“Privacy isn’t something I’m merely entitled to,
it’s an absolute prerequisite.”
Marlon Brando
Privacy To Go
8/29/2023
We the Targeted
How the Government Weaponizes Surveillance
to Silence Its Critics
“The Church Committee, the Senate task force charged with investigating COINTELPRO abuses in 1975, concluded that the government had carried out “secret surveillance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even when those beliefs posed no threat of violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile foreign power.’
…Moreover, there is a repressive, suppressive effect to surveillance that not only acts as a potentially small deterrent on crime but serves to monitor and chill lawful First Amendment activity, and that is the whole point.”
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
President Harry S. Truman
THE RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE
6/6/2026
FLOCK cameras need to be stopped
Martin Griffin
6/9/2026
This post includes an easy to follow guide on how to get FLOCK cameras
removed from local communities.
“Now we’re forced to live in a real way,
naked before power,
whether we’re talking about Facebook,
whether we’re talking about Google,
whether we’re talking about
the Government of any country,
they know everything about us
or much about us rather and
we know very little about them.”
Edward Snowden
The Joe Rogan Experience
@1:33:34
“[t]he right of the people to be secure
in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated, and
no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by Oath or affirmation,
and particularly describing the place to be searched,
and the persons or things to be seized.”
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
Cornell Law School
6/6/2022
Activists Successfully Sue California Sheriff for
Illegally Sharing ALPR Data
“Since a majority of federal license plate tracking data comes from state and local law enforcement, laws banning or even restricting ALPR use are essential. As more states pass such laws, the end result becomes more clear. No data equals no federal license plate tracking program.”
Mike Maharrey
TENTH AMENDMENT CENTER
7/28/2023
Sharing photos of your kids?
Maybe not after you watch this deepfake ad
Good Morning America
7/31/2023
There are some venues that are requiring that if you are on their premises, they can take video/audio of you and own it in perpetuity… and do whatever they want with it. No sign off from you on specific recordings. Just anything they take of you they own and can use for advertising… or whatever they want. There may be an online notification during ticket purchase. Or a website notification.
They know who we are. But, mostly we don’t even know who these individuals are who are controlling the ownership of these recordings.
Government surveillance via streetlamps… Was the city of San Diego
allowing 3rd party ownership
of the audio/video via their original contract with General Electric? Was there conflict of interest on the city council that approved that? After that was uncovered, they’re still trying to move forward with surveillance streetlights by making a privacy commission?
City of San Diego decides tomorrow.
Related:
Pause before you post
8/1/2023 San Diego City Council Gives
Final Approval for ‘Smart Streetlights’ and License-Plate Readers
Zoom’s new Terms and Conditions allow them to unilaterally create a DEEP FAKE of YOU…
10/4/2023
San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum
Photography and Video Usage
“Please note that guests may be photographed or recorded by Museum staff or media for marketing and educational purposes. Entry into the Museum grants permission for the use of these images.”
Do they think they can use video/audio of visitors for advertising, websites, or whatever they want… in perpetuity?
In the past, photographers ALWAYS had to get a written release. This was just standard policy. But, Americans have become so accustomed to having their privacy invaded. Maybe these folks just figure they can get away with this and there won’t be ANY pushback. Maybe most people won’t even read the policy. So they won’t even know.
12/27/2023
Drone Video Shot by Chula Vista Police
Can’t All be Secret
Appeals Court Rules
“Well, wait a minute. If giving it to me is a violation of somebody’s privacy, then that means they already violated somebody’s privacy by recording it in the first place.”
Arturo “Art” Castañares of Eastlake
Editor and Publisher of La Prensa San Diego
“This decision ensures that the public can learn more about how and why police use drones in their communities, including to check on whether police are living up to their promises regarding drone use.”
Aaron David Mackey, Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
TIMES of SAN DIEGO
11/10/2025
Thune secures provision in government funding bill letting senators sue for phone records seizure
POLITICO
11/11/2025
Yes!!!
Does the Funding Bill includes language that will award Senators hundreds of thousands of dollars for illegal government intrusion of their privacy?
Is this a protection for both Republicans and Democrats against potential future government spying? Is it good for both sides of the aisle to put some teeth into privacy protection of the Senate?
After 9/11, was Senator Feinstein outraged to find out that the Senate investigation into detainee torture was spied upon by certain elements in government intelligence? Was that Senate investigation supposed to be completely protected and private?
