Surveillance. The word means many things to many people. For the CDC it may mean keeping an eye on virulent disease incidence. For government agencies looking for dissidents, it means something much different.
National Geographic has a detailed article on surveillance, which provided information I was not aware of, much to my surprise. The owner of the most satellites in the sky isn't the NSA, or even the USA, at all. It is a private company.
There are a lot of such tidbits in this article, which makes but half-hearted attempts to avoid propaganda. You can practically hear the cheering in the background for the brave spies ferreting out our every private moment.
I thought you'd want to read it, so here it is.
In a serendipitous coincidence, HuffPo has an article regarding regulatory boundaries being established to reign in the excesses of panoptic surveillance users of common internet services are being subjected to. Some years ago, I read a EULA from Macromedia, in which they requested permission to use the camera on my computer.
There has been tape on that camera ever since.
There is no tape for the mic.
Have any of you had any ideas on how to prevent auditory surveillance from using our cell phone mics? I'd sure like a heads up if you have.
Do not hold any conversation around your cell phone that you would not want broadcast to the world, and store your cell phone in a freezer or microwave oven in a ziploc baggie. That's all I've got for ya.
I'll see if I can get some of that EMF foil to line a pocket with, but since I carry my phone at work, I can't keep it in a microwave.
Although, I like the implied threat =)
I think what we need are phones with very simple switches, physically cutting the circuit to mics, cameras, etc., when we're not using the phones.
I haven't seen any effort to make such devices. They could be made surveillance proof, in the sense of cutting power to mics and cameras when not in use by physically severing connection to the battery with a switch, but where's the profit in that?
Sales would be brisk, but phones are loss leaders. The real money in in the surveillance data.
Relevance:PanopticonCurated for #informationwar (by @openparadigm)
when the subject of 'regulation' or 'laws' is brought up...I wonder who's going to watch the watchmen...and then remember the FBI...and waco.
You should see China's big cities. Camneras applying face recognition practically everywhere. And when the lower orbit satellites are up, they'll be able to penetrate through the walls and see what people do. No satellite serves only one purpose.
I feel crowded in the village I live in now.
I don't think I'd do well in the Chinese Social Capital System.
You'll have to. They intend to chinesify Europe. I don't know about US or other parts.
I do not have to. I can fail at anything!
How is that?
I don't even have a bank account. I am ready, willing, and able to just vanish back into the forest, where I am at home.
Social Capital isn't a currency I depend on for much, in the way the system intends. I fix things for people, and more often that not get paid in chocolate chip cookies, rather than money.
Real social capital - the gratitude of my neighbors - isn't able to be conveyed by an app controlled by centralized authorities, and since I already don't depend on financial institutions, I wouldn't even notice the kinds of blacklisting they can impose.
Enjoy while you still can.
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