Tell them how governments, employees and scammers buy from data brokers the data collected from apps in their phones to surveil, blackmail or scam them. Do a research and send them a good summary with the links. When a told my brother in law about this, he was stunned. He's still using his phone as always lol, so don't have too much expectations.
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I've had a bit of success with this - a cousin for example was shocked by a report I sent him about the RTB system - but I worry that if I send too many of those kinds of info then people will think I'm some kind of conspiracy theorist. ๐ฑ
I sometimes wonder if NordVPN has done more for the privacy cause than anything else, purely for the sheer amount of advertising.
But most of their claims are false. And how does it do anything for privacy. And if you say obscures your ip address.
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You're basically studying viral pathology and immunology at that point. Remember how restaurant little can be for making and for vaccinations in American culture?
On top of it taking the slightest effort ... We basically have to settle the solutions and then invite or incentivize them into it, which is hard when you're against disinformation networks with better fundling.
Not to say it's hopeless. Just that the incentives in a highly individualized society captured under surveillance capitalism are misaligned.
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I can use an sdr to read your water meter and determine how often you go to the bathroom, shower, wash your clothes, and when you're home and it's not illegal. I'm allowed to follow you around and take your picture as much as I want to. I can print off as many pictures of you as I want in public and wallpaper my whole house with your face and body, there's nothing you can do about it. I can do an 8 hour video essay about you and share this with everyone. As long as the info is publicly available (or not in most U.S. states), it's legal.
Damn. that is creepy. Similar to the comment someone else left about stalking....
Maybe I'll so a series of case studies via the blog - thank you for sharing this!
You could get charged with stalking.
In my state it's not stalking if you don't make any threats. You don't have an expectation of privacy in public. That's the argument they use with license plate cameras and other warrantless survelance, tracking, facial recognition, etc.