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The War
on Your Personal Privacy Being Waged by Government/Wall Street
A governmental system led by dictator[s] having an all seeing eye over its
citizenry, complete power,forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry,
social media, etc., and emphasizing control beginning from
birth.
‘1984’ Became Firmly
Entrenched w/ Passage of Patriot Act
The United States
began spying on its citizens long before the Patriot Act. It is one of the reasons I don’t use ‘smart’
phones, devices such as Alexa or Facebook. It begins at birth with the now
mandatory issuance of your Social Security Number [aka: socialist slave number]
which used to be optional and at the discretion of parents if they decided to
claim you as a tax dependent. [I was the last of my generation, for instance,
to be issued a military ID number on my Dog Tag; now the military uses your
SSN].
Today
that number is virtually required for entrance to schools, getting a drivers
permit, obtaining social services, or even turning on your utilities or as some
have said, it is the mark of the
beast. [Unless you’re an illegal of course…they seem to be able to
obtain services regardless thanks to Left-leaning government agencies].
The days of zero privacy [ex-CIA director,
former Communist supporter, liar to Congress, etc., John Brennan told everyone
this when he went before a Senate hearing] for citizens began in earnest with
our Echelon program where our government effectively lied to the public about
its covert spying program. In reality,
its allies, Great Britain and others, did the spying and turned over its files
to US agencies.
Americans
used to enjoy the protection of the Privacy
Act of 1974 but our government effectively threw those acts out the window
with the violations included in the so-called joke we’ve re-named ‘the
un-patriot act’ which eliminated all protections citizens once enjoyed.
Domestic
digital surveillance has often seemed to be a threat endured mostly by the
social media generation, but details have continued to emerge that remind
us of decades of sophisticated, automated spying from the NSA and
others.
Before the
government was peering through our webcams, tracking our steps through GPS, feeling
every keystroke we typed and listening and watching as we built up complex
datasets of our entire personhood online, there was still rudimentary data to
be collected. Over the last fifty years, Project ECHELON has given the
UK and United States (as well as other members of the Five Eyes) the
capacity to track enemies and allies alike within and outside their
states. The scope has evolved in that time period from keyword lifts in
intercepted faxes to its current all-encompassing data harvesting.
1988: The NSA
and its partners had arranged for everything we communicated to be grabbed and
potentially analyzed.
The
program reportedly utilized massive ground-based radio antennas to intercept
satellite transmissions containing the digital communications of millions. It
then relied on its content-sensitive dictionaries of keywords and phrases
to scour the communications for relevant information.
In
February of 2000, 60 Minutes published a report detailing the existence and
scope of ECHELON. Mike Frost, a former spy for Canada’s NSA-equivalent, CSE,
told the host just how large the program’s reach really was, “Echelon
covers everything that’s radiated worldwide at any given instant.”
It’s
important to frame automated government surveillance as an issue of our
lifetimes rather than short-sightedly confining its influence to the
advent of the mainstream internet.
It is now
abundantly clear, thanks to internal documents leaked by Snowden, that the program exists, but what is unclear is what
that means. PRISM and XKeyscore certainly represent a more
shocking invasion of the information we have digitally presented, but
ECHELON shows us that the privacy of our communications have indeed always
been under attack…
Pres.
George Bush Jr. simply put the final nail in our collective coffin to ensure no
US citizen had any privacy left…”terrorism” was lame excuse-a dozen Saudi’s
screwed over nearly 300 million Americans in more ways than one and the
political elite and technocrat-industrial community have pushed for and
profited from this encroachment ever since.
Public Safety Tax
You
and I have been paying various taxes for the invasion to our privacy too-don’t
forget all the extra fees you fork over each time you “get your junk” groped by
friendly TSA folks at our airports…who by the way, despite an $8 billion budget
have never caught a single terrorist!
Below you will find several reports and resources I think
you might find useful in the government/special interest’s war on your privacy:
Recording
Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Governments
Within the next few years an
important threshold will be crossed: For the first time ever, it will become
technologically and financially feasible for authoritarian governments to
record nearly everything that is said or done within their borders—every phone
conversation, electronic message, social media interaction, the movements of
nearly every person and vehicle, and video from every street corner.
