> There is really very, very little you can do to avoid government surveillance, and in the end it's almost entirely pointless. I disagree. It's true that, if

> There is really very, very little you can do to avoid government surveillance, and in the end it's almost entirely pointless. I disagree. It's true that, if you are a person of interest of any reasonably powerful government, there isn't much you can do at all. However, the sort of surveillance most people should be concerned about is an automated one. It isn't really possible for a government to track all their citizens and flag everything, no matter what tech they use. You want to make it difficult for tooling to figure out information about you (no matter what it is) and force government to actually invest resources if they want to figure out something about you, specifically. When it comes to the US, a lot of information is stored at the state level. That is a lack of centralization that can be exploited. > tracking device in your pocket that you feed all of your personal information to, data brokers Not all of them do. If you are concerned about that, some are more privacy oriented than others. 'Dumb' phones still exist - although their use probably makes you stand out already.