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The Surveillance State

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Introduction Compact

"Big Brother is Watching You." - George Orwell

"There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying me on my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'" - Philip K. Dick

George Orwell's 1984 and Philip K. Dick's Minority Report may be two of the most prophetic works of fiction ever written.

When given the choice between...

Security vs. Privacy and Convenience vs. Privacy

...we have generally chosen to give up our rights to privacy.

As a result, we live in a rapidly expanding Surveillance State, a mix of tech-fueled surveillance capitalism, and more ominously, an increasingly omnipresent surveillance network feeding into our ever-encroaching governmental agencies.

The Surveillance State feeds on a diet of artificial intelligence, facial recognition technologies, online tracking, smart Internet-connected devices, land-based surveillance cameras, satellites, telephone tracking, video doorbells and digital assistants. Virtually all of our movements and activities, both online and in the physical world, in our homes in in the outside world, including our workplaces, are being tracked and recorded.

While many of us have voluntarily given up our online privacy for the sake of convenience, entertainment and social connections, with ramifications that we are just beginning to appreciate, the surveillance by our local, state and federal entities has proceeded with virtually no debate.

While China may be the poster child for the use and abuse of surveillance technologies, the rest of the world is following them down the rabbit hole.

Please refrain from any partisan bickering. This is a bipartisan issue.

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676	Noise and Motion Monitors in Their Homes? These Tenants Say No. The public housi	S. maltophilia	-	yesterday
675	The Man Behind the Anti-Flock Darth Vader Mask Wants to Know: 'When Will Thi	nicewatch	-	August 25
674	A company named Ouster has a system called Blue City which is in Atlanta, Chatta	Smart_Asset	-	August 19
673	A “workup,” in Flock’s terminology, is a one-command background check. It st	S. maltophilia	1	August 19
672	'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to	nicewatch	-	August 19
671	Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code. Flock’s surveillan	nicewatch	2	August 19
670	More flock: Flock Safety Decides To Implement A Few Changes After M	S. maltophilia	-	August 18
669	Flock Admits Failures That Put Innocent People at Risk, Overhauls Police Search	nicewatch	1	August 14
668	License Plate Camera Companies Want You to Believe They Can Track Everything. An	nicewatch	-	August 11
667	.....Even worse, the SCREEN Act is a privacy and data security nightmare. One p	S. maltophilia	2	August 4
666	Flock CEO Wants Its Cameras in Every One of America’s 17,000 Cities thedrive.co	nicewatch	-	July 29
665	Flock’s CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop. Flock CEO Garret	nicewatch	-	July 29
664	Like China, only bring a burner phone into the US: nytimes.com	S. maltophilia	-	July 29
663	Taking it international. To what end? techdirt.com	S. maltophilia	1	July 24
662	New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones Matthew G	nicewatch	1	July 22
661	Age verification for social media – the beginning of the end for a free internet	S. maltophilia	1	July 21
660	They just built the thing. How people misuse it, of course, is not their proble	S. maltophilia	1	July 17
659	Flock Says Its Cameras Worked ‘Correctly’ When Police Tracked and Ambushed Me fo	nicewatch	1	July 17
658	Unless it's universal, that gear probably attracts attention like an altered	S. maltophilia	-	July 17
657	Most likely just useless gismos but I can't help admiring people who see uni	kidl	-	July 17
656	Maybe, but I've run across it some years ago. How effective, and how the sur	S. maltophilia	-	July 17
655	Probably complete BS but a testament to entrepreneurial ingenuity ... :-) ‘Adve	kidl	-	July 17
654	How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars Joseph Cox 7/16/26 Police departm	nicewatch	1	July 16
653	Yesterday, the EU Parliament passed a law that lets platforms scan your private	Savant	1	July 10
652	It's non/bi partisan: texasattorneygeneral.gov I Wore Meta's Glasses.	S. maltophilia	-	July 6

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