Well said. Apparently you can't even walk up the street these days without being filmed by numerous door-bell cameras!
I don't recall giving my email address to the gov or my phone number but I've had emails and phone calls addressing me by my name in reference to covid jabs! I refuse my permission for the gov to know anything at all about me... including where I am, where I'm going and where I've just been (ANPR and general surveillance CCTV) for a start!
I'm disappointed that this has not so far prompted a thread
https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...isclosures-prompt-political-rows-across-world
... and even more disappointed.. and surprised I must say, that seemingly a majority have no problem with being monitored, watched. measured, collocated, rated, tracked etc etc by a conglomeration of big brother and big business.
I predicted over 20 years ago that with the march of technology it would become easier each year for big brother to keep an eye on us all, and that they would not be able to resist the lure of linking up various sources of data (unofficially of course
) and develop a virtually full spectrum surveillance of the entire population.
The internet of things (IOT) has made it all so much worse and I have no doubt that
as it is now possible for GCHQ/NSA/IDF etc (google? amazon?
) to hack into and link up things like peoples door bell cameras, shop CCTV etc along with use of credit cards, bus pass swipe cards etc, that in places like that London especially, it could happen that if they want to they could watch you from leaving your house, getting on a 45 bus, where you sat in the bus and where you paid to get off at, going into the tube network, which train you were on, and then follow you around Tesco's and know from the visa card record and till record exactly what you bought!! There have been all sorts of recent crime dramas and thrillers showing
nearly that extent of surveillance tech in use, and seemingly based on actuality in many cases.
As they CAN, then if they think they have a reason to I have no doubt they probably do! In the cases of people who are whistle-blowers, or dissidents, or in political opposition or investigative journalists raking muck on "the powers that be".... be careful! Be very careful... cos probably big brother IS watching you!
There has even been suggestion that such tech and techniques, and particularly the Pegasus tech linked to above, has actually been used in the state sanctioned murders of eg that Iranian general and a few others by drone etc when it seemed their security was watertight and non of their staff had leaked in any way. If we know Pegasus exists and was developed by a private company then what else don't we yet know about that may have been developed with far higher funding and secrecy by the likes of the NSA!?
Some of the plots in "Black Mirror" were so scary because they were sometimes set only say 10 - 40 years in the future and they were careful to show that the tech was only a little more advanced than what we now have... Too close to reality and getting more so as time passes!
... and while am at it... how long, with the march of tech, and self driving cars already being tested, before this black box etc locks all your doors, takes over the controls and drives you to the nearest police station as soon as the speedo hits 74 mph!?