You'd Be Paranoid Too...

I'm not paranoid. But most people would be if they experienced what I am about to describe. All my life people seemed to know stuff about me, stuff they couldn't possibly have. My therapist told me in 2011 it was because I was diagnosed with a minor mental issue at age 7. I saw a doctor then, and she told my parents and I that I was normal. And I didn't see a therapist again till high school. But my therapist said that wasn't really what she thought. And one teacher around that time said I that touched her inappropriately, even though I obviously didn't. I thought I was the only person who knew what happened that day. And for years I thought she would have gotten into a lot more trouble, hitting me hard like she did, in front of many witnesses. I only came up to about her hip in height at the time. But my therapist told me in 2011, everyone did know what happened that day.

And this is going to sound odd. But the police in my area might know something about me. Or maybe they just think they did. I honestly don't know. Starting in the early 90's, when I started going out more, they'd give me dirty looks. And sometimes they seemed to know things about me they couldn't possibly. And they seemed to think at times I was up to no good. Why? I'm a good person. And I have no criminal record or behavioral issues. And they'd know that if they were the police. Wouldn't they? Yet they'd still let me know they were suspicious of me. Not too often, but it did happen.

But you know, there was a local mall my family and I went to about 20 years ago, where the guards were all police. And they were very nice to me there at least. But the weird stuff I described above, it did happen in more than one city in my metro area.

 

lately I wonder if I an being watched. A couple of times wife and I have talked about something we needed. and next day adds come up on home page.

 

That is true.
Last year Jane and I put it to the test by talking about buying her wedding dress. We had never discussed this before, having been married for more than 40 years.

Our phones were switched on in the room at he time, but not in use. My phone is an old Nokia that I mainly use for work, while Jane has a smartphone.

Over the following week, she got adverts everywhere connected to weddings, on both our computers and Jane's phone. Our emails have no ads due to our domain and filters, but the ads appeared on several sites that we were browsing.

We were going to spend the following evening discussing the bombs that I am currently constructing. We decided to give that one a miss, we have grown quite fond of our stained glass front door.

 

So little is known about the truth of what is going on these days.
The only possible culprit in my opinion was Samsung, who manufactured Janes phone. It runs on EE, but was not logged onto their server by an active call.
One thing that is hard to fully comprehend is how if I called you on your mobile I would find you. By using your area code, if you were in your home country, we would connect within less than 5 seconds. But you could be anywhere in the world and your phone would ring and tell you who was calling within 15 seconds. This involves every mast in the world responding to billions of pings per second. The lower time reduces this somewhat by adding areas every second until the ping returns.

One little known fact is that every financial transaction in the UK, copies to the inland revenue. For normal people, these are only transactions that total £5,000 per month, but if I was under investigation, they would know when and where I bought a sandwich. The only saving grace is lack or staff to interrogate them.
Who knows, at sum point in the future, a tax inspector may appear as a hologram in the office.

Meanwhile, we stupid earthlings did this all on our own. As my late father would say, "pull the other leg".
Perhaps the guy who adopted the term 'cloud computing' for remote drives was trying to tell us something. We are led to believe all this is nothing more than a LAN or WAN. I wonder where the international space station fits in.
Perhaps I will ask my MP that one between his cups of tea.

 

Just an FYI: Doctors, Lawyers, Police, Other 1st Responders, they are all Master Manipulators. They are trained o be able to handle crowds, and unruly individuals. Questions they ask, random statements they make, all designed to put you off balance, and reveal things you may not know you are revealing. You aren't necessarily being watched or spied on, but you are being manipulated.

 

Happens to us alot

 

I wonder about smart tv, and alexa, never thought about phones.

 

If you have mannerisms or appearance that are odd, police might be picking up on that. They tend to zero in on the unusual as suspicious. Your teacher might have had the same problem. I was never a disciplinary problem, but had a teacher who picked on any kid who was a little "different". She grabbed me by the hair once, and banged my head against the blackboard in front of the class for getting a problem wrong. That was kinda traumatic. She's lucky I didn't tell my folks, since she could have lost her job and be sued for that.

 

A doctor I been going to for about 30 years gave me a questionnaire to fill out that asked:
o Do you have a gub in your holm? (gub is a substitute for a cordless hole punch). (I have no idea what a holm is)
o Have you ever manufactured illicit drugs in your home?
o Do you feel guilty all the time?
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on and on . . . . .

 

Been there! I started off in a Catholic school, with the nuns with rulers. They told my folks I'd be better off in the public school--like being escorted out of East Germany during the Cold War when they were shooting everybody trying to escape. The public school is where the head-bashing occurred. (Teacher bashed my head against the blackboard cuz I wasn't doing a math problem right!)

 

Generally, that is true, but the Gubment has ways to pressure medical practices into asking questions that shouldn't be asked. Such as Medicare paying more to insurance companies if they play along.
Money talks, the rules walk.

 

Yeah, no it wasn't the 1990's. I think it was actually more like when I was age 14 that the local police started treating me oddly. Just oddly. Inappropriate comments, dirty looks, telling me they were watching me. And I am more law-abiding than most. Why would they be watching me? Didn't they have real criminals to observe? I'm serious.

 

Roger That !!!

 

Are you overlooking the OS of Google and Apple? Alexa/Siri softwares in particular. They wouldn't 'hear', "Alexa, play my favourite tune", if they weren't listening all the time.

Slightly misleading. Is it a little-known fact when its actually in legislation?

If a single transaction seems abnormal/suspicious/unusual, it can be reported by the receiving or paying bank, regardless of value. Not every transaction.
It's not relevant to monthly totals. They're reported by banks, who are compelled to do so in certain circumstances, according to money laundering legislation. Transactions can be 10k and not reported. I'm not sure the limit or threshold is £10001 but 10k doesn't automatically trigger anything.

Your mobile phone connects to its nearest mast. That ensures the mobile network knows where you are and it routes the caller to your phone, by using as few masts as necessary.

 

What you say is true, it works basically on the area code of both phones, the second ping batch takes into account some history. The third batch from the UK includes popular holiday resorts such as Spain.
But assuming that both callers are away from home and on opposite sides of the planet, every mast will receive a ping within approximately 30 seconds.

This technology constantly updates and learns without human input. It is possibly one of the first real examples of AI.

 

Maybe it's too complicated to explain by text or maybe the system is changed from earlier versions.

Assuming the guy speaking to me wasn't just waffling; it was explained to me by a guy who worked with a major UK mobile provider that, basically, because each phone connects to the nearest mast, the 'system' knows which mast to route the call from and to. The ISO phone number is a UID and the mast to which it is connected is stored against that number, which means if I call your number, the system checks which mast you are connected to and it routes my call there, directly to that mast, via satellite if necessary.

I agree about it being an early version of AI and that adds to my notion that AI is just a label/ploy, to create a buzz/fad.

I wrote software 15 years ago that did stuff subject to certain conditions being met and then, depending on what/which conditions were met, it worked out what to do next (from a whole range of written and software-created, conditional options), and then did it/them or it re-crunched according to other conditions and then worked out what to do.
Several steps of 'decision-making', by the software and once it decided what to do, it did it.
Then if the software was run again, it also took account of whatever it had done before and knew how to decide what to do this time.
I never thought of it as AI but, instead, as a computer doing computery things for which, today, now, we have the concise label - AI.

Instead of saying a computer does computery things we can now, each and all of us, say our software runs on AI.
That seems to part some people from a lot of their money as they try to invest as an early adopter in the latest fad/buzzword/thing, where they aren't such an early adopter as they think.
I digress.
Apologies.