Mobile phones ARE by definition surveillance equipment, they are both tracking device and are used to record anything that's said around them...
It shouldn't surprise anybody that devices like these have been thought about since the 1940s.
In 1945, government scientist Vannevar Bush described "Memex", a "
device in which an individual stores all his books, records and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility".
This "Memex" device is now called a smartphone...
In late 2002, DARPA launched LifeLog, aimed to compile a electronic database of every activity and relationship of everybody. This would include credit card purchases, web sites visited, telephone calls and e-mails, scans of postal mail, books and magazines read, television and radio selections, and physical location using cell phones.
One of DARPA’s LifeLog goals was to identify "
meaningful patterns in the timeline, to infer the user’s routines, habits, and relationships with other people, organizations, places, and objects, and to exploit these patterns to ease its task" of controlling the population.
DARPA’s LifeLog program was "canceled" on 4 february 2004, after some criticism in the media (in 2004 even the mainstream media sometimes criticised the surveillance state), but in reality continued under other program names.
In February 2003, DARPA had already launched "Total Information Awareness" (TIA) to monitor the population by spying on phone calls, internet traffic, bank records, and other personal data.
Much of LifeLog's goals were achieved through Facebook that was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin in 2004.
In 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone.
Silicon Valley firm Palantir set up a "predictive policing" system to help the authorities anticipate potential protests against the police state.
These are really "LifeLog equivalents":
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Firestarter wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 3:35 pmThe Tor Project is supposedly a private non-profit that provides encryption that is “NSA-proof”.
The Tor sham has been supported by respected limited hangout operations, like: ACLU, Fight for the Future, Wired, Vice, The Intercept, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg that have pumped up Tor's rebel status to mythical proportions.
In reality Tor is almost 100% funded by the US government, it received millions of dollars from 3 US national security agencies: CIA spinoff Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the Navy and the State Department.
The BBG is the biggest sponsor of Tor with more than $6 million in contracts from 2007 through 2015. Tor has been a military contractor with its own government contractor number
The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is one of the most celebrated organisations for privacy-minded fools. More than two billion people worldwide use OTF-produced software, of which Signal and Tor are the most popular.
Until 2019, OTF was a subsidiairy of the notorious CIA propaganda front, Radio Free Asia.
Since then, OTF is directly funded and controlled by the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), a US government body responsible for foreign American imperialistic propaganda media, including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Voice of America and Radio and Televisión Martí.
OTF's five-person board are all important government officials.
OTF's CEOs have included the former director of programming for Voice of America, the former president of Radio Free Asia, and an ex-State Department and National Endowment for Democracy (NED) official.
Besides CIA-asset Edward Snowden, OTF has also been endorsed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
In the 1990s, the EFF helped the FBI to draft the so-called “Let’s Just Wiretap Everyone Bill”, to make it sound more palatable.
Like the NED, the OTF have orchestrated protests in Belarus, Iran and Venezuela.
In Belarus, OTF trained the opposition to President Alexander Lukashenko, which drove him into the arms of Russia's Putin.
According to the OTF, it exists to help spread US propaganda, described in its mission statement as:
1) “Provide unrestricted access to the internet to individuals living in information-restrictive countries to help ensure they are able to safely access USAGM content”;
2) "Protect journalists, sources, and audiences from repressive surveillance and digital attacks to help ensure they are able to safely create and engage with USAGM content".
Independent tests by Columbia University show that over 81% of Tor users could be identified:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-open- ... es/279147/