Betrayed by Tech: The Startling Reality of Surveillance, Manipulation, and Your Privacy
Here is a section of an article I submitted to 2600 Magazine, a hacker publication, that censored parts of my writing. To read the complete uncensored article, head over to https://deltacharlie.tech/
We all love technology. One interesting thing about technology is that it’s become weaponized. When Edward Snowden revealed the surveillance programs the US used against everyone, it really got people thinking. What’s frustrating to me is years later, the average person knows they are being surveilled, and simply doesn’t care. “That’s the world we live in.”
I believe privacy is a right we are born with, not a privilege granted to us by a government or some other entity. But not only are governments the ones who are tracking us through our devices, big companies are as well...and are sharing all that data with other companies and governments. My point is, with every advancement in technology, people are adopting it in a dopamine fueled reaction to convenience and better quality of life. As technology gets better, it collects more and more personal and physical data about you. That data gets compiled and profiles are created and sold to data companies like Cambridge Analytica. This is the ammunition governments use to influence your decisions, thoughts and behavior. This agenda is pushed through the mainstream media and social media networks who cooperate with government. This makes people vote, get emotional, buy products, etc.
Unless you properly secure your phone with something like GrapheneOS, and use Linux at home instead of Mac or Windows, you are literally a lab rat being watched and experimented on. I think the EFF article every issue is phenomenal and I wish more hackers would get behind privacy rights, personal freedom and liberty rather than gender identity, pronoun clarification, race relations and expensive social programs. The reason I say that is because personal freedom and liberty value the individual, rather than groups of people. Comedian George Carlin values the individual above all else, and despises groups of people because groups want to control your language and that’s how you control thought.
To read the complete uncensored article, head over to https://deltacharlie.tech/
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