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When a government is so entirely adamant on surveillance and tracking of its own citizens, what does that mean?
There is something very disturbing about the notion of technological advancements that now easily enable people-tracking to an extraordinary degree.
While one may ask, “What do you have to worry about – so long as you’re doing nothing wrong”, the fact remains that most of us are being watched and tracked throughout our day-to-day lives, while the vast majority of us are doing nothing wrong.
We have become numbers within complicated computer algorithms that are in real-time scanning for triggers and thresholds which could suddenly pop your ID into a category that you may not expect.
Here are just a few of the ways that you can be tracked.
Credit cards, ATM cards, grocery store discount and loyalty programs, department store cards, bank transactions, cell phone tracking, RFID chips, GPS enabled vehicle tracking, E-mail, travel – tickets, rental car, surveillance cameras, magazine subscriptions, memberships, affiliations, online habits, products you purchase, who you communicate with, on and on the list goes.
No doubt there is a government network operations center, maybe named the CWC (Citizen Watch Center), with a cavernous room whose walls and rows of computer monitors are filled with agents watching projected maps, dots, and lines of various colors and intensities, any of which can be zoomed in for a closer personal look and last known activity, location, and history.
This type of thing used to be fiction, only to be read in a novel or watched as a Hollywood movie. I’ll betcha that it exists today, somewhere.
The point being, as our liberties continue to rapidly erode around us in our former democracy, we should be very conscious about the fact that nearly everything we do and everywhere we go is being recorded in a digital database somewhere, and is being analyzed by our own governments computer systems based on their own definitions of good and bad and in-between, not your definition.
Surely this is not going on everywhere, yet, but here in the US, no doubt that it is.
A recent story on wired.com sheds some light on the subject of Americans being tracked.
Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans Credit Cards in Real Time
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When a government is so entirely adamant on surveillance and tracking of its own citizens, what does that mean?
There is something very disturbing about the notion of technological advancements that now easily enable people-tracking to an extraordinary degree.
While one may ask, “What do you have to worry about – so long as you’re doing nothing wrong”, the fact remains that most of us are being watched and tracked throughout our day-to-day lives, while the vast majority of us are doing nothing wrong.
We have become numbers within complicated computer algorithms that are in real-time scanning for triggers and thresholds which could suddenly pop your ID into a category that you may not expect.
Here are just a few of the ways that you can be tracked.
Credit cards, ATM cards, grocery store discount and loyalty programs, department store cards, bank transactions, cell phone tracking, RFID chips, GPS enabled vehicle tracking, E-mail, travel – tickets, rental car, surveillance cameras, magazine subscriptions, memberships, affiliations, online habits, products you purchase, who you communicate with, on and on the list goes.
No doubt there is a government network operations center, maybe named the CWC (Citizen Watch Center), with a cavernous room whose walls and rows of computer monitors are filled with agents watching projected maps, dots, and lines of various colors and intensities, any of which can be zoomed in for a closer personal look and last known activity, location, and history.
This type of thing used to be fiction, only to be read in a novel or watched as a Hollywood movie. I’ll betcha that it exists today, somewhere.
The point being, as our liberties continue to rapidly erode around us in our former democracy, we should be very conscious about the fact that nearly everything we do and everywhere we go is being recorded in a digital database somewhere, and is being analyzed by our own governments computer systems based on their own definitions of good and bad and in-between, not your definition.
Surely this is not going on everywhere, yet, but here in the US, no doubt that it is.
A recent story on wired.com sheds some light on the subject of Americans being tracked.
Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans Credit Cards in Real Time
If you enjoyed this post, or topics of emergency – disaster – preparedness, consider subscribing to our survival blog RSS feed or E-mail notification of new posts on the Modern Survival Blog
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S.510 Government Food Grab, What’s Next?
California Legislators in Maui! In Your Face!
North Carolina Gun Ban During Hurricane Earl
Hold On To Your Wallet Here Comes The Tax Man
Posted on Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:16:26 +0000 at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ModernSurvivalBlog/~3/IsqMwDZ5fJg/
Comments: http://modernsurvivalblog.com/curre...ics/you-are-being-tracked-real-time/#comments