Thread: Be afraid, be VERY afraid

Originally Posted by Tombie

Amusing...
No location history
No search history

Perhaps because I have those 2 functions turned off

Ditto, and no phone or text history for me either!

In fact Facebook is targeting me with ads for where I usedto live as well as places I've never been but nothing from where I currently reside.
Their algorithm will cotton on eventually, I've subscribed to a local buy/sell/swap as I'm looking for a surfboard but I'm not making it easy for them.

I was once a field officer at Social Security. Twenty years ago they had a system called On Line Search (OLS). This had so much personal information on it that it was a privacy hot potato. Access was restricted to one or two persons in an office of managerial level. A valuable tool for investigators. You could input any of a wide range of variables and get things like everybody who had used that address, every address a person had used, a summary of a person's relationships cross referenced to other variables. Virtually everything that had ever been on a govt. data base and a lot of private sector ones. One wonders how this has been improved and expanded in twenty years since I last used it. Big Brother has been watching you for a very long time.

Yes, that data-matching has expanded, I understand, as privacy has been quietly undermined and invaded without alarming us passive little sheeple, who continue to delude ourselves that it won't happen to us, when actually it is already happening to people all around us every day.
One day they will come for us, at 5am probably, drag us out the door in our pyjamas, children screaming in fear, force us into a van and fly us away to be detained indefinitely, while the sheeple are still blissfully dreaming.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Yes, that has expanded, I understand, as privacy has been quietly undermined and invaded without alarming us passive little sheeple, who continue to delude ourselves that it won't happen to us, when actually it is already happening to people all around us every day.
One day they will come for us, at 5am probably, drag us out the door in our pyjamas, children screaming in fear, force us into a van and fly us away to be detained indefinitely, while the sheeple are still blissfully dreaming.

You're describing modern China quite accurately...

China's Social Credit System seeks to assign citizens scores, engineer social behaviour - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Originally Posted by bee utey

You're describing modern China quite accurately...

China's Social Credit System seeks to assign citizens scores, engineer social behaviour - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Yes, I saw that. Similar things are happening here - just ask the pensioners how they are being harassed with robo-debt letters based on data-matching.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Yes, that data-matching has expanded, I understand, as privacy has been quietly undermined and invaded without alarming us passive little sheeple, who continue to delude ourselves that it won't happen to us, when actually it is already happening to people all around us every day.
One day they will come for us, at 5am probably, drag us out the door in our pyjamas, children screaming in fear, force us into a van and fly us away to be detained indefinitely, while the sheeple are still blissfully dreaming.

Mick, OLS was not data matching. OLS was simply an accumulation of information already held on many data bases assembled in a searchable record.

Data Matching was specific projects matching the DSS & DVA files against ATO records such as Employment Declaration Forms, Income Tax Returns, PPS/RPS records, Land Title records, Customs and Immigration records to catch clients who went overseas and still claimed benefits, Financial Institutions paying interest over $100 per annum to clients. Births Deaths and Marriage records to catch those who married and didn't tell and benefits being paid to dead people. These were all highly successful at catching clients who hadn't declared income or assets or changes to circumstances.

Today Centrelink places more and more reliance on computerised data matching projects. There are no boots on the ground in Regional Offices. No fieldies with local knowledge keeping the local ne'er do wells partly honest. There are still a few mobile review teams working out of area offices but they seem to do specific projects. Local fieldies worked on referrals from other officers, informants, police, Housing Commission, employers and their own local knowledge as well as the regular of sickness allowance, 3 & 12 month reviews of unemployed, an d so on.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Yes, that data-matching has expanded, I understand, as privacy has been quietly undermined and invaded without alarming us passive little sheeple, who continue to delude ourselves that it won't happen to us, when actually it is already happening to people all around us every day.
One day they will come for us, at 5am probably, drag us out the door in our pyjamas, children screaming in fear, force us into a van and fly us away to be detained indefinitely, while the sheeple are still blissfully dreaming.

He he - I don’t wear PJ’s to bed - that’ll scare the **** out of ‘em. I’m also up and on my morning walk by 5, so they need to get up earlier than that.

Originally Posted by Homestar

He he - I don’t wear PJ’s to bed - that’ll scare the **** out of ‘em. I’m also up and on my morning walk by 5, so they need to get up earlier than that.

When the guys in the black hats and black leather overcoats come for you they don't knock on the door just simply kick it in.

"Who are you?"

" We will ask the questions".