Is the Deep State, with multiple intelligence gathering agencies and their veritable alphabet soup of letters from the likes of CIA, GCHQ, NSA, MI6/5, FBI plus many more, really interested in watching us?
Or is it the GIANT internet and computer companies like Google and Fedbook, these massive miners of our most personal data, who watch our every move and keep tabs on us?
Is BIG Brother watching us in our Orwellian dystopia?
So to find some answers to these questions, this clever American reporter chap from the Tucker Carlson show on Fox News, takes 2 identical phones, completely new and unused, on a data gathering mission.
Neither phone is set up to connect with wifi, neither is connected to ANY data networks and neither of them even has a sim card.
The ONLY diff is that he pops one on airplane mode (ie disconnected from receiving and sending signals at all) and the other is not on airplane mode.
Then with both phones in his pockets he goes off into downtown Washington DC and travels about bit, goes to the shops, hops in a cab, walks around, visits a church, a hospital and then returns to the TV studio. The question is...will the phones be collecting data about where he has been and what his locations were? Will one of them have stored more data than the other?
Back at the studio, they connect both phones up to Google to see what tracking information the site has recorded from each phone.
Now get this....is the airplane mode phone gonna give less information???? Or is it not??? The vid is approx 5 minutes and is well worth a watch...especially of you'd like to learn the answers to that!
Getting chillingly close to Orwell's vision by the dystopian day isn't it, dear steemies? So how do you plan to combat this? Will you be leaving your phone exactly where it usually is...in your pocket? Or will you be leaving it at home? Or do you plan to build a Faraday cage to protect yourself from prying eyes and the electromagnetic smog? Or maybe, being cynical, even these measures are futile...I'd love to know what you think in the comments!
Credits
Both Orwell images; ebaumsworld.com