The Spies are After You

Many private companies are no longer private at all. Their main customer is the government. [Gilder's Daily Prophecy] May 04, 2022 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( | [ARCHIVES]( Ex-CIA Insider: “Millions of American retirement accounts in danger.” An ex-CIA insider just “broke rank” and released a [shocking video]( [Click here to learn more]( It contains details of a plan from an institution with close ties to the government that could destroy the lives of millions of Americans at or near retirement age. I believe Washington would do anything to bury this story. That’s why I’m sharing it here. If you own any stocks, bonds, cryptos or mutual funds, I urge you to [watch this now](. Because come tomorrow it could already be too late. [Click here to see it now](. The Spies are After You [Jeffrey Tucker]Dear Daily Prophecy Reader, In the early days of Social Media, a friend wrote that she would say off completely and forever. She valued her privacy. She saw absolutely no gain to posting her whereabouts and goings on for the world to see. The state can too easily take that information for purposes of compliance. It was all a plot, in her view, to take away that precious thing, the independence of the individual, robbing everyone of privacy and setting up a comprehensive surveillance state. She was aghast that more people were not alarmed at what was happening. At the time, I thought she was nuts. Now, in retrospect, she was right. Why did I think she was wrong back then? I trusted the private sector. I figured that any business that misused information would face consumer backlash. Plus, I figured that the best way to stay out of harm’s way was to live publicly. The more you post, the more you share, the safer you are because at least this way, the state faces some accountability for its actions. Or something like that. What I had failed to anticipate was how technology would be so easily captured by government to do exactly what she predicted. Here we are two years following the most egregious impositions on our freedom in many generations and we face a behemoth of Big Tech that might as well serve as another department of government itself, but with almost no oversight whatsoever. How absurd is it that millions of people have to pray for someone like Elon Musk to come to the rescue in order to bring back some semblance of free speech and privacy protection (which, by the way, he has not promised)? This is not how things are supposed to work. We shouldn’t have to live in hope of a white knight. The Spies As it turns out, the CDC used your tax dollars to scarf up location data from shady sources during the depth of lockdowns to find out whether and to what extent people were complying with unconstitutional lockdowns, curfews, and capacity restrictions. We only know this thanks to a FOIA request from Motherboard, which revealed everyone’s worst-possible fear. According to Vice, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC documents obtained by Motherboard. The documents also show that although the CDC used COVID-19 as a reason to buy access to the data more quickly, it intended to use it for more general CDC purposes. The data itself was scrapped by Safegraph from cell phone location trackers. Not everyone has that feature turned on but tens of millions do. The CDC shelled out half a million dollars to get what they had, all of it gathered without any concern for ethics or privacy. Location data is information on a device’s location sourced from the phone, which can then show where a person lives, works, and where they went. The sort of data the CDC bought was aggregated—meaning it was designed to follow trends that emerge from the movements of groups of people—but researchers have repeatedly raised concerns with how location data can be de-anonymized and used to track specific people. The documents reveal the expansive plan the CDC had last year to use location data from a highly controversial data broker. What this means is that the CDC was essentially monitoring if you went to get an illegal haircut, an illicit house party, or left the house after a 10 pm curfew. It seems strange that we would have any such laws in the US regardless, and it is nothing short of an outrage that a government bureaucracy would pay a private-sector company for access to that in order to monitor your compliance. And we can see here how this works. You get a phone and it includes apps that want to know your location, often for good reasons. You need a GPS. You want to see restaurants around you. You want to know the weather. People who push ads want them to be specific to where you are. So you leave location services on even when you could otherwise turn them off. This allows app companies to scrape vast information from your phone, mostly anonymous but not quite entirely. This data then becomes available on the open market. The CDC becomes a customer, and why should any company hungry for cash refuse such an offer? Of course they should but too often profits trump ethics in this world. The check arrives and out goes the data. In this way, government has the means to spy on you nearly directly. And it does this without any legislative or judicial authorization. It is truly lawless. The Metaverse Story You’re NOT Hearing… Everywhere you turn, people are raving about the Metaverse. Facebook’s now called Meta. Microsoft’s CEO says, “The Metaverse is here.” Apple’s all in too. But there’s a critical piece of the Metaverse story you’re NOT hearing about… [Click here now for the full details](. What To Do The damage is done already but it is wise to be aware now of what is possible. Your smartphone is not necessarily your friend. Negligent and naive trust in all applications can be very bad for your life and liberty. However, there are applications you can use that do not track and fully encrypt their communications. Signal and Telegram are two of the most common and they are both great. At this point, too, you should be aware that every text you send using Facebook, Twitter, G-chat, or any product from big tech (excluding perhaps iMessage) is a tool for surveillance. At the very least, you should be very careful to turn off location tracking on your phone and keep it off as much as possible. Those who are very careful should consider getting GPS technology that uses hardware that is separate from your phone. Paranoia Is Not Crazy What can we learn from this fiasco? - Congress and the judiciary are not in control of government. The administrative state believes itself to be an autonomous force, doing what it wants regardless of the Constitution. There is almost no oversight. - Many private companies are no longer private at all. Their main customer is the government. They collect your data and sell it to your enemies. There is nothing in the terms of use of most apps that prevents that. - No matter how paranoid you are now, it is probably not enough. The lockdowns are over but the aspiration to track and control you completely has just begun. The years 2020 and 2021 were just trial runs for what they want to be permanent. - There are things you can do to protect yourself but it requires volition and focus. Indiscriminate use of mainstream applications is dangerous. - What I’ve reported above already happened a year and a half ago, so it is right to ask the question: what are they doing now? They got away with it then, a fact which only encourages more egregious behavior. My friend was correct all along, as much as I hate to admit it. We live and learn…let’s hope! Regards, [Jeffrey Tucker] Jeffrey Tucker P.S. I can’t tell you that [this video]( is required viewing for all my readers… But it should be. Because what’s revealed here may be the most [important message]( our company has ever sent you. And if you don’t take a second to watch it now, well… The unfortunate truth is that by tonight, it could already be too late. You don’t get many chances like this in life. So I’m urging you to take it now, while you still can. [Click Here to see what all of the fuss is about.]( Crypto Legend Reveals: “The Next Bitcoin” He called Bitcoin at $61. Now he says this next crypto will be even bigger. 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