The problem is that when you express the slightest concern about your privacy being erroded people start calling you a conspiracy theorist and talk about how “privacy is helping criminals”.
Or they say we feel too self-important, and what are we hiding. Also, I notice the propaganda has grown to be obscenely annoying. That's one thing they do with our data.
My dad told me in 1970 when cable TV was coming out he said that if a cable can bring a signal into your house the cable can also take a signal out of your house I pretty much lived my life in accordance to that since then
You’ve always got the group that says ‘if you’ve got nothing to hide, then you shouldn’t be worried.’ They don’t see a lot of this as problematic. It’s ‘for safety’ etc.
Czech Republic here. Well, in 1980, there were state security agents listening to conversations in pubs, some of our telephones were bugged, some of our homes were bugged, too. Some of your friends were informants. Then the communist dictatorship fell and we were glad to have our freedom again. And today? Today, people here happily pay for and subscribe to products and services that place microphones in their own homes and listen and record everything they say. Not even our recent history taught us the lesson. To say that our privacy has eroded is an understatement. Big thanks for trying to remind the people of what's important.
Goodness, Dress up the option with sparkles and people can be convinced to do anything. Let me know if you ever want to come on the show to talk about what things were like in 1980 where you're from, it could be an interesting conversation.
It was reported that it was Canadian bank CEOs who suggested to the present government to freeze personal bank accounts of people involved in the Truckers protest in the winter of 2022. I went to my bank, TD, to EXCHANGE funds from my bank account, to 20 toonies...to have on hand for charity as there were many people "begging" at busy intersections in 22/23. In addition to my bank card verification, I had to swipe my credit card, while the distraught teller appeared to be keying in info on multiple forms etc Once home, I phoned the bank and a manger picked up...something about money laundering ... that the teller must be new... TD is now under US Justice Dept Investigation "focused on how Chinese drug traffickers allegedly used TD to launder at least US$653 million, and bribed TD employees to do so. TD did not directly confirm the report, but said its anti-money laundering defences had been deficient."
Thanks for this comment. I've always thought Havel's Czechoslovakia was some sort of miracle and I wish the same peaceful overthrow of Totalitarianism could be accomplished in the USA. I regret to hear that things are getting worse in Czech Republic.
If we were in 1974, and instantly transported into 2024, we would be aghast at what is taking place. Today, people just install, install, install, caring zero about to what they are agreeing. It is like using Alexa. I have asked friends and family members: "Would you eat in a restaurant, where they had microphones on the tables?" Their answer is "Of course not." But yet they put Alexa's microphone in their homes, listening to everything that is said, and likely making a record of everything that is said, and who said it (based on voice prints). Alexa is just the microphone and modem that sends your dialogs to Amazon's powerful servers that do the rest. So even when I have explained that they put a microphone (Alexa) in their home that listens to 100% of every spoken word, they do not care. But they will not eat at a restaurant if the table had a microphone. Agrh! So it seems that as long as the customer gets a pinch of dopamine from having fun with the spyware service, countless customers care zero about their privacy.
The worst thing is that people today need thorough explanation about why they actually need to preserve their freedom of speech. And even after the explanation, most of them won't even raise their finger when another slice of freedom is taken away from them.
They have a false sense of security on two fronts: 1) If they don't say Alexa, they think it's not listening. They seem to forget that it has to listen to hear the command. 2) If they have not done anything wrong, then it does not matter. They fail to see the big picture where Data Brokers will sell to whoever pays them money, and this leads to bad actors getting enough information that they can steal your identity. Even if you do everything possible to protect your accounts, they now have enough to just call the businesses (e.g., Bank) and trick them into thinking it's really you.
@@InfoSecGuardian I have explained #1 to them. They do not care. Another issue is that mayors, governors, 3-letter-agency officials, etc, have Alexa in their homes. CEOs of Fortune 500 companies have Alexa in their homes. Now they can be blackmailed -- or -- at a minimum, influenced. Even if they are not illegally coerced into yielding to corrupt demands, they can be influenced with advertising and marketing and "coincidental" meetings with foreign agents, etc, because people with access to their home's dialog will know far more about them -- both personally and professionally. Even TV personalities and Hollywood star-makers can be compelled to say and do things, because someone who has their home's dialogs can pull their strings. And if a nobody becomes a somebody, you can bet that Amazon's executives will be able to quickly produce a dossier on them. So when that nobody becomes someone worth milking, Amazon's executives will have the goods on them.
George Orwell (1984) could do a better job than TH-cam. In fact, he forswore this all coming.... I still laugh at the fact 'we are in it today, and yet we must still be educated on the same platform that destroys privacy" Whats wrong with this picture? Answer: we left it far too late.
After what happened that Friday (remember?) I keep telling people "Keep using cash" if the ATMs stop working if something happens to the internet, electronic money will be worthless, and credit and debit cards will be worthless too...
"Do you have something to hide?" a friend asked me when I mentioned this. "Yes, I do, my data and my privacy!" I responded. I am in the process of putting CALYXos on a new phone and Linux Mint on my computers. I'm not a nerd and this is a steep learning curve at my ripe old age of 76, but I am taking it upon myself to learn about privacy. I'm also abandoning most social media. I did just fine without it for most of my life and I will do just fine without it again. They have gone too far. I also took a sledge hammer to all my Smart gadgets. Bye Alexa.
and who do we blame for this ? Not users that's fore sure, we never blame ourselves, only others for lack of protecting us, because its more convenience.. Bloody convenience...
Well, if one lacks coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, control, corporate communities, and opulent opportunities... they have NOTHIN'. No influence, no power, no voice, and no agency. 💪😎✌️ #schlaves
ya is it,,,,, Users should be changing,. but they refuse to In fact i even did diagram.. It all points back to users sharing.... so why blame others ? We cannot understand it, because we 'are in it' That's the problem, and will always be the problem. When 'profits come before people' until we understand that, privacy will be eroded more.
People no longer think anything is creepy. My condo complex wanted to put cameras around a very safe, small complex. I was the only one to raise the 'creepiness' (in addition to expense and time). I was asked 'what do you have to hide?' and no one backed me up. There are videos everywhere, especially every home, with people posting images of the slightest thing, then the car cams, poles, ugh...
