Here is my take on all this, and it's changed recently.

There is NOTHING you can really do about all this.

If someone wants to track you it's easy. I recently watched a BBC program where using a free and feely available app you could, on a phone, track and record anyone's calls, take pics of them without them knowing, log their location.

Privacy? HUH!!! Anyone that knows your zip/postcode knows where you live to within a few houses.
Ensuring that your machine's are set up for privacy? You must be joking. I recently told my Android to stop logging my location - it/something switched it back on. It can even be done by triangulation software that does not need location switched on.

We all give off unique identifiers, there is nothing you can do about this. You take a certain shoe size, walk a certain way, have certain habits and customs. Machine's are nearly ready to pick this up. For example, how long until in the shopping mall, the software monitoring the cameras, bleeps when a body acts in a suspicious way? It's probably here, and how can such software be used 'creatively'?

In order to become more 'intelligent', machines MUST start learning about the world and the way it operates, and that means they must learn more about YOU baby!

Even if you downed all tools and walked around in a black cloak, there is NOTHING that you, or even Bill Gates can do to stop this remorseless avalanche of mass observation, its here and it's staying.


So, as Dylan says....

"Just lay there by the Juniper, while the sun is high....

As Batman said: "I laugh in the face of adversity!




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