Thomas Drake
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874 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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especially in today's world if you basically turn off your your bank account what does that do just think about i mean i went electronic many many years ago i you know it's only recent you know last time i wrote a check i mean i actually had to write a couple of checks recently it was kind of weird writing the check and i realized even that's electronic
What happens if they decide to prevent you from engaging in commerce as a private citizen or even as a commercial concern or as a company because someone doesn't like you, your speech, your product, or your presence on social media?
They can literally extinguish you.
And then what is your recourse?
I'm aware of some stories out there regarding how difficult it is to reestablish yourself because that also follows you.
Or if you make certain, a number of electronic transfers, monetary transfers that come close to or exceed a certain limit, and that's in the United States, it's usually the $10,000, that can automatically flag you.
even though it can be completely innocent, legitimate, but it's automatically, see, this is where everything becomes suspicious or everything can be made suspicious.
And then on top of that, the government can purchase, I mean, this is where you get into the autonomy gap.
What's the effect on personal agency and your individual rights?
Governments can purchase location history without a warrant.
They can query your private communications without judicial oversight.
They can scan your face in public places without your knowledge.
They can pick up any and all electronic signatures.
So your practical ability going forward
Even when you're exercising your right to move, your right to speak, your right to associate and dissent, structurally becomes increasingly diminished because even those acts of agency are tracked and mapped and patterns are established.
even if there's never an arrest made and it's kept permanently.
That's one reason why, by the way, Snowden, if you read his book, Permanent Record, that's really the basis for, some people wonder, why did you call it Permanent Record?
Because none of this goes away.
I mean, I remember the almost $2 billion that was spent by NSA to build a Utah data center out of Fort Williams in Utah.
massive complex with the ability to expand.
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