Thanks Naomi, it's true that the baseline has dramatically changed over the last years. Thank you for your relentless support for privacy and digital civil rights, it can be very hard at times to keep fighting the good fight, that I know - you're an inspiration to keep fighting ✊
Part of the problem with these service agreements is that you don't have a choice, i.e. if you don't agree you can't do your job so you don't have a choice but to accept
Followed a few years later where they "Update" the user agreement, and if you don't agree, you can't use the updated program and you loose everything you had.
True,,, but you always have a choice of fulling in accurate info.. You gotta be careful, but how much is your privacy worth to ya? not much it seems We all talk about it, but where is the proof.. ?
NAOMI BROCKWELL .You do not realize just how much your channel means to me. A hundred" thank you 's ",doesn't scratch the surface. As things continue on the road to technology as being a benefit to mankind, it has become the slave master of humanity. When will we all just live in peace with each other and work together to prevent our demise ?
And fighting it implies what ? sharing MORE info online? Backwards talk Using tech to protect us as a gateway to give up more info because we are hidden by ToR, Signal, VPN's and other juicy tools which are basically "gold mines and could double dip and not know it"?
I'm bothered by camera's recording me when I buy something in the self-checkout isle. Many times there is no other option to checkout at a regular cashier. Documentary film-makers typically rely on their subjects forgetting the camera is present. It's as if I'm experiencing this same phenomenon and it's a new normal that's not normal. I'm glad you're speaking up for privacy and I just bought your ebook. Thank You.
I went into my bank recently and the bank manager asked me into his office. He asked me how my golf was and had I enjoyed my recent day at an adjacent golf course. At the time I thought it a bit creepy but realised I'd given my credit card details away. On the pretext of helping me he said I should come in later that week to plan use of money I had swilling around in my current account. We arranged an appointment and I went in and had a meeting with his assistant. She showed me a video with some guff about the banking group etc. designed to impress. In the video the narrator said" we will treat you as if you are a fraudster but don't worry we're doing it for your own good" I stopped the video and said " if I reverse this sentence and tell you I'm going to treat you as a group of thieves, but don't worry I'm doing it for your own good, how would you feel"? And I walked out.
Terms of service are never there for the benefit of the consumer, but to insulate companies from legal repercussion. I may be cynical by some peoples' standards, but this is the only logic that makes sense to me. I wish people would keep in mind that "Cloud" merely means "remotely hosted". If we kept that in mind we would perhaps also keep in mind that our services and data aren't in our control. Buzz words and how technology is described changes our views and attitudes towards them, which can be detrimental.
I love your videos. They're so funny. You used "respected" and "government" is the same sentence. LOL. j/k. Great content as always. I'd love to see you do another video like you did about convincing your friends to abandon SMS, but about how to get your friends to start caring about privacy. My friends laugh at me because, "That horse is out of the barn." I'd love to get them to care enough to do the basics.
Web server software typically logs visitors by default. It's probably been like that from around its beginning. It logs IP addresses and that string that gives Browser name OS name etc.
@@utubepunk Get an EMF meter and check the radiation from a cell phone, also many cell phones list the SAR level today or you can check the SAR level online for almost any cell phone.
Yep. If one is in any of the 14 eye countries, your fucked in terms of privacy. If one is in the five eyes this is especially true; aka Australia, New Zealand, United states and United Kingdom. Obviously; zero privacy in any dictatorships eg; China.
What bothers me the most is how it is possible that the rights given to us can be signed away. They should be set in stone. Any document/contract signed can not take your rights away.
That would be great... then we could trust companies/governments, but that's a fantasy world to think they actually care about people's privacy. No company is going to turn "DOWN" a million dollars. That's where people should be taking notice first. If they can't get it, don't move on until you do get it,. Because if you just side step what we cannot understand, we are choosing to ignore everything else.
Yeah, I am sick of it. It's a full time job keeping track of all these company/apps policy changes, finding out what rights you have, and how to exercise them. And they give you a week to address it, then ask you to send the request with your previous email, provide more personal info etc. Life is busy enough without all this. I've decided I will only be eliminating apps from now on and sharing less. I have a backlog of these damn updates from companies that are near impossible to do without now that every business and institution has adopted them. I am also wondering if there is a printer out there that is also not surveillance. Printing from a library computer is intense surveillance and I want a better option.
We're forced to sign service terms regardless. Terms of service are oxymoronic. I couldn't access my health insurance website without signing terms I do not agree with. Forced to sign under dress because I had to access this website for the insurance that I pay for.
I think there's pretty good standing in US law (although IANAL) that any agreement signed under coercion is not valid. So I would guess that if you bought a cell phone, or a TV, or a car, and you weren't allowed to use it until you signed away your privacy rights in a EULA or ToS agreement, then that would be considered coercion. The problem is that until there are class action lawsuits that take these matters up to the Supreme Court, the companies will act as if they are perfectly legal and continue the spying.
@@vulpo And if it does get to the supreme court, the companies get a laughable fine and continue doing what they're doing. People always applaud when companies get fined 200 or even 500 million for this kind of thing but never think about the 5 or 10 billion they made from it. Those fines are calculated risks. Completely meaningless. Until they start fining them a certain percentage of their net worth, nothing will change. Also, where is this money they get fined going? Do the victims get it as they should?
And everyone please note that the government encourages this corporate techo-spying because it allows the government to do an end run around the Constitution and spy on everyone with absolute impunity. That is because of past Supreme Court rulings that allow companies with data about individuals to share that data with the government without a warrant. The companies are "encouraged" to share the data due to the enormous power the government wields through the IRS and regulatory agencies. This is the beginning of an Orwellian Fascist state.
With the advent of EVERY destination/move a person makes in the world today, it is bought and sold by data brokers, it is so much easier to hack into databases. Long are the days where brute force is/was needed and you needed plenty of computing power and time to get to the same results.
Of course. Automated computer code can EEEAAASILY filter you, your words, your content, and your entire "digital existence" into oblivion. 💪😎✌️ One bit shift and that's it... YER DUNZOH, SUNZOH. It's a little like ban-happy social media "admins" who click a button and your entire volume of posts over multiple years are vaporized. Nothing you can do about it, either.
How can we create an address that is not considered PO box or equivalent? I voted and all my information was published on the web without my consent including address.
That's another example of how perception of privacy has changed. People now think adresses and phone numbers are sensitive information. Those used to be considered public information about you. People even got sent a big book with all that data of all the people in your area. In the 90s you could even get it on CDRom.
