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How are the CAT feature phones privacy-wise (Cat B40)? (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by LtLiana@startrek.website to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hey there,

I am thinking about buying the Cat B40 feature phone.

My gut feeling tells me that since it does not run either iOS or Android, is a relatively small company in the data/tech sector, and generally it's literally just a feature phone with barely any... well, features, let alone any that would make my data valuable, it should not be profitable for anyone to harvest any data or spy on me. But I realize that's prejudice and I have nothing to back that gut feeling up, and hell, they could still track my location or whatever.

I can find no real information on which operating system runs on the thing, let alone what it can or cannot do software-wise. Does anyone have any information on that thing?

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[–] mahony@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Its a dumb phone, you insert a sim card and thats it. The telco will know where you are based on the sim connection to towers (as with any other phones) and all calls and texts are stored, but other than than you dont have to worry about anything else. I suppose you dont have to login to some account to make it work therefore even if it harvests any data, it does not know who it belongs to (no add ID) so not saleable. Its pretty easy, no real identity (through email, account, etc) attached to it = private.