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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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638Senate blocks surveillance bill in dispute over Trump’s intelligence pick | US Skidl-June 5
637For those of us bad with names, it could make it worth buying just to have at paKirk ©1June 5
636Would be a good addition to home and business security cameras... on the flip sSavant1June 4
635Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Pnicewatch-June 4
634surveillance and control... past, present, future...interesting video A secretiSavant-May 30
633Flock Safety, the company behind the dozens of license plate-reading cameras aS. maltophilia1May 22
632....Now the Trump administration is cooking up a new “fix” that once again isnS. maltophilia1May 20
631If I were younger, I would be unemployable: The Rise of Emotional SurveillanceS. maltophilia1May 10
630Time to write your congresscritters: .....The GUARD Act doesn’t just affect miS. maltophilia1May 1
629Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies DefunSavant-April 18
628Rather a double edged sword... If CBP is using the information to track illegalSavant-March 20
627 The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here’s WhaS. maltophilia1March 20
626What modern satellites can see from space is raising serious questions Modern sSavant-March 5
625 Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age VerifS. maltophilia1February 26
624 “Free” Surveillance Tech Still Comes At A High And Dangerous Cost S. maltophilia-February 19
623cameras recording and storing video...even though the subscription has lapsed/?Savant-February 11
622How Our Devices Already Track Our Brain Waves Your devices could soon be dSavant1January 20
621malwarebytes.comS. maltophilia212/8/2025
620Yep, we can agree on this. We have a new technology and are like children playinS. maltophilia-12/6/2025
619You are Liberal and I am Conservative. I think though we can both agree that thigolfer72-12/6/2025
618What the Flock is happening with license plate readers? Posted: NovemS. maltophilia111/24/2025
617A year ago, Oracle cofounder and chairman Larry Ellison described a future wherS. maltophilia110/6/2025
616Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens wilS. maltophilia-9/28/2025
615...“Using software I worked on to send U.S. citizens to a foreign gulag withouS. maltophilia-9/25/2025
614The lawsuit won't likely get far. You'll hear from the defendant how theS. maltophilia-9/18/2025
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