If we use screen time/content privacy restrictions to block changes to “account and password changes” without a pw will thus setting still hold even if someone does a sim swap ?
For a long time, as the price of Chanel increased, I no longer thought I could afford it. I think I'll be happy that I have the kisluxs as my travel bag that I don't have to take care of. By the way, I'm sure no one will have a hard time telling the difference. Thanks for the comparison.
Everyone is talking about the loss of privacy, but no one seems to be talking about WHY the stealers of our privacy are doing it. And it's very simple. Silibandia (Silicon Valley plus the broadband and media industries plus their feeders in the bot farming, dark web, VC, PE and cybersecurity industries) want money, power, control -- all the things you get when you have masses of people down on your plantation. We have this new thing - our digital selves, the digital twin of our physical selves - and we live our lives more and more in digital space. Silibandia wants that digital space to be their plantation.
You cannot fight the wealthy and powerful unless you are MORE rich and have more strength, resources, etc. THINK ABOUT IT: when two factions go to war, the wealthiest one with the most resources, tech, personnel, and gear *always* prevails. An individual simply cannot defeat a corporation of many. That's just how it is, and you MUST accept it. #copium #schlavery
It's only a matter of time before mandatory cameras in our homes becomes reality. We went from laws blocking cameras in apartment blocks to a proposal to put cameras in apartment stairwells in like 5 years. And with a big portion of people somehow liking the idea of having the biggest data hoarding company's (Google) IOT cameras in their own homes, when will that be "within reason" to mandate?
Big Brother has been here for a lllooonnng time. But even if there was a way back then to avoid such an Orwellian tragedy, that moment has long expired. Now, humanity must accept its poor choices. #copium
9:13 This is a utopia I could wish for, but know is literally impossible with the psyche of humans. I really appreciate you not making our black pilled views deepen, but instead provide an optimistic approach
Most people just don't care. Whenever I talk about these things to family , friends, coworkers they just blow it off as conspiracy and say it doesn't matter. Also, you should do a video showcasing the company F U T O. They provide great software, like gray(nospace)jay, FUTO keyboard that is amazing and also futo voice. The company itself provides many grants to privacy oriented companies to help out.
It's all in perception, that starts the time in which we were born. Even then memories can be short, and bias can have a great effect. These are exploited in a variety of ways, mostly for power and control. If people are ignorant to the past, there is no way to know if they are really in the steam bath set to broil. It's something I've seen in my professional career(it's in construction). It's just as bad as privacy(and related), that is government regulation. In 30 years I've seen things go from being easy to get approved, to almost impossible to get anything approved. If you just starting out in today's regulatory environment, you would assume things are just fine. Just like kids in todays internet, they have no idea what the early days of the net were like. Or a world where if you wanted to see a friend, you would stop by, or give them a call. Texting was something you did in school, under the duress of a getting a good grade. That was to teach you to be able to read and write. So you could write letters to people who lived too far away, to contact by any other means.
I'm talking to everyday regular people in stores and on the sidewalks so to speak on the street at work and so many people are becoming aware of what's going on except for the very youngest in our generation that are adults, they couldn't give two shits about anything other than being glued to their cell phone. But many people are becoming nostalgic for how things used to be, some are actually taking action for their privacy even if it means getting different operating systems for their phones and their computers and using an actual Palm pilot which you can still buy brand new in their original packaging on eBay by the way if you're interested. F* apps, smart phones, MS and all spying.
Wow. This is a good point. I still drive an 01 Accord because it’s mostly analog enough. It was on the beginning of modern diagnostic thresholds but not so much that it could send gallons of data by itself. I don’t have an Alexa or Google device like that because it is an always on microphone that has not been proven to be secure. I trust Apple more because they couldn’t decrypt the iPhone for the FBI years ago. But I don’t trust them completely. Police even have devices that can listen through walls now. Warrant requirements may not be high enough to prevent it from being used. 😮
I want to know why or how if I take an ugly or embarrassing picture of myself, even accidentally.. it gets immediately auto-data-collected and 3rd parties may even see it.. then also gets implemented onto the youtube algorithm. It leaves me humiliated and despairing, my flaws exposed to the world, publicly humiliated.. Not understanding why and not wanting to accept this.
As far as I'm concerned this compliance with the government makes these companies not companies anymore. They are now government agencies. The bank isn't a 3rd party owned by a standard citizen. They are for all intents and purposes government employees.
My shifting baseline has me mostly removed from the Microsoft ecosystem and anything 'cloud' back to local premise! I am tired of being cooked by post purchase EULAs.
I’m the worst for this I know it goes on and even preach about it but use my phone for everything don’t use cash anymore use the cloud and so forth, so what you recommend??? Be nice to hear your thoughts
Pretty much every piece of softwares have a Terms of Service that if you disagree you will be denied services. In multiplayer games voice chat via the game in-built software is recording your voice, and can punish you even when you are playing privately with friends. Even single player game requires an account to play, like wtf. All of this sicken me. It prompted me to study programming. It is an uphill battle (I studied translation and interpreting at school, not IT) but at the very least my brain is thinking for itself, for myself. At least I am still alive.
So there is a balance needed between platform moderation and just straight spying. I think platform moderation is incredibly important for the protection of people. Particularly with AI services such as LLM and Generative AI. But I do agree these moderation implementations should be done in such a way that isn't just straight spying. And that is a hard line to walk to be fair.
There's no problem with Microsoft monitoring the sound in a room, listening for "Alexa". But that should be as far as it goes. They shouldn't analyse what they hear or store it for future use. That road leads to people being prosecuted for what they say in their own homes or what they say being used to send them targeted advertising. That's unwarranted intrusion (in my view) into areas that should be (and we assume are) totally private. That's why I turn off my tablet when I'm not using it, and don't leave it in standby ...I just don't trust big companies.
And, you think the mobile device where the battery cannot be removed can actually be turned off? How sure can you be of this? If you want privacy, these devices should not be in your house. Or store them in a faraday bag. Devices like Alexa should not be in anyone's house. If you own one, and it's listening in your house, you deserve everything that comes with it. Privacy and devices like phones/tablets, smart tv's and god forbid, Alexa or any other so called smart home device do not go together.
