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The (dumb=calls and txts) phone is OK and I had a laptop so I was all modern until my son told me off and said I was using a drug dealers phone.
He gave me an older iphone and told me I now had my laptop in my pocket. He was right. The smart phone is a boon for being part of the modern age...just remember that it is the operator that is in control of the phone and you should be OK.

Correct up to a point John. I have to ask though - why do you actually need a laptop in your pocket? Unfortunately large swathes of the population are not in control of the phone, it controls them with their addiction to looking at it every few minutes to the exclusion of everything around them.

What you also have in your pocket is a machine which tracks your every movement. People are sleepwalking into the world of Big Brother with their reliance on smartphones whose apps track them 24/7. Mass surveillance is exactly what Google, Facebook etc are engaged in.

At present, in Western democratic societies at least, the information is mainly being used for commercial purposes but this may not always be the case and is already being used by less benign governments to spy on their populations.

Still, if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear!