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Annoying Legislators for Freedom with Alex Marthews (Restore the Fourth)

Alex Marthews, National Chair of Restore the Fourth, joins Zach and Elizabeth for a deep dive into the legal architecture behind mass surveillance, from FISA’s origins after the Church Committee and COINTELPRO revelations to today’s AI-accelerated version of the same programs. Alex walks through how Section 702 surveillance works, the history of warrantless wiretapping programs

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Flock’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Summer w/ Jon Padfield

Jon Padfield, host of the Business Reform YouTube channel, joins Zach and Elizabeth for a deep dive into what license plate reader networks actually capture and where the technology is headed next. They start with signal traces (the electronic fingerprints your devices give off as you drive) and how COVID-era lockdowns normalized the kind of

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Flock in Crisis PR Mode: Copaganda & Fake Transparency w/ Ethan Watters

In this episode of Banish Big Brother, Zach and Elizabeth are joined by “educator and agitator” Ethan Watters from Flockout SAV. They discuss the Savannah mayor’s refusal to hold open public comment periods and the shocking revelation that 28% of the Savannah Police Department’s budget is heavily allocated to surveillance. They break down Flock Safety’s

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Surveillance of Thought

Has modern brain wave technology made the Thought Police of George Orwell’s fictional novel, 1984, a possible reality? One may find the idea extraordinary but Nita Farahany, in her presentation at the 2023 World Economic Forum, demonstrated that using AI-powered technologies for brain transparency is not only possible, it is already here. While this ability

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51 Reasons to Doubt Flock Safety: A Security Audit of the Surveillance State

Governments have been making the same pitch for centuries. We’ll take a little of your liberty, and in return we’ll give you safety. It’s not a new argument. It just has better branding and more antennas now. Systems like Flock cameras are sold as the latest version of that old bargain. Some privacy loss, we’re

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Palantir: Efficiency or Surveillance?

Recent announcements that the federal government is enlisting the services of data-integration and analytics company, Palantir, are raising eyebrows across the political spectrum. Depicted as a tool through which to fulfill Donald Trump’s executive order entitled “Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos,” the partnership would realize this goal by merging disparate databases

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Montana Advances Nation’s First Brainwave Privacy Law

Montana is on the verge of enacting the strongest brain privacy law in the nation. Senate Bill 163 — which has now passed both chambers of the state legislature — expands Montana’s Genetic Information Privacy Act to include protections for neurotechnology data. That means your brainwaves, mental states, nervous system signals, and cognitive patterns —

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