@@pythontest512 Can you buy a normal tv anymore, or are they all smart? Maybe I want an antennae. I love my SLNT bags. Oh, I'm repeating myself, but it's worth knowing people like and DO use them.
@WizardOfWor I guess it depends on what you want to do with the computer. I like the Brave browser Libre Office Calibre eBook program VLC media player GIMP photo editor There are others.
The young generation need to stick up for themselves, they are the ones causing all this because to them it all seems normal which it isn't. Same goes to all the countries going through the so called cashless society. People these days are getting far too lazy to stop at a ATM and withdraw cash which is untraceable.
The UK is THE worst country in the world for surveillance. especially since these doorbell cams that record (illegally) on public roads and paths yet the police or local councils arent interested.. More cameras on roads than ever, they now have sound cameras too to fine people whos cars make too much noise(NO IM NOT LYING)
I’m surprised no one has brought legal action against these corporations yet given the fact that legalese and intentionally opaque language disproportionately minorities and those with a non-standard vocabulary.
Plus they change the terms of service without your knowlegde or consent. If they do inform you, you're told not agreeing will terminate your service. It's like, how is any of this legal?
I completely agree, this topic should be the main one in the current presidential elections. Have you tagged Elon Musk in "X" with this video to ask for help in a public discussion? Let's address it together?) This is our last chance. USA now are Russia 10 years ago. #LastFlashMobOfFreedom )))
6:30 We're still having this problem with science across all sorts of fields to this day 🤦🏼♀️ Unfortunately not every one who publishes is actually intelligent and not every one who is actually intelligent publishes.
It's not that literally everyone is OK with this. I'm not. It's overwhelming. Surveillance became overwhelming and omnipresent, privacy invading technology became impossible to avoid in life. Your video has been insightful, but you missed an angle: What is a fish supposed to do? As common users, that's our place in the metaphor, we're not the marine scientists, we're helpless as fish caught in a net.
No, in the metaphor privacy is the fish. We are the empowered scientists. What can we do? Make better choices. Choose products that respect users. Stop fuelling the surveillance by using companies that harvest your data. Challenge the status quo. Push back. Voice your opinion. Advance the development of privacy tool. Support those already creating privacy tech.
Naomi, you do such an outstanding job of codifying simplifying the issue. We need to get you a bigger megaphone. My guess just a guess is that the closer we get to national the more influential the government will become in muting the message. I hope not. ✅ What can be done? ✅ What can each of us as individuals do? ✅ How can we make this message remain relevant today? ✅ How can your privacy remain in your hands tomorrow, and going forward in the future?
it's like when we got told something buy a smarter richer living person we would remember it, but we all died with that kind of knowledge except a few greedy ones "they did not give like the rest that died" who ate good and lived longer now the greedy ones are now the givers of knowledge
Nearly Anything online then you have no privacy. Worse, many Pay for IoT junk like camera(s) *in* a home to connected to Comcast or ADT that watches you to start and has huge security problems with firmware, back end software or both so 3rd parties can view and more.
The problem is that when you express the slightest concern about your privacy being erroded people start calling you a conspiracy theorist and talk about how “privacy is helping criminals”.
People in this thread too! We'll keep fighting though 💪
Wait, you don't want the government and a bunch of corpos to know what you're thinking at all times?
Who hurt you?
What's the difference?
Or when you want to make a comment about 'it', often times, it's not seen by any one but yourself.
Or they say we feel too self-important, and what are we hiding. Also, I notice the propaganda has grown to be obscenely annoying. That's one thing they do with our data.
My dad told me in 1970 when cable TV was coming out he said that if a cable can bring a signal into your house the cable can also take a signal out of your house I pretty much lived my life in accordance to that since then
why is this so deep
You’ve always got the group that says ‘if you’ve got nothing to hide, then you shouldn’t be worried.’ They don’t see a lot of this as problematic. It’s ‘for safety’ etc.
Nono, they dont mean "Ive got nothing to hide", they mean "Ive got nowhere to hide"
Govt hiding stuff, yet MSM never says government evilness is all to common.
… I noticed you’re wearing clothing 🤨
@@Elemblue2 on the internet.. cos we're all in one place ? I so hate that analogy, and shouldn't even exists...
Czech Republic here. Well, in 1980, there were state security agents listening to conversations in pubs, some of our telephones were bugged, some of our homes were bugged, too. Some of your friends were informants. Then the communist dictatorship fell and we were glad to have our freedom again. And today? Today, people here happily pay for and subscribe to products and services that place microphones in their own homes and listen and record everything they say. Not even our recent history taught us the lesson. To say that our privacy has eroded is an understatement. Big thanks for trying to remind the people of what's important.
Goodness, Dress up the option with sparkles and people can be convinced to do anything. Let me know if you ever want to come on the show to talk about what things were like in 1980 where you're from, it could be an interesting conversation.
It was reported that it was Canadian bank CEOs who suggested to the present government
to freeze personal bank accounts of people involved in the Truckers protest in the winter of 2022.
I went to my bank, TD, to EXCHANGE funds from my bank account, to 20 toonies...to have on hand
for charity as there were many people "begging" at busy intersections in 22/23.
In addition to my bank card verification, I had to swipe my credit card, while the distraught teller appeared to be keying in info on multiple forms etc Once home, I phoned the bank and a manger picked up...something about money laundering ... that the teller must be new...
TD is now under US Justice Dept Investigation "focused on how Chinese drug traffickers allegedly used TD to launder at least US$653 million, and bribed TD employees to do so. TD did not directly confirm the report, but said its anti-money laundering defences had been deficient."
Thanks for this comment. I've always thought Havel's Czechoslovakia was some sort of miracle and I wish the same peaceful overthrow of Totalitarianism could be accomplished in the USA. I regret to hear that things are getting worse in Czech Republic.
@@michaelm1 Don't embarrass yourself. You don't know what A.I. is.
Please consider that Michael. I think it would be a good reminder.
This video has been shared across all my social media platforms. Thanks so very much for sharing and keep up the good work, Noami. ❤
Thanks for sharing!
facebook is so strict I'm afraid to say most things cause I don't want to get shadowed
If we were in 1974, and instantly transported into 2024, we would be aghast at what is taking place.
Today, people just install, install, install, caring zero about to what they are agreeing.
It is like using Alexa.
I have asked friends and family members:
"Would you eat in a restaurant, where they had microphones on the tables?"
Their answer is "Of course not."
