The Week You Took Your Space Back
This week was about one thing: reclaiming space. Not just digital space, but mental, physical, and public space. Space that’s yours to guard.
This week was about one thing: reclaiming space. Not just digital space, but mental, physical, and public space. Space that’s yours to guard.
If you’re traceable in the real world, you’re not untraceable.
You walk down the street. Smile at a camera you don’t see. That face? It’s logged. Scanned. Tagged. Cross referenced with five databases. Welcome to the permanent lineup.
You think you’re safe because you’re inside?
You’re not. You’re just easier to watch.
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.
Your phone is not neutral. It is not private. It is not yours.
It belongs to the network. And the network works for them.
You won’t get it perfect. That’s fine. But stop pretending it’s not happening.