I think the #1 dark pattern is how cell phone makers collude with app makers to opportunistically and illegally turn the expensive devices that WE PAY FOR into bugs & telemetric devices that listen to all of our conversations and then privately snitch on us and sell that information to private companies and even individuals for all we know. These devices we buy log our conversations all day long secretly and turn them into text that can persist forever.
As phones are used in almost every aspect of our lives now, the very devices we use (even our cars) are listening to our most private conversations and leaking them to companies with the sole interest of engineering our money out of our pockets faster. It also empowers CEOs and mega-company insiders to run espionage on and leverage anyone they want in the world, as everyone, even government officials and agents use cell phones.
It's completely contradictory to every aspect of law and democracy, as well as creating a loophole that invalidates privacy and individual rights against self incrimination, and it's only going to get covertly worse moving forward unless it's totally banned with sever criminal consequences as a practice. This data can also be tapped into by any interest through data hacking, or if one can pay for the info, as it's logged across everything from the car you drive to every app you use (especially when TFA is involved).
As phones are used in almost every aspect of our lives now, the very devices we use (even our cars) are listening to our most private conversations and leaking them to companies with the sole interest of engineering our money out of our pockets faster. It also empowers CEOs and mega-company insiders to run espionage on and leverage anyone they want in the world, as everyone, even government officials and agents use cell phones.
It's completely contradictory to every aspect of law and democracy, as well as creating a loophole that invalidates privacy and individual rights against self incrimination, and it's only going to get covertly worse moving forward unless it's totally banned with sever criminal consequences as a practice. This data can also be tapped into by any interest through data hacking, or if one can pay for the info, as it's logged across everything from the car you drive to every app you use (especially when TFA is involved).