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Wij zijn nooit onder dergelijk intens nauwkeurig onderzoek geweest dat wij vandaag zijn. Zo hoe vermijden wij snoopers? Hier, biedt de een `van-net' deskundige de gids van een insider aan Door Inkeping Rosen Wij leven in de letten-het meest over maatschappij in Europa. De blootstelling, vooral in de Waarnemer, heeft weinig de staat en de particuliere sector in controle doen houden. De verslagen van de telefoon zijn politieverslagen geworden, zoals Henry Porter vorige week in dit document wees op, en worden de kabeltelevisie- cameraverslagen nu gevoed in de automatische registratienummercomputer. Van het krediet en de opslag-kaart verslagen zijn marketing verslagen geworden en onze e-mailadressen zijn punten van ingang voor alle soorten misdaad en spam. Het is tijd om het gebruiken van alle wettelijke middelen te onzer beschikking weerstand te bieden. Wij hebben aan eend nodig onder de radar van overheidstoezicht, krediet-controlerend agentschappen, Internet en mobiele telefoonbedrijven of DVLA. Ik heb geleerd hoe te om info-snoopers bij baai te houden. Mijn onderzoek heeft me in een wereld van hoodies op middelbare leeftijd geleid, die omhoog in winkelende centra behandelen om de camera's van kabeltelevisie te vermijden; van jonge computergebruikers die hun namen van spamlijsten en van bereik van megacorps wegblijven; en mensen die van-net leven, uit gezicht van het systeem en afgesloten van de nutsbedrijven. Zo, is hier is een overlevingscontrolelijst voor het informatietijdperk. 1 koop een untraceable mobiele telefoon De reis naar een stad heeft u nooit vóór, aan een gebied zonder de camera's van kabeltelevisie bezocht en gevraagd een dakloze persoon om te kopen mobiele telefoon voor u loon-zoals-u-gaat. Die manier zal geen winkel uw beeld op zijn kabeltelevisie hebben. U zult ook anonieme mobiel hebben. Om uw hoogste anonimiteit omhoog te houden, het in een winkel zonder kabeltelevisie buiten. Of verdeel met de telefoon totaal en terugkeer aan bescheiden payphone, nu het domein van toeristen en de super-armen. Zelfs als u aan uw traceable telefoon plakt, verlaat het uitgeschakeld waar mogelijk vermijden hebbend uw gevolgde bewegingen. Vele telefoons zijn nog traceable, zodat moet u de batterij nemen uit zekere om te zijn. Als u een telefoon Bluetooth hebt, houd de dienst uitgeschakeld omdat dit nu voor adverterende en andere marketing activiteiten wordt getest. 2 bescherm uw e-mail If you use one of the free, web-based services like Gmail, your communications are being stored to build up a picture of your interests. Instead, you can use a service called Hushmail to send encrypted emails. Or work out a private code with friends you want to communicate with. You do not need an email address of your own. One hacker I spoke to sends emails from cybercafes via The Observer website, using the service which allows anyone to send any article to a friend. He embeds his message into the covering note which goes with the article. Others with their own computer use the free XeroBank browser (in preference to Explorer or Firefox), which includes several privacy-enhancing add-ons and sends all data through a network ‘cloud’ which hides most of the data you normally give away as you use a computer, but at the cost of reduced speed (http://xerobank.com/xB_browser.html). 3 Safeguard your computer and your files There is sophisticated software that deletes all traces of your activities from your computer. Assuming you don’t have access to this, it is still worth remembering the data about you contained inside each file. Many digital photos, for example, contain within them the serial number of the camera that took them. Word documents contain the name of the author as well as traces of previous drafts. 4 Be invisible to CCTV cameras Steve is a middle-aged IT consultant who lives in a bungalow on a smart private estate in south west London. He has never committed a criminal act. When he goes to business meetings, he wears a suit and tie, but when he walks around his local high street, he dons a hoodie. He does it on principle. ‘I don’t disapprove of the technology in its rightful place,’ Steve told me, ‘but we have an unregulated mess. It hasn’t reduced crime in any real sense - it’s displaced it in some cases.’ Media reports always say there are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in the UK, but they have been using that figure for the past two years. So it’s a safe bet we have at least six million by now, and there is no central register. You can use the Data Protection Act to request a copy of your own image from any particular camera, but that is simply a way of harassing CCTV owners, not safeguarding your identity. 