Stop Watching Me - How Surveillance is Getting Out of Hand
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What I really can’t stand is that a significant amount of surveillance happens through ordinary people. You leave your house to get some pasta from M&S and you could be on someone’s tiktok for content.
That is why i do not buy pasta from M&S. Whatever that may be. Sounds nasty.
😂
I recently got annoyed when my landlord installed a "thermometer" in my apartment. It doesn't have a display, but it does have wifi. Looked this product up online and saw that they had a whole line of these boxes, some even had movement sensors and microphones. Anyway I removed the battery day one.
The landlord to my flat installed one of those. They insisted it go on the Living room wall and not in the hallway. 🤔 Also they installed a new smoke detector that can't be switched off.
Thanks for the info.
Pretty sure I don't need to know where you live to know that is probably illegal for the landlord to do. Good on you for at least removing the battery.
@@obscurum6 It's most likely illegal for your landlord to do that. Check your local laws.
As far as my decades old electronics education could tell this particular model only had sensors for temperature and air humidity, the ones with movement-, brightness and audio oghta have visible holes drilled for lenses and whatnot.
Here's what they could have done to make this thing not feel hostile toward the tenant: Make a customer app. Let me, who lives here, at least be able to see the numbers for myself! This could even be useful for like a heatwave if you have a pet at home and you're at work or something. It could show you a graph over time as compared to outdoors temperature, etc, I can see a use. There is an app for the admin of all these sensors, ie the landlord, I found it on Google Play, but no customer app.
Oh, it's so much worse than you think. If you know anything about cyber security or bots/AI, you'd be truly terrified. 44% of ALL internet traffic isn't even human.
Sounds exactly like something an AI would say. 🧐
Unfortunately, that's old data. It's now 51%. The majority of internet traffic doesn't come from people.
This is why I only communicate via semaphore hidden in my shoe. Leaving comments takes bloody ages.
Do you mean morse code? Semaphore is the one with flags.
I can recommend a good anti-fungus cream.
Stay safe out there.
How long did it take for you to write this comment?
Big brother go-pro spy cat on a wheelie bin …is watching you
Spy cats were actually a serious idea for a CIA program once.
My new neighbours installed a door camera. It is extremely peaceful here, yet I suddenly feel very uncomfortable because I’m being spied on, every time I leave my house.
put on a mask, approach from an odd angle, and paint it over, then apply a coat of super glue. It will take a good while for them to work it out, and they may give it up.
@@5minuterevolutionary493 I thought about what to do. I could also just talk to them. 🤗
Vandalising someone’s private property is just as bad.
There are laws that might help you, check if it's legal that they're indirectly filming your house.
It's not legal in the UK to mount permanent surveillance over land one doesn't own so if the camera is shooting the street rather than just the owner's property you can put in a complaint about that
I love how people accost street photographers, complaining they have no right to take photos in public. They do. It's legal to take photos of anyone in a public place. The irony is that while complaining, those same people don't realise they are on about 100 CCTV cameras in the high street.
I think most people see a distinction between CCTV and someone taking a picture of them on their smartphone
The former is accepted as a way to fight crime , antisocial behaviour in public areas etc
The latter is someone doing it for personal amusement which I would find annoying if I didnt want someone taking my picture. Its rude.
I read yesterday Airbnb has had 35,000 ticket/ reports relating to hidden cameras in their properties 🤢🤮
i unplug everything in airbnbs these days. last place i stayed in had ipads drilled into walls in each bedroom, covered them up
One of the most important issues of our time: our loss of privacy and the resultant loss of autonomy and freedom. Thank you.
Truthstream media just put out an interesting video highlighting how Instagram comment sections are tailored to individuals. A male and female couple who watch the same video will get different comment sections which are tailored to support either a stereotypical male or female view. 'Separated realities' I think is how they described it.
@@thesunreportThats how top comments work, you have to switch to most recent comments
I thought it was about a tv programme? 😂
@@PhilipMurphyExtra Yeah but No. Watch their video before forming an opinion maybe??
