Sunday, December 26, 2021

You'd Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Has A Naughty List, And You're On It


by Tyler Durden, zerohedge.com
December 24, 2021
Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

Santa’s got a new helper.

No longer does the all-knowing, all-seeing, jolly Old St. Nick need to rely on antiquated elves on shelves and other seasonal snitches in order to know when you’re sleeping or awake, and if you’ve been naughty or nice.

Thanks to the government’s almost limitless powers made possible by a domestic army of techno-tyrants, fusion centers and Peeping Toms, Santa can get real-time reports on who’s been good or bad this year. This creepy new era of government/corporate spying—in which we’re being listened to, watched, tracked, followed, mapped, bought, sold and targeted—makes the NSA’s rudimentary phone and metadata surveillance appear almost antiquated in comparison.

Consider just a small sampling of the tools being used to track our movements, monitor our spending, and sniff out all the ways in which our thoughts, actions and social circles might land us on the government’s naughty list.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/youd-better-watch-out-surveillance-state-has-naughty-list-and-youre-it