Questions tagged [phone]
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Does the "right to repair" law in the U.S., when that applies to smartphones, allow rooting the phone?
Sometimes the pre-installed software conflicts with one or more apps I've installed and use. To fix the situation, the pre-installed software (bloatware) needs to be disabled or uninstalled. ...
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Is using a mobile phone illegal on a train in Ireland?
I read on https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1984/si/109/made/en/print:
(1) No person while upon the railway or in any vehicle shall to the annoyance of any other person or if requested not to do so ...
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Is it possible to legally sell a second hand android phone when the source code is unavailable?
Suppose I purchased a Vertu mobile phone prior to 2017. Also suppose (as I would expect to be the case) at that point I revived an offer to download from their web site the source code for the ...
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Is it criminal to quit making payments telling the other person you will not pay for the rest? [closed]
I sold a phone to someone with a contract. They missed a payment and ignored my every attempt to work something out. Discussed anything with me except the phone contract. They shorted the payment the ...
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My daughter lives with my ex, I bought her a phone and her dad takes it [closed]
My daughter lives with her dad. I bought her a cell phone he goes through it, goes through her messages. Ect. I have an iPhone I can see what she does what time it gets turned off ect. I can also see ...
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What exactly is the law about a mobile phone on one's lap while driving?
It is in the news that new speed cameras are able to use "AI" to see inside cars and:
clampdown on motorists “distracted” by their phones even if they have them on their lap while at the ...
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Is it legal to remove the SIM from your car?
There is a youtube video about data collection by cars. They suggest the solution of removing the SIM card from your car. They address some technical problems, such as getting access to the SIM card,...
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Are there continent wide standards for what constitutes a hand free phone wrt driving?
There is an article about an irrelevant celebrity arrest. It ends with this anecdote:
a resident recalled his run-in with the cop when he was talking on the speaker while driving. The Sag Harbor [...
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Is smart watch illegal while in control of the vehicle?
From the gov.uk website:
It’s illegal to hold and use a phone, sat nav, tablet, or any device
that can send or receive data, while driving or riding a motorcycle.
A smartwatch can send or receive ...
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GDPR, online shopping and phone numbers for shipping - Is it legal?
Many webshops expect the phone number to be entered for shipping. My understanding of the GDPR is that you are not even allowed to ask information which is not absolutely needed for the given task. ...
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Is phone number required for providing phone warranties in Australia?
When buying a phone in retail store, they ask for my phone number so that they can "provide phone warranties". Is this an excuse to obtain my phone number for marketing purposes? Is it ...
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In India, what phone location tracking may or must network providers do to aid police?
For android phones in India-
1). suppose if a phone was moving around within few miles radious for few days and it was turned on several times in that duration. But now the phone is turned off ...
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Interpretation of EU roaming obligations for non-EU states
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While travelling, I entered Andorra (not a member of the EU) and stayed there for 2 days. I was unaware that Andorra was not included in the list of countries in which EU-roaming is free. (...
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Would it be legal to erase, disable, or destroy your phone when a CBP agent attempted to seize it?
If a Customs and Border Protection agent demanded that I give him my phone while I (a US citizen) was re-entering the US, would it be legal for me to activate some kind of "panic button" ...
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Is blocking third-party phone numbers GDPR-compliant?
To be compliant with GDPR you have to process phone numbers as personal data.
Suppose there is a service which users can subscribe to in order to block calls from numbers which the users nominate. The ...