Rex Lee revealed the truth about spying by smartphones

In this special episode, The Epoch Times (https://bit.ly/3SPU8Jc)
Tiffany Meier sat down with Rex M. Lee, cybersecurity adviser
at My Smart Privacy. He helps shed light on China's cyberattacks
on America, how they affect us in our daily lives, and what can
be done to stop them.
Lee notes one way adversarial countries can get in is through
invasive apps:
"You have to look at an app as legal malware. And that's the best
way you can describe apps today. An app-whether it's a social media
app developed by Bytedance, such as TikTok, or Facebook, or
Instagram-any of these apps, they are basically legal malware that
enable the developer to monitor, track, and data mine the end user
for financial gain 24 by seven, 365 days a year.
"A single intrusive app enables the developer to collect over 5,000
highly confidential data points associated with the end user's
personal information, business information, medical information,
legal information, and employment information because the
surveillance and data mining done by these companies is
indiscriminate, meaning that they're not only collecting consumer
information, they're collecting every bit of information from the
end user, including text messages, email, email attachments,
calendar events, and so forth," he added.
As to just how invasive these are, Lee said:
"What an app will do is it will interlink with all of the hardware
on the device and the sensors on the device, such as camera and
microphone, as well as sensors, such as the accelerometer. So they
can do audio, video and physical surveillance on you 24 hours, 365
days a year while collecting those 5,000 highly confidential data
points on the end user. What they're doing is they package that and
they monetize it. But also, as we're seeing in the news, is that these
tech companies are aligned with governments. So the information
a lot of times is ending up in the hands of the government."
Meier also sat down with Greg Copley, president of the International
Strategic Studies Association and author of "The New Total War."
He touches on the recent buzz over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip
to Taiwan and what that means for this November, both in terms of
our midterm elections and Chinese leader Xi Jinping seeking an
unprecedented third term.
Copley said:
"We're now getting a better idea as to how the People's Liberation
Army [PLA] would fight a war against Taiwan, if it came to that. And
if they in fact allowed the General Secretary Xi to make them go to
war on the Taiwan issue, Japan has made it clear, and it repeated
that declaration during Speaker Pelosi's visit, that Japan would
support Taiwan in the event of a military attack by the People's
Republic of China. Certainly, the U.S. will be drawn into it one way
or another. Yes, it would involve high risks and the potential for
many casualties. But it would also involve higher risks for the
People's Republic of China, not just in the direct conflict between
the PLA and the Republic of China armed forces and the United
States armed forces and the Japanese self-defense forces, but also
there are other forces who would become engaged automatically.
"That probably would include Australia, but it would certainly
include India, and the Indian factor is one which Beijing does not
wish to discuss openly. Even in the current war game posture against
Taiwan, the PLA started moving additional forces down into the
Tibetan plateau to be ready for an Indian response there. The Indian
response would be massive. India has a similar force capability in
many respects to the People's Republic of China, and could move
the entirety of its forces against the PRC, both on the Tibetan
plateau and in the Eurasian context, but also in the Indian Ocean
in a naval context," he added.
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