charge – red light doesn’t come on. Changing cables, using wall charger etc did not help. They just would NOT CHARGE.
Sigh, for the price I paid for the Jaybird X4s, one would have thought the customer service would be better. But no, whenever you write to them for assistance, all you get is a canned response, and it’s exactly the same regardless of who replied. It’s like they have this template reply on a corporate server somewhere and every customer service rep just copy/paste it to every incoming ticket. Even if the issue reported has NOTHING to do with the instructions sent in the reply to you.
Once bitten, twice shy as they say. I will no longer purchase anymore Jaybirds (or Logitechs, but that is another story). I had thought that by paying a premium price, I might actually get a quality product, and if I encountered problems, a decent customer service would be available to assist.
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Here I am again, writing a review for a pair of no-brand, China-made, Bluetooth “True Wireless” earbuds.
Wireless earbuds got popular in part due to Apple – they removed the 3.5mm jack on their iPhones, so the only way the users could listen to music or enjoy movies was to use Bluetooth earphones.
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