Living in a world of surveillance

Hey, anon How do you live in our current day and age when your every move gets recorded? To name a few: your browser history, phone metadata (like how phone company can track you down), live surveillance with face recognition and such I'm glad that these technology helps in fighting true criminals, but at the same time I feel a bit paranoid. Even if you are a good, lawful person you might still have some skeletons in the closet (and now this skeletons are recorded and stored somewhere) Kinda envy those normal people, that post everything about themself online. I tried get into that "No one cares about you so relax" vibe, but still feel uneasy about cameras and such Anon, please give me an advice on how to find some peace Not really about proxies, VPN's and such, but general peace of mind on this topic.

>your browser history sorta, I use a VPN and some anti-tracking addons which noticeably makes ads less targeted >phone metadata I only have an emergency phone in a faraday bag, it is literally impossible for them to track me that way >live surveillance with face recognition and such not very common where I am, and face recognition is usually less effective in real world scenarios than in labs. Find peace of mind by not putting yourself online. They say everything is on the net, but it's just not true. Most of the good things aren't online at all.

>>26500 Life is short. If you want to go on a crusade against the surveillance state and take actions to promote your movement, then that's great. But if you're not taking any action and just moping around about it, it's a waste of energy and time. I do the minimal stuff like not using my real name wherever I can and often abandon accounts and make new identities occasionally. There are many things I can't avoid though, due to necessity and trying to work around them would only bring me financial harm.

i moved my paranoia of online stalking to the real world.

People don't really care about me. I'm a few data points in a massive database. Unless I become famous, or start doing properly illegal things, nothing will happen.

>>26500 So i posted about gov critical soykaf after a 48h work shift where i was too tired to care that this was a bad idea, worst that happened was getting hacked and told stfu if you dont wanna suicide as a whistle blower. That's it. If you life a normal life i doubt anything will happen to you because as other lain said you're simply irrelevant to their success.

>>26509 >I only have an emergency phone in a faraday bag, it is literally impossible for them to track me that way Anything in a Faraday bag can still record audio. Assuming a tracker can access locations and microphones of proximal (or all) devices, they could correlate the recordings to precisely determine your movements. Looking forward to the soundproof Faraday bag.

It comes down to what humans do is too often unethical. It increases the power of those, who often already have (too) much power. This is the reality of it. Even trust is unethical. There's no peace.

There was a heatwave and I decided to download 100GB file over 5G; turns out this turns my phone into a portable lithium vapor dispensor. The Internet claims it can catch on fire like this, but I feel like I just gained access to a renewable source of inhalable rare metals. >smells phone to check >instant sour taste in mouth again >phone's backside has grown by 0.5cm Yup and it's still working. Going to adopt that "keep battery around 50% advice" now so that my govt. mandated spy devive keeps delivering nutrient supplemenent in gaseous and not plasmatic form.

I just gave into the botnet essentially. I still know way more about privacy than most people, have more than average, and still protect sensitive things like searches for medical and political topics. But my attitude is kind of like "come at me, bro". They know (or can know) who I am, I know who I am. Read my posts, count me among the malcontents, whatever, at least I'm being counted somewhere. This sounds stupid but I've also accepted that a big part of the battle is cultural, personal, even spiritual -- and not just technical. Some of my hate for the corp/govt botnet is because I turned myself into an internet-addicted cyborg before everyone else did, and the tyranny of small differences (not to mention hipsterism) engages when I see the way that the rest of humanity is doing it with all the new garbage. I do know that there are people who are more free than I've ever been, despite their casual usage of Google or Windows. A better world is possible, but I no longer think me sitting alone using Qubes is going to get us very far towards there. Also all the crazy soykaf in the world the past few years has probably put me quite a bit further down in the list. I figure every time some guy with his real name and picture posts on Facebook about how they're going to kill some politician, you get a spot lower. >I'm glad that these technology helps in fighting true criminals They barely use this technology to catch straight-up murderers, let alone thieves burglars or robbers.

>I'm glad that these technology helps in fighting true criminals The true criminals are the ones running the fiber optic splitters and using sex with children as a political tool.

>>26500 Surveillance is just part of the social contract, as much as I'd love to lock down my computer and guarantee complete privacy and anonymity, you just can't if you also want to use the internet. It's not just with computers, living in, contributing and taking from a society just inherently leaves a paper trail that gets archived, it's just a reality of living in a society and I think a relatively small price to pay since it's never quite to the level of literally having a CIA agent physically watching me every day. It's just if I ever was of interest, there's data that exists out there that would reveal information about me, but the chances are it will never get looked at. I'm far more bothered by the fact that while I have to abide by the social contract, governments and corporations seemingly do not in anyway hold up their end of the bargain and we all sort of accepted that as naturally being the case.

>>31890 There is no social contract. It was just people looking to monetize and tech illiterate masses thinking they got nothing to lose giving all their data away while being unwilling to pay honest corps offering to get privacy for a small fee. So privacy died by the masses choice to pay with their data instead of their money. Gov got in rather late after it was already a fact that you can spy on the peasants with zero backlash. And yes we got privacy groups and people fighting it but that's its own community outside n0rmies.

I poop in the pool. I'm still getting AARP fliers from what I assume was that time I had a judgement lapse and made a facebook account in college. 78 year old black female lumberjack checking in from the beautiful state of Montana.