You better be careful – you better not pout, you better not cry – because this Christmas the surveillance state is making a list and checking it twice, so you will. It doesn't matter if you were bad or good.
Whether you like it or not, you're going to be on this list.
Mass surveillance is the deep state's version of a “gift” that continues to give back to the deep state.
Geofencing seine net. fusion center. smart device. Behavioral threat assessment. Terrorist watch list. face recognition. Cut the tip line. Biometric scanner. Before the crime. DNA database. data mining. Prediction technology. Drone. Contact tracing app. License plate reader. Social media review. Watchtower.
Added together, they create a world where the average person is watched, watched, spied on, and tracked in more than 20 different ways by the eyes and ears of both governments and corporations.
Big Tech, married to Big Government, has become Big Brother.
Americans are monitored every second of every day by a vast network of digital peeping toms, electronic wiretaps, and robot snoops.
This creepy new age of government/corporate espionage, in which we are wiretapped, watched, tracked, tailed, mapped, bought and sold, and targeted, is the tyranny of technology, fusion centers, and voyeurs. made possible by a worldwide military force. Tom's.
Of the tools used to track our movements, monitor your spending, and sniff out all the ways your thoughts, actions, and social circles could put you on the government's naughty list. Let's consider just a few. Something is wrong.
Tracking users based on their mobile phone and movement: Mobile phones become de facto informants, providing a steady stream of digital location data about users' movements and movements. For example, on January 6, the FBI was able to use geofencing data to identify more than 5,000 mobile devices (and their owners) in a four-acre area around the Capitol.
Track you based on your DNA. DNA technology in the hands of government officials has completed the transition to a surveillance state. By accessing your DNA, the government will soon know everything it doesn't already know about you, including your family tree, ancestry, physical appearance, health history, and propensity to follow orders and chart your own path. Probably. It is only a matter of time before the police state's pursuit of criminals expands to include genetic profiling and pre-emptive surveillance of future criminals.
Tracking you based on your face: Facial recognition software aims to create a society where every individual who steps into a public place will be tracked and recorded in real-time as they go about their daily tasks . Similarly, biometric software that relies on a person's unique identifiers (fingerprints, iris, voiceprint) has become the standard for bypassing digital locks and accessing phones, computers, and office buildings, as well as getting past security lines. It is becoming. Scientists are also developing lasers that can identify and monitor individuals based on their heartbeat, smell, and microbiome.
Tracking you based on your behavior: Rapid advances in behavioral monitoring have made it possible to not only monitor and track individuals based on their movement and behavior patterns, including gait recognition (how they walk), but also to track you overall. Monitoring is now possible. It is an industry centered on predicting human behavior based on data and surveillance patterns, which also shape the behavior of entire populations.
Tracking you based on your spending and consumer activities: Consumer monitoring can track your activities and data in physical and online areas and share it with advertisers so that they can be used regularly for profit. It has become a big data collector, a $300 billion industry.
Track you based on public activity: Private companies work with police agencies across the country to seamlessly monitor large groups of people, such as during protests and rallies, to track you from all We have built a surveillance network that covers major cities. They also engage in extensive online surveillance, looking for clues in “large-scale public events, social unrest, gang communications, and individuals with criminal histories.”
Tracking users based on social media activity: As The Intercept has reported, corporate surveillance technology allows the FBI, CIA, NSA, and other government agencies to mine constitutionally protected speech on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. We are increasing our investment in and dependence on. Instagram is used to identify potential extremists and predict who may be involved in future anti-government acts.
Tracking you based on your social networks: Not content with simply monitoring individuals through their online activities, government agencies are now using surveillance technology to track you based on your social networks, including phone calls, text messages, emails, and We track the people we connect with through social messages. , to explore potential criminals. What this creates is a “jointly guilty” society in which we are all just as guilty as the most guilty person in our address book.
Now, the government wants us to believe that as long as we're not doing anything wrong, we don't have to fear these large-scale espionage operations.
Please don't believe it.
The government's definition of a “bad person” is extremely broad, resulting in a staggering amount of warrantless surveillance of innocent, law-abiding Americans.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and its fictional work The Eric Blair Diaries, the surveillance, digital stalking, and data mining of American citizens is in the hands of the government. It has become a weapon and a refuge for some compliance and control. It hasn't made America safer. And they certainly aren't helping to protect our freedoms.
In fact, the United States will never be safe as long as the U.S. government is allowed to discard the Constitution.
About John and Nisha Whitehead:
Constitutional lawyer and author John W. Whitehead is the founder and director of the Rutherford Institute. His most recent books, The Erik Blair Diaries and Battlefield America: The War on the American People, are available at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be reached at (email protected). Nisha Whitehead is Executive Director of the Rutherford Institute. Information about the Rutherford Institute can be found at www.rutherford.org.
