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Do not hold any conversation around your cell phone that you would not want broadcast to the world, and store your cell phone in a freezer or microwave oven in a ziploc baggie. That's all I've got for ya.

I'll see if I can get some of that EMF foil to line a pocket with, but since I carry my phone at work, I can't keep it in a microwave.

Although, I like the implied threat =)

I think what we need are phones with very simple switches, physically cutting the circuit to mics, cameras, etc., when we're not using the phones.

I haven't seen any effort to make such devices. They could be made surveillance proof, in the sense of cutting power to mics and cameras when not in use by physically severing connection to the battery with a switch, but where's the profit in that?

Sales would be brisk, but phones are loss leaders. The real money in in the surveillance data.

Curated for #informationwar (by @openparadigm)
Relevance:Panopticon

when the subject of 'regulation' or 'laws' is brought up...I wonder who's going to watch the watchmen...and then remember the FBI...and waco.

You should see China's big cities. Camneras applying face recognition practically everywhere. And when the lower orbit satellites are up, they'll be able to penetrate through the walls and see what people do. No satellite serves only one purpose.

I feel crowded in the village I live in now.

I don't think I'd do well in the Chinese Social Capital System.

You'll have to. They intend to chinesify Europe. I don't know about US or other parts.

I do not have to. I can fail at anything!

How is that?

I don't even have a bank account. I am ready, willing, and able to just vanish back into the forest, where I am at home.

Social Capital isn't a currency I depend on for much, in the way the system intends. I fix things for people, and more often that not get paid in chocolate chip cookies, rather than money.

Real social capital - the gratitude of my neighbors - isn't able to be conveyed by an app controlled by centralized authorities, and since I already don't depend on financial institutions, I wouldn't even notice the kinds of blacklisting they can impose.

Enjoy while you still can.

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That is very much disapproved by me, and many on Steemit.

I am certain that English, the most commonly used language on Steemit presently, is not your native tongue. That can make it very challenging to post and comment effectively, but I assure you it is far better to try to make cogent comment than to rely on one that you paste regardless of the content you are commenting.

I highly recommend you do your best to make substantive, salient comments on the posts you do comment. Google, and others, have translation services you might find helpful.

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