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ROBIN DAY's avatar

The US has been doing this for years, not just in the USA, but around the world. Traffic is so heavy, they can only monitor for key words and phrases in numerous languages. Even then, there is mountains of data to review and much is lost before it can be acted on. Given the mindset of Liberals, and the gas lighting and lying they do, I expect this will be accompanied by legislation to allow arrests for anyone whose opinions they don't like as a danger to society and the general public. Although I won't be surprised if the Bloc supports Carney, I do hope the Bloc also votes against the throne speech, resulting in the Carney gov't losing confidence of parliament and results in another election asap.

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ROBIN DAY's avatar

LOL.... there was a time when talking on the phone to my brother before he retired from the military, I would start our conversations with "jihadi jihadi jihadi" He wasn't amused;-).....

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Ed Lata's avatar

In the 90’s, used to joke with my US buddies when calling them on the phone, prefacing the call with “Obama”, “Whitehouse” and “bomb”. They were not amused since they knew about ongoing NSA surveillance, Americans being a little more “with it” than Canadians.

It was prohibited to spy on Americans, entitled certain rights by their Constitution and Amendments on American soil. However, in the day of Major trunk line traffic being re-routed around the world via satellite and ocean cables, nothing prevents siphoning off data at main relay stations outside of the U.S.

Your comments are very good wrt monitoring or who would be capable given the amount of. Perhaps you can consider the emphasis on AI now.

A very good film to watch is “A Good American”, chronicling Bill Binney and his “Thin Thread” program that could monitor 2 billion inputs (cellphone and Internet IPs). The idea was to monitor “bad guys” marketing drugs around the world.

Bill was put out to pasture and his program usurped, taking off the locks he’d put on it to prevent spying on Americans.

In Canada, we have no equivalent Constitution or Amendments for protection. Our “not withstanding” Charter is a joke in comparison. But regardless, doesn’t matter anyway when your data is coming led with hardware and services provided by others once you’re connected “online”.

Cheers.

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Trevor Marr's avatar

#markcarney now heads the #MinistryofMisinformation AND the #MinistryofTruth, aka the #Canadian #Federal #Liberal #Government? How does #authoritarianism benefit the People? It doesn’t!

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Derek Lamb's avatar

A perfect solution for a government that has exploited uncontrolled immigration to mix diametrically opposed cultures to create a post national country of separate societies.

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Morrigan Johnson's avatar

Thanks Sheldon. Pretty scary.

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Diane's avatar

Time to get rid of all this smart shit. Especially the tv, got rid of my tv, hardly use my cell phone as half the time it does not work. The sad part is people are not waking up. I have gotten rid of all smart shit. What is going on in Canada is very scary, I am doing my best to try and find some enjoyment in my retirement. They will have to put a bullet between my eyeballs to shut me up. I will speak out, whether people like it or not. Sad that they don't want the truth.

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C Woody's avatar

Great post Sheldon. There is no easy way out of this surveillance state that we live under, one that is constantly learning, evolving and growing smarter by the second. People are so addicted to technology that they will be unwilling to part with any of it. They are glued to their smartphones looking for likes, posting on every single activity in their daily lives and sleeping with them on the nightstand. Everyone willingly has allowed big brother to monitor them 24/7, in bedrooms, bathrooms,churches.. everywhere, all the time,in the name of convenience. Smart everything so they can control every facet their lives from their phones,from health data to their laundry schedules. The only way out possibly would be to give all of that up, ditch the phone, the data plans, go back to analog devices.. which would still be monitored. It might slow down the progress of big brother, but not stop it. This is why it is going to be effortless for the powers that be to roll out the new system of digital ID and CBDC.. convenience for the masses and an apathetic attitude of most towards the control system.. the “Ive got nothing to hide attitude”. The masses won’t even blink when and if they even notice that they have been corralled into a 15 minute gulag, complete with a monthly ubi cheque, bread and water allotments… providing your social credit score and vaccination status is acceptable.

