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One of the most unexpected aspects of the emerging global surveillance regime is how trivially easy it is to opt out of. All you have to do is leave your phone
by rsync 9y ago
One of the most unexpected aspects of the emerging global surveillance regime is how trivially easy it is to opt out of.
All you have to do is leave your phone at home.
The over reliance on consumer technology and social platforms by end users is unfortunate but expected. Seeing how law enforcement has become so lazy as to piggyback all of their investigatory efforts on top of it is truly stupefying...
- gberger 9y agoIs this sarcasm? Leaving your phone at home is equivalent to having no phone at all.
- ryanlol 9y agoI can call a Uber with my laptop, the UX isn't great but it works. What else do you need a phone for? (Is it a Uber or an Uber? Curiously, uber.com seems to use both.)
- samstave 9y agoan uber.
- chipperyman573 9y agoYou use Uber to call an Uber
- likelynew 9y agoI think OP is pointing our reliance on technology. This contrasts to say soviet era surveillance or in fiction like 1984 in which escaping from the surveillance is not easy.
- overdunk 9y agoIs this sarcasm? It's pretty nice not having a phone at all, and checking on the internet maybe once a day or less.
- collyw 9y agoKind of takes away from the point in having a mobile phone when you leave it at home.
- samstave 9y agonot if you live in a mobile home.
- drdeadringer 9y agoChoose your shackle.
- maxerickson 9y agoRadical thought for the day: what if you leave it home some of the time?
- lugg 9y agoYou mean like just when you're committing crimes? Because we all plan for that.
- maxerickson 9y agoYes, exactly. If you are engaged in activities that are likely to garner police attention, those are good times to leave the phone to home.
- strathmeyer 9y agoYou sound white.
- maxerickson 9y agoIs my meaning hard to understand through the sound? Should I elaborately qualify everything I say and such? Even someone subject to an unfair amount of police scrutiny can estimate whether the activities they plan to engage in at a given time are higher or lower on whatever attention catching scale.
- jasonkostempski 9y agoLeaving your tracking device at home will eventually be a criminal offense, if it's even possible to do without ripping it out of the vital organ it's implanted in.
- GhostVII 9y agoI doubt it
- ball_of_lint 9y agoMaybe in America, but in other countries or whatever hegemony might eventually arise, definitely likely.
- mahyarm 9y agoGo to jail for running out of battery.
- nthcolumn 9y agoObviously there should be two modes of operation for the personal device both enabled biometrically. Pinky for police-mode, thumb for internationalmanofmystery-mode... or just don't keep shit the cops want on your phone.
- d33 9y ago> or just don't keep shit the cops want on your phone That doesn't always sound like a good piece of advice, especially if they're fishing for something to hate you for.
- alkonaut 9y agoLol, imagine the kind of oppressive regimes we'd accept rather than leaving our smartphones for even an hour.
- rebuilder 9y agoWhat makes you say they piggyback all their efforts on our reliance on consumer tech? It's low-hanging fruit that probably yields results reliably, but that doesn't mean LE is helpless if you don't have a phone.