Screw you, Privacy!

Another intrusion. Surprise! And you can't - cannot - opt out. This use of facial recognition is used in NY as well.

"PennDOT uses state-of-the-art facial recognition technology when an individual has their photo taken for their driver's license/identification card renewal."

The state sells this data, and they also purchase facial recognition databases from Amazon and FB as well. It is a simple programming matter to collect all your photo data in a file, and train their AI technology to identify and follow you through a network of cameras that Ajit Pai is ensuring will be both in the home and in all public places by 2020. 5G will be the information backbone for this unprecedented volume of dynamic data. Places like Hudson Yards are currently being used as testbeds for developing the algorithms for surveilling public spaces.

YOU. CANNOT. OPT. OUT.

You can't even hide your face.

Did I mention that your IRS and passport information are also connected to your driver license file? And that the existing law is that you cannot travel if you have any "serious" financial issue with the IRS? Your passport and/or drivers license rights are suspended until the IRS bill is settled.

I can't believe citizens still don't see this juggernaught coming.

Period, the end, goodbye.

Power, Families, Networks, Persistance and Cronyisim is not Capitalisim

The rich don't just get richer, they stay richer...

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-1427-are-still-the-richest-families-in-florence

 I was reading an interesting article on the wealthiest 129 families in the world, in that list are the DiMedicis and other old, old families. You've heard of many of them. Rothschild. Astor. Anyhow, that article also concluded that if you're in this group, you stay. 

What I'd like to note is that the ONLY nation in the history of the world that has created new wealth and new elite families in that list has been America, due to our (now practically completely dead because: replaced by cronyism) philosophy of Capitalism.  Yeah, your read that right - philosophy first, economics later. Bad things can and have been attributed (and misattributed!) to capitalism but it is the only system that allows new families into this elite class. This is good - it is what we want! You want in, right? Or your kids? Or your neighbors? Just so that its not a closed group - it should be open to those who aspire and work and succeed. But its not.

Many think it is a problem that once you're in this group, you're in. I agree, I think its this "stickiness" that led to the destruction of the positive parts of American capitalism and ushered in a progressing, nearly invisible adoption of deadly, dreaded, unfair and corrupt practices of cronyism. The ultra-wealthy can and do buy politicians to wield political power in their own interest - not yours! - and created a web of loopholes over time that destroyed the system for everyone. 

Most recently, as the wealthy elite + newer, modern billionaires and their companies discovered the value of their controlling the personal data of us peons, they have been stealthily acquiring it without any regard to morality, lawfulness or invasion of privacy. I do not believe that this would have been allowed if we had been able to hold onto our Constitutionally-based, uncorrupted American government. Even socialist Europe has restricted this collection of private data - and you'll notice America isn't even trying to adopt the European privacy safeguards. Because FB and Amazon and Google founders and their families are getting very, very wealthy and they want to keep their wealth. And power.

Cronyisim = danger for you and me, power and money for the monied and wealthy 0.001%.

Google Wants to know If Your Phone is On You!!

Google introduced on-body detection with Lollypop OS. People like it because it seems innocuous, like everything else they offer, and convenient. Lovely!

But it does this:

"On-body detection will get better the longer you have it enabled as it will continually collect data on your walking patterns."

So you eventually won't be able to hide your location or confuse the algos by trading phones with others. 

If there is a change in your movement patterns they will diagnose you whether you like it or not. This is already in place as of January of this year. Dementia, aging, schizophrenia, depression, agitation. The list can be endless. Big medicine will love it because once diagnosed you will be forced to be treated. Current state of affairs is that new diagnostic methods detect Alzheimer's years before symptoms begin. Years. The patient protesting this diagnosis is meaningless. And you'd better get treated or you'll be costing everyone else money - it'll be your social duty. 

Likewise for ADD, PTSD, and other psychiatric maladies. They are all being studied right now for correlations with movement, sentence construction complexity, spelling and syntax error freqyency, use of "angry" or violent words or concepts, and typing patterns. No one is protesting the huge potential for misuse of this highly invasive technology, nor its intense privacy invasiveness. Most people do not know this information is even being collected much less judged. Did you?

Small moves add up to huge consequences. Everyone I talk to says, what do I care? I'm not doing anything illegal! Hmmm. Its not about dealing drugs or hatching crimes. That's a red herring.

People forget the natural, adversarial nature of privacy. In general - each of us doesn't need privacy in order to hide illegal activity, because the vast majority of people don't carry out illegal actions (stealing office pens is not the issue!). You need your privacy to compete with others who want to take your resources, most definitely including government and businesses.

You. Need. It. Protect it. When its gone, its gone, baby.

Health and Wellness Monitors in your Home!

I already hear you thinking, "Well, of course I will opt-out of this invasive nonsense!"

No. No you will not. You will not be allowed - even if you have no health insurance, you will not be able to. Because evetyone will have single payer insurance, and therefore if you skip care you will cost everyone else money. So you better comply with their diagnosis.

Compliance with the constant health monitoring will become your "social duty", enforced by government and your brainwashed peers, because you may be refusing monitors because you are mentally unstable, using illegal drugs, suicidal, or an unknowing danger to yourself. Additionally, you may suffer an accident in your home - a leading cause of death! - or have a stroke, or a sudden CO2 leak. A meteor may crash through your ceiling, or a rabid raccoon may burst through your window, and you would need immediate help. Only sensors can help you! We mandate you must have them!

Look at what I received for a job description. They want me to apply:

"The SPHERE project (a Sensor Platform for HEalthcare in a Residential Environment), fully funded by several government grants, has been developing a unique integrated platform of sensors to deploy in people’s homes to monitor their health and wellbeing during everyday life. Within this exciting interdisciplinary project we are looking for an exceptional candidate to strengthen our data mining capability".

This technology is coming! No one is as scared as they should be. When you receive your first mandatory intervention for your diagnosed, previously unknown mental disease, your first required colonsocopy or lung CT, your first diagnosis of "impending Alzheimers" along with mandatory instructions to take medication (which will make you tired and woozy) and have a required check-ups every 3 months ... then you will believe this can indeed happen in your lifetime.

Don't think you will be able to refuse the medication either. Drugs now have RFID trackers in the pills themselves to monitor your compliance. Don't think you can refuse the medication - you will be fined. At best.

Your personal agency is going....going....uh oh, its gone.   :(

your cheerful friend and ray of sunshine,

Regina