It's fine...(???)!!!
It's for the safety and betterment of them all...!!! Yep!!! That's it!!!
I know a person who did exactly this - streamed a video loop during company meetings. They were never been caught.
A good one is turning the wifi off and on repeatedly so you appear to glitch, then leaving it off and doing something else entirely for the rest of the meeting. The trick is to do it while actually speaking so it looks genuine.
-or so I'm told. I never did this myself of course 🙄
When classic dystopian writers like Orwell and Huxley were writing 1984 and Brave New World, they were just novels. Now it's a terrifying reality...
Agents Orwell, and Huxley wrote the blueprints for what is happening now.
Computer network user monitoring has been around much longer than you may think. Over 20 years ago, when I was at school, I was in the computer room, doing some work. The computers in that room were all on a LAN, which was monitored from a central terminal. I was trying to find a clipart picture in MS Word 2000 to put into the piece of work I was doing. Anyone who remembers MS clipart will remember that it was absolute shit, and had nothing even remotely useful in it. I can't remember what I was looking for, but after failing to find it after a few search attempts, I typed "fuck" into the search bar, out of frustration. That was enough. The following day, the school's IT manager found me, pulled me out of class, and presented me with a full-colour printout of a screenshot showing my heinous crime. I was given a bollocking and had my computer use revoked for a week.
Even then you weren't safe.
Can't go missing if you're always being watched😏
**goes missing even faster**
I know a programmer who had surveillance software on his work laptop when he was working from home during Covid. He simply wrote a script that simulated work activity in different ways, and then he could go shopping or take a break from work 😁
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
This isnt even comedy this is just real life,all of it
I have it on good authority that this is just fantasy, caught in a landslide.
@@neiltitmus9744 social commentary n observation
Problem with the 1984 comparison is that it's the corporations doing all the spying.
If anything we should be saying £19.84.
If my microwave starts playing adult content... It will be burnt literally and figuratively. I'll make my own microwave
The world today was the Gestapo, the Stasi and the FSBs wet dream back then - Better to live life with at least some risk, than try to get this absolute 100% security life.
Google maps creeped me out. I had gone to the grocery store and come back. An hour later, my phone dinged at me, and I open up the notifications. And it's like "Did.... did you enjoy your trip to Grocery XYZ?". I was kind of at a loss. I've since disabled all that, but yeah. I did not realize my phone was tracking everywhere I went and storing it in a database somewhere.
we traded our integrity and privacy for comfort and control
Convenience destroys more than it helps most times
I really don't understand why people now have the whole house rigged inside and out with cameras.
You've invited in a multi national company to be able to watch and listen to everything you do.
I've laughed at people at work (pilot) when am obviously very proud new owner of a camera would get a ping on his iPad, he'd say "ooh I wonder who's at my door".
We were on turnaround in Spain. He could have just been watching his house be robbed from afar 😂
Amazon own quite a few companies, they're wanting to stitch together the cameras on homes to develop a local CCTV network, which they'll sell subscriptions for.
It doesn't occur to people that having noticeable "security" indicates you may have something worth stealing.
You don't need to get cameras that send stuff to the cloud. I have cameras that record to SD card. I wasn't going to get anything from Amazon/Google etc.
@jonathanperry4189 it's as though people think they're protecting their privacy and property while really they're exposing it to the owners of the software and anyone who could hack into said software . Bonkers!
I'm not interested in watching other people
I have better things to do
_"My cat has a Go-Pro on his collar..."_
😆
"Maybe you should actually come in tomorrow" 😂😂😂
A quick word to anticipate the argument that if you're doing nothing wrong, then you have nothing to worry about... Bollox!
The less quick word is to the effect that mere knowledge that one is being surveilled has massive deleterious psychological impact. Hypervigilance, doubts, constant fears, paranoia and so on. This leads to an inability to trust more generally.
Also what you're doing might be fine in 2024 but be considered unlawful in the future.
