Posted on 04/07/2023 6:55:01 PM PDT by bitt
Very cool. Thanks.
“He figures the phone is listening in all the time.”
It is. My phone is not allowed in my office for that reason.
Have they have the technology where they can kill me with a death ray if I use the wrong pronoun or if I question the giant talking head?
Do they have the technology where they can kill me with a death ray if I use the wrong pronoun or if I question the giant talking head?
You hit upon a key point. You can go through all these time-consuming gyrations to make yourself un-trackable but you never really know how successful you are, as surveillance and facial recognition technology (outside your cellphone device) is so pervasive.
Take our nations highways for example. Tollbooths have come down because it is so easy for cameras to take high resolution photos of your car's license plate and also the drivers of each car and send you a toll bill (or charge it to your EZ Pass account). Even if you did not carry a cellphone during your travels, law enforcement can easily piece together where you are going based on that technology alone. Ditto for every city street and public place. Using facial recognition, they can search for your face and see exactly what time you stepped into that Dunkin Donuts and whether you drove or walked there.
If fact, you have to wonder if taking evasive techniques to avoid being tracked like changing settings on your cellphone, taking back roads everywhere and paying cash only actually draws more attention to yourself.
Think about every "manhunt" over the past 20 years. Law enforcement always catches up to the guy. You can try to hide in a swamp or forest but sooner or later, you will slip up and reveal yourself. Unless an alligator or bear gets you first.
It's rapidly becoming an Orwellian world. There is no place to hide.
Maybe there is another approach....Instead of avoiding Google how about a method for overloading them with crap. It would be like trying to eavesdrop with a microphone in a room with a radio on...everything will need encryption.
Wrote my post just just before your last before I read yours. Totally agree with you, but there is no reason to go willingly along with ‘them’ and not fight back. Not in my nature to accept concept that resistance is futile.
My history seems to be blank. After reading a similar article several (five?) years ago, I turned off tracking for my cellphone. As far as I can tell, there is no history of my movements. ‘Course, I’m old and don’t go far.
Good to know, but my point was that the ads started after a casual remark to my wife concerning them. I never thought much about Adirondack chairs nor particularly wanted one, and hadn’t searched for them online or anything like that.
If fact, you have to wonder if taking evasive techniques to avoid being tracked like changing settings on your cellphone, taking back roads everywhere and paying cash only actually draws more attention to yourself.
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No doubt it does but this is where the history of an individual becomes important. If over the course of say the past 20 years, the individual in question has made it a consistent and clear point that she/he is not in favor of the massive state surveillance that is now upon us (through LTTEs, emails to friends/family, contact with politicians and others about this matter, discussions on news forums etc.) then at least the behavior is consistent. Is the benefit of ‘going off grid’ worth the big negative of drawing such unwanted attention to oneself by potentially folks like law enforcement worth it.... folks who can then easily paint the picture of an individual who is deliberately being evasive and therefore it is concluded that he/she is acting suspiciously. I don’t like that question because of all the insinuations associated with it.... the primary one being that the reason a person is taking steps to avoid ‘state data collection and Orwellian style surveillance’ is that he/she must be guilty of something.
Bkmk
You are not correct. FBI can track all of them. But they will only go after right wing people. Thanks to Obama and his AG.
They will never have that technology. But there could be a drone landing in your backyard to send you a personal message.
Why are you paranoid about being tracked? I am tracked on laptop and my cell phone every minute I use those. I just ignore it so long as there are no unsolicited bills in the mail.
Yeah, I probably need to pick up my wife’s iPhone and go through it to lock it down a little better. We’ve had similar things happen.
OK I gotta giggle out of that 2nd paragraph:
“You’ll be shocked to find your full name, address, relatives, phone number, and more. “
Umm, back when I was a kid we called that the White Pages. Reminding us once again, we never really had that much privacy.
I sort of expect that with social media, but here’s the spooky part… I’ve been using K-tape on my knee this week and last night ripped the skin off trying to remove it. I texted a friend telling them about it and we had a text discussion of how I SHOULD HAVE attempted to remove it. I mentioned in the text that I had done a 40 minute swim with the tape and with that plus a shower, thought it would have loosened it enough to remove safely. After this discussion, I went to search how to remove the tape and got fed back a multitude of links on using K-tape while swimming. The word “swimming” had not even been in my query!
Thank you. I did suspect that. Now using Brave.
Visa would sell both transactions to google.com
I don’t worry too much about it. The problem with trying to eliminate the spying is when you think you’ve succeeded. I figure I’m a few million down the list to be arrested anyway.
My own cell phone stays turned off in a desk drawer unless I specifically need to make or get a call with it, which might be a few times a year.
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