But they’re working on it. That’s the real reason for all that massive datacenter buildout. It will finally be possible to monitor everything everyone says and does.
There won’t be anything stopping people from unplugging their tech and just walking away from it. Go back to writing checks and paying cash. Buy an old school flip phone in case you need to call somebody. I mean, the internet is mostly shit at this point already.
There won’t be anything stopping people from unplugging their tech and just walking away from it.
Facial recognition cameras in stores and public buildings, on poles next to roads and bike paths, and in every modern car you pass near will still be recording and reporting your location.
Go back to writing checks and paying cash.
Checks are just as traceable as credit/debit card transactions. (Perhaps even slightly moreso, since they all come as a package deal with a nice handwriting sample and a memo line saying what the check is for, in your own words?)
Cash is going to be (mostly) traceable soon, too, as more and more places ‘voluntarily’ sign up for programs where they scan and record the serial number of every bill that passes through, in or out. Cash will only be untraceable if you’re very careful about where you get it and where you spend it. And even then, unless the people you get it from and give it to are also just as careful, it will still be fairly easy to reconstruct a picture of where the money went. If $300 is withdrawn from your account, and then later a drug dealer deposits the same $300 in their account, the surveillance state won’t 100% for sure know what happened there, but they’ll have a pretty clear idea.
Buy an old school flip phone in case you need to call somebody.
Can still be used to trace your location anytime you have it powered on. And old school phones are even easier to remotely eavesdrop on, with no option of using encrypted messaging apps instead. The phones (and other devices) of everyone else around you are still listening in on everything you say.
Unless you can ensure that everyone around you gives up all technology just like you do, you’re still subject to mass surveillance.
So … anybody want to go form a tech-backward hippie commune with me, way out in the middle of nowhere?
Do some research on local regulations. For example in my country you can’t have a camera that sees the street without having warning signs posted. Said warning signs are a bit of an eyesore and an invitation for thieves so most homeowners would rather aim their cameras in such a way that they can’t see the street.
But they’re working on it. That’s the real reason for all that massive datacenter buildout. It will finally be possible to monitor everything everyone says and does.
There won’t be anything stopping people from unplugging their tech and just walking away from it. Go back to writing checks and paying cash. Buy an old school flip phone in case you need to call somebody. I mean, the internet is mostly shit at this point already.
Facial recognition cameras in stores and public buildings, on poles next to roads and bike paths, and in every modern car you pass near will still be recording and reporting your location.
Checks are just as traceable as credit/debit card transactions. (Perhaps even slightly moreso, since they all come as a package deal with a nice handwriting sample and a memo line saying what the check is for, in your own words?)
Cash is going to be (mostly) traceable soon, too, as more and more places ‘voluntarily’ sign up for programs where they scan and record the serial number of every bill that passes through, in or out. Cash will only be untraceable if you’re very careful about where you get it and where you spend it. And even then, unless the people you get it from and give it to are also just as careful, it will still be fairly easy to reconstruct a picture of where the money went. If $300 is withdrawn from your account, and then later a drug dealer deposits the same $300 in their account, the surveillance state won’t 100% for sure know what happened there, but they’ll have a pretty clear idea.
Can still be used to trace your location anytime you have it powered on. And old school phones are even easier to remotely eavesdrop on, with no option of using encrypted messaging apps instead. The phones (and other devices) of everyone else around you are still listening in on everything you say.
Unless you can ensure that everyone around you gives up all technology just like you do, you’re still subject to mass surveillance.
So … anybody want to go form a tech-backward hippie commune with me, way out in the middle of nowhere?
Except all the Flock and other surveillance cameras creating a panopticon in meatspace, too.
Both of my next-door neighbors have Ring doorbells. I cannot leave my house without Big Tech knowing it, even if I leave my phone at home.
Do some research on local regulations. For example in my country you can’t have a camera that sees the street without having warning signs posted. Said warning signs are a bit of an eyesore and an invitation for thieves so most homeowners would rather aim their cameras in such a way that they can’t see the street.
Flip phones are triangulable. They also have microphones.