Krock @krock@social.privacytools.io

@MrRawes Tell us the evils please. Ogg Vorbis is great too.

@resist1984 #Grapheneos has Mac randomization built in and has WIFI and Bluetooth scanning off by default. I need to research more on latest WIFI standards before being comfortable not keeping my phone in a faraday sleeve all the time. Damn the world we live in sometimes..

@resist1984 Restaurants are being pushed or tricked into datafication. See the company innerspace.io and their video showing how they can identify each diner from their phone's WIFI ID. Doordash is aiming to be the Amazon of restaurants, turning their literal cash registers into PII they can abuse and use like Amazon does. Many small restaurants do not realize the trap and will be gone in a few years. I refuse to use my phone to order food and will only pay cash.

@freddy They are also a threat to the US economy. As this news gets out and people flee from the biggest tech companies that are now the biggest portion of the S&P, revenue and asset prices will be dropping. This is the pin that will pop the bubble.

@darkstar

@thenewoil

It is not news that domestic Intel agencies have been buying or seizing this data for a long time. Anybody apparently can buy data about us. The data is supposedly anonymized, but that jus addst a few data processing steps to identity.

Innerspace's promo video shows you how they track the movement of everybody in buildings using WIFI. Be sure your phone is not broadcasting WIFI, or keep it in a faraday bag which also makes a great conversation starter at dinner.😎 https://player.vimeo.com/video/289884280

@freddy I may read it although I have been talking about digital slavery for a long time. Aldous Huxley warned us a long time ago about how tyranny would be pleasurable. Carissa's essay is bite sized enough for some who are ready to see they are shackled. As strange as it is to some of us, many prefer slavery to freedom.

@freddy Thank you for finding this. This is the requisite primer our loved ones need expressed better than my rantings.👍

The public leak of 500M Facebook user profiles feels like it was inspired by Westworld Season 3. Mine was included but I had totally poisoned my account with false data already. The leak benefited me but will enrage others. https://haveibeenpwned.com/

@thenewoil This is very bad for the normal citizens, but perhaps it awakens them in the country of Nice Systems, Celebrite, NSO Group, and a host of spy companies.

@resist1984 Same here for the most part. I poisoned or closed my surveilled accounts and offer to help others setup better protocols to communicate with me. It creates some isolation, but I can bear it.

@resist1984 I have found that if I can make the topic fun in some way, they will open ears a little. That is a hard thing to do with such a serious topic. I try not to play on people's pre-existing biases to sway them, but I understand why it is a reality of persuasive techniques. Thank you for your commiseration with me.

Championing privacy and tech freedom with friends and family has often been a thankless or worse experience for me. Being the bearer of bad news and inconvenient facts puts misplaced ire on me. Ignorance is bliss. I feel a responsibility to my friends and family and do not want to be alone in understanding. At the same time, I do not want to be hated. I really try to restrain and tone down the topic, but the ideas consume me. I guess many people here have a similar experience?

My response to friend who buys Facebook advertising:

So you support building a surveillance apparatus that spies on and manipulates your friends and family if it might help you sell a few more plus sized women's panties?

He hasn't talked to me for a little while.🤔

@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat I think this highlights the necessity of legislation that truly protects privacy for individuals and the collective. If companies change the privacy policy on permanent or semi-permanent enhancements to ourselves, we are screwed. Until such guarantees are in place, I am very careful about what I install onto myself, be it HW, SW, or carbon based.

@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat I totally agree. We are already cyborgs and these enhancements to our beings such as phones, PC's, and cars are designed to be 'sticky' as they say in the industry. I live with a family of Apple slaves who are extremely difficult to separate from their devices. Apple accomplishes this brilliantly. I am careful to ensure that I stay master and not mastered by my tech. Most people are slaves of digital imperialists already. See the movies or series if you haven't.

@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat
Iphones are pretty much already embedded enhancements. Ever tried to get someone off one? I hope you have seen Ghost in the Machine.

The jargon used by big data companies such as telemetry(surveillance data) and engagement(addiction) obscures reality. I heard Satya using a new one today referring to Xbox, Linkedin, Minecraft, & Github as 'properties'. We could better define 'properties' as 'fields' or 'plantations' where they harvest data to be refined.

Do you think they might build in any backdoors? https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-collaborate-microsoft-darpa-program/#gs.vl5pam