Big Brother is Tracking You

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Smart phones, smart TVs, smart meters...all invade our privacy, I won't have any of it in my home if I can help it. Not so smart, IMO. :rolleyes:
 

nan said:
I am not doing anything wrong, but I still dont like my privacy being invaded without my permission.
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I agree Nan, especially when those invading your privacy can't be trusted themselves. :mad: Also, just heard some mention on the radio about how parents and grandparents who are taking photos of their children/grandchildren on "smart" phones, are opening them up to abuse from child molesters...as they not only can see the picture of the child, but also the location of where they can be found.
 
rkunsaw said:
I don't have anything "smart" .With all I'm hearing about big brother spying on us I won't be buying a new car, phone or anything either.
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I think that if someone could make a new car, like they made them perhaps back in the early 90s (or earlier)...no black 'spy' box, no On Star BS, no rear cameras...you can do ALL of your maintenance yourself, like you always did, if you chose to, change your fluids, etc....they would sell like HOTCAKES!! :drive: I have a desktop computer, and a Tracfone that is not internet connected, nor does it have a camera. I'm not interested either in the new 'smart' stuff, I know better. :rolleyes:
 
Warrigal said:
I'm not paranoid. They really are out to get us.
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See??? Now haven't been tellin' you that all along????

Max might do you a 'mates rates' deal on a tin hat.

It's harder than you'd imagine to drop off the grid so unless there's some pressing reason equating to sheer survival for doing it, I think we'd better just get used to it.
We don't have to like it but I'm past fighting the system, and living off the land in a grass hut just to stay under the radar is beyond thinking about.
They won't track me for long anyway, they'll drop off from sheer boredom.
 
Ruby Ridge; Waco...if you are thought to be hiding, you're suspect. Not sure you have to break any laws, you'll be watched anyway.
 
Diwundrin said:
Warrigal said:
I'm not paranoid. They really are out to get us
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It's harder than you'd imagine to drop off the grid so unless there's some pressing reason equating to sheer survival for doing it, I think we'd better just get used to it.
We don't have to like it but I'm past fighting the system, and living off the land in a grass hut just to stay under the radar is beyond thinking about.
They won't track me for long anyway, they'll drop off from sheer boredom.
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Di, I am SO with you 100% on this.
My mother raised me that we were in the Last Days, and I have stored food for the bad times, only to have the Wanderlust hit me, and have to give it all away when I moved, every time.
I have lived with candles and kerosene lamps, used a diesel generator, bathed in the river, and hauled my water home in the back of my truck. Melted snow by the bucketfuls in the bathtub. I can build (and cook on)a campfire.
But I am not going to do it anymore !
I am where I am, I am not doing anything that is against any law, and if they want to spy on me....no, I don't like it one bit , but I am not going off the grid either.
I love my iPhone and my iPad, and I think if they want to find me, they can do it , iPhone or not, so I am keeping them and not worrying about what I can't change.
 
Not familiar with how things work in US agencies, beyond News, docos, and movies but when you think about it.... what's new?

Haven't the 'authorities' spied on their people to control them since time immemorial?

Didn't the head caveman have henchmen to spy out and bury a club in the head of any dissenter to his authority?
Didn't the Feudal Lords keep a 'security force' to watch for dissent among the serfs? Isn't that really what 'Knights' were??
Didn't the Industrialist magnates send in spies to the factory floor, and then the heavies to keep their outspoken workers in line?
What were Peel's police invented for? Protection of the population, or of the aristocracy?
What were posses for and who decided who they'd go hunting? The good ole carin' sharin' sheriff, or the local Banker and landowners who paid him? It appears from movies that bank robbers got more of their attention than murderers.


That surveillance and retribution has gone high tech doesn't make it any different, just higher tech.
There's more of us so they need better inventions to cope with the workload. That's all.
We've always been under surveillance and the 'thumb' in some way or other. It's how civilization works.

Does all of today's technological whizzbangery really give them any more personal information about any of us than a local Lord would have known about every single serf in his village centuries ago??

Not saying' it's good or right, just sayin' it's taken us an awfully long time to become aware of it. Doh.
 
It's not the government spying on me that I resent. I happily supply them with all the information they require.
What irritates me is the intrusion of commercials all the time. I especially arc up when they seem to know where I am, like some pop ups on my laptop that mention a nearby suburb and some service I might like to avail myself of. Really dodgey some of them are too.

I dislike Telstra sending me SMS messages too but my phone is very dumb so I don't get too many of them. If I were down the street and happened to receive messages on an iphone prompting me to drop into the nearest Maccas or Hungry Jacks I would probably do just that - to tell them to cease and desist with the messages.

To paraphrase - "I will decide which commercials I receive and the manner in which I receive them." I will ever be a customer. I am not a consumer and certainly not a sucker. At least not very often if I can help it.
 
I resent the fact that if I use the Google search engine to look up anything, suddenly related ads are popping up on every site I visit, including my own ISP homepage. Unfortunately, it is a search engine that gives good results. I've tried Ixquick and Startpage, which offer searches with no IP address cookies, but they leave a lot to be desired when shopping for or researching an item.
 
I imagine it blocks the ads, but not the cookies and tracking devices that monitor our internet activity. I didn't mean 'pop-ups', just ads appearing on sites visited.
 
Just got an email from "Flybyes"

It listed all specials of products we have bought in recent shops at Coles ....................................:eek:
 

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