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Means of Control — Part 1
Season 2 · Episode 358

Means of Control — Part 1

Byron Tau joins host Ron Steslow to discuss how the federal government uses marketing data to spy on you.

Politicology

April 18, 202444m 17s

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Show Notes

In this two part series, Journalist and author Byron Tau joins host Ron Steslow to discuss his new book Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance Of Tech And Government Is creating a New American Surveillance State 


Part 1:


(02:36) Byron’s background and why he decided to write this book 


(05:15) The Evolution of data brokering 


(09:00) Understanding metadata and data collection and how they can identify you 


(12:12) The implications for personal privacy 


(22:15) The state of privacy rights in the United States 


(26:16) The public-private surveillance relationship 


(28:43) The shift in Government attitudes toward this type of data 


(31:20) How social media changed the data collection game


Read Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance Of Tech And Government Is creating a New American Surveillance State — https://bit.ly/44199hw


Follow Ron and Byron  on X (formerly Twitter):


https://twitter.com/RonSteslow


https://twitter.com/ByronTau



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