But yet they put Alexa's microphone in their homes, listening to everything that is said, and likely making a record of everything that is said, and who said it (based on voice prints). Alexa is just the microphone and modem that sends your dialogs to Amazon's powerful servers that do the rest.
So even when I have explained that they put a microphone (Alexa) in their home that listens to 100% of every spoken word, they do not care.
But they will not eat at a restaurant if the table had a microphone. Agrh!
So it seems that as long as the customer gets a pinch of dopamine from having fun with the spyware service, countless customers care zero about their privacy.
The worst thing is that people today need thorough explanation about why they actually need to preserve their freedom of speech. And even after the explanation, most of them won't even raise their finger when another slice of freedom is taken away from them.
They have a false sense of security on two fronts:
1) If they don't say Alexa, they think it's not listening. They seem to forget that it has to listen to hear the command.
2) If they have not done anything wrong, then it does not matter. They fail to see the big picture where Data Brokers will sell to whoever pays them money, and this leads to bad actors getting enough information that they can steal your identity. Even if you do everything possible to protect your accounts, they now have enough to just call the businesses (e.g., Bank) and trick them into thinking it's really you.
@@InfoSecGuardian I have explained #1 to them. They do not care.
Another issue is that mayors, governors, 3-letter-agency officials, etc, have Alexa in their homes.
CEOs of Fortune 500 companies have Alexa in their homes.
Now they can be blackmailed -- or -- at a minimum, influenced.
Even if they are not illegally coerced into yielding to corrupt demands, they can be influenced with advertising and marketing and "coincidental" meetings with foreign agents, etc, because people with access to their home's dialog will know far more about them -- both personally and professionally.
Even TV personalities and Hollywood star-makers can be compelled to say and do things, because someone who has their home's dialogs can pull their strings.
And if a nobody becomes a somebody, you can bet that Amazon's executives will be able to quickly produce a dossier on them. So when that nobody becomes someone worth milking, Amazon's executives will have the goods on them.
George Orwell (1984) could do a better job than TH-cam. In fact, he forswore this all coming.... I still laugh at the fact 'we are in it today, and yet we must still be educated on the same platform that destroys privacy"
Whats wrong with this picture?
Answer: we left it far too late.
After what happened that Friday (remember?) I keep telling people "Keep using cash" if the ATMs stop working if something happens to the internet, electronic money will be worthless, and credit and debit cards will be worthless too...
"Do you have something to hide?" a friend asked me when I mentioned this. "Yes, I do, my data and my privacy!" I responded.
I am in the process of putting CALYXos on a new phone and Linux Mint on my computers. I'm not a nerd and this is a steep learning curve at my ripe old age of 76, but I am taking it upon myself to learn about privacy. I'm also abandoning most social media. I did just fine without it for most of my life and I will do just fine without it again. They have gone too far. I also took a sledge hammer to all my Smart gadgets. Bye Alexa.
On Rick and Morty, while Rick is watching on TV the 9/11 attacks, he says: 'an excuse to take away our freedom'. He is spot-on.
Thank you for your important work for human rights, Naomi. Respect.
Phones, apps, bank cards, digital money, websites, tablets, and computers are open windows through which everything is surveilled. 👀
and vehicles!
@@jimbosanderDon't forget home appliances. Refrigerators hear everything.
and who do we blame for this ? Not users that's fore sure, we never blame ourselves, only others for lack of protecting us, because its more convenience..
Bloody convenience...
@@Tech-geeky Not clear if that's sarcasm, or if you're saying we should blame the customers/users and ignore there's no oversight of privacy.
So sad the road we are going down. When I explain these things to people, they do not seem to care.
Well, if one lacks coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, control, corporate communities, and opulent opportunities... they have NOTHIN'. No influence, no power, no voice, and no agency. 💪😎✌️ #schlaves
ya is it,,,,, Users should be changing,. but they refuse to
In fact i even did diagram.. It all points back to users sharing.... so why blame others ? We cannot understand it, because we 'are in it' That's the problem, and will always be the problem.
When 'profits come before people' until we understand that, privacy will be eroded more.
People no longer think anything is creepy. My condo complex wanted to put cameras around a very safe, small complex. I was the only one to raise the 'creepiness' (in addition to expense and time). I was asked 'what do you have to hide?' and no one backed me up. There are videos everywhere, especially every home, with people posting images of the slightest thing, then the car cams, poles, ugh...
the slogan 'our homes were once protected' is no longer.
Thanks Naomi, it's true that the baseline has dramatically changed over the last years. Thank you for your relentless support for privacy and digital civil rights, it can be very hard at times to keep fighting the good fight, that I know - you're an inspiration to keep fighting ✊
I really appreciate you being here supporting the content by watching and sharing the message!!
Part of the problem with these service agreements is that you don't have a choice, i.e. if you don't agree you can't do your job so you don't have a choice but to accept
Followed a few years later where they "Update" the user agreement, and if you don't agree, you can't use the updated program and you loose everything you had.
Corrupt corporations with copious carts of cash control it all. 💪😎✌️ Be rich. Else, you MUST accept that you are a *schlave*.
True,,, but you always have a choice of fulling in accurate info.. You gotta be careful, but how much is your privacy worth to ya? not much it seems
We all talk about it, but where is the proof.. ?
NAOMI BROCKWELL .You do not realize just how much your channel means to me. A hundred" thank you 's ",doesn't scratch the surface.
As things continue on the road to technology as being a benefit to mankind, it has become the slave master of humanity. When will we all just live in peace with each other and work together to prevent our demise ?
So glad that it's helpful!
Thanks!
Thanks so much for your support, it's really appreciated!
Saying surveillance is New Normal implies therefore we must accept it , live with it , deal with it. No...we say , Fight it, dismantle it, f#☆k it !
And fighting it implies what ? sharing MORE info online? Backwards talk
Using tech to protect us as a gateway to give up more info because we are hidden by ToR, Signal, VPN's and other juicy tools which are basically "gold mines and could double dip and not know it"?
I'm bothered by camera's recording me when I buy something in the self-checkout isle. Many times there is no other option to checkout at a regular cashier. Documentary film-makers typically rely on their subjects forgetting the camera is present. It's as if I'm experiencing this same phenomenon and it's a new normal that's not normal. I'm glad you're speaking up for privacy and I just bought your ebook. Thank You.
