Surveillance Nation

 Have you flown lately?  Do you find it weird they take your picture after they scan your ID?   

Biometrics is disturbing to me. It doesn’t feel right. It feels like they’re taking something from me without my consent or permission. Or did I consent to whatever they’re by purchasing an airline ticket and going through a security checkpoint to board my flight?

I wonder if we are tracked in the airport terminal?  I wonder where else the data is used?  When I’m walking around a city or crossing the street?  Is my location attached to my person tracked by my cell phone?  By my credit card transactions?  By the license plate on my car?  Who monitors this information?  

You can run but you can’t hide. Burner phones. Hm.  

Is there a psychological profile that exists of me in some database somewhere due to my social media use or online activity?  What information do they have about me and can it be used against me?  Can it be manipulated?  Used for harm?

It’s like my soul and identity has been digitized and believe we may have all indirectly consented to its use, surveillance and profiling by using free online services and clicking through consenting and user agreements without reading them in order to get to use the shiny free product or travel somewhere by exchanging our identity for permission to move and think?

We’ve surrendered our soul and identity to digitalization through deceit. Our lives have become someone else’s digital assets. 

Perhaps freedom of thought and movement is an illusion.

I sense a disturbance in the force.