When it comes to your digital life, your 4th and 5th amendment rights to protection from illegal search and seizure and the right to open due process are gone.
Caitlin Johnstone just gave one of the best summaries of the world as it is, using the killing of the health insurance ghoul as a starting point. Really, this is the world. Push back in whatever way possible...
It's so ubiquitous that it is pretty impossible to avoid it. Like you, I'm not into apps -- the fewer the better. I believe the answer lies in sustained mass protest. Yet, most people will simply shrug and do nothing. I think it's important to keep talking about it whether people choose to listen or not.
I refuse to do banking or medical information online.
However, your article reminds me of why I received what I considered a rather invasive pat down when departing the Denver airport last fall on my return trip home to Michigan.
I told airport security repeatedly that I had an artificial hip (which I’m sure they could discern) and I had no more metal on my person than earrings and a nose stud. Yet they insisted on drawing me aside for a pat down.
Female security officer: Do you want to go to a room?
Me: No, do it right here so people can see you patting down a 70 year old grandmother.
I have curly hair and she felt all around under it. She felt under my breasts. “Is this your bra?”
Me: What the fuck do you think it is?
She did avoid my privates. Otherwise I’d be in jail for shoving her teeth down her throat.
We're gonna see a day soon where that will be happening randomly on the streets as a way to keep us "safe". God for you not going to a room and having them do it for all to see and for letting the officer know what you thought of the abuse.
Caitlin Johnstone just gave one of the best summaries of the world as it is, using the killing of the health insurance ghoul as a starting point. Really, this is the world. Push back in whatever way possible...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_w_kQ8V3Vk
It's so ubiquitous that it is pretty impossible to avoid it. Like you, I'm not into apps -- the fewer the better. I believe the answer lies in sustained mass protest. Yet, most people will simply shrug and do nothing. I think it's important to keep talking about it whether people choose to listen or not.
So very sad that so many no longer even notice the natural world.
Jenny, please tell me that the Camargue horses remain!
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Hi Mark
I refuse to do banking or medical information online.
However, your article reminds me of why I received what I considered a rather invasive pat down when departing the Denver airport last fall on my return trip home to Michigan.
I told airport security repeatedly that I had an artificial hip (which I’m sure they could discern) and I had no more metal on my person than earrings and a nose stud. Yet they insisted on drawing me aside for a pat down.
Female security officer: Do you want to go to a room?
Me: No, do it right here so people can see you patting down a 70 year old grandmother.
I have curly hair and she felt all around under it. She felt under my breasts. “Is this your bra?”
Me: What the fuck do you think it is?
She did avoid my privates. Otherwise I’d be in jail for shoving her teeth down her throat.
We're gonna see a day soon where that will be happening randomly on the streets as a way to keep us "safe". God for you not going to a room and having them do it for all to see and for letting the officer know what you thought of the abuse.
It is like we live in the Dream Time of 1950’s authors. Their dream of their future was terrifying. I am now in it and love it and AM terrified.