Governments with a history of using all of the tools at their disposal to track
and monitor their citizens will undoubtedly make full use of this capability
once it becomes available.
What
does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance?
The parallel between Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon and
CCTV may be clear, but what happens when you step into the world of data
capture?
The
parallels between the panopticon and CCTV may be obvious, but what happens when
you step into the world of digital surveillance and data capture? Are we still
“objects of information” as we swipe between cells on our smartphone screens?
Unlike the Panopticon, citizens don’t know they are being
watched
Jake
Goldenfein, researcher at the Centre for Media and Communications Law,
University of Melbourne, tells me it’s important to remember the corrective
purposes of Bentham’s panopticon when considering it as a metaphor for modern
surveillance.
Future
Attribute Screening Technology Fact Sheet
With the Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) system, the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate
(S&T) seeks to improve DHS’s ability to quickly and objectively screen
individuals for malintent. FAST combines cutting-edge behavioral and
physiological science with deception detection theory and state-of-the-art
sensor technologies. It is designed to be used at checkpoints to help security
officers identify individuals for secondary screening.
State-of-the-art biometric identification system to keep
Americans and their families safe.
NGI
affects all FBI criminal history programs, including the National Crime
Information Center (NCIC) and the National Instant Criminal Background Check
System (NICS). With the Interstate Photo System, part of NGI, the FBI has
improved image-searching capability of photographs associated with criminal
history. The system supports better facial recognition and identification of
scars, marks and tattoos.
Data Scraping.
It involves
tracking people’s activities online and harvesting personal data and
conversations from social media, job websites and online forums. Usually,
research companies are the harvesters, and sell the compiled data to other
companies. These, in turn, use these details to design targeted ad campaigns
for their products. While one might argue that people are knowingly sharing
personal details on social media and thus, it’s free for everyone’s use, data
harvesters don’t ask for the owner’s consent. And this raises an ethics as well
as an online privacy problem.
One strong case
for serious online privacy violation took place in May 2011. Nielsen Co., a
media-research company, was caught scraping every message off PatientsLikeMe's
online forums, where people talk about their emotional problems – in what they
think is a safe, private environment. As you can imagine a lot of people felt
their web privacy was violated.
Facebook apps
leaking personal data.
It has been
reported several times that certain Facebook apps are leaking identifying
information about those who are using them, to advertising and Internet
tracking companies. And without the users having a clue!
Here’s how the
“leakage” works: during the app’s installation process, you are prompted to
accept certain terms, and once you click “Allow”, the application receives an
“access token”. Some of the Facebook apps are leaking these access tokens to
advertisers, granting them access to personal-profile data such as chat logs
and photos. However, no disclaimer is showed announcing you your data is being
transferred to third parties. Thus your online privacy and safety are put at
risk.
Examples of apps
that have been found to leak identifying information include FarmVille and
Family Tree.
Online social
tracking.
We all use the
“Like”, “Tweet”, “+1”, and other buttons to share content with our friends. But
these social widgets are also valuable tracking tools for social media
websites. They work with cookies – small files stored on a computer that enable
tracking the user across different sites – that social websites place in
browsers when you create an account or log in, and together they allow the
social websites to recognize you on any site that uses these widgets. Thus,
your interests and online shopping behaviour can be easily tracked, and your
internet privacy rudely invaded.
Pre-crime Detection
A Japanese company has developed artificial
intelligence software that hunts for potential shoplifters in order to head them
off before they commit a crime. The program scans video surveillance footage
looking for certain factors—fidgeting, restlessness and other potentially
suspicious body language—in order to spot potential criminals. This would allow
store personnel to approach the potential thief and engage him or her with a
question. Knowing he’s being watched is often enough to deter a potential
shoplifter. It’s currently testing its product in “a few dozen” stores in
Tokyo. The company, Vaak, is looking to expand into other markets. Vaak is also
working on a video-based self-checkout system that would scan consumer behavior
in order to better market products to them.
