Although what the article describes is true, you do realize that it's a marketing advertisement for a book, right? Fear sells.
I've been aware of all this surveillance since the internet was first coming online in the early 90s. I know for a fact that I'm on a blacklist and that they watch me, even enter my home when I'm not here to snoop and steal, and use many of the people around me to keep track of me.
Most of the data they collect on you is through your use of phones and computers. I have no need for a phone and what I do on my computer is inconsequential to any crimes they might want to claim I committed. Why worry about these things if you aren't doing anything wrong?
You need to understand how the police operate and how the justice system works to understand how to protect yourself from them. Intimidation and fear, as well as your ignorance of the law, are their biggest weapons, not surveillance data. Your digital data is as much your savior as their source. Especially if you know that you're innocent of anything and take some preemptive measures that you can fall back on to prove it. Being arrested or even charged with a crime is not the same thing as going to trial and being convicted. If you know how to handle the police when they come knocking, and you know you did nothing wrong, you can end it pretty quickly. If they go so far as to charge you with something and take you to court, you still have a lot of things going in your favor, and can still walk away a free man if you're innocent.
I'm not going to tell you what to do because I don't expect that you would do them, and with some things I doubt you'll believe they're even true or would work. All I'll say is that none of what's in that article is new to me and I don't live in fear of any of it.
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Wow. Seriously? Enter your home to snoop just whenever? Crazy. Thats true. Ignorance of the Law is really your biggest issue. The data they collect can more than help you when in a bind. Well I knew soe of the articles points, and some of them I did not but suspected, in some Sci fi kind of way.
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Wow. Seriously? Enter your home to snoop just whenever?
For at least the last 15 years. They use local stooges who aren't very bright, so it's easy to detect. Last time I'm aware it happened was about a month or two ago. They always wait until they know I'm going to be gone for a while. I've observed people on the street who use text messaging to keep track of me. They're easy to spot as well. They're also easy to intimidate because they think I'm dangerous. I scared the street spotters off once I began to recognize them by the way they acted when I came by. Always the same pattern. They pull out their phones and read a quick message and then look around until they spot me. I started carrying a phone and taking their pictures, which always caused them to react with fear. I let a few know in passing that I knew what was going on, and it quickly stopped. No more phones coming out everywhere I went. I also put notes on empty police cars that were always parked on side streets to let them know that one of their targets was aware of what was going on. The police cars stopped being parked around the neighborhood and I didn't even see one drive by for several years. This is in the downtown core of a busy city.
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