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.