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Comment by tarere | Hacker News Reader

So when they'll stick a tracker in the ass of every new babyborn you'll say "hurray, this is beautiful !" The world you're creating is just insane.

One will have to kill me before seeing me wearing a tracking device.

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You carry a cell phone right? Use it to communicate too? Use the internet extensively? Those are the best tracking devices in the world. Your heart rate, the fact you eat burritos and exercise is relatively minor compared to the ubiquitous cell phone usage of the past decade.

I do have a phone, i AM tracked, ans i DEPLORE IT, but i do keep things SAFE the range i can that mean i'm not using any app i use my phone to call people and receive call. I don't have facebook or rubbish social network account where I expose my life. Yes all my stuff is recorded by the NSA, i DEPLORE IT, so i'm careful of what i can say over the network, you don't seem to be.

I just can't understand you can't see any danger for the future the way things are moving. We need to stop all this data collection on people. This data is being used already, for commercial matters and as a matter of fact for spying and mind control. One have to be nut to yell "conspiracy theory" when the fact is spreaded all over the news. Just go for curiosity on Wikileaks or Snowden files, just be curious. I'm not american and i'm not native english speaking, broader you vision.

Not to feed the trolls, but I've been thinking a lot about my relationship with my smartphone and the societal expectations of availability lately. Phones are effectively tracking devices.

Are you saying you don't carry a cellphone? How has that decision impacted your daily life?

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