It would probably make you a lot less itchy than a bar of soap, too.

Did my elderly mother suddenly find her way onto the fediverse? She used to say shit like this when I was a toddler.

But what about a car? Cars are as smart as smartphones now, and you certainly wouldn’t notice the small amount of power needed to collect and transfer data compared to driving the car. Some car manufacturer TOS agreements seemingly admit that they collect and use your in-car conversations (including any passengers, which they claim is your duty to inform them they are being recorded). Almost all the manufacturers are equally bad for privacy and data collection.

Mozilla details what data each car collects here.

It’s a little harder to lug around millions in cash without anyone noticing.

Not all secret transactions are illegal, but the people who are doing illegal transactions will do anything they can to keep them secret.