@Radagast- very well put
Whenever I hear that argument my reply is "You're not doing anything wrong when you go to the bathroom, but you still close and lock the door."
@radagast Couldn't agree more!! Well said
@@Radagast- The doing nothing wrong nothing to worry about assumes that mistakes are never made and no corruption.
Hello Mr Spicer. I’m watching you while typing this
I'm outside your window rh1812
@@eggybread. The back of your head looks squishy...
Fantastic once again, thank you! (Breathing of the package owner gave me chills 😂)
I first read 1984 in the early 70s. Nothing about the Surveillance State surprises me anymore...other than the weird, easy surrender to it by frightful little knobs.
I moved to a new country recently and it's very safe, but there are so many CCTV cameras that even in my own house i catch myself behaving as if I'm under surveillance and forgetting I'm in the privacy of my own home.
The cat has a Go-Pro - 🤣🤣🤣
but seriously, I keep being watched to a minimum.... The best advice is to avoid anything with the word 'smart' in it and no Alexa, Siri or microwave oven - didn't know about that one!
Your car listens to you all the time as well, and the privacy policies that are supposed to protect you are usually crap.
In particular, if you connect your phone with Bluetooth the car often has access to a lot more data than it needs to, and a lot of that data is legal to sell on.
Excellent video, Michael. But now I feel uneasy.
Cameras now recognize your face and use AI to reference your mug/person with international databases. This even goes so far that speeding cameras don't register just your number plate anymore but register YOU!
It’s funny how I don’t like the surveillance state whilst at the same time I have 16 cameras all over my property recording 24/7…
It started out as a way to monitor my dogs while I am at work and it just spread…
WTAF? As soon as this finished up pops f'king Lawrence Fox trying to convince me to watch his 'News & (unbiased - yeah right) information channel.... Weird.
Technology is getting so overwhelming!
I'm up to my neck in scrum-gates, spatchcock letterboxes, penguin ghost, stash valves, pop goblins, snuffbishop hubs and mackerel uploads.. Please cease... I beg you.......
You are clearly a Spicer fan!
in 2001 i worked a job for about a year until i discovered every last keystroke on every office pc was logged to my boss' external hard drive that he would take home and archive daily 😬
No that's actually incorrect. There are more camera per capita and per mile in the UK than China. So technically though maybe few in numbers they are actually doing more, for less people in a smaller space. Ergo more surveilance than in China
Dashcam also .. any mistake or odd behaviour you do in your car, can potentially end up online.
Only if you upload it.
All of our household appliances are stunningly dumb (and fairly ancient). It’s not so much that I hate surveillance. It’s because I work in tech and really CBA to spend my spare time fixing my own kit 😊
@@johnconroy3078 Cobbler's shoes stuff...
You don't have to buy a microwave that connects to the internet. But you can if you want.
You used to be able to buy phones that didn’t require Face ID. You used to be able to participate in society with even a dumb phone. Not anymore.
@@ronanmc2112 I don't think all phones have face ID. Mine does but I don't use it. You can have a dumb phone if you want, nobody's forcing you. If by "Participate in society" you mean social media? Well I don't have social media yet have a decent social life while staying up to date with current events. You have choice, you don't have to do anything.
I couldn't stand it if my AI microwave started dating the AI kettle............
@@mariz2361 I know what you mean. My kettles hot!
Yet. You don't have to *yet.* If you wanted to buy a car that doesn't connect to the internet, doesn't have subscription based heated seats and doesn't sell your data, your options are either second hand cars (that increasingly can't be fixed because the parts are dangerously cheaply made) or nothing. The same thing will happen to other devices.
Oh my, it comes to something when the microwave becomes your enemy. Let's be careful out there!
Just realised you acting in Sister Boniface Mysteries s3e5 😂
See my eyes everywhere
There's no "bureaucratic overlord" as such in Brave New World, and surveillance is not a major theme in the novel, if it is even present at all.
