ID cards and migrant motivations

[Gfamily]

We seem to be arriving in a condition where it close to compulsory to own a smartphone of recent operating system.

A nephew of mine is a musician in the army. He was reprimanded recently for being late. Apparently event notices were sent out via WhatsApp and he doesn’t have a smartphone.

Of course, smartphones can leak data - including militarily sensitive data

[Grumble]

We seem to be arriving in a condition where it close to compulsory to own a smartphone of recent operating system.

A nephew of mine is a musician in the army. He was reprimanded recently for being late. Apparently event notices were sent out via WhatsApp and he doesn’t have a smartphone.

Of course, smartphones can leak data - including militarily sensitive data

And when it’s compulsory for soldiers to have a smartphone you can see why

[shpalman]

We seem to be arriving in a condition where it close to compulsory to own a smartphone of recent operating system.

A nephew of mine is a musician in the army. He was reprimanded recently for being late. Apparently event notices were sent out via WhatsApp and he doesn’t have a smartphone.

Of course, smartphones can leak data - including militarily sensitive data

That's not "leaking" data that's people enabling the location sharing feature when they shouldn't.

[nekomatic]

The history of preventing things from going wrong by saying ‘well people must just not do the wrong thing then’ is not a particularly distinguished one.

[jimbob]

A nephew of mine is a musician in the army. He was reprimanded recently for being late. Apparently event notices were sent out via WhatsApp and he doesn’t have a smartphone.

Of course, smartphones can leak data - including militarily sensitive data

That's not "leaking" data that's people enabling the location sharing feature when they shouldn't.

True, but they are also leaking data. In multiple ways. Some by poor security by users, some inherent to their functioning (eg which cellphone tower they are connected to - as has happened in Ukraine)