How to create a surveillance state

American Thinker ^ | 8 Feb, 2021 | Terry Paulding

[MtnClimber]

When we first got cameras on our smartphones or signed up for social media, none of us realized that they would come to control our lives.

In our technological age, we’ve all participated in creating our surveillance state, whether as enforcers or self-censoring victims. Thanks to the technology in our smartphones, each one of us has the capability to contribute, and many on the left seem to revel in the power.

The rest of us must weigh every action we take, every word we say. If we say or do the “wrong” thing, we may no longer have the right to earn a living. If our vigilant self-censorship fails, an idle thought crime might occur publicly. All it takes is a few ill-advised words or actions, caught on video, to ruin us. Censorship is swift, aggressive, and irrational, without regard to either facts or effects.

Here are some simple examples: A mellow country singer, Morgan Wallen, was summarily canceled from every aspect of his creative life (airplay, recording contracts, award shows, etc.) for having been overheard, in a private moment, and while seemingly inebriated, making a “racial slur,” using the “N-word.”

It was recorded because what isn’t these days? We’ve been taught by the tech giants that make it so convenient to be a de facto arm of their surveillance state. Not only was it recorded, but the person doing so made a conscious decision to post the video. Why?

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[MtnClimber]

And what can be done with the cell phone data mining information your cell phone collects such as what you and others say and that the phone collects or your GPS coordinates as you drive or walk with your phone. Remember the GPS data your phone collects is also how your maps app works.

[Travis McGee]

[Travis McGee]

About $10 a month, buying minutes only. Keep it off unless you need it for a road emergency. For greater security, keep it in a foil bag until you need to use it.

I refuse to carry a tracker/microphone.

[jimfr]

better yet, own only a landline

[eyeamok]

An Open Source Smart Phone Supported by All Major Linux Phone Projects

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

Mine will be here this week.

[heartwood]

Where is it built?

[maddog55]

How to create a surveillance state

We’re already there..

[Oorang]

That's the phone I've had for 20+ years. Land line at home, no cell service here - too rural. I'm retired so the minutes I have on the flip phone last forever. I do an annual plan that requires $100 balance on the phone at the time of renewal. Because I use it so seldom at last year's renewal they only charged me $12.00 - for the entire year. It's worth calling them to negotiate.

"Smart" phones have become so accepted that people think there is something wrong with you if you don't have one; that alone is disturbing to me. One relative offered me his old smart phone when he upgraded, I politely declined. Another relative refers to me as "the luddite" (I'm not).

[Uncle Miltie]

No fakebook for 2 years.

No twatter, instastupid, ever.

Never google.

Almost never youtube, except armament cleaning instruction while vpned from bulgaria.

All app rights turned down to a minimum.

Basically, this screen is an anonymous browser running from Albania this morning.

The fibbers could track me if they wanted to. But Bezos & Co. can’t, I don’t think.

[a fool in paradise]

As your email providers, social media providers, and phone providers have access to your communications and contacts lists (Instagram will snoop your contacts list and your phone texts) you have to realize that as Big Tech is building a virtual composite of what you look like they are also assembling a virtual profile of how you write and patterns of speech.

Anonymity on the web is going away.

[a fool in paradise]

>>And what can be done with the cell phone data mining information your cell phone collects such as what you and others say and that the phone collects or your GPS coordinates as you drive or walk with your phone. Remember the GPS data your phone collects is also how your maps app works.

China Lost Millions of Cell Phone Users in 2020: Official Data; Drop in users is unusual given that there is a greater, not lesser, need for cell phones.
Epoch Times ^ | 02/05/2021 | Nicole Hao
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3932110/posts

[MtnClimber]

Who knows what can be done remotely with cameras on cell phones or computers. My computer has tape over the lens. My cell phone sits face down with a piece of paper over the screen-side lens. What to do about the microphones? I am still thinking that over.

[a fool in paradise]

>>Who knows what can be done remotely with cameras on cell phones or computers. My computer has tape over the lens. M

Facebook accessed peoples’ cameras.

FACEBOOK APP SECRETLY ACCESSING PEOPLE’S CAMERA AS THEY READ NEWS FEED
Company claims strange behaviour is result of a bug, but there is an easy fix to stay safe
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-app-recording-camera-iphone-ios-news-feed-bug-update-fix-workaround-a9200696.html
13 November 2019

The bug first came to light after users noted that the app would occasionally shift the entire feed over to the right, as part of what appeared to be a bug. Underneath that main app a different screen could be seen – which showed video from the phone’s built-in camera.

[MtnClimber]

Many of the older flip phones don’t have GPS capability. To track those took the triangulation technique which is time consuming and requires a stationary target.