You might need to re-read the ending
It's not security cameras but there's definitely a bureaucratic overlord type group
The state broadcaster in China is CCTV. Bit of a clue right there.
Is that why all those signs say "Smile you're on CCTV" because you being broadcast to China? That's amazing, just like being on Big Brother while walking through the park 😃
They changed the name as the management whent to London amd thought cctv was really popular, as their logo was everywhere, until someone pointed out it is for cameras. They changed the name to cntv shortly after.
@@firestarter1888 Still called CCTV as far as I know. Btw, their HQ is the coolest looking building.
@@polreamonn They changed their name in 2016.
the 5 minute 20 second video ''If Smart TV Ads Were Honest | Honest Ads.'' and the 16.33 ''Politicians Plot Police State - This Is Not a Drill'' by Owen Jones Plus the book ''No Place To Hide'' by Robert O'Harrow [ and the Snowden book of the same name ]
Young bats are very small (less than an inch)
Thank you for sharing that with us.
What about the young of a Noctule bat?
A great video with Micheal
this is oewrrty good man haha
8:25 What a twist! 😆
PLEASE avoid buying "smart" overpriced crap. You don't need your things to think instead of you.
Yes the intrusion and invasion of privacey is out of hand. you cant even go out in nature to be free of it in some place's. Quite depressing
"surround-sound self-surveillence"
The solution a lot of people turn to is subscribing to a VPN service but these companies are no different to your ISP provider.
Deep, good content and non-superficial humor, respect.
You wait until face recognition is added to it. My Chinese friend told me if they jaywalked, the fine is immediately deducted from your bank account.
OMG!
@@kimfarnham9958 Lol!!! You should look into the Chinese 'social credit score'... It gets so much worse...!!! They actually, like ACTUALLY, called it skynet...(???)!!!
I'm surprised road-crossing is a crime in China. I thought that was only a crime in the United states of Ford
Have they not considered a Pooh bear mask, get him fined instead? 😬
And we can’t even issue all our citizens with free photo ID which is now required to vote..
Fun Fact: The earliest date, that the Google Earth timelapse feature goes back to is 1984.
And it's not coming home.
Bye
People need to stop giving people their actual information, products and services don't need your date of birth or phone number.... so give them a faux set
No one will ever ring you and ask you to provide your details...!!! They are ringing you...!!! They know if they are real...!!!
@@mariz2361 I meant more for signing up for accounts for various services, for example only using true DoB for banks and state services, other things only need to know whether you're a minor or not
I don't mean to be condescending, but considering all the data these companies have do you seriously believe they don't know it's you? Facebook was caught tagging people without Facebook accounts years ago, they've only got better at identifying people.
@@Sam-Cain No, I absolutely agree which is why data broker scrubbing services like incogni and other products such as vpns & privacy focused browsers are a thing :) I was just suggesting that as a default position people shouldn't give out their actual information
Yup, since COVID and the adoption of Teams and other tools; you know who is live, who's been away from their keyboard for a bit, who's in a meeting. There is a new feature called Notify so when someone returns or comes out a meeting you can leap on them
And people wonder why lads ride up the streets on bikes with their faces totally covered to conceal their identity!
Just catching bits of James Martins great british adventure...i think thats something you could really get your teeth into.
I deal with all surveillance by using the classic espionage technique of hiding in plain sight.
Years ago I worked in a homeless hostel. Unbeknown to us, one of the residents really thought this was happening. When he left, we found stickers warning the next room occupant of the neighbour's microwave and the evil staff. The stickers were hidden in very odd places. It took some time to find them all. I never did find out if the neighbours had a dangerous, spying microwave...This resident had seemed quite together, however I think the day he moved in his mother tried to warn us. She said she had some concerns! I am just glad he never trird to hurt anyone.
Be vigilant of spider porn
Sheesh, even spiders are at it!
Everything is fine 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Don't call it a 'smart speaker'. It's not a speaker. It's mainly a microphone.
We are living in a digital prison.
