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Personally I have a strong anxiety about being surveiled. In a world where friendships are maintained online, CCTV cameras monitor the real world, and the best

by 0xfaded 11y ago

Personally I have a strong anxiety about being surveiled. In a world where friendships are maintained online, CCTV cameras monitor the real world, and the best jobs are automatically analysing and classifying data, such anxiety is inhibiting and limiting. I'm extremely grateful to Snowden and others for igniting this conversation, but I haven't truely felt secure post 2012. Even writing this feels like it will become a black mark against my name.

hartpuff 11y ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but AIUI, here's what a smartphone is, or can potentially be, capable of acquiring/giving up to persons unknown (in addition to everything willingly given up to FB/Instagram/Tinder/Grindr/Google): Your face. Your voice. Your conversations. The faces, voices and conversations of people you associate with. Your location at any given time. At least with the aid of helpful little 'check your health' and 'security' apps/add ons: Your prints. Your DNA. Your health problems or illnesses, if any.
- ljf 11y ago
  Plus the sites you visit and all the bundled information that gives (your interests, orientations, political leaning, hope, fears, desires etc. etc). All the contacts you have plus your relationships with them. Your daily movements, right down to guessing bathroom breaks. Plus information on the connections you use and potentially the devices around you. The list goes on...
Umn44 11y ago
>Personally I have a strong anxiety about being survived. Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. You should, the elite are locking down the planet and most people are too stupid and uninformed. Most won't believe it because it goes against belief in corporate ideology. Science on reasoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY Brezinski at a press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses. https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397 https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397 Important: http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137 http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

by 0xfaded 11y ago

hartpuff 11y ago

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but AIUI, here's what a smartphone is, or can potentially be, capable of acquiring/giving up to persons unknown (in addition to everything willingly given up to FB/Instagram/Tinder/Grindr/Google): Your face. Your voice. Your conversations. The faces, voices and conversations of people you associate with. Your location at any given time. At least with the aid of helpful little 'check your health' and 'security' apps/add ons: Your prints. Your DNA. Your health problems or illnesses, if any.

ljf 11y ago
Plus the sites you visit and all the bundled information that gives (your interests, orientations, political leaning, hope, fears, desires etc. etc). All the contacts you have plus your relationships with them. Your daily movements, right down to guessing bathroom breaks. Plus information on the connections you use and potentially the devices around you. The list goes on...

Umn44 11y ago

>Personally I have a strong anxiety about being survived. Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. You should, the elite are locking down the planet and most people are too stupid and uninformed. Most won't believe it because it goes against belief in corporate ideology. Science on reasoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY Brezinski at a press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses. https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397 https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397 Important: http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137 http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137