Big Brother is, in fact, watching!

treeguy64

treeguy64

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Orwell had everything, but the year, correct. I stopped by a store I don't normally frequent, yesterday. Today, as I roam the internet, ads from that store are showing up on my browser. The only way my presence in that store could have been recorded was by its system surreptitiously tapping into my Bluetooth or Wifi feed, from my phone, and passing the same onto the Big Brother computer at Google and, by association, the Feds. This is no paranoid delusion and no laughing matter. If you carry a smart phone, and you keep it on, while you're out and about, make no mistake: Big Brother is watching! I suppose that's ok, for now, if one has nothing to hide. Thing is, when a given higher power knows your every move, literally, sooner or later that power can control you, using previously gleaned information on your daily whereabouts. Think of this warning, in the next decade, when you get up at the summoning of your government alarm clock, to do your daily devotions in front of your smart TV and smart cam while Big Brother watches.
 

.....and I thought it was just info gleaned from my debit card
 

Privacy is ancient history. Unless you are a hermit living in the boondocks with No modern conveniences, someone somewhere is probably tracking your every move.
 
I just got my first smartphone and when I registered for a google account on it and gmail, I turned off as many permissions as I could. I don't want google keeping on file all of my photos, texts, emails and voice recordings for recognition. Just learned that the ok google voice feature listens to you whether you tap the microphone or not, will be disabling that also, along with google assistant.

I'll see by using the phone if I really even need these things, if so, I guess I can turn them on again, it's all too new for me now. I don't like these 'assistants', even on my desktop computer at home with windows 10, I did all I could to get rid of the annoying Cortana, always popping up wanting to help me or suggest things for me. Some people love it, not me. I'm not that helpless that I can't think for myself. Also, their eagerness to 'help' is only for their financial benefit in the long run, not so much wanting the customer to have a good experience.
 
all reasons why i do not have/nor want, a smart phone.

I'm told some? smart TV's listen? even watch? That really buggs me as i would like a new one. My current one is now 32 yrs old.

As Don said , privacy is ancient history.
 
The phone is the first 'smart' device I've bought, we didn't want the TV either for that reason. Also, those smart devices people are using in their homes to put on the radio, dim the lights, ask the news and weather, etc., are too invasive for me to want around. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, I'd have to be disabled and really need those features to ever agree to bring one into my home.
 
I have a smart phone,smart T.V and Alexa.
Because I'm not making meth,entertaining terrorists or anything else nefarious I don't give it a second thought...pretty sure if anyone's watching they're investing in No Doz:)
 
I've gone into stores with my phone On, but never got ads from them on the Internet....maybe because I use Adblocker? I don't really know.

I don't use Google to search or for email. I do for news, tho'.
 
Pretty scary stuff.
I'm more of a private type of person and really don't like how things are getting to be.
 
Giantsfan1954 said:
I have a smart phone,smart T.V and Alexa.
Because I'm not making meth,entertaining terrorists or anything else nefarious I don't give it a second thought...pretty sure if anyone's watching they're investing in No Doz:)
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I used to say the exact same thing, for years. The problem is, as I did more research: Detailed surveillance of a given population, at large, is the first step in controlling that population. Now, with the ascendancy of high tech, we will all be looking at a controlling force in our lives in the next five to twenty years, I believe. Many of us will not have to worry about that, but our kids and grandkids may certainly live the realities of Orwell's dystopian (then) future.
 
Anyway, regarding the original topic, I have noticed this happening as well. I have a little survey thing from google that pay rewards, and if I go to Kroger or walmart, when I got home, it alerts me for a survey, and then lists a group of places (most that I have never heard of) and Walmart/Kroger is always one of them.
Sometimes, it thinks that I went to a store NEAR where I really went; so you do not have to actually be in the store for it to find you........ GPS maybe ?
 
60 Minutes did a story yesterday about a private company which has put 300+ satellites into orbit. These things are no larger than a loaf of bread, and can spot something less than 6" long in extremely sharp detail. They are gathering so much data that it would take millions of hours to sort it all. Since this is a "private" company, I'm sure they are selling that data to who knows, as they digest it. Technology is growing so rapidly, that it won't be long before a person can't even go to their mailbox without being tracked.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/privat...human-history-to-photograph-earth-60-minutes/
 
My phone will ask me sometimes if I want to give out my location and I say no. My daughter and younger son have set their phones to where they can always tell where the other one is. I don't know if that opens up a door for others to spy or not. I know a lot of people use it to keep track of their children.
 
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