The government is significantly expanding its surveillance infrastructure through tools like facial recognition, digital IDs, and banking spying powers.

“The Home Office right now is supporting essentially an expansion of live facial recognition across multiple police forces, and we will see that being used at some protests as well. The reason that's relevant is the digital ID is linked to your facial biometric. The government has said that already. ”

Government surveillance via secret subpoenas to big tech is an overreach that circumvents constitutional protections like the right to due process.

“this is about our fifth amendment right to due process you have the government secretly investigating people they could never do this if they had to present you with a search warrant they are doing an and run around that process by going to big tech”

Individuals should not be placed on lists or treated as suspects by the government simply because they watched a specific YouTube video.

“you're on a list you shouldn't be able to be on a list based on that you watched a video about a knife one time because that's the thing and I know I'm about to hold on hold on I know the slippery slope argument has all kinds of problems but this is one of the slipperiest of slopes”

The government's collection of data under Section 702 and similar policies is illegal and unethical, and authorities should not be able to bypass warrants to collect information on citizens.

“If you are on the phone on a text message thread or an email thread and somebody else on that thread it doesn't matter who was a foreign National you have no expectation of privacy and The Government Can intercept everything that you're doing and saying”

The government is building a comprehensive surveillance state through digital identity infrastructure and biometric data collection.

“they have essentially decided that it is their they've claimed a right to collect and catalog the coordinates of your body for their control and their surveillance.”

Whitney Webb argues that the U.S. government intends to adopt Chinese-style surveillance systems under the guise of responding to the pandemic.

“they're basically trying to get Americans private medical records in a giant database mixed with everything that's on your consumer smartphone and use it to make sure you're not social distancing and all this stuff but it's definitely more than that”

The US government, potentially working with international actors, uses threats and surveillance to silence political critics.

“I'm starting to realize as I consider who these sources are and their closeness to the military and now that we've gotten into the story and realize that virtually everybody there that day has these military ties that that threat may have been coming from the government actually”

Jimmy Dore claims that the use of extensive camera surveillance in China is a model being adopted by US elites.

“This is what the elites have in store for us using China as the test bed.”

DHS employees illicitly installed software on her electronic devices to monitor her activity and record meetings.

“Elon and his team were extremely helpful to me. They helped me identify that some of my own employees downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me.”

AI technology will make mass surveillance by authoritarian governments significantly more powerful and sustainable.

“The AIS have the potential to make authoritarian societies much more sustainable and powerful than they have been in the past.”