| >Can you explain to me why being on the internet where all your actions are being monitored by your ISP is OK ISP surveillance is not OK, but ISPs only know the domains I access, not what I do on them. I can prevent them from knowing even that by using a VPN, Tor, or any other kind of proxy. I believe encrypted DNS might also become a thing in the future. Also, I'm not locked-in to my ISP. >no matter how many precautions you take, someone is watching you some how That's what we're trying to fight. >There's a record somewhere with all your past emails and they are making a marketing profile about you A lot of my email accounts are fake-identity and temporary and I try to use encryption whenever I can, but I admit email encryption has a long way to go. There's no lock-in here though. >Android has you locked into Google surveillance It doesn't. Custom Google-free Android ROMs are a thing and work well. >Send a text? Your provider had to send that data Use encryption. I recommend Matrix/Riot.im for encrypted chat. There is also a program called Silence that can encrypt SMS. - If you want to know the point of all this, there's a lot of material online, but you can start by watching the short talk "Why Privacy Matters" by Glenn Greenwald |