Data is the new gold / crude [oil], where you are the
product.
Briefly:
Since the early days of Australia, the administration keeps
fairly detailed documents on the inhabitants of the colony, where promissory
notes were born, but that's another story altogether.
The major difference being that in the early days the paper
trail was very costly and slow for the administration.
The first era of computing, while still costly (not that it
actually mattered, as the tax slaves were paying for their own surveillance), enabled central databases to be used and
accessed by the authorities, speeding up the information flow throughout the
agencies.
As technology progressed so did the data storage capacity on
each individual.
With the entry of GSM technology into the public arena, a
new level of surveillance was reached where the phone user could be tracked to
within a reasonably accurate area, something that the general population was
blissfully unaware of where this data was originally stored exclusively within
the telecommunications community, available to law enforcement upon request.
As mobile phone technology matured more and more electronics
were crammed into the humble mobile communicating device where today the following
censors are installed as seen in graphic below.
With the new sensors in place such as proximity,
accelerometer, gyroscope and light sensor new logarithms are being used to
identify individuals (front camera, biometric login aside) from the behaviour
logged by the user's phone.
The general population within Australia, are able to be very
easily administered by the authorities from a small population perspective and their
willingness to use the latest data gathering devices such as smart phones.
Together with other devices specifically designed to monitor
the user, such as credit cards, public transport and road toll ticketing systems,
smart meters, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, data logging new vehicles and
now the rollout of IoT (Internet of Things) the authorities of this [penal] colony
most likely know more about you than you do yourself (oops Minority Report 'conspiracy theory').
While many people may not have had a say or even been conned
into a smart meter being installed, even though at law it was not mandatory for
the 'customer' to accept the smart electricity meter or you may not have a choice
of an alternative public transport ticketing system, you do have a choice to not use a credit card
in many transactions and you do have a choice as to use the latest smart phone or
a 3G 'dumb' phone.
Most people choose to use a smartphone, as they have
justified its use for 'convenience' where the ultimate price you pay is with
your private and confidential data which is gathered and then later sold.
Also don't forget your 'reward' (like a good little puppy) points
for handing over your data when purchasing on credit cards
Ultimately it's you who is handing over 'your' phone data on
a silver plate to them.
Will you pay the jolly rogering price of $1800 for a new Samsung phone so that you can be monitored more easily?
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