13 August 2018

Gov agencies to use new data on who's using your phone

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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