Surveillance

Briefs

Documents

• Church Committee Book III: COINTELPRO (1976)

  Senate Church Committee, 1976: COINTELPRO was a set of secret FBI programs against domestic groups meant to "disrupt" and "neutralize" targets. It found many methods would be intolerable…

• Bernstein: The CIA and the Media, Rolling Stone (1977)

  Carl Bernstein in Rolling Stone, October 1977: reports that CIA ties to the press were closest with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc., according to CIA…

• United States v. Assange: Court Docket and Judgment Entry (2024)

  Court docket for United States v. Assange, June 2024: records the judgment on one count, 62 months with credit for time served, and a $100 special assessment. A…

• NPR: Putin Grants Snowden Russian Citizenship (2022)

  NPR, September 2022: Russian President Vladimir Putin granted Edward Snowden Russian citizenship by decree. The decree itself was not opened, so this is a news report of it.

• USA FREEDOM Act of 2015, Public Law 114-23 (2015)

  U.S. Congress, June 2015: the USA FREEDOM Act, Public Law 114-23, changed the rules for collecting business records and other surveillance, after the court fights over bulk phone…

• House Judiciary: FBI Narrative of Catholic Americans as Extremists (2025)

  House Judiciary Committee Republican staff, July 2025: using over 1,300 new FBI pages, alleges broader activity, including that the FBI surveilled a priest and opened an assessment on…

The Founding Record

• The Fourth Amendment

  Warrants must name the place and the thing. General warrants are the abuse this forbids.

The Acts Record

• USA PATRIOT Act

  Named for patriotism. Section 215 authorized collection of business records without individualized suspicion.

• FISA Amendments Act of 2008

  The name claims nothing. Section 702 authorized acquisition of communications content without a warrant, and three federal appeals courts upheld it.

• Bank Secrecy Act

  Signed October 26, 1970. Thirty-one years later to the day, the PATRIOT Act rewrote its stated purpose to add counterterrorism.

Books

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  Wearables: Biometric Keys to the Transhumanist Cage and the Birth of the Hive

  Fitness trackers and smartwatches collect continuous biometric data, and the book follows where it goes. Covers the insurance and employment applications already in use, the psychological design that makes monitoring feel like self-improvement, and the mandate proposals now on the…

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  The Silicon Cage: How Google Trapped the Truth, Sold Your Soul, and Built a Surveillance Empire

  Google's control over search ranking, and what neutrality means when one company sets the boundaries of findable knowledge.

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  Palantir: Eyes of The Machine – The Rise of the Digital Oracle

  Palantir was built for the post-9/11 intelligence market, funded by Peter Thiel, and seeded with In-Q-Tel money. The book documents its contracts across intelligence, immigration enforcement, and policing, and what happens when a private company holds the analytical layer over…

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  Robotic Subjugation: When the Domestic Assistant Turns into a Soldier

  Humanoid robots are entering homes and workplaces under a convenience framing. The book examines what a software update can convert them into, the corporate and government partnerships funding deployment, and the labour displacement already underway.

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  Knowledge Is Power: How DARPA’s Banned Surveillance Program Became Big Tech

  Congress defunded DARPA's Total Information Awareness program in 2003. The book documents where its architecture went: into Palantir, Google, Facebook, and the broader Big Tech stack. From ARPA's founding charter through Admiral John Poindexter's rise and fall, the through-line is…

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  EV Radiation Trap: Why Your Electric Vehicle is a Rolling EMF Nightmare of Constant Surveillance and Financial Deception

  The book measures what an electric vehicle cabin actually contains: electromagnetic fields from the battery and drive system, off-gassing from synthetic interiors, and telemetry that reports location and behaviour continuously. It also examines the total cost of ownership against the…

Songs

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  SmileThe Valkyrie Project
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  The New BattlefieldThe Valkyrie Project
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  Digital CollarThe Valkyrie Project
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  Digital ZombiesVigilant Protocol
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  Patent Your SoulVigilant Protocol
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  DEWsVigilant Protocol

Video

• Grid Vampires (Short)

  A data center permit was filed through a Delaware shell at 1209 North Orange Street while the mayor signed an NDA, and the site drew five million gallons…

• Flocked (Short)

  Flock Safety runs about one hundred thousand plate-reading cameras, and one misread plate ended with a K-9 attack and a $35,000 settlement. The track lays out the grid,…

• 9/11 Still Asking (Short)

  Building 7 fell without being hit, the BBC reported it early, and less than one percent of the steel was kept before the rest went to overseas smelters.…

• Digital Zombies (Short)

  The attention economy was built to keep people scrolling, with every like engineered as a dopamine hook and every free platform selling the user as the product. The…

• Smile (Short)

  Plate readers, drones and pole nodes log every school run, grocery trip and church visit into a database no one voted on. The song answers "nothing to hide"…

• The New Battlefield (Short)

  When the networks lost the audience, the fight moved to independent voices: bans, shadow-bans and agency calls confirmed by the Twitter Files. The song credits the pioneers, warns…

Further Briefs

• The Warrantless Road, Part 1: Who Built It and Who’s Watching

  A CEO said "We don't" on live TV, then Flock admitted federal pilots. Part 1 of The Warrantless Road covers who built the Flock network, who funded it,…

• The Warrantless Road, Part 2: When the Machine Is Wrong

  A camera misreads one digit and a family ends up at gunpoint. Part 2 of The Warrantless Road documents the wrongful stops, the missing error data, the unproven…

• The Warrantless Road, Part 3: Who Watches the Watchers

  Seven deputies arrested in one Georgia county, and nobody had to ask permission to search. Part 3 of The Warrantless Road covers officers who abused Flock, the search…

• The Warrantless Road, Part 4: The Way Out

  Evanston cancelled its Flock cameras and it still took seven months to get them off the poles. Part 4 of The Warrantless Road is the way out: towns…

• The Warrantless Road, Part 5: Illinois

  Texas searched cameras in Mount Prospect to find a woman over an abortion, and Illinois found Flock let Border Patrol into its cameras. Part 5 of The Warrantless…

• The Attention Harvest, Part 2: They Already Know

  The FTC called the data tech companies collect simply staggering. How the tracking works, what Cambridge Analytica and the $5 billion Facebook penalty proved, what is on the…