[flh]

We live in a world of electronics unless you live in a cave you are being watched your conversations are heard every purchase is recorded, what you watch on T.V. etc etc.

 

[ctr]

An interesting experiment would be to get a couple of burner phones and start talking about a terrorist act at a specific location and just sit back and see what happens.

I wouldn't. Hypothetically a person who used to work in DOD in the 80's would hear a click when certain words were mentioned during conversations. Of course that is all hypothetical and never actually happened.

 

[crstrode]

I won't have Alexa or her friends in my home.

Good first move.

However, almost any cell phone, laptop or desktop computer, smart TV, TV remote control, cable box, security camera, doorbell camera, bluetooth device, and, yes, even your automobile, manufactured in the recent past is equipped with a microphone that can be remotely programmed to monitor your every word.

Of course you know, that TV cable boxes provide detailed info on every program you watch or record, and every search or listing you review, to the cable TV provider. That is how data for ratings is collected and how advertisers select their audience. Since the FCC regulates and issues licenses for ALL of these devices and services, the manufacturers and service providers are obligated to share info gathered with the Feds.

Residential electric meters and natural gas meters now transmit useage data (and who knows what else) back to the utility company. Of course since they are regulated along the same lines as telecommunications service providers, State and Federal agencies have access top this data as well.

On second thought, that "good first move" is futile.

Gotta go full Gilligan to dodge the overlords.

No phone, no lights, no motor car, Not a single luxury, Like Robinson Crusoe, It's primitive as can be.

 

[NECCdude]

Just because we are paranoid, doesn't mean they are not watching us.

As I recall, this came out before the internet. I always liked the song.

 

[NECCdude]

It is absolutely going far beyond that. They are pretty much collecting on every us citizen.

Wasn't it Obama that had that data storage facility built in the Utah desert?

 

[NECCdude]

One of my friends insists that the government does not have enough computer space to collect everything on all of us. She is wrong.

I kinda wonder if they can sift through all that data on a timely basis even with supercomputers.

 

[NECCdude]

CIA and NSA don't need to even lift a finger.

Facebook/Twitter/Amazon/Google/Apple - they get everything you say and post, and they buy storage by the jigabytes.

Reminds me of the "Person of Interest" TV series where the computer genius said who needs the NSA or CIA - just go to social media.

 

[Havok]

Wasn't it Obama that had that data storage facility built in the Utah desert?

Possibly. I’m not really sure.

 

[ctr]

I kinda wonder if they can sift through all that data on a timely basis even with supercomputers.

Yes, they can.

 

[sdprof]

Wasn't it Obama that had that data storage facility built in the Utah desert?

It looks like construction happened during O's time in office, but I'd bet the planning started well before his election.

 

[RScottie]

In the early days of the internet, when many still had dialup but the fiber backbone was being built, I personally saw the computer that the government installed to monitor every fiber that came through the site.

It was in its own non-labeled cage that was right beside where the fiber trunk lines came in. Those trunk lines ran to it first and then were routed to the area of the site they needed to get to.

This was in the mid-late 90's.

 

[Hoganbeg]

Its all there for you if you care to look, and I recommend that you do, but remember, when you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back!

 

[Mike1956]

I won't have Alexa or her friends in my home.

Here's the thing. I don't have them, deliberately at least, in my home either. I do, however have a "smart phone" and "smart TV", as well as whatever goes on with my laptops.

 

[Mike1956]

I always operate on the assumption that something is listening and reading, and govern my speech and written words accordingly.

 

[CavemanBob]

I'm pretty sure they can't process all of the data collected BUT, they're trying real hard.

NSA Maxes Out Baltimore Power Grid

The National Security Agency's technology infrastructure at Fort Meade, Md. has reportedly maxed out the electric capacity of the Baltimore area power grid.

www.itprotoday.com

 

[CavemanBob]

The data on all of us US citizens and more in spite of laws which prohibit it. If our gov't or more specifically, the intel agencies, were not rogue, the Snowden revelations would have brought the hammer down on the leaders of the agencies. That didn't happen, and in fact the data collection on US citizens has increased.

I once had a friend who worked in such realms. One day he approached his manager with concerns that what they were doing appeared to be in violation of FISA. His manager snapped back, "Oh, I didn't know you are also a lawyer". Pretty much says it all. He decided not to pursue it further, it would be an unwinnable battle.

 

[NECCdude]

I'm pretty sure they can't process all of the data collected BUT, they're trying real hard.

NSA Maxes Out Baltimore Power Grid

The National Security Agency's technology infrastructure at Fort Meade, Md. has reportedly maxed out the electric capacity of the Baltimore area power grid.

www.itprotoday.com

Hmm, I guess few people will be able to recharge their EVs.......

 

[GreenPig]

Life long friend of mine finally started paying attention to politics just before Oblama was elected after years of me prodding him. Well he jumped in head first and was always calling me wanting to talk politics & guns. Somewhere about that time we'd start hearing clicks and sometimes the call would completely drop, so he'd call me back and the clicks would be heard every so often but we wouldn't get disconnected again that day. We laughed and joked about being spied on. It's still happening and he's even tried calling me on his home phone. This never happens while talking with anybody else. I've told him that he's on a "WATCH LIST".

 

[nj709]

I sometimes ( okay - often ) talk to myself while in the shower. I don't mind so much that they are listening but it creeps me out when they answer me. And I wish they would stop with the mild electric shocks when I mention that foxy gal I like on Netflix! And yes I do wear my foil cap in the shower - no protection at all! 🤤