Oh, they're true. There is more than enough solid data about this now. Recently I read that the world-wide business of selling stolen personal data is now worth more than the world-wide petroleum industry; I haven't attempted to verify that particular statement, but if true, it bodes even worse for the future. When there is that much money to be made, the scumbags come out of the woodwork looking for ways to get a piece of the pie.
The computer you typed your diyAudio post on might reveal more than you realize, from the approximate location of your house to a surprising amount of information about everything you've done on the Internet for months past. If you use Google Chrome, for example, or Microsoft's garbage 'Web browsers, they will be sending streams of information back to the mother ship as you browse.
Do you have a vehicle made in the last twenty to twenty-five years? It probably has GPS chips in it, snitching your location to various authorities everywhere you go. General Motor's OnStar service (launched in 1996, the same year George Bush mandated all cellphones in the USA carry a GPS chip) was an early example of vehicular spyware disguised as a luxury option.
There are probably a few people living in cabins in empty parts of the Yukon (or Alaska), still using dog-sleds and quad-bikes and snowmobiles for transportation, and still paying for things with cash, who might be nearly off-grid. For the rest of us, there is only so much you can do now, because the number and sophistication of entities trying to track everything you do is staggering.
-Gnobuddy
Haven't you signed some confidentiality clause ?
Personally i'm locked, but you won't be disappointed if not 😉
These intrusions into personal life are the most worrying factor in modern life ATM for me, and it does seem to have become accepted.
Arguments are usually offered by the organisations doing the gathering of information to the effect that they are doing it to improve their service to us, or in the case of governments to prevent and detect crime, or for security reasons.
Yesterday, as a month earlier, I withdrew some money from my bank account, and on both occasions was interrogated about why I was doing it and what I was going to do with it.
This is to me outrageous, coming from a system which we had to bail out from '08 onwards, and which is now showing a great reticence to finance the population in a time of great need.
Arguments are usually offered by the organisations doing the gathering of information to the effect that they are doing it to improve their service to us, or in the case of governments to prevent and detect crime, or for security reasons.
Yesterday, as a month earlier, I withdrew some money from my bank account, and on both occasions was interrogated about why I was doing it and what I was going to do with it.
This is to me outrageous, coming from a system which we had to bail out from '08 onwards, and which is now showing a great reticence to finance the population in a time of great need.
The downside of a "liberal" society? Listening to the politicians squirm when asked why they don't force the banks to cough up is laughable
Spying.
This is why they want all of us connected.
This infection is deeper than we imagine.
A month ago I went to the hospital for a wrist I feared broken in a bad stupid fall.
I am not used to hospital urgencies, but that was real bad.
Well, arrived at the hospital, I registered where they asked me for the data on my identity card and my social security card.
Then I went waiting, few minutes later I had my smartphone prompting me for an advertisement from some radiology lab. Amazing, I never received such ads, it could only come from my registration at the hospital, few minutes ago.
This hospital or the entire medical care system must be tapped to GAFA.
Scary.
This is why they want all of us connected.
This infection is deeper than we imagine.
A month ago I went to the hospital for a wrist I feared broken in a bad stupid fall.
I am not used to hospital urgencies, but that was real bad.
Well, arrived at the hospital, I registered where they asked me for the data on my identity card and my social security card.
Then I went waiting, few minutes later I had my smartphone prompting me for an advertisement from some radiology lab. Amazing, I never received such ads, it could only come from my registration at the hospital, few minutes ago.
This hospital or the entire medical care system must be tapped to GAFA.
Scary.
There was the "employment agreement" which restricted many things I could do or say regarding any "past, present, or FUTURE business interests of Motorola." I had a lawyer read the entire document every time it was revised and explain what I could and could not do in the electronics world outside of Motorola.
There was a clause that stated that "all secondary employment must be approved by Motorola in advance before engaging in such employment." She told me that I should not do that and it would be best to just "stay under the radar." I was building solid state audio and SS-50 bus computer stuff at the time. I left the video market when Motorola acquired General Instruments cable TV business.
A friend who was a mid level manager at Motorola was the kind of guy who liked to "whack the hornets nest with a baseball bat." When the BBS's were dying off and WWW was growing he went to the Motorola lawyer and filled out the paperwork for approval for his new part time business venture, he wanted to sell VHS porn tapes on the internet. After his request was ignored several times, he was TOLD (no paper trail) that the employment agreement was being revised, and he could go ahead with his venture. The company did not want paper association with controversial topics, porn and guns were the biggies. The revised agreement had no secondary employment approval requirement, but DID have the same "non compete" clauses with stronger definitions.
Even though Motorola did manufacture and sell HiFi equipment that used vacuum tubes in the past, and running Tubelab DID violate the "wording" of that agreement, she told me that I was likely safe. The "future" part implied that ANYTHING I did could become a "future business interest" if it was potentially profitable. Tube HiFi was OK, designing the ultimate ham radio was NOT, since it related to their two way radio business.
