Do You Think You Are Being Watched?

[Khandro]

Some people are kicking up a fuss about covid passports because they feel it's an invasion of their privacy, perhaps they should know what is really happening out there;

'The people who stormed the US Capitol on January 6 left digital fingerprints everywhere. Automated licence-plate readers and cameras caught them driving to Washington. Google detected their smartphones via GPS satellites, Bluetooth beacons and WiFi signals. Facebook recorded their livestreams; Twitter, Parler and TikTok captured their videos. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile logged their GPS locations and metadata. And, using geofence search warrants, the US government seized the data. Using facial recognition technology, it matched them to Yelp profiles. Apple shared their iCloud account information, revealing home addresses and log-in information. Cellebrite technology unlocked and copied the contents of their cell phones.

More than 400 men and women have now been arrested and charged. The investigation has demonstrated once again the total surveillance powers of the US government, social media and tech companies.......'

The Surveillance Society and What to do About It. TLS July 23rd

Could it, or is it happening to you?

[roadman]

Big Brother is always watching sir I own an iphone and I know that they track where i go and how often but the thing is they do this with everyone yes everyone is being watched but were just one number of many the thing is you have to live your life and not care about these things they will only ever act on their watchings if youre a bad person

[Ken4155]

Anyone watching me will be bored pooless!

[LeonBlank1995]

There are a few bed sheets with my DNA on in Somerset around the early 1950s.

May have been washed since then - or even replaced to be honest.

[ToraToraTora]

Smartphone + social media etc puts us all out there! It amazes me how thick these people must be to think they are untraceable! PMSL! Bill Gates doesn't need to chip us, we do the job ourselves!

[Ken4155]

Wonder how many would give up their smart phones, etc, to avoid being constantly under surveillance. Not many is my guess :-/

[Khandro]

ken; I gave up mine to my daughter some time ago, not only because of this, but for other reasons too. Though I'm probable tracible through my simple phone.
When I watch movies, characters in the underworld are continually buying pre-paid phones, making calls & ditching them, I don't know if this is possible in the UK, but it isn't in Germany, here all mobiles must be registered to an individual owner.

[roadman]

yes burner phones are more than possible all you do is buy a sim card for £10 then that £10 goes onto the sim as "credit" kind of thing then you make a call or whatever and throw the lot away they made handsets a bit more expensive you used to be able to get a basic phone for £10 now they are more like £15-25 so burner phones can cost £30 - £50 a pop

[ToraToraTora]

here's a phone that can't be traced.....
https://www.promocan.co.uk/ekmps/shops/lkdaniel/images/tin-can-phone-ex-vat-109-p.jpg

[roadman]

actually its quite easy to trace that phone if you just follow the string

[Canary42]

It all started about 60 years ago, with the advent of (commercial use of) computers. Before that the task of searching through records was virtually impossible, but computers of course can do it in seconds.

[AuntPG]

If we are all being watched how come people still go missing without a trace?

[margarettom]

Agree 100% with Ken at 10.25.

[roadman]

[webbo3]

My wife asked me why I spoke so softly around the house, I said it was in case Mark Zuckerberg was listening, she laughed, I laughed, Siri laughed, Alexa Laughed.

[Gromit]

Of course we all leave a digit finger print. If you don’t commit crimes, no one is likely to bother to collate any incriminating data.

I take some precautions. I use a VPN and do not have social media accounts.

[Gromit]

Whilst the gist of the TLS article is probably correct, I will quibble with some of the detail.

// Apple shared their iCloud account information, revealing home addresses and log-in information. Cellebrite technology unlocked and copied the contents of their cell phones //

Apple do not open iCloud accounts for the Police. Cellebrite cracks iPhone passcodes so iCloud accounts can be easily accessed that way.

Khandro, fyi
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/aug/22/investigators-get-info-from-icloud-account-of/

[gness]

Of course we are, Khandro. If not watched then listened to.
I have to have two hospital procedures done close together, arranged some time ago.
This means two five hour round trips over the mountains but hey...has to be done.
On Sunday local friends came to dinner. I was twittering on about this and wondering why I can't have it done in the two minute away surgery. You can, they told me, the surgery will do it.
First thing the next morning the hospital phoned to ask if I'd prefer to use my local surgery rather than the trip over the mountains, through the sheep on the road and crazy tourists driving on the wrong side.
I'm sure Alexa heard me chuntering, reported to the hospital and that's why they phoned me. ;-)