The fish analogy is pretty good. I'll use that one myself when explaining this to others :)
that sounds fishy...
I cannot agree more, slowly but steady we voluntary are given it away, where many individuals sacrifice privacy for comfort….
I went into my bank recently and the bank manager asked me into his office. He asked me how my golf was and had I enjoyed my recent day at an adjacent golf course. At the time I thought it a bit creepy but realised I'd given my credit card details away.
On the pretext of helping me he said I should come in later that week to plan use of money I had swilling around in my current account. We arranged an appointment and I went in and had a meeting with his assistant.
She showed me a video with some guff about the banking group etc. designed to impress.
In the video the narrator said" we will treat you as if you are a fraudster but don't worry we're doing it for your own good"
I stopped the video and said " if I reverse this sentence and tell you I'm going to treat you as a group of thieves, but don't worry I'm doing it for your own good, how would you feel"?
And I walked out.
Terms of service are never there for the benefit of the consumer, but to insulate companies from legal repercussion. I may be cynical by some peoples' standards, but this is the only logic that makes sense to me.
I wish people would keep in mind that "Cloud" merely means "remotely hosted". If we kept that in mind we would perhaps also keep in mind that our services and data aren't in our control. Buzz words and how technology is described changes our views and attitudes towards them, which can be detrimental.
Спасибо за Ваш труд.
Thank you for your work.
Bravo, Naomi! More calls for action in your videos and may you have more subscribers, so these messages spread wide and fast!
Human adaptability has become on of our greatest weaknesses
I love your videos. They're so funny. You used "respected" and "government" is the same sentence. LOL.
j/k. Great content as always.
I'd love to see you do another video like you did about convincing your friends to abandon SMS, but about how to get your friends to start caring about privacy. My friends laugh at me because, "That horse is out of the barn." I'd love to get them to care enough to do the basics.
Web server software typically logs visitors by default. It's probably been like that from around its beginning. It logs IP addresses and that string that gives Browser name OS name etc.
Thanks for the share sister 🌹
Be well ✝️
I got rid of my 'cell' phone over a decade ago. Never looked back.
Same here, but I wish I got rid of it before it caused me to have two cancer tumors, they are more unhealthy than cigarettes & alcohol.
@@invisableobserver What makes you say your phone caused that instead of something else?
@@invisableobserverAny hard evidence for that besides anecdotal?
@@pythontest512 Because the tumors were at the same place I carried my cell phone.
@@utubepunk Get an EMF meter and check the radiation from a cell phone, also many cell phones list the SAR level today or you can check the SAR level online for almost any cell phone.
I cant believe how bad surveillance and privacy laws are in Australia. I'd expect this from Iran or China, maybe the USA
Yep. If one is in any of the 14 eye countries, your fucked in terms of privacy. If one is in the five eyes this is especially true; aka Australia, New Zealand, United states and United Kingdom. Obviously; zero privacy in any dictatorships eg; China.
What bothers me the most is how it is possible that the rights given to us can be signed away. They should be set in stone. Any document/contract signed can not take your rights away.
The wealthy control it all. If you ain't rich, then you ain't sheet. 💪😎✌️ No exceptions; end of story. #schlavery
That would be great... then we could trust companies/governments, but that's a fantasy world to think they actually care about people's privacy.
No company is going to turn "DOWN" a million dollars. That's where people should be taking notice first. If they can't get it, don't move on until you do get it,. Because if you just side step what we cannot understand, we are choosing to ignore everything else.
Another great video. Thank you!
Yeah, I am sick of it. It's a full time job keeping track of all these company/apps policy changes, finding out what rights you have, and how to exercise them. And they give you a week to address it, then ask you to send the request with your previous email, provide more personal info etc. Life is busy enough without all this. I've decided I will only be eliminating apps from now on and sharing less. I have a backlog of these damn updates from companies that are near impossible to do without now that every business and institution has adopted them. I am also wondering if there is a printer out there that is also not surveillance. Printing from a library computer is intense surveillance and I want a better option.
Good point..... thanks!
We're forced to sign service terms regardless. Terms of service are oxymoronic. I couldn't access my health insurance website without signing terms I do not agree with. Forced to sign under dress because I had to access this website for the insurance that I pay for.
I think there's pretty good standing in US law (although IANAL) that any agreement signed under coercion is not valid. So I would guess that if you bought a cell phone, or a TV, or a car, and you weren't allowed to use it until you signed away your privacy rights in a EULA or ToS agreement, then that would be considered coercion. The problem is that until there are class action lawsuits that take these matters up to the Supreme Court, the companies will act as if they are perfectly legal and continue the spying.
@@vulpo And if it does get to the supreme court, the companies get a laughable fine and continue doing what they're doing.
People always applaud when companies get fined 200 or even 500 million for this kind of thing but never think about the 5 or 10 billion they made from it. Those fines are calculated risks. Completely meaningless.
Until they start fining them a certain percentage of their net worth, nothing will change.
Also, where is this money they get fined going? Do the victims get it as they should?
And everyone please note that the government encourages this corporate techo-spying because it allows the government to do an end run around the Constitution and spy on everyone with absolute impunity. That is because of past Supreme Court rulings that allow companies with data about individuals to share that data with the government without a warrant. The companies are "encouraged" to share the data due to the enormous power the government wields through the IRS and regulatory agencies. This is the beginning of an Orwellian Fascist state.
Wow. Google (or Naomi???) shadow-censored my comment detailing the government's motivation for encouraging this. Very Orwellian.
With the advent of EVERY destination/move a person makes in the world today, it is bought and sold by data brokers, it is so much easier to hack into databases. Long are the days where brute force is/was needed and you needed plenty of computing power and time to get to the same results.
Thanks
Free speach is following the same trajectory.
Of course. Automated computer code can EEEAAASILY filter you, your words, your content, and your entire "digital existence" into oblivion. 💪😎✌️ One bit shift and that's it... YER DUNZOH, SUNZOH. It's a little like ban-happy social media "admins" who click a button and your entire volume of posts over multiple years are vaporized. Nothing you can do about it, either.
How can we create an address that is not considered PO box or equivalent? I voted and all my information was published on the web without my consent including address.
yep this is a huge issue. Get a PMB
@@NaomiBrockwellTV PMG?. Ty,. what is it and can you recommend a good cheap one?
