NAOMI BROCKWELL: “Every email going into your inbox for Gmail is being analyzed, it's being scanned, it's being added to a profile about you"

Privacy advocate @naomibrockwell tells me to stop using Gmail.

“Every email going into your inbox for Gmail is being analyzed, it's being scanned, it's being added to a profile about you,” says Brockwell.

Here are more private options she recommends: pic.twitter.com/c8JzRyb7bD

— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) November 14, 2024

Brave doesn't track your search history, Google does.

Apple goes out of its way to try to anonymize your data.  It doesn't store it in it's database your exact location. It uses a technique called "fuzzing."

Brave, Proton email and Tutanota [this has a free version] don't track your data.  But wait, if a 3rd party stores your data for security reasons, doesn't that mean that they actually have access to it?

03:40  Every email that goes into your inbox for your Gmail account, it's being analyzed, it's being scanned, it's being added to a profile about you.  Google has a terrible track record.  

As soon as you connect to the internet, Android uploads to google it comes hey complete history of where you have been that day . . .   

No one needs an app for Shell gasoline.  Convenience is not an upside to the massive loss of privacy when we use apps or even our credit and debit cards.  John's Shell app tracks a lot of data, including his travel destinations, locations, purchase history, contact information, email address, name, phone number, product interaction, purchase history, search history, user ID, product interaction, crash data, performance data, precise location, coarse location, etc.  Before you down an app, take a look at their permissions.  

NYC COVID-19 App?

08:35  What's App collects a lot of data about you.  It shares it with its parent company, Facebook.  And that data includes who you are, what time you're calling people, who you're calling, and the content of messages is end-to-end encrypted.  Take a look at the default backup of your devices and whether that's just being saved into some cloud.  There was a scandal where that was going on for a long time, and people thought they had private communications but actually everything was just immediately available.  "WhatsApp data leaked--500 million use records for sale online," Jurgita Lapienyte, Chief Editor, CyberNews, February 24, 2023.

A document leaked by Rolling Stones a couple of years ago showed all the different private messaging apps and how they compared in terms of privacy, and Signal App was one of the best.  WhatsApp was one of the worst.

09:23  They already have all my data.  What's the point of going private now?  

Think of it when you date someone.  So they know everything about you, and you're fine with that but the moment that you end that relationship, would you still be comfortable with them knowing everything about you going forward?  No, you'd probably stop them from having access to your Amazon account, your Netflix account, and access to your email.  You probably wouldn't want them to have that information going forward.  Privacy comes down to choice, right.  It's not that I want everything that I do to remain private.  I'm a public personality as well.  I show videos of myself doing all kinds of crazy things.  I let people in the public watch them.  It's that I deserve I have the right to selectively reveal to the world what I want them to see, and currently, that's not the world.   

De-Google your phone.

the CIA and NSA funded Google. That's a proven thing. There were research grants that they had for surveillance, and Google won those grants.

Who is actually watching us online? 

3 threat vectors: 1) scammers and hackers, 2) big tech, and 3) big brother.  The last 2 work together.  

Google has been shaping the whole NSA and how the NSA collects data.  

How much is Google in bed with the NSA, CIA, and all of that it seems like anybody who is inconvenient with the government gets deplatformed, or anyone who goes against the whole cathedral narrative.  Is there any way of knowing how much the government is dictating who gets canceled and who doesn't? 

The scientists and doctors were censored.  Dude, there were thousands of them that got censored.  So it wasn't just those big names. 

I don't know if we can really know or predict, but we can observe.  We know that the CIA and the NSA funded Google.  That's a proven thing.  There were research grants that they had for surveillance, and Google won those grants.

The other thing that I think of a lot is the Chinese social credit system, which is going on right now in China.  This is real.  It's going on right now.  It's technological slavery, and Google is right at the heart of it.  They have worked closely with the Chinese government.  They don't care about people or individuals.  And I don't consider Google any better than government and anyone who seeks power.  And they all work together, putting this network into place that we don't even have an idea how powerful this network is.

8:45  There's a pro-human and anti-human vibe, and if you're trying to suppress freedom, I consider that anti-human, because then you're just looking for slaves.  Then the liberty side of the spectrum, which is pro-human, we all believe that liberty is the way to reach human flourishing at the maximized potential.  So all of these big companies seem to be working together in a very anti-human way that is . . . totally disturbing.

More disturbing to me are the hordes of people who follow along, get told what to do, get told what to think, and these hordes do not question it.  They don't question the evidence in front of them.  They don't reassess their view. 

What are the risks from hackers and scammers?  

"We own the science." Well, they've paid fot it, haven't they?

🚩 World Economic Forum partnered with Google to determine what results are shown.

WEF Member: “We own the science.” pic.twitter.com/nWIRhTqjq9

— Kate (@KateTalksTruth) October 1, 2022

And still people don't believe their BS.  A little bio on who Ms. Fleming is.

How to Invest in Crazy Times with Larry Lepard

 

If we have inflation for the next 10 to 15 years, bonds are doomed.  Growth stocks are doomed.  If you go back and study the 1970s, what you see is that the good performing investments of the 70s were commodities--gold, oil, . . .  Bonds got destroyed because of inflation and regular . . . .  

Start with a big theme.  Make sure you are on the right side of a macro trend.  We're no longer in a deflationary world; we've entered an inflationary period.  It may not last more than 10 years, but certainly we're only a year or two into it.  

In general, Commodities of stuff versus bonds and growth.  This is Uranium, this is oil, this is lithium, gold, silver, wheat . . .  In this period of deflation, the market got the wrong signals, and we under invested in the things we need to live our lives. When we finally broke out of the down trend, inflation was so virulent.  We've had really bad inflation and sadly we're not going to be able to solve it instantly because we've had the inflation, in large part, because the supply . . . we haven't had the supply. 

We haven't invested in supply.  Investing in supply in this situation takes time.  You don't just turn on the tap and suddenly you got more oil; suddenly got more wheat, turn on the tap, and suddenly got more gold.  I mean it takes capital and it takes time to provide more supply to bring prices back in line.   I've been focusing on silver and gold, silver and gold mining stocks, but take a look at lithium.  I mean everyone says we need to go to more efficient cars; we need to have a more efficient car fleet.  That may not look that smart if electricity costs continue to go up.  But if were trending toward an electric car fleet, we need lithium to make those batteries.  The world in 10 years will need ten times the amount of lithium that we're mining now.  So, companies that are mining lithium are about to do extraordinarily well.  Get in front of a major trend that has years to run.  Apple and Google, for example, it's growing at 5% a year and trading at 25x earnings.  It's the best technology company in the world.  No doubt, but it's trading at 25x cash flow.  I've got gold mining companies that are growing at 50% a year and are trading at 3x cash flow.  That's a big divergence, right?  

Apple's market cap alone is equal to the sum of the bottom 180 companies within the S&P 500.

Impressive and scary at the same time. pic.twitter.com/Rq9zF2Pbx3

— Alf (@MacroAlf) September 8, 2022