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The surveillance state…part 1
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
~Benjamin Franklin
It’s against the law for the federal government to spy on you without a warrant. However, you and I both know they do it. HOW can they do it? Easy, they pay a private company for the data which is collected on you. That’s the secret. Uncle Sam isn’t spying…Uncle Sam is shopping for data and your data just so happens to be in the net.
25 years ago we had privacy. Today, we are guilty until proven innocent. I am not a lawyer. You do not need a law degree to see the various means and methods by which our 4th Amendment is trampled on every day. In this post, I will share a few methods which are used to violate your privacy by both the public and private sector.
Your pictures
Even if you strip the metadata from an image, tools now exist which can find the location of the photo based on a massive database of pictures billions of users have uploaded online.
From Pascal Bornet on X,
Some technologies excite me. Others wake me up.
GeoSpy does both.
GeoSpy is a new AI tool that can pinpoint the exact location of any photo — even when GPS data is stripped out.
At first glance, it feels like magic: the system matches small visual clues in the background with satellite imagery and finds the location in seconds.
But here’s the part most people don’t know:
👉 Tools like this aren’t entirely new. Intelligence agencies have been using similar “geolocation algorithms” for years.
The difference now is accessibility.
What was once classified capability is inching its way into public hands.
And that changes everything.
As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about AI’s impact on society, this one hits a nerve.
GeoSpy was built for analysis — but tech doesn’t stay in its original box.
It always leaks into new domains: journalism, policing, stalking, marketing, activism… both noble and dangerous.
The age of invisible surveillance is no longer a prediction.
It’s here.
And it doesn’t ask for permission.
So here’s the real question for all of us:
How do we innovate without eroding the quiet spaces where humans still deserve privacy?
Credit: heinenbros
#ai #technology #privacy #surveillance #innovation
Your router
Xfinity just launched “WiFi Motion”, a new feature that tracks movement inside your home using nothing but WiFi signals. No cameras. No sensors. Just your internet bouncing waves off your body to see where you are.
And it’s automatically included.
Your router just became a motion detector.
Welcome to the next phase of surveillance, and they’re calling it “convenience.”
Source: Hustlebitch_
Your TV
Did you know that the U.S. government owns a patent that enables the manipulation of the human nervous system via electromagnetic fields emitted from a TV - regardless of whether you’re consciously watching it or not?
Source: IsaInsane1
What else emits electromagnetic fields? Probably the phone you are holding while reading this…
Your cellphone
Remember boys and girls, they always tell you what they’re doing…
Never let the police search your phone. Never talk to the police no matter what they tell you. Invoke your right to remain silent, plead the 5th, and demand a lawyer.
Your earbuds
Your store returns
YOUR RETURNS ARE BEING PHOTOGRAPHED, SCORED & FLAGGED BY AI
A UPS owned company confirms that every boxless return dropped nationwide is run through machine-learning algorithms and assigned a “risk score.”
Returns flagged as high-risk are then photographed and analyzed by AI, comparing images against product catalogs to catch differences humans might miss.
Their words: “This is the Super Bowl of the year for us.”
No box.
No label.
Every item scored.
How long before this “risk score” follows you - not just your returns?
Source: Hustlebitch_
Remember the golden rule
In God we trust, all others we hack, jam, deceive or monitor.
