We have all become complicit in enabling a surveillance state, where everything we do can be monitored. Our phones track our movement, what websites we visit, what we search for online and who we meet with. US law enforcement agencies can access this data without our consent.
In the US, it has long been assumed that the fourth amendment protects your privacy and that authorities would need a warrant to access your data. Not anymore.
"The Supreme Court has said that data you have given to a third party does not require a warrant because you knowingly provided it to a third party. That theory, called the third-party doctrine, is a huge, huge loophole, because everything we do in the digital age involves a third party."
"If your Ring doorbell camera caught you walking out with a No Kings sign, or your cellphone revealed that you were at a protest, or you sent some tweets, or you Googled, “Where is the nearest No Kings protest?”: Your data is now available to a government that doesn’t like that speech and doesn’t like that level of dissent."
If Meta, Apple and others gets their way, millions of us will be wearing smart AI glasses and recording devices that we will be encouraged to use to record everything we do - and all of that data provided to US companies, will be available to law enforcement without a warrant...
Is this irreversible? Have we thrown away all rights to privacy?