Smartphones, Privacy and Control: The Questionable ‘Smartness’ Of Contemporary Privacy-Related Legal(In)Distinctions

Smartphones are nowadays one of the most popular 'smart technologies', whatever these might be. They are at least one of the most ordinary objects the name of which starts with the world 'smart', whatever this might mean. Often perceived as the paradigmatic was to access to and participate in social networks like Facebook and platforms such as a Twitter, smartphones are not just increasingly globally widespread. They are also commonly portrayed as subject to frictions between individuals and the State, as well as with private companies - or even as playing an active role in such contentions.