Flashlight on our phones?

Diggin-N-Dumps

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haha..Just another great scare tactic. He mentions " Kids can download apps, then predators will know where they live"...uh yea..so can a guy driving around a van.
 

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I believe it! Worked for a bigger company and would go into the tech room from time to time. I got to see all the things that were done with company phones, emails,tablets... So, sure! Why? couldn't or wouldn't be done on a much bigger scale. I know for a fact that company can turn cameras on, mics on, and could operate that phone or tablet from that department. Creepy stuff!

Oh, I dont doubt its real, I just think that people would get bored after about 30 minutes of the dumb shiii i talk about..lol
 

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I agree! With that...I'm sure I can see what my neighbors are doing if I worked at it hard enough! I really don't have the patients for all that! lol

Just like you said they aren't stealing the info to drive around and take the average person's kids!

I do believe they might be compiling info though.
Even though I saw what they could do at that company, I'm still using one of their phones since I do work for them from time to time. They had over 1200 company phones and prob just as many tablets. So those 4 guys sitting in that room would have to be really bored to watch all of them!

I could see where if some weirdo was obsessed with a neighbor or so, it could be kinda creepy...So on another note...How I can check out my neighbors? :occasion14: Mine are 2 college girls
 

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So my flashlight app was over 3mb :icon_scratch: thats gone now lol
 

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I deleted mine this AM. I am thinking about wiping the phone and trying again.

Mine said it could take pictures and video without my permission, acess my contacts and connect at will to the Internet!!!! ???

I must have been barracho when I okayed any of that!
 

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My 'fancy' phone has about three features. I can use it to make phone calls, people can call me, people can text me, and I can text them. That's all. I even tried to get the texting function disabled, but the company said it was necessary to notify me when my card needed renewing. No camera, almost no anything else. lol It's only on when I leave the house. I use probably around 10 to 20 minutes a month.
 

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My 'fancy' phone has about three features. I can use it to make phone calls, people can call me, people can text me, and I can text them. That's all. I even tried to get the texting function disabled, but the company said it was necessary to notify me when my card needed renewing. No camera, almost no anything else. lol It's only on when I leave the house. I use probably around 10 to 20 minutes a month.

Thats what I use to have for a phone,but,it took a fall and splattered all over the pavement:laughing9:I went to the store to buy a new one but they were out of them.I ended up having to get a LG g3 for 15 bucks.
 

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Thats what I use to have for a phone,but,it took a fall and splattered all over the pavement:laughing9:I went to the store to buy a new one but they were out of them.I ended up having to get a LG g3 for 15 bucks.

I set my LG Verizon phone on my cars trunk or roof-top about 3 months ago. Got about 6 miles down the road and DUH...!!!!! ENTERED my mind!!!!! I tore up my ridge top road looking for it (7/10's mile) before the main road and I never found it.

Waited 3 days looking and hoping. Checked my account and NO CALLS WERE MADE. Finally went in to cancel and get a new one. I asked for a replacement phone JUST LIKE THE ONE I HAD... The rep said they may "have one". Well, they had one "close" and it cost me $1.00. But I've now learned to "hard-copy" all my contacts. I lost so many and wish I had them back.

HARD COPY YOUR IMORTANT CONTACTS.... or don't *****....!!!!
 

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I set my LG Verizon phone on my cars trunk or roof-top about 3 months ago. Got about 6 miles down the road and DUH...!!!!! ENTERED my mind!!!!! I tore up my ridge top road looking for it (7/10's mile) before the main road and I never found it.

Waited 3 days looking and hoping. Checked my account and NO CALLS WERE MADE. Finally went in to cancel and get a new one. I asked for a replacement phone JUST LIKE THE ONE I HAD... The rep said they may "have one". Well, they had one "close" and it cost me $1.00. But I've now learned to "hard-copy" all my contacts. I lost so many and wish I had them back.

HARD COPY YOUR IMORTANT CONTACTS.... or don't *****....!!!

Always do,on a slip of paper in my wallet:laughing9:
 

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