TrumpCoin, Britain bans banter, China hacks the US Treasury, Tony Blair cares a lot (about digital ID), US police FaRT on rights, Suk in South Korea Pt. 3, the All-Seeing Allstate
Love your stack but it's clickbait to say "Britain bans banter". It's the British parliament considering a bill to ban banter. Not saying it won't happen, but might as well refrain from exaggeration.
Totally fair point, and thank you for reading. My original title for the segment was "Britain's bantz ban" but my reader of first resort and chief critic (my wife) suggested that non-Brits wouldn't know what "bantz" meant. So while I was going for alliteration and clarity rather than clickbait, you're right to say that it's not entirely an accurate segment title.
I'll be more precise going forward. Thanks for keeping me honest.
AI, the tracking devices in new(er) cars and even tires, toll roads/toll tags, big cities and the multitude of cameras that cover nearly every corner, cameras on major highways, airports, our cell phones, laptops, and so many different electronic devices that people have in their homes…
I shudder to think about the gigantic databases that house all this data because you know someone has aggregated all available data. It’s the exact reason I drive a 25 year old SUV, avoid any devices/appliances that can connect to my WiFi save for this blasted iPhone (soon to be history!), I’ve stopped flying anywhere, and I live totally off grid. 🤣 It’s a bit of comfort but if the poop hits the fan, they have a lot of unwoke data on me to easily label me internment camp ready!
Well, most of all I'm flattered and grateful that you venture back on-grid every week to support this humble endeavour, so thank you.
As for the data question, it all goes somewhere, and the nature of data as opposed to more traditional surveillance material like audio tapes, reels, video and film, is that it is far more reproducible and storable over the long term. The carrying cost of authoritarian surveillance is much lower now, I would suggest, compared to the manpower, physical space, and paraphernalia that was required, for example, by the Stasi in East Germany. When that economic 'benefit' accrues, and the product of the surveillance can be instantly transferred and stored in multiple places, and parsed for incriminating content automatically instead of by needing a human operative, we're looking at a decidedly different picture than in the past.
Cases like Allstate in Texas show just how vulnerable we are, as users of portable devices, to seemingly innocuous tracking and logging that can have negative consequences in our daily lives.
When this sort of information is simply 'out there', indefinitely, it just takes a change of management or government, or a malicious database administrator, to make life unpleasant.
Love your stack but it's clickbait to say "Britain bans banter". It's the British parliament considering a bill to ban banter. Not saying it won't happen, but might as well refrain from exaggeration.
Totally fair point, and thank you for reading. My original title for the segment was "Britain's bantz ban" but my reader of first resort and chief critic (my wife) suggested that non-Brits wouldn't know what "bantz" meant. So while I was going for alliteration and clarity rather than clickbait, you're right to say that it's not entirely an accurate segment title.
I'll be more precise going forward. Thanks for keeping me honest.
AI, the tracking devices in new(er) cars and even tires, toll roads/toll tags, big cities and the multitude of cameras that cover nearly every corner, cameras on major highways, airports, our cell phones, laptops, and so many different electronic devices that people have in their homes…
I shudder to think about the gigantic databases that house all this data because you know someone has aggregated all available data. It’s the exact reason I drive a 25 year old SUV, avoid any devices/appliances that can connect to my WiFi save for this blasted iPhone (soon to be history!), I’ve stopped flying anywhere, and I live totally off grid. 🤣 It’s a bit of comfort but if the poop hits the fan, they have a lot of unwoke data on me to easily label me internment camp ready!
Well, most of all I'm flattered and grateful that you venture back on-grid every week to support this humble endeavour, so thank you.
As for the data question, it all goes somewhere, and the nature of data as opposed to more traditional surveillance material like audio tapes, reels, video and film, is that it is far more reproducible and storable over the long term. The carrying cost of authoritarian surveillance is much lower now, I would suggest, compared to the manpower, physical space, and paraphernalia that was required, for example, by the Stasi in East Germany. When that economic 'benefit' accrues, and the product of the surveillance can be instantly transferred and stored in multiple places, and parsed for incriminating content automatically instead of by needing a human operative, we're looking at a decidedly different picture than in the past.
Cases like Allstate in Texas show just how vulnerable we are, as users of portable devices, to seemingly innocuous tracking and logging that can have negative consequences in our daily lives.
When this sort of information is simply 'out there', indefinitely, it just takes a change of management or government, or a malicious database administrator, to make life unpleasant.
I really enjoy your humble endeavor. We all start out somewhere and I hope more people catch on to what you provide each week!
Totally agree with you on the rest here. Evil doers and plotters abound and they won’t be suppressed for long, if at all.