Phone’s dark secret – IT expert warns of smartphones posing hidden surveillance risks

Phone’s dark secret – IT expert warns of smartphones posing hidden surveillance risks

AN IT professional with more than 13 years of experience has posed a serious question about whether our smartphones are spying on us even when they’re switched off. In an interview in Lautoka yesterday, Mohammed Nafeez said smartphones had become an inseparable part of our lives, but with convenience came a darker side that many users rarely consider. “The inbuilt batteries in modern devices, once hailed as an innovation, now raise growing conce…