In 2013, I got the "letter you can not refuse" from the CEO. Long letter, short message, you are old, we no longer value your employment, go away. They offered a 6 figure number for me to go away that I accepted. This was to be paid out over two years, during which time the "current employment agreement" was still in effect. I break it, my "paycheck" goes away. That ended in 2016. I am now a free agent.
There ARE some RF device breadboards on my workbench that may some day morph into that ultimate ham radio.....no tubes, just the latest SMD RF tech.....something like what I did for 20+ years in my past.
I think we all understand about not being able to have any potentially competing business interest. I don’t engage in anything RF related outside of work, only audio, and nothing for sale at this time. But there could also be an issue with airing out a company’s dirty laundry. I know about the need to vent, and to call out stupid for what stupid is. But mentioning names could be hazardous to one’s health. They don’t like it when you mention that there is/was something in the water, particularly when it comes to proprietary processes such as a semiconductor fab. I know it’s not selling trade secrets to China, but some lawyer might interpret it as along the same lines.
Some buiness man (womens) are still in the place at more than 80 years old, do you feel that you were to old for engeneering ?
Yeah, you are probably right, but Motorola today is not engaged in semiconductor manufacturing and hasn't been in over 20 years.
They do not make cell phones either and haven't for 18 years.
All of the events that I speak of happened at least 25 years ago, and it is highly unlikely that any of the players are still with Motorola. Any of the tech that I mentioned is highly obsolete today.
They do not make cell phones either and haven't for 18 years.
All of the events that I speak of happened at least 25 years ago, and it is highly unlikely that any of the players are still with Motorola. Any of the tech that I mentioned is highly obsolete today.
No, but most of my "engineering" duties did not involve computer simulation and calculation. There were plenty of brilliant people for that. I was one of a few people who would take their paper simulated designs and make them into real products or prototypes thereof.
There were several arguments that our breed were not important in today's world because the simulation tools had become really good. Each time this came up I could fend them off by pointing out examples of serious flaws in potential designs that were overlooked by competent engineers without real world radio use case experience.
In the last two years of my employment our advanced research center had morphed into an IC design center, which does involve computation and simulation. I do not like that work, and prefer to actually build prototype hardware, but the machine shop, PC board fab, engineering component stockroom and most other support groups were being shut down. I liked my job when I actually MADE something physical, but those days were gone (offshore) forever, so I took the buyout and left.
I have visited the facility once or twice a year when we take a Florida vacation, and I'm convinced that I made the right choice. Due to the ugly virus, I may not go this year.
Often carrying water for a modern management layer of unqualified administrators and 'people' professionals. Corporations don't retain octogenarian wages out of an excess of humanity.
On my computers, I use Firefox, and regularly clean the system cookies, and block advertizing, etc.
I avoid Google crap mostly, and even prefer searches with DuckDuckGo.
I realize that there's always some form of "snooping" going on with the internet.
As for your statement about GPS, I think you're a bit off on the date/mandate thing... Because my 2002 cellphone does not have GPS, it was shortly after, perhaps 2004, when Kyocera started adding that tracking feature into their phones.
Nevertheless, the phone's only used occasionally, and sits on the charger 99% of the time - idle.
It's pretty pathetic that "the elite" or NWO group wants to crawl up everybody's azzes and monitor the masses.
As I've mentioned before, it's all about "control", as is marketing itself.
I fight it tooth and nail as best as I can, but never let myself fall prey to "the hype" others are prone to.
I used to think like that at first and figured out that if I’m not doing anything wrong or illegal there’s really nothing to hide.....anyway, since I quit drinking about 12yrs ago my life is too boring to keep anyone’s attention for very long!
Maybe it is time to re evaluate your position and read again '1984' or some 'cyberpunk' SF litterature.
The argument you use IS the main one used to justify what i consider as spying, i hear all the time from young people.
The real issue about it is when 'the elite' decide to change what is 'illegal' or 'wrong' to suit their needs, and have an opportunity to track your opinion, place you visited,...
Better be safe than sorry about that. 20th century prooved the risk and the reality of the threat in some place in EU. ( no politic from my side about it, just phylosophical point of view and historic facts).
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Are you retired or you still have to work the rest of your life ?
My work have also mutated that way and we have switched to pure coding and there will be no physical objects just code and only code.
Krivium, if anyone paid attention to how I operate they’d either see how wrong the rest of the world is or how nuts I am......either way, I’m ok with it! 😛
I also "don't follow the crowd".
As a young punk, I kind of did, no more.
I "woke up", saw what was going on, and decided to blaze my own path.
The feeling of freedom, the results, is so much nicer.
That's what's wrong with a lot of society these days - they've gotten so used to being "led" that they haven't a clue that they're merely puppets.
Dependency - on virtually everything - not to mention battery-operated devices. 😱
What about when you were a much younger man? Ever say or do anything at all that you might prefer to keep to yourself now?
Nah....I’ve learned of and am at peace with my insignificance. 😉
Never been a side taking kind of personality 😀
wot, the one I love is when people say ‘you can’t do that’......oh yah? Watch me! 😀
Never been a side taking kind of personality 😀
wot, the one I love is when people say ‘you can’t do that’......oh yah? Watch me! 😀
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