Erik Prince

And there, the Supreme Court actually just basically punted and gave the regulatory authority to the EPA and gave them, basically by judicial decree—

the means to write law.

And so they, the court gave them an inch and they've taken miles since then, like 70 to 80,000 pages of new regulations, which has the force of law every year since then.

That's one of the reasons we have a runaway regulatory state.

But this last spring, the Supreme Court nixed it.

God bless these fishermen.

I think there was fishermen in Massachusetts that were sick because some fishery regulator was making them pay $700 a day for a fishery bureaucrat to ride along on their fishing boat and to provide accommodation for them.

And those guys said, enough of this, what we're talking about.

put down the remote control for the TV, push back, fight back.

These guys actually fought that case, funded it all the way to the Supreme Court, and they won.

And now that is going to unleash the private sector and patriots to be able to push back on overreaching federal regulations everywhere.

So as a citizen and a person that believes in very limited government, this is a huge step forward.

But what the federal government has done, particularly after 9-11, is they've really gotten, they've engorged on data collection.

After 9-11 hits, the basically advertising firms came forward with some user data trying to find attributes similar to the 19-9-11 hijackers, to find other needles in a stack of needles.

And they did that and the federal government got used to it.

And they really started buying, put out the demand signal for more and more of that consumer advertising type data.

And then you hit the convergence of smartphones coming out in 2009, 10, 11, when Google and Apple put software developer kits for each of the apps that are going to go on their phones, either on an Apple phone or on an Android running Google.

mobile services.

That software development kit, in exchange for that app going on, the free app going on the device, is enabled to collect and export all of that customer data.

Where you go, what you buy, who you call, what you browse.