Jimmy Dore: The Grayzone recently reported on the growing trend toward everyday consumer technologies—from Ring cameras and smart TVs to modern cars, routers, and smartwatches—collecting extensive user data as a means of enabling mass surveillance on all of us who use these technologies. The report highlights features like automatic content recognition on televisions, ISP motion-tracking through Wi-Fi routers, biometric tracking from wearables, and vehicle data collection, arguing that these systems can be accessed or shared with law enforcement.
Jimmy Dore and Kurt Metzger frame the trend as another expansion of the growing “surveillance state,” while comparing modern realities to dystopian fiction like 1984 and Brave New World. The two conclude by offering up exaggerated satirical comments about tech executives and government overreach.
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