Did this Senate committee investigation reveal that torture resulted in NO useful information?
Was the 9/11 Commission Report mostly reliant on detainee torture disinformation when detainees said whatever intelligence agents wanted them to say? Did we get a government whitewash in the 9/11 Commission Report because of torture by our government?
Related topics:
War Against Us
9/11
1/1/2022
In Memoriam: Mark Klein
AT&T Whistleblower
Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Related:
House Renews FISA Section 702
Rejects Warrant Requirement
What is Section 702?
VICTORY!
Federal Court (Finally) Rules
Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional
The Whistleblower Who Uncovered
the NSA’s ‘Big Brother Machine’
Privacy’s Defender
EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn’s Journey
Inside the Privacy Battles
That Shaped Today’s Internet
“[t]he right of the people to be secure
in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated, and
no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by Oath or affirmation,
and particularly describing the place to be searched,
and the persons or things to be seized.”
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
Cornell Law School
5/3/2023
Now in Effect
Utah Law Restricts Geofence Location Tracking
TENTH AMENDMENT CENTER
4/13/2023
US Senate to debate digital ID plans
Beltway lawmakers are setting up a smokescreen to curtail rights.
RECLAIN THE NET
Related:
The Global Digital ID Prison
Florida leads the charge against CBDCs
2/8/2025
Larry Ellison Helped Track COVID Shots
Now Trump Wants Him Controlling AI’s Future
Mint Press News
4/7/2022
The FBI boosts its social media surveillance technologys
Reclaim The Net
“Now we’re forced to live in a real way,
naked before power,
whether we’re talking about Facebook,
whether we’re talking about Google,
whether we’re talking about
the Government of any country,
they know everything about us
or much about us rather and
we know very little about them.”
Edward Snowden
The Joe Rogan Experience
@1:33:34
3/21/2022
New copyright bill appears to push for internet upload filters
Reclaim The Net
3/25/2022
Is this bill an assault on small online hosting companies? Small businesses wouldn’t be able to compete with large corporations that can afford to implement expensive filtering technologies. That poses anti-trust issues because it would kill small companies. It also assaults the freedom of consumers to choose a host company that does not filter content and/or spy on their clients.
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty;
power is ever stealing from the many to the few.”
Wendell Phillips
This Day in Quotes
6/7/2021
Biden’s DOJ Vows to Stop Spying on Journalists
Months After Placing Gag Order on New York Times
DEMOCRACY NOW!
5/6/2022
The above video report discusses attempts by the executive branch to force the disclosure of news sources. Sources may need the protection of anonymity or else risk their own safety or loss of employment.
12/13/2021
Top-9 Ways They Track, Trace and Monitor You
TENTH Amendment CENTER
“I think a significant disruption of some sort
that causes a fundamental change
in the way that people get online…
ID for the internet.
That’s in the cards.
That’s coming…
This isn’t some script
that’s been written for all time
and there’s no one who can change it.
We have a part to play
in what’s going on right now.”
James Corbett
Revelations Radio News
11/30/2022
@50:40
3/8/2022
Twitter quietly launches Tor service
in the face of Russian censorship
Twitter just got a major pro-privacy and anti-censorship boost.
Mashable
3/7/2022
Russia cracks down on
Zello walkie-talkie app
amid ongoing war Push to censor
“Group conversations are private and encrypted end-to-end.”
2017 “We would also [be forced to] provide law enforcement with the means of surveillance on Zello conversations globally and would have to share all Zello encryption keys with FSB, the Russian state security organization. These are requirements that we are not able to meet or willing to comply with, even if we could.”
Zello
Mashable
12/21/2021
A new ‘apocalyptic’ cyber attack could wipe out the Internet
putting NASA, televisions, and Minecraft at risk.
Brinkwire
2015
A Good American
NSA DOCUMENTARY
“No single terror attack was prevented.” – end of video
AGoodAmerican.org
“We need to get rid of this mass surveillance nonsense.”
“[t]he right of the people to be secure
in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated, and
no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by Oath or affirmation,
and particularly describing the place to be searched,
and the persons or things to be seized.”
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
Cornell Law School
Surveillance Self-Defense
Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications
A Project of the
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION
1/11/2022
The Government Accidentally Loses Trillions in Afghanistan
But They Want to Know Anytime Someone Sends you $600
The Free Press Report
1/1/2022
Now in Effect
Illinois Law Prohibits Warrantless Data Collection
from Household Electronic Devices
TENTH AMENDMENT CENTER
“The powers not delegated to the United States
by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively,
or to the people.”
The Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
CONGRESS.GOV
2/2/2022
Alabama Senate Passes Bill to
Limit Warrantless Use of Facial Recognition
TENTH AMENDMENT CENTER
2/1/2022
Arizona Bill Would Take First Step to
Block Federal Militarization of Police and Local Surveillance
TENTH AMENDMENT CENTER
7/14/2021
Global Vaccine Passports Have Arrived
Courtesy of Google, EU
Privacy To Go
Off Guardian
Practical solutions offered at the end of this article.
And, reader comments are interesting, as usual.
9/6/2019
How the CIA, Mossad and “the Epstein Network”
are Exploiting Mass Shootings
to Create an Orwellian Nightmare
Israel’s Mossad and infamous Unit 8200
are partnering with the CIA and US tech firms
to create an Orwellian pre-crime nightmare.
“With companies like Carbyne —
with its ties to both the Trump administration
and to Israeli intelligence —
and the Mossad-linked Gabriel also marketing themselves
as “technological” solutions to mass shootings
while also doubling as covert tools
for mass data collection and extraction,
the end result is a massive surveillance system
so complete and so dystopian
that even George Orwell himself
could not have predicted it.
Following another catastrophic mass shooting or crisis event,
aggressive efforts will likely follow
to foist these “solutions” on a frightened American public
by the very network connected,
not only to Jeffrey Epstein,
but to a litany of crimes
and a frightening history of plans
to crush internal dissent
and would-be dissenters in the United States…
It appears that Main Core serves a dual purpose;
first as a mass targeted surveillance system
to crush dissent during times of “national crisis” —
whether spontaneous or engineered —
and, second, as a massive blackmail database
used to keep every potential opponent
in line during non-emergencies.”
WHITNEY WEBB
UNLIMITED HANGOUT
4/15/2023
Journalist Danny Casolaro was investigating PROMIS software (see above story) when he was murdered.
A zip file is available at New World Next Week containing…
a radio play inspired by this “Octopus” story
plus research material unearthed by Pilato and Corbett.
One Nation Under Blackmail
The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime
that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, VOL. 1 & 2
by Whitney Webb, 2022
This book… reveals definitively that Epstein’s activities were state-sponsored through his intelligence connections.
Related audio interview at Media Monarchy
“Where I live, you can still get a throw-away… mobile phone for $10… It may be inconvenient. But, if you’re gonna be a slave of technology, they’ll make you a slave.”
Whitney Webb
@1:00:25
3/3/2021
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION
6/24/2021
Google delays FLoC rollout until 2023
Ars Technica
Interesting reader comments
4/19/2022
Hate Google’s AMP Pages?
Brave Browser Will Bypass Them
The upcoming ‘De-AMP’ feature is designed to circumvent Google-hosted AMP pages and reroute you to the publisher’s site.
PCMag
7/15/2020
VPNs explained
moz://a
12/3/2021
Apple Alerts Biden Admin Officials
Their Phones Hacked By Israeli Spyware
ZeroHedge
6/25/2021
A “Leap” toward Humanity’s Destruction
The world’s richest medical research foundation, the Wellcome Trust, has teamed up with a pair of former DARPA directors who built Silicon Valley’s skunkworks to usher in an age of nightmarish surveillance, including for babies as young as three months old.
Their agenda can only advance if we allow it.
UNLIMITED HANGOUT
8/21/2021
This article is very technical. It includes the background research.
7/7/2021
The “Wellcome Leap” into Transhumanism
Whitney Webb on The Corbett Report
@59:36 It’s not too late!
We can still take action to prevent plans for constant surveillance and control of us via our electronic gadgets and digital ID.
Get wise to their game!
DON’T FEED THE AI BEAST!
5/14/2021
We Found Joe Biden’s Secret Venmo
Here’s Why That’s A
Privacy Nightmare For Everyone
BuzzFeed News
May 2021
Open letter to Venmo
Make Privacy the Default
moz://a
11/15/2020
Deeper look at Apple’s recent server outage reveals potential
Mac privacy concerns
9TO5
Mac
7/22/2015
Why the information sharing bill is
anti-cybersecurity
The Christian Science Monitor
6/18/2021
Ring gave cops free cameras
to build and promote surveillance network
Ars Technica
“Social networks like Twitter need to protect users and ensure that developers are not sharing their First Amendment expression with law enforcement agencies, a practice that potentially exposes people — particularly Black, Indigenous, and people of color — to further surveillance and state violence.”
