State surveillance of personal data is theft, say world's leading authors

[MADem]

3. I resemble those remarks.

I don't have a smartphone, either--I have a "drug dealer" phone-a tracfone, and I buy the cards at the store with cash. I don't use a cellphone that much, so this option is cheap for me. I can text, take pictures, do some crappy video--it has all the features, none of the cost.

I do have "cash discount cards" but they're not in my name. My dead pets still get mail with all sorts of offers--some of them have been "pre-approved" for credit cards. I especially love the invitations to "financial and investment seminars." The dead cat that gets these invites was quite a yowler--I could just picture her loud comments while the salesman tried to sell people a skeevy investment!! Meeeyowwwww!!!!

I take the attitude that if I put it out there, it's a matter of record. I don't get involved in the whole facebook scene, either. I have a barely used account in a name not my own, in order to access the site, but I can't be bothered with passing shit on, "sharing" or doing that silly stuff.

I've resigned myself to the fact that crap I buy on Amazon is a matter of record--that said, since I buy stuff for my computer challenged family and friends on occasion, my "profile" such as it is, is pretty warped!

I very much agree with you that "NSA-proof" comm device manufacture is a likely growth industry...being cynical, I have to wonder how long before they figure a way in there, too!