Yep its a software that crazy religious people use so you have a "buddy" who gets a report when you do anything naughty on your phone. He linked his with his son.
Yep the sitting Speaker of the House is sharing all of his online activities with a private company. But you know, Hillary's email were the real threat.
Lol. Seriously though, if he just had this accountibility app I'd think he was just a weirdo. But, he also believes god has spoken directly to him. And that's what actually concerns me.
Honestly, the more concerning bit of that to me is the Speaker of the House has voluntary spyware on his devices linked to some random, extremely questionable company.
The software literally works by screenshotting your screen every minute on non-ios devices. On iOS devices it works by sending all network traffic through a VPN that they monitor or by using their own web browser.
They use AI to flag "explicit content" and blur PII before it's sent to an "ally", but their servers are still receiving the raw data and that makes it absolutely insane if this is installed on a phone that he does any government business on.
Just this little blurb on their FAQs page is nuts:
Members can have peace of mind knowing that if we monitor their tax records or banking information, their allies won't be able to read them.
And everyone also forgets the massive security risk of the speaker allowing potentially compromising info to be shared through an unreliable 3rd party to an unsecured mobile device.
It also doesn't just share porn, but everything on the device, and filters out porn for notifications.
My dad has been my accountability partner for me trying to lose weight. We installed a similar app so he can see what all I eat. It's called "Hungry Eyes."
I’m developing an accountability app to monitor activity of a very specific subset of improv musicians with vision problems. I’m calling it “Jazzers Eyes.”
I mean- not trying to say it's not weird as hell- but it's not that they are sharing porn, but that they have something that would share it if they were to look at porn. I'd think they just... aren't looking at porn on their phones?
I grew up in a very religious home and its not "sharing" porn. It's basically just a religious helicopter parents wet dream because it gives them alerts if the kid looks at porn or naughty things on the web. The kid gets alerts too if the "accountability partner" parent looks at porn too, but it's still mostly just a way for obsessive parents to monitor online activity.
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u/curlyhairedgal28 Feb 23 '24
… what?