PDubyah: New police search and surveillance law in force

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

New police search and surveillance law in force - it says .....

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New police search and surveillance law in force via New police search and surveillance law in force - Politics - NZ Herald News.Which got me a thinking about the ways that I'm already findeable if you want to. Some are more obvious than others.

I think I gave up the pretence of privacy ages ago in the internet age. No I'm not claiming I can do a half, or indeed, an any of this, but if I was being sought for something, illegal or potentially illegal, then there are plenty of places to start looking.So in no particular order;

From my banking account they know how much I get paid, they know the size of my mortgage, and the regular bills I have.

If there are insurance payments then they'd know my driving safety records, or my claim history of things that I might have lost, broken or had stolen.

From my bank account they know when I buy petrol, and where, and they'd be able to work out how far I travel each week.

My tax return might have charitable donation deductions, they know how I support.

From my bank account they know when I buy things from the supermarket and when. They can get copies of the till receipts and see what I brought. I even remember one case where the police had a pair of shoes that they knew were sold by a particular outlet, and they saw that suspect X had made that purchase on his bank account, and then they got the video footage of him making the transaction. I guess an electronic transaction wasn't quite enough.

They know how much electricity and water I'm using.

My ISP probably knows where I surf to and what I'm downloading, hey the RAINZ claim to know that too!

My credit card details will have all sorts of things on them.

My skytv account could probably tell them what I watch and what I set to record and watch later.

My phone can be tracked from cell-site to cell-site. They can probably recover my txt messages, after all they're an electronic record.

The motorway cameras can track me the length of the motorway, and other places, if they want to.

My parking tickets will tell them where I parked, or if I used txt to park, or even my credit card, well that just gives it away even more.

Spotify can tell them what I've listened to. My Itunes account will tell them what I brought, and what apps I use.

FourSquare can tell them where I visited, how often, and at what time, and possibly who with.

Facebook has location tagging and check-in features that I've used.

My medical records will detail which medication I have, or have had, and which procedures I've had undertaken in hospitals.

They can find out from my Social media what I like and don't like, what things I've been watching and who I've been in conversation with.

My passport records will show when I travelled overseas, the Airlines will have records too, just in case it was an internal flight, perhaps, but then you booked that on your credit card, they know these things.

I don't know they can listen to specific conversations on my phone without an intercept on it. and of course I could have paid cash for a phone and pre-paid card, I could indeed pay cash for a lot of things.

The Census return has a wealth of information about me.

You can lookup a whois to find some details about this blog, that scared me a bit!

I may have missed a few things, I don't think I overstated the things I did list though. Might go and un-scubsrcribe from a few things, and move, and change my name, and get everything in cash, get paid in cash indeed, now there's a challenge for the payroll people!