@@l0I0I0I0 This book is a great resource explaining it inteltechniques.com/book7.html
@@NaomiBrockwellTV Nice thank you!
That's another example of how perception of privacy has changed. People now think adresses and phone numbers are sensitive information. Those used to be considered public information about you. People even got sent a big book with all that data of all the people in your area. In the 90s you could even get it on CDRom.
If we use
screen time/content privacy restrictions
to block changes to “account and password changes” without a pw will thus setting still hold even if someone does a sim swap ?
Beautiful analogy. When asking what future we want, we should ask whether we want meaningful democratic political choices.
Very well said, never really crosssed my mind to put it this way.
This is brilliant. Thank you.
Another fantastic video!
For a long time, as the price of Chanel increased, I no longer thought I could afford it. I think I'll be happy that I have the kisluxs as my travel bag that I don't have to take care of. By the way, I'm sure no one will have a hard time telling the difference. Thanks for the comparison.
This it TED Talk material!
Everyone is talking about the loss of privacy, but no one seems to be talking about WHY the stealers of our privacy are doing it. And it's very simple. Silibandia (Silicon Valley plus the broadband and media industries plus their feeders in the bot farming, dark web, VC, PE and cybersecurity industries) want money, power, control -- all the things you get when you have masses of people down on your plantation. We have this new thing - our digital selves, the digital twin of our physical selves - and we live our lives more and more in digital space. Silibandia wants that digital space to be their plantation.
You haven't mentioned America (as opposed to the corporate 'United States') so I'll refer you to Anna von Reitz.
Just wait until the planters see their harvested crops.
You cannot fight the wealthy and powerful unless you are MORE rich and have more strength, resources, etc. THINK ABOUT IT: when two factions go to war, the wealthiest one with the most resources, tech, personnel, and gear *always* prevails. An individual simply cannot defeat a corporation of many. That's just how it is, and you MUST accept it. #copium #schlavery
@@Novastar.SaberCombat Incorrect on many points.
Regardless of that fact, I'm sorry to learn that you have given up.
It's only a matter of time before mandatory cameras in our homes becomes reality.
We went from laws blocking cameras in apartment blocks to a proposal to put cameras in apartment stairwells in like 5 years.
And with a big portion of people somehow liking the idea of having the biggest data hoarding company's (Google) IOT cameras in their own homes, when will that be "within reason" to mandate?
Big Brother has been here for a lllooonnng time. But even if there was a way back then to avoid such an Orwellian tragedy, that moment has long expired.
Now, humanity must accept its poor choices. #copium
Great share so insightful always 😊
I'm 75 and agree with you completely. People have short memories. It's like using the cloud it's someone else owns that computer so how save are you.
9:13 This is a utopia I could wish for, but know is literally impossible with the psyche of humans.
I really appreciate you not making our black pilled views deepen, but instead provide an optimistic approach
Most people just don't care. Whenever I talk about these things to family , friends, coworkers they just blow it off as conspiracy and say it doesn't matter. Also, you should do a video showcasing the company F U T O. They provide great software, like gray(nospace)jay, FUTO keyboard that is amazing and also futo voice. The company itself provides many grants to privacy oriented companies to help out.
I've reached out to them so many times! No response :(
@@NaomiBrockwellTV well that is unfortunate. I would love if they got more exposure. Thanks for the reply back!
Great video
Miss Brockwell, ma'am, please, does it make a difference whether you use the browser or the app, or vice versa? Is it safer to use one or the other?
It's all in perception, that starts the time in which we were born. Even then memories can be short, and bias can have a great effect. These are exploited in a variety of ways, mostly for power and control. If people are ignorant to the past, there is no way to know if they are really in the steam bath set to broil.
It's something I've seen in my professional career(it's in construction). It's just as bad as privacy(and related), that is government regulation. In 30 years I've seen things go from being easy to get approved, to almost impossible to get anything approved. If you just starting out in today's regulatory environment, you would assume things are just fine. Just like kids in todays internet, they have no idea what the early days of the net were like. Or a world where if you wanted to see a friend, you would stop by, or give them a call. Texting was something you did in school, under the duress of a getting a good grade. That was to teach you to be able to read and write. So you could write letters to people who lived too far away, to contact by any other means.
I'm talking to everyday regular people in stores and on the sidewalks so to speak on the street at work and so many people are becoming aware of what's going on except for the very youngest in our generation that are adults, they couldn't give two shits about anything other than being glued to their cell phone. But many people are becoming nostalgic for how things used to be, some are actually taking action for their privacy even if it means getting different operating systems for their phones and their computers and using an actual Palm pilot which you can still buy brand new in their original packaging on eBay by the way if you're interested. F* apps, smart phones, MS and all spying.
Good on you spreading the word!
Palm pilot? I got to get it!
Good one Nomes …
Excellent!!!
Can you recommend a channel that shows car owners how to disable the tracking devices on their new vehicles?
Feel free to check out this video th-cam.com/video/Ff9pmaSdZV8/w-d-xo.html
Wow. This is a good point. I still drive an 01 Accord because it’s mostly analog enough. It was on the beginning of modern diagnostic thresholds but not so much that it could send gallons of data by itself.
I don’t have an Alexa or Google device like that because it is an always on microphone that has not been proven to be secure. I trust Apple more because they couldn’t decrypt the iPhone for the FBI years ago. But I don’t trust them completely.
Police even have devices that can listen through walls now. Warrant requirements may not be high enough to prevent it from being used. 😮
Some software applications won’t allow usage unless the terms are accepted/agreed to. Even if you paid for the application/subscription.
I'm going to binge watch this channel harder than the hardness (sorry didn't find a better metaphor) 😊
Binge away!
The instant gratification crowd will never catch on. Is it a moot point?
I used to think people didn't care about privacy, then I realize they just didn't understand what was going on
Great video. Can I copy some info to spread the same message but in Spanish and for Latin American people?
Go for it
@@NaomiBrockwellTV Thank you!
Stop swiping your cards! Use cash whenever possible.
I want to know why or how if I take an ugly or embarrassing picture of myself, even accidentally.. it gets immediately auto-data-collected and 3rd parties may even see it.. then also gets implemented onto the youtube algorithm. It leaves me humiliated and despairing, my flaws exposed to the world, publicly humiliated.. Not understanding why and not wanting to accept this.
