Almost all of these require some sort of hardware in your head, and the other are just suggestions to get you to do something. I don't see where the technology comes in.
How do you know your own brain isnt already implanted/bugged with these devices? If they can sneak these devices into the phones, sneaking them literally inside of you should be a cake-walk.
Yes and no. I feel the need to point out an underappreciated point that I often like to sound out to people, when it comes to topics around covert medical tech; sure, our food and potable water may be drugged and contaminated, but physiologically speaking, there is so much more limitation to a route of administration confined to the normal oral and gastric tract. People fail to fully appreciate the weight of vulnerability and consequence it is to let someone or some authority have any kind of parenteral access: that is, by injection. There is so much in one's body that simply cannot be impacted due to the simple, slow, ruminating armor of the natural mouth to gut path. Introducing a needle to muscle, vein, fat, or even cortex, by the understandable violation of the natural order of the body that it is, dramatically changes the impact of even the same substance, and facilitates a much wider breadth of a substance's scope or life, changing the entire color of its impact on the body, going from cure to poison. This feels relevant to mention in part because of the discourse around the COVID mRNA shots.
Also, no, unless someone goes under general anaesthesia for a complex brain surgery operation and / or has a needle driven through their skull (where even water, when injected "intra-cerebrally" goes from an needful substance to a deadly one) doesn't sound like "a cake walk" compared to sneaking them into someone's voluntary worn, socially-coerced, state-endorsed eye-of-Horus style tracking device and scrying mirror, the oracle of our secrets that is Silicon Valley, and the map of every smallest, unuttered human desire
saecula et saeculum, amassed in what constitutes the cubit-stone beginnings of a truly anti-human project that we endure today -- to untangle one single code, cipher and atlas of
Desire reducible and graspable and steerable in every human, echoing its own name in the dizzy whirl of in our Panopticon, Babel of our time. To live in a swarm of eyes surely leaves its marks on one's face.
I *think* the disconnect here is that there are some technical people, who know in detail how these apps work. There are some other people who are not as familiar with the technical aspects, but have a vague feeling that something is wrong.
Something might be wrong, but it's not what you think. It's not that the big tech companies are super villains listening in on you. The effect of these algorithms is greatly exaggerated.
This is a profoundly ridiculous thing to say. How old were you if you were an American citizen during the PRISM disclosures and what can you recall running through your mind and through the lips around you in the world when it happened?