STOP BLOODY WATCHING ME! WHERE HAS OUR PRIVACY GONE?

STOP BLOODY WATCHING ME! WHERE HAS OUR PRIVACY GONE?

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I'm sick to bloody death of being watched, tracked, analysed and sold to. Government, local councils, social media companies — why does everyone need to know so much about me?

I look for travel insurance and suddenly my Facebook and X feeds are stuffed with offers from companies I haven't even approached. I wanted an insurance quote, not a bloody relationship!

Then there's Amazon and Netflix, forever suggesting what I might like. Watch this. Buy that. Try this next. LEAVE ME ALONE! I want to discover things for myself. Browse, explore, make my own choices. I don't need an algorithm organising my life around what it thinks will keep me watching or spending.

Out in the street, there's another camera. Online, another cookie request. Another account to create, another app to download, another demand for personal information. Why do you need it? Who are you sharing it with? And when do I get a say? Everyone is holding too much information on us. Our movements, our purchases, our interests, our habits. We're expected to hand it over, trust whoever collects it and accept another intrusion as the price of everyday life.

Where does this end? How much of ourselves are we supposed to surrender? This is part of why I'm leaving the country. I'm heading to Southeast Asia — places we're encouraged to regard as "less developed". Well, I hope I might find a bit more freedom to wander, explore and get on with my life. I'll find out when I get there. But what does it say about life here that the prospect of being left alone has become something I'm travelling halfway around the world to look for?

I'm 65. I want an adventure. I want to look around me and decide for myself what interests me. I don't want the rest of my life fed back to me as a list of recommendations.

Are you fed up too? Or have we become so used to being watched that we've stopped questioning it? STOP BLOODY WATCHING ME. LET ME LIVE MY LIFE.

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