I decided to spend some time this week addressing security and data sharing. This was prompted by me reading Permanent Record by Edward Snowden, watching Dr Robert Epstein on The Joe Rogan Experience, my son enrolling in a cyber security course and my experience over the years.
– The executive summary is simple: the majority of people are being watched, tracked and recorded for the majority of, if not all of, the day. This is happening through your phone, your TV, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant and any device potentially connected to the World Wide Web. Years ago, you needed someone to stealthily enter a house and grab some data. In the modern world, it is mostly done remotely over wires, fibre, radio waves and other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
– Consider your favourite search engine. It may be Chrome, DuckDuckGo,…
