Everything you do is being recorded

Post by harimau777 » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 1:51 AM UTC

forgetfreeman wrote: post #60

bamboozled wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree, you’re either a digital hermit or you’re part of the problem / system

The really obnoxious part is that with the possible exception of maps all of the other "services" touted as vital parts of a digitally connected existence are so enshittified at this point that the original value proposition for all of them is absent. So we're left with this zombie rhetoric around being disconnected while "connecting" means you spend hours every day staring at bot content and ads.

Post by bilegeek » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:06 AM UTC

neonstatic wrote: post #15

zhoBEENG wrote: post #2

Obama was promoting The Age of Surveillance Capitalism over seven years ago now. Industry insiders have known all this since 1999. Yet almost every single person I know carries a cellphone and drives a car with telemetry, things that are entirely optional. Most humans use Meta products regularly; also optional. For all the feigned outrage, people want this, and will work hard every day to pay for the next iteration o…

> For all the feigned outrage, people want this, and will work hard every day to pay for the next iteration of the surveillance apparatus. My sad realization is that the Buddhists were right all along. The primary drivers of human mind, before self-purification, are greed, anger, and ignorance. What you are describing here is greed. People want to get useful things for free. This is the core of the problem. If people…

Post by ticulatedspline » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:39 AM UTC

senshan wrote: post #163

jrexilius wrote: post #96

The original research project this company looks based on was very cool and way early: https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/jammer/

Thanks, very interesting. Basically the authors blast high-power (~92 dBA) ultrasound around 25kHz and hope that microphone non-linearities will overwhelm the audible signal. This will sure make all the dogs in 20m radius mad. Hence the solution for the stealth recorder -- bring a dog, then complain about the ultrasound jammer (or at least to be aware of a jammer) From the paper, it looks like the authors did not con…

Post by andai » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 3:01 AM UTC

margalabargala wrote: post #143

zahlman wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> their government installed AI traffic enforcement cameras all over What does the AI actually do? Identify specific cars and their drivers, or something? What actual enforcement actions were taken as a result, and against how many drivers before it stopped? One might wonder how much of the effect was placebo (i.e., people conforming simply due to the belief of being surveilled).

> What does the AI actually do? Identify specific cars and their drivers, or something? Yes, exactly. It identifies cars and drivers who are committing traffic violations, and issues citations. I don't have the specific numbers you ask for, seeing as I can't even remember the country, but it's not difficult to imagine that if sufficiently many such cameras are installed that most moving violations on major roadways a…

Post by deepsun » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 3:07 AM UTC

NegativeK wrote: post #133

toofy wrote: post #94

we desperately need a separation of corporations and state the same way we have a separation of church and state . we need a government that is antagonistic towards corporations that are abusing us. it’s wild how much influence they have and how little pushback the government ever gives them when they clearly abuse us from every direction.

We need PII to be so toxic that companies run screaming from the liability unless they have explicit consent[1] and a legit reason to house it. A company selling me widgets wouldn't store or let another company store extra information about me if it subjected them the widget seller to HIPAA. Or better yet, something more stringent. We don't need the government to be antagonistic toward corporations; we just need a go…