5 Stay off spam mailing lists Each time you submit your email address to register for a new website, create a special address, either on a free webmail service or on your own email server so you have control over it. Then, if the company later sells your email address or loses it through poor security, you will know exactly who to blame. And you will be able to close the account or block all email to that particular address. Again, Hushmail is useful for this. You can set it up to create these aliases for you. 6 Prevent supermarkets knowing your shopping habits Swap your supermarket loyalty card with a friend or acquaintance every few months, after having cashed in any points you have accumulated (treat Oyster and other local transport cards the same way). You lose no benefits and it prevents tracking of specific purchasing patterns (or journeys) tied to your name and address. Use cash more often - save your credit card for emergencies. 7 Avoid utility companies’ marketing departments Live off-grid, unplugged from the system with solar panels and rainwater harvesting. There are tens of thousands of people living without mains power, water or sewerage, in isolated cottages, behind hedgerows in caravans or in groups of yurts in country fields. And this is not just a movement for tree huggers and climate campers. Many live on boats in towns and cities, and if you live in a flat or house, you can still unplug. 8 Keep your car off the automatic number recognition system The simplest way is to leave the car at home and use a bicycle. But if you must drive, don’t go into a congestion zone at any time. There are other legal ways to hide your registration number from the cameras - swap the light above the rear numberplate for an infrared bulb and that will flood the video-camera which operates at near infrared frequency. 9 Safeguard your NHS data If you are born in this country, then your NHS records are inescapable. But you can choose to store them with your GP to keep them off the central computer, and this should reduce the chances of the medical records being sold (legally) to drugs companies or (illegally) to private detectives or being snooped on by the 300,000 ‘authorised users’ of the system, without affecting medical care. There is no need to worry about, for example, records of your blood group not being available to medical staff after an accident - doctors no longer rely on paper or computer records. The automated diagnostic blood group tests are done by the ambulance crew on the way to hospital. You can get a form letter to send to the NHS from nhsconfidentiality.org. 10 Shop outside the system The website Freecycle (freecycle.org) could provide many of your needs. It consists of hundreds of short announcements from people trying to give away stuff they no longer need: beds, TVs, bookcases, the whole of human life is there in return for the cost of picking it up from the donor. There are local Freecycle groups all over the country (and the world), each with their own local web address. Some people make a decent living gathering things from Freecycle and selling them at car boot sales. There are full-time scavengers living off food retrieved from supermarket bins, because vast amounts of produce are simply thrown away on the eve of their sell-by date. Another way to avoid buying food is to barter for it. The car park of the pub in the centre of Longframlington village in Northumberland has been a barter centre for decades. On any Friday night between April and October, locals arrive and flip down the backs of their 4×4s laden with the week’s produce, whether its chanterelles, venison, pheasant, line-caught salmon or the latest crop of beetroots and lettuces. Technically, this innocent activity is tax evasion. ‘It’s all very rustic and encourages a paper-free environment, but this can underpin what can only amount to potential income tax, corporation tax or VAT non-disclosure, or even fraud,’ said accountant Julie Butler. But does Alistair Darling really want to take another bash at the delicate fabric of the countryside? It may seem almost comical to go to these lengths, but the ways companies and the public sector can misuse data isn’t a joke. We cannot trust them to safeguard our data or use it ethically, so we must provide our own safeguards. · Nick Rosen is editor of the Off-Grid website: off-grid.net See More:Big BrotherHave Your Say: Ten ways to thwart Big Brother Please note, only selected comments will be published. Or discuss this report in our our new forums This entry was posted on Sunday, October 28th, 2007 at 7:55 pm and is filed under Surveillance, Civil Liberties & Human Rights News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. |
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