Android users’ security and privacy at risk from shadowy
ecosystem of pre-installed software, study warns (Thomas
R.)
“The study shows, on the one hand, that the permission model on
the Android operating system and its apps allow a large number of actors to
track and obtain personal user information,” it writes. “At the same time, it
reveals that the end user is not aware of these actors in the Android terminals
or of the implications that this practice could have on their privacy.
Furthermore, the presence of this privileged software in the system makes it
difficult to eliminate it if one is not an expert user.”
From warrantless wiretapping, your
so-called Smartphones which track you with GPS, your online automobile GPS
systems [anything built after 2010 can be monitored by the government] RFID tag
implanting to track casino chips, livestock/pets and even children plus our
secret FISA courts [favored by Obama to target Trump and eventually launch the
Mueller Investigation] we are no longer the land of the free…
Advance
Question Answering for Intelligence of AQUAINT is an AI system being groomed to think like a human being and will be fused into
another technology called FAST or FUTURE ATTRIBUTE SCREENING TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM
which is secretly being tested at sports stadiums, airports, malls, etc. to “identify terrorist activity before
it takes place.”
But as most
of us know-nearly everyone, especially our own citizens according to edicts
from Homeland Security…including returning Veterans, fundamental Christians and
others are now suspect!
With no
regard to the Constitution FAST tech devices monitor folks who walk by
establishing an electronic “handshake” with their mobile devices and copy
whatever data is on that device without their knowledge. MI State police got caught using a similar
technology on highway motorist pullovers.
Drivers were justifiably angry to learn their cellphones had been
scanned without their permission and all of their private contacts had been
downloaded to police files!
Finally, I sure would urge citizens to avoid
purchasing any of the DNA kits being
advertised on TV. Despite promoting
“privacy” there have been several instances where police agencies pressured
these firms into handing over private data to allow law enforcement to proceed
against suspects…
The US Government is monitoring us in 7 more ways than we ever
imagined...
It's a tiny suitcase-size device that acts as a fake cell tower.
The system, installed in a vehicle, (so it can be moved into any
neighborhood) tricks all nearby phones into connecting to it.
Once connected it tracks your every move and steals ALL of your
data. In many states, these devices are available to ALL local law
enforcement via state surveillance units.
They CAN and ARE watching you.
There is only one way to stop them...
The right to personal privacy is a right held by all American
Citizens…
But that right has been COMPLETELY IGNORED by the very people
sworn to protect it.
Go to
this link to get a FREE copy of “Avoiding the Eye.”
Yours in Self Reliance,
Bruce ‘the Poor Man’
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Useful Resources
In years past
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In the Chinese culture, there are four great inventions
that are celebrated. You may have recognized them at the Beijing Olympics as
they made an appearance at the games. They are: papermaking, printing, the
compass, and gunpowder.
In other words, it wasn’t as benign as the ‘just for
fireworks’ claim that often gets thrown around. The mix was created by
alchemists looking for an elixir of immortality...
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4 comments:
Most people, especially the younger generation, have been socially conditioned not to care about having their privacy violated. They walk around with their head in the sand & their ears glued 24/7 to a so-called 'smart' phone and if that phone is stolen or compromised, their world falls into a sinkhole, they are lost...one reason I never use one.
We truly live in a world where the government resembles China more than a free nation-frightening.
Hopefully, folks will read this useful blog AND what I've shared with others...this freebie to help protect your privacy:
Phil Zimmermann was deeply concerned about the state’s growing ability to spy on the average person.
He’d discovered a clause in Senate Bill 266 that allowed the government to engage in mass surveillance of the American people. That’s why he released his email encryption software for free online.
He also made the computer source code public, so other people could publish the software on their own websites as well:
https://download.cnet.com/PGPfreeware/3000-2144_4-10015289.html
Helluva an outline of burrs under our collective saddle-the gov/industrial complex has been sticking it to us in the name of profit & control regardless of our Constitution and I am afraid it is beyond redemption. Nonetheless, I do my best to keep my head low!
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