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By: DGAF in Miami

DGAF in Miami — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:37:28 +0000

See your point on self-surveillance in “these times”, yet, when The Troubles/Collapse arrives, you’ll need analogs to ‘Fake Call-Me’, e.g. Fake Latitude-Me, Fake Text-Me… “monkeywrenching” if you will.

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:38:38 +0000

Here is one that is a definite must have: ACLU-NJ

“Citizens can hold police accountable in the palms of their hands with “Police Tape,” a smartphone application from the ACLU of New Jersey that allows people to securely and discreetly record and store interactions with police, as well as provide legal information about citizens’ rights when interacting with the police. Thanks to the generosity of app developer OpenWatch, the ACLU-NJ is providing Police Tape to the public free of charge.”

“…The Android “Police Tape” app records video and audio discreetly, disappearing from the screen once the recording begins to prevent any attempt by police to squelch the recording. In addition to keeping a copy on the phone itself, the user can choose to send it to the ACLU-NJ for backup storage and analysis of possible civil liberties violations.”

“…The “Police Tape” app is available for download at http://www.aclu-nj.org/yourrights/the-app-place/. A how-to video created by the ACLU-NJ shows Lady Liberty as she goes through each step of the app as she records and uploads her own run-in with police. The New York Civil Liberties Union released a similar, New York City-specific app to target “stop and frisk” searches by the New York Police Department in early June.”

The article I quoted is at: http://www.aclu-nj.org/news/2012/07/03/aclu-nj-releases-police-accountability-app

Thoughts?

By: wimminz

wimminz — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:43:48 +0000

OK Hans, look at it this way.

A wimminz says she was raped by a guy.

CCTV shows only two guys in the same area at the same time, you are one, I am the other, we didn’t see each other and don’t know who the other is.

Po-lice say “Must be one of these guys did it”

My Latitude records and call and text records show I was indeed there, on my way from point A 3 miles away in one direction to point B 5 miles away in the other, so I was only in the vicinity of the alleged rape for 60 seconds, oh, and I was on the phone the whole time to Britney.

That leaves you…

You see the point… the technology is going to get used against you, and the only defence against surveillance and monitoring technology is ***your own*** surveillance and monitoring technology.

By: hans

hans — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:28:52 +0000

And thus your self-paid private “ankle bracelet monitor” is actually somewhat working for you.

Though to me it´s still an ankle bracelet for criminals.
Still not too keen on buying the damn thing, nor making the acquaintance of the “fair” creatures that necessitate this decent into Orwells worst nightmares.

But YMMW… if you have the fucking thing, might as well use it properly.

By: wimminz

wimminz — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:52:22 +0000

Cheetah sync to PC and then copy across to any medium you like, or directly from phone to dropbox.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:31:24 +0000

Thanks Afor, splendid guide, how about recordng phone calls? It is nice to have a call log, but what about the actual calls? My phone can record all calls by default, but that quickly becomes a large number of big files.