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Bugspace

I have decided to term the spaces where you are being “bugged” as “bugspace”.

Bugspace is:

most of the Web
Gmail
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
anything else owned by Facebook, including WhatsApp
unencrypted IRC
anywhere where there is a mobile phone
anywhere where there is an unprotected laptop
anywhere where there is a CCTV camera
anywhere with an Amazon Echo or similar listening device
anywhere visible from space
anywhere visible from the public highway
anywhere your behaviour is being monitored or disciplined by other people
prisons
schools
more generally anywhere that you are being treated like an insect
rooms of private homes being used for remote learning
anywhere with a TV or radio that you can’t switch off
that bridge by Vauxhall Station opposite MI6

Now some of these are not stricto sensu places where one is being surveilled, but places where one’s behaviour is being disciplined by the undiverse policies of The Powers That Be.

Following an incident in which I was discussing Ronald Coase with my brother-in-law and then saw an advert for an article about Coase on my laptop on the way home, I’ve decided to partition my flat into bugspace and sanctuary zones or “safe space”, with electronic devices only permitted in bugspace, and with separate external entrances.