Byron Tau – The Government Doesn’t Just Spy on You. It Buys You. | SRS #340

Byron Tau is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at ProPublica and the author of "Means of Control." He spent five years tracing how the surveillance apparatus built after 9/11 came home and found Border Patrol monitoring millions of American drivers through hidden cameras and a secret algorithm. Shawn and Byron get into who built these tools, how buying data legally sidesteps the Fourth Amendment, and what it means when the machinery aimed at foreign targets gets turned around.

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0:00 Surveillance, Data Brokers & Privacy
24:36 How Modern Tracking Works
35:16 Data Fusion & Government Surveillance
45:57 Privacy Laws & Fourth Amendment Loopholes
58:18 Foreign Espionage & Data Tools
1:07:07 Can You Actually Hide From Tracking?
1:17:18 How Your Devices Track You
1:28:25 Cameras, Cars & Surveillance Networks
1:38:03 Taking Back Your Privacy