You missed the part where Amazon disables all your smart home devices because their driver misheard what you said when he was leaving 😄
Well, we all have a smart phone in our pockets. We're already there...
It's just not overt that we're all being watched all the time.
Only if you enable it
All? I refuse to comply. My phone is a vintage 19yo Nokia and still going strong....
"Hey Google, tell Alexa to buzz off!"
Brilliant video!!
I am watching YOU!
I wrote my dissertation on the surveillance topic. Read Robert Greenwald’s book called “no place to hide” and see how screwed we really are.
Great book. The author's first name is Glenn.
Snowden's autobiography, Permanent Record, is well worth reading, too. Oliver Stone's biopic, Snowden, is pretty good as well.
The answer is to become a quantum particle
We're the most watched country in all of Europe
What makes our government so afraid of us?
Surveillance cameras see what they want to see.
3:31 😅 8:40
Good to see you standing up for human rights.
I just checked to see if my smoke alarm is a smoke alarm or a camera. I still don't know 😭
Hmmm, good point. The Council are fitting a new one next week. I wonder why apart from the 'safety' reason they give.
Tin Foil Hats ! Obviously!
Quo Custodat, ipsos Custodes! Juvenal, I believe?
I believe you get designer hats that are fully effective against mind alternating rays!
4:04-4:17 This was hilarious
JTRIG. You know certain states in America used ring doorbells for their police surveillance in open trials.
@@craigbarrett5476 inadmissable if people aren't forewarned?
Actually this assumes that the surveillance contains lots of attentive eyeballs on the other end of the camera ...
They use AI to sort it all.
I'm sorry but I'm all for big brother. Might stop some people from being stupid
Maybe there's an AI application that stands in for you and makes you look busy if you work online while you spend the day at the pub?
There are indeed apps that will move your mouse and click every now and then, for you to fool productivity trackers.
You can even get little devices that physically move the mouse around your desk a bit for you, for if you can't install the app version on your work laptop.
I don't mind being monitored as they might learn something.
The funny thing is if China has 4 times of the UK’s surveillance cameras, given that China’s total population is 20 times that of the UK. On average each British is monitored 5 times of each Chinese. Yet the British media constantly call China a surveillance country and think they are free. What does this tell? The British schools need to improve math teaching 😂
Ok but how big IS a baby bat?
All depends on the p.s.i. apparently.
Yes, I think we'd all like to know.
Lol!!! Well fruit bats, adult ones, can be as big as a human...!!! Which species...???
I've never had a microwave... it is still new to me. 😁☺ (at least I am not a digital native, just a native...😅 )
I've never had Sky, does that make me poor as well?
It’s all like some horrifying Reality Show!!! 🤯😂
Yup
If my phone is that smart how come it doesn't tell me when I'm about to drop my phone on my face?😂
If you're interested in an academic point of view on this read Jeffrey Reiman's paper "Driving to the Panopticon" it is truly a great read
"Suspicious activity."
"PLAYING ABBA'S GREATEST HITS!" (waterloo starts playing)
Mine does this randomly. Or has weird recognition of words. "Alexa, what time is my reminder for?" is answered by "Cancelling your 2pm reminder."
I presume it was added in post, as a way to emphasise that stuff is always listening?
I hate door cameras with a passion.
Stop watching me says man on RUclips.
I've read that China's CCTV system has facial recognition technology. Robocops, eh?
All this surveillance but they still cant ever solve crimes
"solving crimes" isn't their job. that's the remit of nerds on the internet.
Note: many of our CCTV cameras are made in China and the feed goes through thier servers so they can do what they like with that info 😊
Please!!! The room next door needs to do an EPIC episode on Bidens recent press conferences...!!!
????????????????
Yes! And one when Rishi sunak got dumped.
The man in the room next door, went away just as he was needed...???!!!
SOOOO many situations, he could have been 'helpful'...(???)!!!
Nice
Please do a 'Next door' re Tories out of government/Sunaks speech 😂❤