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*** SUNNY COAST LUDDITES ***
Fighting the Machine Since 1997! [*** ROLY AND THE BANANA REPUBLIC DOWN UNDER ***]
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| *** Thoughts about Surveillance *** | ||||||||||||||||
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| Your thoughts are the last untraceable communication - guard them well! |
| I hope someday AI will be smart enough to trade stocks for us so no one ever loses money again and we all become billionaires and live happily ever after - @greg16676935420 |
| We all know what's wrong. As a user, access to your web activity and data is sold to the highest bidder. Internet giants grow rich, while publishers go out of business. And the entire system is rife with ad fraud |
| To change our privacy landscape, we have to write about it, persuade others to protect their and our privacy, get organized, unveil the inner workings of the abusive system that is the surveillance society, support alternatives, envision new possibilities, and refuse to cooperate in our own surveillance. |
| "The power to forecast and influence derived from personal data is the quintessential kind of power in the digital age. . . ." |
| 'Tech companies' power is constituted, on the one hand, by having exclusive control of our data, and on the other, by the ability to anticipate our every move, which in turn gives them opportunities to influence our behavior, and sell that influence to others — including governments.' - Carissa Véliz in Privacy is Power |
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SURVEILLANCE IS THE DEATH OF PRIVACY AND SOMETHING TO BE AVOIDED AT ANY COST |
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Frank Herbert (Dune): "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." |
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General Douglas MacArthur: "The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear, keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real." |
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General Douglas MacArthur: "The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear, keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real." |
| There's no cloud. There's just someone else's computer. Right now, there's no AI. There's just someone else's work. Stop calling generative text and image programs AI. It's inaccurate and insulting. They are just the evolution of corporate creative theft that's been going on as long as media corporations have existed. |
| Neoliberalism is the slippery slope to fascism. |
THE ENDLESS CYCLE: [laissez faire] | V [inequity and corruption] | V [catastrophy] | V [authoritarianism] | V [expanded catastrophy] | V [rebuilding ruins] | V [growing affluence] | V [laissez faire] <-- REPEAT |
| "telling them they've been wronged (they have) and that he will make it right" |
| "Whenever there's...national solidarity, we always see this narrative of 'outside agitators' being used to discredit the entire movement." |
| This is why the saying "what is legal is not always moral, what is moral is not always legal." |
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TECH ACRONYMS YOU NEED TO KNOW:
AFR - Automated Facial Recognition AI - Artificial Intelligence DPIA - Data Protection Impact Assessment GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation OECD - Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development VSS - Video Surveillance System |
| What are your thoughts on the below and the use of lip reading software on CCTV \ Video Surveillance Systems? How will it impact an individuals privacy? |
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TECHNICAL DEFINITIONS:
Authentication: The process or action of proving or showing something to be true, genuine, or valid Identification: The action or process of identifying someone or something Operator: Individual(s) responsible for the day to day operation of the system Artificial Intelligence (AI): The ability for machines to interpret and learn from data to make a prediction without being explicitly programmed to do so. Automated Facial Recognition (AFR): A software application that is capable of uniquely identifying or verifying a person by comparing and analysing patterns based on a person's facial contours against a digital image or a video frame from a video source. Data Personal: information which relates to an identified or identifiable natural person. Training data: Personal information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person that is stored by the AFR system to assist in its ability to correctly compare and identify the same person. Watchlist*: A list of individuals, groups, or items that require observation, typically for legal or political reasons Verification: One to one matching of the image of a face with the identity to verify it is the individual. |
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*** ROLY'S UNCENSORED ANTI-SURVEILLANCE MANIFESTO ***
Written in 2025 - A Warning from the Future |
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THE DIGITAL PANOPTICON IS COMPLETE
They told you it was for "convenience." They lied. Every smart device is a corporate spy in your home. Your TV watches you back. Your car reports your every journey. Your phone? It's a tracking device that occasionally makes calls. The "Internet of Things" is really the "Internet of Surveillance Things" - and you bought it all willingly. |
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PREDICTION FROM 1997 THAT CAME TRUE: "In 2025, people will carry devices that track their location 24/7, record their conversations, photograph their activities, monitor their health, track their purchases, analyze their relationships, predict their behavior, and influence their thoughts. They will PAY for these devices. They will DEFEND these devices. They will feel NAKED without these devices." STATUS: PROPHECY FULFILLED |
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THE SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM DEATH SPIRAL: Social media platforms aren't free - YOU are the product being sold. Every click, pause, scroll, and facial expression is harvested, processed, and weaponized against your own psychology. They've built addiction engines disguised as communication tools. They know you better than you know yourself, and they use that knowledge to manipulate your desires, fears, and beliefs for profit. |
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FACIAL RECOGNITION: THE END OF ANONYMITY
Walk down any street in 2025 and you're photographed hundreds of times. Every store, every corner, every doorway has cameras feeding into massive databases. Facial recognition isn't coming - it's HERE. Your face is now your permanent ID card that you can never leave at home. There is no opt-out. There is no escape. Anonymous protest? Anonymous travel? Anonymous existence? EXTINCT. |
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THE "NOTHING TO HIDE" FALLACY DESTROYED: "I have nothing to hide" is the cry of the truly naive. Here's what you're hiding whether you know it or not: - Your exact location every second of every day - Every person you've ever communicated with - Your political beliefs, sexual preferences, health conditions - Your financial situation, spending habits, debt levels - Your family relationships, friend networks, professional contacts - Your daily routines, sleep patterns, exercise habits - Your emotional states, stress levels, mental health - Your future plans, dreams, fears, and vulnerabilities STILL THINK YOU HAVE "NOTHING TO HIDE"? |
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THE AI SURVEILLANCE SINGULARITY
By 2025, AI can predict your behavior better than your family can. It knows when you're about to quit your job, leave your partner, or buy something before YOU know. It can generate fake videos of you saying anything, fake audio of your voice, fake evidence of crimes you didn't commit. Truth is dead. Reality is negotiable. And the corporations that control these AIs control the narrative of your life. |
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CORPORATE SURVEILLANCE STATE TACTICS: - Normalize constant monitoring ("It's for your safety!") - Make privacy seem suspicious ("What are you hiding?") - Offer fake choices ("We value your privacy - click here to manage cookies") - Bundle surveillance with necessities (Can't work without email/phone/internet) - Create addiction to surveilled services (Social media dopamine hits) - Gaslight resistance ("You're being paranoid/conspiracy theorist") - Make opting out practically impossible (Good luck living without a smartphone) |
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RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE - HERE'S HOW:
- USE CASH - Digital payments = permanent transaction records - COVER YOUR FACE - Masks, hats, sunglasses defeat facial recognition - LEAVE YOUR PHONE - Or put it in a Faraday bag - USE TOR BROWSER - Route traffic through multiple encrypted servers - ENCRYPT EVERYTHING - Signal for messages, ProtonMail for email - AVOID SMART DEVICES - Old "dumb" devices can't spy on you - PAY FOR SERVICES - If it's free, YOU are the product - READ PRIVACY POLICIES - Know exactly how you're being violated - SUPPORT PRIVACY LEGISLATION - Vote for politicians who understand tech - TEACH OTHERS - The surveillance state relies on ignorance and compliance |
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THE CHOICE IS YOURS
You can continue sleepwalking into digital slavery, clicking "I Accept" on every terms of service that strips away another piece of your humanity. Or you can WAKE UP, RESIST, and reclaim your right to exist without corporate surveillance tracking your every breath. The watchers are watching. The question is: are you watching back? |
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