People react saying when did all this happen? They have been slow rolling it out for decades.. we are just now seeing the extent of it. Most still think Elons satellites were just about fast internet to rural areas and he bought Twitter in the name of “free speech” LOL!

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Ed Lata's avatar

I have a “Smart” TV made in China, the land of surveillance, that is constantly seeking connection to the Internet. I’ve blocked the MAC address at the Router, but suspect it’s found a way to connect, especially with the new Cable Company supplied modem suspected of having “back-door” access.

I started disconnecting my router from my cable modem, a disconcerting monolith-like piece of hardware. It didn’t like being disconnected, will be a day before my LAN goes back to normal. Will try turning off the Modem but already know the boot up procedure will take half an hour.

Bottom line, these devices don’t like being turned off.

I had a Chinese-made TV Box used for streaming audio/visual material over a LAN. I’d blocked its MAC address only to find it had manufactured a new one to bypass my security. It kept manufacturing new addresses before being pulled and tossed in the dustbin.

Over the years I’ve had various Firewalls, most were junk considering catching data being exported from my systems. All were found “aiding and abetting”. The best one was a Firewall by Sygate, not available anymore after Norton bought the company and retired the product. Also, won’t work on the new Windows platforms after XP. It caught data export with McAffee, Norton firewalls tested. Windows’ was a joke.

When Windows 95 came along, a colleague reported he could see his LAN, but remarkably, started seeing all his neighbours’ LANs connected through the cable ring in succession. He called the Cable company before it added everyone in Calgary. The point is, others are very likely able to see and connect to your computer when it’s connected to the Internet. There is no privacy.

The average person is not as conscientious about security.

Thank, Sheldon.

Ed

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Angie's avatar

They've been tracking us at the cellular level for years but Convid normalized and commercialized it.

http://pervasivecomputinginfo.blogspot.com/2018/10/ieee-802156-standard.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349881372_Effect_of_Coronavirus_Worldwide_through_Misusing_of_Wireless_Sensor_Networks

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/News/2021/purdue-engineering-launches-worlds-first-center-for-internet-of-bodies

https://wrenchinthegears.com/2020/10/27/who-voted-in-davos-how-data-driven-government-and-the-internet-of-bodies-are-poised-to-transform-smart-sustainable-cities-into-social-impact-prisons/

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/government-docs-from-2002-reveal-20-year-plan-to-alter-evolution-with-nanotechnology/

https://rumble.com/v6ishsj-394359571.html

https://horizons.service.canada.ca/en/2020/02/11/exploring-biodigital-convergence/index.shtml

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30157295/

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9149878

https://www.activistpost.com/node-without-consent/

https://odysee.com/@Psinergy:a/trim.8A6135B8-9C70-4745-AB7B-48F736B40F7D:4

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369702122002280

https://rumble.com/v6taofh-412004141.html

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36156952/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162521007794

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8817681/

https://bio-protocol.org/exchange/minidetail?id=9013404&type=30

https://solarireport.substack.com/p/trump-administration-digital-control

https://www.bioconductor.org/

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Objective Stomach's avatar

The timing is impeccable. The US just signed up palantir to surveil its citizens, (which has been working in Commy Canada for a decade or more already), and now bill c2? Hmmmmm... Rather odd.

Oh, and by the way... They're just telling us what they've been doing for years now anyways.

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WillB's avatar

Welcome, welcome to City 17. I chose City 17 for my administration for all of the surveillance benefits that make City 17 safe....and effective. In the control and flow of information and citizens movements and daily lives life moves smoothly and efficiently. Safe in the borders of City 17, citizens no longer need to worry about crime as our data centres predetermine crime before it happens. Thankfully these centres employ low cost foreign nationals that work for pennies on the dime. We are so tickled with ourselves in our administration at City 17 that we are able to provide ourselves with the finest of salaries year after year.

A paraphrased lymeric of OP

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