The phone that owns you — as Rabbi Landau teaches it

By Rabbi Shalom Landau.

Rabbi Landau teaches that you paid for the phone, and it can still feel as if it owns you: opened for one thing, and twenty minutes later everything except that thing has been done. Rabbi Landau teaches that the phone asks permission for the camera, the microphone and the location, and asks when you gave it permission to use you. A person without self-restraint, in the verse he quotes, is a city without a wall. The phone has a password. The question is what protects you.