Re:Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote film finally hits the big scr...
by lisper on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:38AM
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> "forget" your phone in a friend's bag.
Are you going to forget your credit cards and ATM cards too? Give up on flying? Driving new cars? Driving in non-rural areas? And good luck finding a job nowadays without a cell phone or an internet connection.
In 1985 I could fly without showing ID to anyone, including the person I bought the ticket from (back then airplane tickets were printed on paper). I could drive anywhere without my license plate being tracked by default and without having to worry about the GPS in my car (because there was no GPS). And I had a reasonable expectation of privacy, enshrined in law, in my phone calls and snail mail correspondence (there was no email). Today all of that is gone.
And in 1985, you did not have Tor or public wifi allowing you to access the whole world with no effort in an anonymous way.
Look at how terrorists and criminals evade surveillance now: it is incredibly low tech.