Erik Prince

Turns on the microphone, the camera, the GPS.

Because all those free apps, they're not doing it because they like you.

They're doing it because they're harvesting your data.

You become the product.

And so that, you know, over the last few years, the federal agencies were getting somewhat, not beat up, that's too strong of a term, criticized by Congress for buying all of this consumer data that we have willingly given, right, when you buy an Apple or a,

Android-type phone, and you scroll through that user agreement that nobody actually reads, they say basically, yeah, we are collecting and exporting your data.

That's what we're doing.

Because of that, we've consented to it.

This entire industry, it's called surveillance capitalism.

There's a fantastic book written by Byron Tao called The Means of Control.

And it is shocking of how this industry was created and

how some of the early federal government attempts at collecting this data were actually shut down by privacy worries in Congress, but how basically the Pentagon rebadged it and started collecting more and more and more of this data.

But like I said, the federal agencies got sick of being criticized.

So what they do in this last FISA, it's not an extension, it was a massive expansion of

What they passed is that any federal agent can go to any one of these companies, whether it's app information, data on you from a banking app, travel, a gaming app, WhatsApp, any messaging app, email service, whatever.

They can collect all of that data on you with no probable cause and certainly without a warrant.

So yeah, it is a massive.

Zuckerberg paid $20 billion for WhatsApp because every message that passes through it, every text, every picture, every call, every voice note analyzed by their algorithm to sell advertising.

They take your data.

If you're using WhatsApp, they take that data to figure out which your preferences to sell those preferences to an advertising firm.