Of all the privacy violations of the world we live in, this is the biggest for me. I do NOT want people keeping tabs on where I am, where I am going, and where I have been. This shit is big.
If there is one thing that I miss about the ‘good old days’ (and I am elder millennial born in the early 80s) is that while there were security cameras in various places at the time it was a lot easier to be relatively anonymous with many interactions in the past.
I need to make it clear. Privacy and people obsessing about privacy isn’t new. I read old Sears-Roebuck catalogs from pre-WW1 and one guarantee that they have is that the packaging they will send you is super private: As in, only your address and name is on it for the post office to deliver it to you and nothing else. Plain brown paper wrapping and nothing indicating what could be inside. It could be something as simple as clothes or kitchenware or stationary, or something spicy like firearms and ammunition (and they sold handguns very freely in their catalogs prior to 1918) . People in the old days didn’t want people to know what books they were reading, or much of anything. Privacy was a big fucking deal.
Of all the privacy violations of the world we live in, this is the biggest for me. I do NOT want people keeping tabs on where I am, where I am going, and where I have been. This shit is big.
If there is one thing that I miss about the ‘good old days’ (and I am elder millennial born in the early 80s) is that while there were security cameras in various places at the time it was a lot easier to be relatively anonymous with many interactions in the past.
I need to make it clear. Privacy and people obsessing about privacy isn’t new. I read old Sears-Roebuck catalogs from pre-WW1 and one guarantee that they have is that the packaging they will send you is super private: As in, only your address and name is on it for the post office to deliver it to you and nothing else. Plain brown paper wrapping and nothing indicating what could be inside. It could be something as simple as clothes or kitchenware or stationary, or something spicy like firearms and ammunition (and they sold handguns very freely in their catalogs prior to 1918) . People in the old days didn’t want people to know what books they were reading, or much of anything. Privacy was a big fucking deal.
What sort of device (and what internet provider) did you post this reply with because I’m afraid I might have some bad news
Not T-mobile.
Good, but there’s more to it than that. I’d argue the carrier is actually the least important part of this
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The carrier point is where they connect the persona to the person.
The Google/Apple account arguably does worse.
You can create a complete new Google account, using a burner phone paid in cash.
However, the PHONE is what is tracked, all the time, on the network.
You’re not wrong, just saying there’s a lot of data being stolen from most every device that most people use, regardless of carrier.
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