Big Brother shiz

[repoman]

Have anyone else had an experience showing the bizarre surveillance state we live under?

I was at my dads house and we were discussing the electrical wiring, specifically the wire moulding along the ceiling.
Today his phone rang and the caller ID was "Wire Moulding"

[coldbrightsunlight]

Yeah the same thing happened to me the other day with Instagram ads. Having a conversation with a friend about something, nobody was even looking at their phone, then half an hour later he opens Instagram and there's an advert for that exact thing.

And there are bots which trawl artists pages on twitter and if someone says something along the lines of "I want that on a t-shirt" they Photoshop it on a t-shirt and advertise it to you. Then they'll print the ripoff designs

[Chankgeez]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... +listening

[repoman]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=microphone+always+listening

So bizarre. How is this not illegal wire tapping? We went through all devices and all the privacy and security settings were set as max as they could go and the mics turned off in preferences.

[Chankgeez]

When you download an app or something, you grant permission for stuff like this. :surprise: Nobody reads those long-ass agreements.

[repoman]

When you download an app or something, you grant permission for stuff like this. :surprise: Nobody reads those long-ass agreements.

I just read an article saying Google has been caught over and over again installing software that does this stuff without gaining permission from the user but they are never fined.

Theres that stuff going on with youtube/google where they had been collecting information on people younger than 12 and this has been illegal since the 90s and they knew it, so they were finded $120 million, which is like $5 to them.

Theres some hubbub now because of this where if you don't mark your youtube vid as for adults the FTC fines you $42,000 instead of you know...fining youtube/google who is the one who makes the bulk of cash off this, passing the blame to content creators instead of who is actually responsible because they own the freaking platform.

[Chankgeez]

COPPA'd

Yeah, luckily, the content I create is not fit for consumption by humans of any age.

[Blackened Soul]

I get adds for stuff I just bought at the store... My phone and computer have nothing to do with that.. Card companies must be selling off our purchase history or something...

[Benn Roe]

Yeah, Alexa's always ratting me out to Amazon. I also started seeing ads for alzheimers treatments after having a conversation, within earshot of Alexa, about my genetic predisposition. It never occurred to me it might be my phone listening, because I took it for granted that my "smart" "speaker" was.

[adamajah]

I said I wanted a million dollars within earshot of an Alexa and the next day the money appeared on my doorstep, so sometimes this works to your advantage.

[Faldoe]

My gf had an Alexa and I asked it a series of questions regarding if it worked for the CIA, FBI which (if I recall) it said it did not but when I asked if it worked for "any government agency" it shut off.

[Lurker13]

My gf had an Alexa and I asked it a series of questions regarding if it worked for the CIA, FBI which (if I recall) it said it did not but when I asked if it worked for "any government agency" it shut off.

Those NSA bots are everywhere.

[VREEEEVROOOOOW]

I don't own a smartphone and generally don't allow JavaScript or Cookies, and frequently browse via Tor. And so on and so on. But it doesn't help too much in the end.

Here's an anecdote by Eben Moglen. It's a decade old by now, but still relevant.

«My friend and colleague Bradley Kuhn who works at the Software Freedom Law Center is one of those archaic human beings who believes that a social security number is a private thing. And he goes to great lengths to make sure that his Social Security is not disclosed which is his right under our law, oddly enough. Though, try and get health insurance or get a safe deposit box, or in fact, operate the business at all. We bend over backwards sometimes in the operation of our business because Bradley’s Social Security number is a secret. I said to him one day “You know, it’s over now because Google knows your Social Security number”. He said “No they don’t, I never told it to anybody”. I said, “Yeah but they know the Social Security number of everybody else born in Baltimore that year. Yours is the other one”.»

[coldbrightsunlight]

I said I wanted a million dollars within earshot of an Alexa and the next day the money appeared on my doorstep, so sometimes this works to your advantage.

With this one simple trick! Millionaires hate him

I don't own a smartphone and generally don't allow JavaScript or Cookies, and frequently browse via Tor. And so on and so on. But it doesn't help too much in the end.

Here's an anecdote by Eben Moglen. It's a decade old by now, but still relevant.

«My friend and colleague Bradley Kuhn who works at the Software Freedom Law Center is one of those archaic human beings who believes that a social security number is a private thing. And he goes to great lengths to make sure that his Social Security is not disclosed which is his right under our law, oddly enough. Though, try and get health insurance or get a safe deposit box, or in fact, operate the business at all. We bend over backwards sometimes in the operation of our business because Bradley’s Social Security number is a secret. I said to him one day “You know, it’s over now because Google knows your Social Security number”. He said “No they don’t, I never told it to anybody”. I said, “Yeah but they know the Social Security number of everybody else born in Baltimore that year. Yours is the other one”.»

[Jwar]

Big brother definitely caused this by enacting the Privacy Act as well as repealing laws that protected us from shit like this. Thanks a lot Bush and Trump, you fucking bitches.


Apps literally listen to you. Google has been caught doing it. Facebook has been caught multiple times doing it. Your ISP does it. Apple says they don't do it, but I don't fucking believe them.


You go and talk about something. Next thing you know your Google bar has an auto fill for something similar. The thing that messes with me is when I think about the shit and don't say it out loud ever and that still happens. That is being scary to me and I honestly would not be surprised if they are developing ways to listen to us inside our heads as well. It sounds far fetched, but it really is not.