By Cade Shadowlight
What if your life’s score, as determined by Big Tech, Big Banks, and hidden government pressure, controls your future? Social scoring, from China’s blacklists to U.S. algorithms, tracks your every move. With 82% of transactions now cashless according to a 2023 Federal Reserve report, surveillance is tightening. Protect yourself with these steps to defy the dystopian score.
1) Use Cash Whenever Possible: Cash hides your transactions from scoring systems tracking digital payments. Pay cash at local stores to stay off their radar. Avoid using store loyalty cards, unless you sign up for them anonymously (no real name, address, phone number, or email).
2) Guard Your Voice: Speak boldly but smartly, online and in person. Avoid vulgar langage, personal attacks and especially threats. In today's world, even private conversations can become public. Use Signal to chat privately with your tribe, evading surveillance.
3) Curate and Conceal Online: For your public image, maintain a bland, positive social media presence (pictures of family outings, cute videos of your cat; no partisan poilitics or idealogical rants). For those partisan politics and idealogical rants, use anonymous accounts unlinked to your identity. Consider using the Tor browser or a good VPN for added privacy.
4) Careful With Your Phone: Avoid using public WiFi. Use a privacy browser such as DuckDuckGo or Brave, setting it as the default browser. Adjust settings to clear history and cache when you close the browser. Consider disabling tracking for your phone and various apps if possible (but know this may affect "Find Lost Phone"or other desirable features).
5) Secure Your Devices: Disable trackers and use privacy modes on all smart devices. At protests, use a cash-bought anonymous burner phone, leaving your real one at home.
6) Diversify Finances: Spread funds across credit unions and small banks. Having multiple accounts makes things more difficult to track and to completely cancel you. Consider privacy coins like Monero. Avoid single-point failures like Venmo that feed scores. Physical cash remains the best privacy option in most cases.
7) Stay Updated: Follow the news regarding privacy, AI, and technocracy to be aware of emerging threats. Some good resources:
- EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense (website link)
- Technocracy News and Trends (website link)
- The EU-focused Stop Technocracy (website link)
- Important background information in my article Technocracy Threats: Power Elite Control (article link)
Beyond Tech
Beyond tech, your personal behavior shields or endangers you in a scored world. Don't engage in illegal or unethical activities. Use common decency when dealing with other people, in real life and online. Build strong personal relationships with people who share your beliefs and values. Real life tribe you can trust is infinitely more important than online followers you don't really know.
Finally, self-reliance is an extremely important shield from surveillance and its potential consequences. The less you need the system, the less it can control you. Being self-employed, financially secure, and homeschooling your kids can provide important buffers between you and the emerging surveillance and control state.
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