The Government Really Is Spying On You — And It’s Legal

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Politico

The freakout moment that set journalist Byron Tau on a five-year quest to expose the sprawling U.S. data surveillance state occurred over a “wine-soaked dinner” back in 2018 with a source he cannot name.

The tipster told Tau the government was buying up reams of consumer data — information scraped from cellphones, social media profiles, internet ad exchanges and other open sources — and deploying it for often-clandestine purposes like law enforcement and national security in the U.S. and abroad. The places you go, the websites you visit, the opinions you post — all collected and legally sold to federal agencies.

 

In his new book, Means of Control , Tau details everything he’s learned since that dinner: An opaque network of government contractors is peddling troves of data, a legal but shadowy use of American citizens’ information that troubles even some of the officials involved. And attempts by Congress to pass privacy protections fit for the digital era have largely stalled, though reforms to a major surveillance program are now being debated.

 

 

 

On today’s episode of POLITICO Tech, Tau and I discussed the state of our personal privacy and the checks on all this government surveillance. I asked what differentiates the U.S. from authoritarian states like China when it comes to data collection, how our digital footprints will impact policy areas like abortion and what broader implications we can expect for civil liberties. He didn’t sugarcoat his responses.

“Any nightmare use for data you can think of will probably eventually happen,” Tau said. “It might not happen immediately, but it’ll happen eventually.”

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Robert Malone: The Willingness of Governments To Deploy Cognitive And Psychological Warfare Against Their Citizenry
Ian Schwartz
February 26, 2024

Rumble

Dr. Robert Malone’s Speech at International Crisis Summit 5 (Washington DC, 2/23/24)/url]

 

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Ya  know 10-15 years ago  i would have called this Nutter Stuff. Today....not so much.

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18 minutes ago, Valin said:

 

Ya  know 10-15 years ago  i would have called this Nutter Stuff. Today....not so much.

Not so long ago members said I was a bit of a nutter talking about pedophiles in government. 

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Jan 6, 2024

... (Previous Testimony from 2019 -    • Robert Epstein Testimony On Google In...  )

Behind The Paywall

Robert Epstein: How Google Manipulates Us

A leading psychology researcher, and Democrat, denounces Google's partisan Democrat bias
Michael Shellenberger
Feb 27, 2024

 

Long Podcast  Very Informative

Last year, Google CEO Sundar Pinchai went on a media offensive to reassure the public and policymakers that he was being responsible with Artificial Intelligence, or AI. “You will see us be bold and ship things,” he told the New York Times in March, “but we are going to be very responsible in how we do it.”

But the AI product Google shipped, Gemini, turned out to have a strong racial bias. When asked to depict the Pope, Vikings, and America’s founding fathers, Gemini refused to depict them as white.

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In truth, Google is overwhelmingly staffed by Democrats who give to Democratic candidates and causes, as the data below from Open Secrets shows.

High-tech venture capitalist Marc Andreessen today to X to debunk that claim that Google is politically neutral. “These [big high-tech] companies all share the same ideology, agenda, staffing, and plan,” Andreessen wrote. “Different companies, same outcomes. And they are lobbying as a group with great intensity to establish a government-protected cartel, to lock in their shared agenda and corrupt products for decades to come.”

The good news is that the intentions of Big Tech appear increasingly clear, which may give society time to respond. The fact of the matter is that Big Tech has been rushing into AI without properly dealing with its own internal biases.

 

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Mar 12, 2024 #DailyWirePlus #JordanPeterson #DrJordanPeterson

A fascist, totalitarian future awaits us - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024...

On March 7th, 2024, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson was invited to be an expert witness before the U.S. House Judiciary committee. This hearing was held to discuss "The Weaponization of the Federal Government," in which Dr. Peterson was given five minutes to make an official statement, followed by an open period for the present U.S. representatives to ask questions.

Chapters

(0:00) The hearing comes to order, overview

(1:21) FBI overreach, and their intended goal

(2:58) Swearing in Dr. Peterson

(3:53) Dr. Peterson testifies: “George Orwell could scarcely imagine this”

(12:48) Question one: will it stop with Conservatives?

(14:47) Question two: why not embrace AI and the surveillance state for improved safety?

(16:34) Question three: why did Canada decide that you need more “education?”

(17:32) Question four: why are the U.S. safeguards on free speech so important?

(19:31) Question five: should the banks be required to inform their customers when the GOV requests their records?

(20:32) Question six: can you tell us about the de-banking incidents during the Canadian Freedom Convoy?

(22:27) Question seven: who are the biggest victims of de-banking?

(25:36) Question eight: can you explain to what extent citizen's “virtualized selves” will be used by big tech, big gov, and the banks?

(31:04) The hearing is adjourned