Thanks for the deep dive. It's interesting and scary. Information is power however and I am better off after reading this. I assumed for a long time that these people had backdoors into everything. I shared on the other entry earlier that all of this stuff is simply just the hand-me-downs of the military industrial complex. Stuff like this they perfect it to a point where they can take full advantage of it and then release it to the public and watch as the data they want rolls right in. It's a sad reality where these backdoors exist but also that people willingly let these things happen. For example, you download an app and it asks you for permission to see your contacts, your photos and other personal data on your phone such as what Fakebook requests. I did at one point, accept it without even giving it a second thought! I have since deleted my Fakebook app and account but so many people just give them all the access they want without having a second thought. Then the complaining years later when they are told that they sell all of their information as if that was something you couldn't figure out with a little bit of critical thinking.

Keep up the dives! I enjoy reading them.