Glad I don't live in America, yeah there's tracking here but only phone/internet companies do it heavily.
Depending on the rock's location, and which government controls and owns the land under said rock, I would strongly suggest living in a brothel in Vegas. Allegedly, the privacy there is top notch.
Cheese can you post the false memories link and the mind reading one. I'm curious to see what you meant by those.
Honestly i do not care if companies collect data. from me, no one is actually watching i'm doing, only computers. so yeah.. i'm sure there is a good argument hidden in my head somewhere.
Actually, every single thing I listed is already happening. Name a few items you're interested in, and I'll post links to the articles that prove they're happening right now.
None of it's secret. I talk in my sleep what's to stop someone talking to me during mine? A foil hats a bit tame you really need a lead line Bunker Lol. But still who cares. What will happen will happen. Its politics. You see it everyday in the workplace, infighting is reality...as it is in no way a rainbow world. Only for the narrow minded.Amazing people still knock this stuff
Denial is one hell of a drug. I think people just find the state of technology so far beyond what they think is actually possible that they dismiss it as impossible. And call you a conspiracy theorist or paranoid. As you said, none of it is secret. But it is a secret to those with eyes closed and heads in the sand. We have arrived at "the future."
CHEEEESSEE!!! I have read the two articles you posted. Neither of them would be possible without consent. Which is what I feel your op is mainly about. The false memory article was more akin to implanting of false feelings. They were making mice feel fear by stimulating their brain. Memories ( like what I did last summer) would be way to complex for them to develop. And even if that could create them they would still have to implant wires in my brain which is pretty damn invasive and not something that they would be able to do on the down low as your op suggests. ( you never said on the down low, I know, but your post is hinting at companies doing things behind our backs so it feels like you implied secrecy as far as memory implantation). The mind reading was honestly a better read than the memory article and it's potential uses are pretty interesting. Unfortunately we get back to the whole down low thing. They need to put you in an MRI machine and you have to be focusing on that one thing just so they can render a REALLY blurry image. Complex thoughts would be impossible to read especially since most of our thoughts are not images. I'm almost certain that the image rendering done was only possible because they were zoning in on certain regions of the ocipital lobe. They couldn't possibly try and take data from all parts of the brain in at the same time and process it into a conclusive "thought" so they can see what were thinking. Interesting reads but the things you speak of are not possible with modern technology and will most likely not be possible for a very long time, if ever.