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Wow that's wild, how does my SIM card allow my carrier to do whatever they want to my phone?
On the face of it, that sounds like a gigantic breach of privacy. Can they look at my photos, capture my screen, read my stored app data, intercept outbound Internet traffic before it's encrypted, etc? That's wild.
Not to mention that I bought my phone separately, so it's got nothing to do with them. As one might imagine, I only added a SIM in order to receive traditional telephone calls, it's not otherwise useful to me.
Oh how fun is that the definition of "phone" has changed.
This is all speculation on my side but it can't look into your files or anything. What we call a smartphone today is actually a combination of a very powerful computer and a telephone in the same chassis. The SIM card can do a lot in the phone part of your smartphone: send/receive/process messages, calls, track your location etc. not open and see through your camera though.