Information Fasting: The Privacy Benefits of Logging Off Hard
Privacy starts with what you let in, not just what you keep out.
Privacy starts with what you let in, not just what you keep out.
You didn’t sign up to be a dopamine puppet.
But now your body twitches when your pocket vibrates.
Your brain fills the gaps between notifications with phantom buzzes.
You check your phone without knowing why.
They want you loud. Predictable. Constantly feeding the machine.
We’re going to starve it instead.
Physical tracking builds a profile you can’t see but they can search anytime. And when they decide to use it, you don’t get to argue the context, just the consequences.
You didn’t install a convenience system. You built a self reporting surveillance grid.
Cities are surveillance machines now. You don’t just walk through a city. You get recorded, scanned, profiled, and logged. Movement becomes metadata. Identity becomes inference.
Your face is in more databases than your social security number.
Tower pings. Wi-Fi scans. Bluetooth proximity. Motion sensors. Your location history is a permanent record built automatically, stored silently, and ready to be used against you.
They don’t need to know who you are.
They just need to know what you do reliably, repeatedly.
This week isn’t about hiding in a cabin. It’s about refusing to be owned in the physical world.
The same way we clawed back mental privacy, we’re going to make physical tracking harder, noisier, and less profitable.