Privacy virtually impossible nowadays

[Geffers]

If one uses any of Facebook, whatsapp, instagram or linkedin privacy is effectively non existent.

Must admit I use whatsapp, it is either that or SMS contact as whatsapp is so popular.

This is an interesting video on how people who may think they are being covert are actually quite overt.

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Geffers

 

[Hitcore]

I also use WhatsApp, mostly to stay in touch with friends and family from my home country. On social media I have some presence, though not heavily. And a few message boards, including NZ. All of it combined probably would leave enough breadcrumbs that I could be monitored. If the Stasi had access to 2020s technology, they'd be having a field day. I wrote about something like that in this thread.

What's the remedy? Some communication apps are advertised with end-to-end encryption, but those often turn out to be compromised as well. Even if you don't use your real name, in the end nobody is anonymous anymore, all can be linked to your internet connection and phone number, which, in turn, can be connected to your credentials.

In the end, if you are REALLY serious about your privacy, you'd have to live pretty much without tech. Which, by design, has become increasingly difficult to maintain. Even then, from what I have heard, even if you live techless all your life, your name still pops up in like 150 different databases. And in the future it is only ging to get worse.

 

[Geffers]

With facial recognition you only need to appear in the background of a friend's photo uploaded to Google or icloud and that's it, anonymity gone. Plus some friend or relative will have your phone number, email, maybe birthday in their online calendar - no escape.

Can't undo what has been done, just have to play by new rules.

And it is all ONEs and ZEROs, amazing really

 

[Astro What]

In the end, if you are REALLY serious about your privacy, you'd have to live pretty much without tech. Which, by design, has become increasingly difficult to maintain.

Exactly this.
If you have an internet presence and think you MUST have privacy.. the two are not interchangeable.
You want privacy... stay off the internet. Hell, even stay off cellular phones.
Go back to land-line and written letters. And even with them you are not guaranteed privacy.
The only way to guarantee that is to find a mountain somewhere, buy a couple of thousand acres surrounding it and then live there with no outside contact by any means other than going into town to buy your necessities... and even then you don't have "privacy".

With the ease of getting around in society today, you have to be willing to give up some of your privacy.

 

[Geffers]

Exactly this.
If you have an internet presence and think you MUST have privacy.. the two are not interchangeable.
You want privacy... stay off the internet. Hell, even stay off cellular phones.
Go back to land-line and written letters. And even with them you are not guaranteed privacy.
The only way to guarantee that is to find a mountain somewhere, buy a couple of thousand acres surrounding it and then live there with no outside contact by any means other than going into town to buy your necessities... and even then you don't have "privacy".

With the ease of getting around in society today, you have to be willing to give up some of your privacy.

100% agree. Will technology drown in algorithms I wonder

 

[Retro]

I've been meaning to watch that video and then put my tuppence worth here.

Anyway, this was my singlepence worth.

 

[Geffers]

I've been meaning to watch that video and then put my tuppence worth here.

Anyway, this was my singlepence worth.

Singlepence - that is a nice word, like that one.

There are words and phrases that stick in one's mind, one I love is 'By fortuitous happenstance' often mean to use that in a post.

 

[Hitcore]

In the English language, when people give their opinion, they say along with it: "here's my two cents". But if we ask for somebody else's opinion, we say "a penny for your thoughts".
Does this mean that we value our own opinions twice as much as the opinions of others?

(Retro aside of course, a singlepence is very modest!)

 

[Retro]

Singlepence - that is a nice word, like that one.

There are words and phrases that stick in one's mind, one I love is 'By fortuitous happenstance' often mean to use that in a post.

Oh yes, I made up singlepence as it sounds silly lol. Doublepence is even sillier...

Please do use that in a a comedic setting and make us laugh!

In the English language, when people give their opinion, they say along with it: "here's my two cents". But if we ask for somebody else's opinion, we say "a penny for your thoughts".
Does this mean that we value our own opinions twice as much as the opinions of others?

(Retro aside of course, a singlepence is very modest!)

Never thought of that lol. It does rather imply it.

 

[Retro]

Right, I've not watched the whole video, but it's disconcerting how someone with the right knowledge and skill can identify an individual with very little information about them, isn't it?