As far as I'm concerned this compliance with the government makes these companies not companies anymore. They are now government agencies. The bank isn't a 3rd party owned by a standard citizen. They are for all intents and purposes government employees.
Love the end bits you do lol poor plant RIP
Poor Pamela!!!!!
Naomi is the greatest…. Nothing more to say!
Good, but it didn't provide enough info about how much privacy we've lost and sent that matters. Young people are totally oblivious!
My shifting baseline has me mostly removed from the Microsoft ecosystem and anything 'cloud' back to local premise! I am tired of being cooked by post purchase EULAs.
I’m the worst for this I know it goes on and even preach about it but use my phone for everything don’t use cash anymore use the cloud and so forth, so what you recommend??? Be nice to hear your thoughts
Pretty much every piece of softwares have a Terms of Service that if you disagree you will be denied services.
In multiplayer games voice chat via the game in-built software is recording your voice, and can punish you even when you are playing privately with friends.
Even single player game requires an account to play, like wtf.
All of this sicken me. It prompted me to study programming. It is an uphill battle (I studied translation and interpreting at school, not IT) but at the very least my brain is thinking for itself, for myself. At least I am still alive.
Nice 👍
So there is a balance needed between platform moderation and just straight spying.
I think platform moderation is incredibly important for the protection of people. Particularly with AI services such as LLM and Generative AI.
But I do agree these moderation implementations should be done in such a way that isn't just straight spying. And that is a hard line to walk to be fair.
The plot of Charlie's Angels (2000): the baddie wants to turn everyone's phone into a tracking device! 😨
Wow so beautiful
There's no problem with Microsoft monitoring the sound in a room, listening for "Alexa". But that should be as far as it goes. They shouldn't analyse what they hear or store it for future use. That road leads to people being prosecuted for what they say in their own homes or what they say being used to send them targeted advertising. That's unwarranted intrusion (in my view) into areas that should be (and we assume are) totally private. That's why I turn off my tablet when I'm not using it, and don't leave it in standby ...I just don't trust big companies.
I like my SLNT faraday bags.
And, you think the mobile device where the battery cannot be removed can actually be turned off? How sure can you be of this?
If you want privacy, these devices should not be in your house. Or store them in a faraday bag.
Devices like Alexa should not be in anyone's house. If you own one, and it's listening in your house, you deserve everything that comes with it.
Privacy and devices like phones/tablets, smart tv's and god forbid, Alexa or any other so called smart home device do not go together.
@@pythontest512 Can you buy a normal tv anymore, or are they all smart? Maybe I want an antennae. I love my SLNT bags. Oh, I'm repeating myself, but it's worth knowing people like and DO use them.
@@pythontest512 I did wonder about that :(
@@MissBabalu102 I doubt you can find non-smart TVs in stores but im sure you could find a used one.
Use free and open source Software!
And decentralized. What are some good ones?
@WizardOfWor I guess it depends on what you want to do with the computer.
I like the Brave browser
Libre Office
Calibre eBook program
VLC media player
GIMP photo editor
There are others.
The young generation need to stick up for themselves, they are the ones causing all this because to them it all seems normal which it isn't. Same goes to all the countries going through the so called cashless society. People these days are getting far too lazy to stop at a ATM and withdraw cash which is untraceable.
Does anone know a bank that will protect your privacy?
monero xmr (crypto protocol / network)
The UK is THE worst country in the world for surveillance. especially since these doorbell cams that record (illegally) on public roads and paths yet the police or local councils arent interested.. More cameras on roads than ever, they now have sound cameras too to fine people whos cars make too much noise(NO IM NOT LYING)
I’m surprised no one has brought legal action against these corporations yet given the fact that legalese and intentionally opaque language disproportionately minorities and those with a non-standard vocabulary.
Plus they change the terms of service without your knowlegde or consent. If they do inform you, you're told not agreeing will terminate your service. It's like, how is any of this legal?
I completely agree, this topic should be the main one in the current presidential elections.
Have you tagged Elon Musk in "X" with this video to ask for help in a public discussion? Let's address it together?) This is our last chance. USA now are Russia 10 years ago. #LastFlashMobOfFreedom )))
Not all cloud infra operators violate customer privacy as a business model
This horrifies me, but how do you speak out??
Keep choosing products and services that prioritize your privacy!
Curious
Do you plan to (or have you already) cover "Apple Intelligence" and it's "privacy" they claim to have?
MY expectation of privacy has NOT shifted :Lotek and Loki
6:30 We're still having this problem with science across all sorts of fields to this day 🤦🏼♀️ Unfortunately not every one who publishes is actually intelligent and not every one who is actually intelligent publishes.
It's not that literally everyone is OK with this. I'm not. It's overwhelming. Surveillance became overwhelming and omnipresent, privacy invading technology became impossible to avoid in life. Your video has been insightful, but you missed an angle: What is a fish supposed to do? As common users, that's our place in the metaphor, we're not the marine scientists, we're helpless as fish caught in a net.
No, in the metaphor privacy is the fish. We are the empowered scientists.
What can we do? Make better choices. Choose products that respect users. Stop fuelling the surveillance by using companies that harvest your data. Challenge the status quo. Push back. Voice your opinion. Advance the development of privacy tool. Support those already creating privacy tech.
WBAN....Wireless Body Network.....Human Augmentation
Naomi, you do such an outstanding job of codifying simplifying the issue. We need to get you a bigger megaphone.
My guess just a guess is that the closer we get to national the more influential the government will become in muting the message. I hope not.
✅ What can be done?
✅ What can each of us as individuals do?
✅ How can we make this message remain relevant today?
✅ How can your privacy remain in your hands tomorrow, and going forward in the future?
it's like when we got told something buy a smarter richer living person we would remember it, but we all died with that kind of knowledge except a few greedy ones "they did not give like the rest that died" who ate good and lived longer now the greedy ones are now the givers of knowledge
1984, it's a very long plan that's close to be realized
Who is more powerful, those who have all the money, or those that have the power to remove those that have the money.
Shifting Bass Line... missed opportunity
omg I'm ashamed.
Also, you're hired.
but mooom android stopped allowing sideloading thooooooo
Nearly Anything online then you have no privacy. Worse, many Pay for IoT junk like camera(s) *in* a home to connected to Comcast or ADT that watches you to start and has huge security problems with firmware, back end software or both so 3rd parties can view and more.