Irish Examiner view: Politicians must be held accountable

Retaining phone records

Violent insurrectionists, loyal to then president Donald Trump, storm the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021. Picture: John Minchillo/AP

We have all had that feeling from time to time. The sense that a phone, once presented to us as a great and liberating time-saver, can be more foe than friend. Inconveniently going missing just when we need it, inducing the panic state of nomophobia; irritatingly interrupting us just when we are enjoying a little bit of me time. 

And tracking us, and all our actions and interactions, just when it might be more convenient to be off-grid.