most countries have used this pandemic as an excuse to increase surveillance
here people are downloading a tracking app, drones, police and planes
are photographing people to report and fine those not obeying
federal police have owned they’ve been using
facial recognition software for ages
Please share your version of “surveillance”
in photos or creative writing in a post and link it here,
then read a few others to see how our world is changing!
picture is a drone hovering over the beach, seemingly photographing everyone …
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Guess every coin has two sides! So are the pros n cons of technology… mine is on a lighter note – https://myheart2heart.blog/2020/05/04/caught-unawares/
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yes a very unusual capture!
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I feel cold when I read about inviligation. You can have it anywhere. Also on the phone, smart fridge, free gadgets from the company, or chips implanted in the skin to get to work, etc.
greetings
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yes very sci-fi … no such thing as privacy anymore!
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Surveillance by the governments is becoming rampant. Here an app purportedly to keep track of covid is being seen as a surreptitious surveillance tool!
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our govt just had every mobile phone messaged telling us to download their tracking app … didn’t even say ‘please’!
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Same here.
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https://michnavs.wordpress.com/2020/05/04/surveillance/
I did it kate..💓
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well done Mich, what a mish mash your country has … love the poem, it hits home 🙂
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Ahh kate my country is filled with so much and so many that if you dont know how to take things easy you’ll get swayed by the system.
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I really have no time for such people, they are sad sick and dangerous!
Helps me to understand Gina’s comment about “private” surveillance … should be fines imposed …
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Sadly these kind of people basically lives around us back home…
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then I’m very glad you’ve moved away … life is too short to be round these people!
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There are actually some laws here about use on private lands. Our Hazmat team uses drones to look things over before sending bodies into dangerous places.
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oh I have no issue for those types of safety uses … very smart use!
It’s the constant blatant surveillance of the general public that concerns me … and why does amazon want that data?
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Did you know that some clothing in the 1970’s and 1980’s I think had little trackers in their clothes. It went along with I think if you paid with a credit card. You’d get more ads about the next sales from those stores to your home.
If you have a cell phone or a computer stuff is being tracked … Even if you turn the GPS off on your cell phone. My one son says they were able to find a missing person through their phone even with the GPS off and saved their life…
As with any modernization we need to take the good with the bad. Amazon… I’m guessing just for the sales tracking data.
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exactly and coz I blog I get heaps of u.s. spam … offering me online gun licenses, boat insurance … all those vital necessities I wouldn’t use even if I lived there [sarcasm]!
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That’s what the delete button is for… (sigh).
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https://geriatrixfotogallerie.wordpress.com/2020/05/03/what-do-you-see/
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thanks, interesting one!
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We can be tracked already via our mobile phone usage, this takes it to another level in the name of contact tracing. X
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😦 too intrusive, not necessary ….
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My view is a bit different Kate. I would really like to be doing something worth spying upon. But I’m not …
I’m waving to spies
Who don’t wave to me
I’m guilty as hell
But can anyone see?
They’re flying above me
Ever so near
They’re tapping my phone
But does anyone hear?
I must pay for my crimes
At the end of the day
So put me in custody
Put me away
Lock me up tight
Bury the key
The community needs
Some protection from me
They have my address
I’m not hard to find
I have evil thoughts
Aren’t they reading my mind?
I’m not paying taxes
I’ve had an affair
I’m taking drugs naked
Doesn’t anyone care?
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geeze pops I knew you were a bad boy but publicly admitting it … can you hear that siren!
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I just realised that my post from earlier this morning would have fitted your prompt as well: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/02/cat-on-a-dirty-car-roof/
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Somehow I feel more comfortable with the old-fashioned way of surveillance: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/02/from-on-high/
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Great to see someone speaking out about the tracking app. It’s amazing how many people have downloaded it. Maybe they think it’s a cure 😃 – you can get an app for just about anything now 😀😀😀😀
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I think they are merely complying to have the lockdown lifted … or maybe they are addicted to apps … thanks for adding your voice Suzanne!
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In Germany they are going to discuss the app to death because of concerns about data protection. By the time it will be operational (and probably fairly safe re: data yet still highly controversial and labelled as a step towards dictatorship) it might all be over.
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here millions have downloaded it already … may help with the virus tracking but we will get on top of the virus and by then the 24/7 surveillance will be well and truly established … it is a dictatorship!
Our govt sold data storage to amazon ….
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Yes to both of those reasons. Either way I’m not convinced about it.
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True! These are weird times. Everything is up for review.
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Eek. 😮 😦
Guess some people would say it is good and others would say not-so good or bad.
Reminds me of “Big Brother is watching you”…a phrase taken from George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eighty-Four. A friend of mine used to say, “If ‘Big Brother’ is watching…let’s keep him entertained.”
I’d enjoy reading people’s take on surveillance.
(((HUGS)))
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lol my summary on this post says just that “big brother is watching” … yes I’d like to hear also.
Govt stated so many millions had to download tracking app before we were released from lockdown. Many did immediately … I don’t have apps, don’t get them. But now they are stating that AI have already been tracking people …
Seems like they are telling us loud and clearly they are monitoring us all and if we don’t say NO, it’s like we’ve given them permission.
Now I have nothing to hide but that doesn’t mean I am willing to be watched and tracked 24/7! Seems Privacy is no longer possible!
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This sounds like watching a sci fi movie. Interesting and fun. 🌞
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private surveillance is forbidden here, one needs to get a permit. news agencies etc have strict guidelines so won’t invade someone’s privacy. be good neighbours, not spies. be mindful and kind not nosy. practice goodness and goodness will come back to you.
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no this is state surveillance, nothing private at all … only really seen that under communist regimes!
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