We all willingly walk around with locating trackers, spending trackers, banking trackers, mail, phone, and messaging trackers, and pay a company for the privelidge of being spied on and hacked in every aspect of our lives.
I don’t disagree. Have a flip.
There was a time when people lived in small communities and the chief source of entertainment was keeping track of the other members of the community. In a way, we have made a full circle.
Not sure where I read the quote, but here it is ...
The biggest question that individuals will have to answer in the the next few years is "How much of my independence and freedom am I willing to give up for the convenience these devices offer?"
With ior without a device, you are already being tracked virtually everywhere you go. Look up and smile for the surveillance camera. Pay in cash? Doesn’t matter. Virtually every point of sale in America is now being recorded.
Amen. Agree 100%. That’s why I work to be a non-tracked person.
Of course it’s impossible to stop all tracking but you can stop a large percentage of it if you’re willing to give up the latest and greatest and do some things the old fashioned way.
I was in a fast food place recently and the person in front of me paid for lunch simply by holding an Apple watch up near the cash register. As I pulled the non-trackable cash from my pocket to pay for my lunch I thought: How silly was that? Pay with your watch and hundreds, if not more, of companies now know what you had for lunch, where and when you had lunch and how much it cost.
Sorry, not for me.