Latest Edward Snowden on the tracking of everyone

[Ninurta]

Mr. G. says, HELL, they've been Watching, Listening Programing you for Years Now, What are YOU afraid Of?
Your Bank and C/Cards keeps records about you and so does all the credit reporting agencies, but you know that, don't you.
Each time you see your Doctor, they upload your health record to the WWW.
DAMN, your computer browser keeps a record even after you've cleared your browser history, that Big Computer In The Shy, Knows All About You. 

The first 3G towers were working by 2002, that was a Large Leap in their Surveillance of knowing your location.

Monitoring your old Landline was Tuff but not Impossible, cell phones allowed you to be monitor easily.

You know, I had a cell phone that would turn itself on randomly and just sit there listening. I went in to the Android system and disabled that ability, and while I was in there I deleted the location services altogether. That worked ok for a couple of years, and then the company started bugging me to get a new phone, saying the old one would not work with "new infrastructure". I ignored it for a couple more years, and oddly the phone never stopped working like they said it would. Go figure.

I just got a new one, the second new one in a few months, so that it would work with my network extender and I can get signal here now from my very own mini-cell-tower. Instead of going to all that trouble of tweaking the OS, I've started just keeping it in a metal box to eliminate any inbound or outbound signals unless I want one. That has the added advantage of keeping me from being annoyed by those assholes that "have been trying to get in touch with me" about extending my car warranty. Extending? My car warranty ran out 20 years ago - you can't "extend" what ain't there! They started that crap on a brand new phone under a brand new name 3 days - THREE DAYS - in to the phone working.

The old land lines were powered all the time. ALL the time. Even if your house power went out, that phone would still work because it had 45 volts running through it from batteries at the switching station. The hard part was getting into the house to get to the phone to bridge the contacts on the cradle so that the handset was live all the time, and able to pick up room conversations even when it was "hung up".

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