Matt Cagle
an attorney with the
ACLU of Northern California
The Intercept_
4/14/2016
The CIA Is Investing in Firms That Mine Your Tweets and Instagram Photos
The Intercept_
6/25/2021
A Hacker Is Remotely Wiping
People’s Internet-Connected Hard Drives
Vice
9/7/2017
Translate.com Exposes Highly Sensitive Information
in Massive Privacy Breach
slator
8/5/2021
Apple’s Plan
to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a
Backdoor to Your Private Life
Tell Apple
Don’t Scan Our Phones
SIGN THE PETITION
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION
8/9/2021
Apple says it will refuse gov’t demands
to expand photo-scanning beyond CSAM
Ars Technica
Interesting reader comments
9/3/2021
Amid backlash, Apple will change photo-scanning plan but
won’t drop it completely.
Ars Technica
7/20/2023
Committee advances
SDPD’s Surveillance Technology Proposal
amid heavy criticism
“Mayor Todd Gloria campaigned on ending excessive surveillance in all communities, but has flip-flopped and supports this proposal.
While campaigning for Mayor in June 2020, Todd Gloria promised to ‘end excessive surveillance in all communities.’ Gloria added that, ‘the rapidly expanding and secretive use of digital surveillance of community members is unconstitutional, and it should end.’
But Gloria’s position has completely changed.”
KUSI
6/29/2022
San Diego City Council Guts Surveillance Ordinance
to Protect Federal Task Forces
“The push for surveillance oversight began two years ago after revelations that the city’s new ‘energy-efficient’ streetlights came equipped with cameras and microphones.”
Mike Maharrey
TENTH AMENDMENT CENTER
6/14/2023
Defunct Streetlight Cameras
Still Costing San Diego $1M Annually
The city is paying roughly $2,740 a day for equipment that hasn’t technically been in use since 2020. And now, officials want to spend more on a new streetlight surveillance system.
VOICE of SAN DIEGO
3/30/2023
Critics Warn of ‘a Dragnet of Surveillance’
as U.S. Pushes Ahead With Plans for More ‘Smart’ Cities
“Re-stocking security apparatus with AI-driven mass surveillance is a dangerous political project which could lead to broad violations of human rights. Every action in a public space will get sucked into a dragnet of surveillance infrastructure, undermining fundamental civic freedoms.
Officials who control the designations of ‘abnormal or suspicious’ activities in societies also have the power to exacerbate a chilling effect on dissent and protest, and to supercharge discrimination against communities already targeted.”
Agnes Callamard, secretary general
Amnesty International
the Defender
CHILDREN’S HEALTH DEFENSE
NEWS & VIEWS
7/29/2023
This next article is one example of how repressive a surveilled “smart city” can be. Does San Diego really want to move in that direction?
5/2/2023
Israel/OPT: Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology to entrench apartheid
“The reality is streets full of surveillance cameras, which are mounted on the sides of buildings, lampposts, surveillance towers and rooftops…
as one resident, Neda, explained: ‘I’m being watched the whole time… it gives me a really bad feeling everywhere in the street. Every time I see a camera, I feel anxious. Like you are always being treated as if you are a target.’ “
Amnesty International
Related:
50+ Israeli Soldier’s Expose the Truth
Chris Hedges
Israel is Shutting Down its Human Laboratory in Gaza
7/21/2023
How East Germany’s Stasi Perfected Mass Surveillance
“It is not only traditional totalitarian regimes but also Western democracies that have learned only too well the lesson that privacy violations and widespread surveillance are much more effective than open violence in safeguarding power.”
Andrea Togni
Philosophy and history teacher
Liceo Medardo Rosso
MISES INSTITUTE
“Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
CONGRESS.GOV
6/4/2021
Did Covid-19 pandemic start
as a smokescreen for the CCP?
Libertarian Europe
2/9/2024
Did the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) feel the need to shut down mass protests in Wuhan and Hong Kong in 2019?
Were there huge political protests in Hong Kong in 2019? Were surveillance cameras used by the government to capture political opponents? And were the cameras getting taken out by the people? But, the COVID scare quieted all of that down?
5/26/2023
Despite Massive Backlash and Resistance
LAPD Implements Robot Police Dogs
THE FREE THOUGHT PROJECT
Drone Spotting App
iPhone 5nSa
JoyCamp