BIG TECH AND THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY BY0PASSES THE 4TH AMENDMENT

BIG TECH AND THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY BYPASSES THE 4^TH AMENDMENT

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

It all happened so quickly. One day in the 1990s dotcom appeared on the scene. Dotcom stocks took off to great heights with little revenue produced but with great potential to change the way everything is done. In early 2000 there was the Dotcom bust due to over valued Dotcom stocks although some took root and grew to be powerful institutions in our nation.

Today Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook are among the richest and politically powerful corporations in the world. They have changed the financial, cultural, social and political landscape of the United States and the entire world. Cyber space has replaced Main Street, libraries, maps, entertainment and social interaction. We are now learning it has invaded our privacy and the 1st and 4^th Amendments of the Bill of rights.

There is now an unholy alliance between Big Tech and the federal government’s intelligence community.  The intelligence community with bloated budgets does not have to go through a bidding process to choose the best bid. Instead they secretly pick a corporation that has political contacts with the government bureaucrats instrumental in this process. It is a subtle form of crony capitalism. High power lobbyists are able to pass statues and laws to protect and give unfair advantages to preselected technological firms. It is a behind closed doors agreement that favors the elite technological corporations.

Google maps was created by the intelligence community, which demonstrates an on going interplay between the intelligence community and Big Tech. This allowed Google to leapfrog over their competitors. Amazon has reshaped all types of commerce and has been given a large government contract to store government data on the Cloud. Facebook has been found to sell valuable data from 2.2 billion users without their knowledge to various companies for pinpointing potential people interested in specific advertising. When Mark Zuckerberg was questioned about Instant Messages on September 13, 2010 by Jose Vargas about Harvard student users of Facebook who just submitted information, he said they “were dumb f***s.” This shows Zuckerberg’s supreme distain towards the users of Facebook.

Amazon, Facebook, Google and other social media mammoths are not only privy to innermost social interactions and are able to censor information but are selling this information to other corporations for profit or favor. Our personal data when pieced together reveals our preferences, attitudes and even our political thinking. It is a detailed profile of each citizen. President Obama’s staff member stated that they had extracted the entire social network of the people of the US from Facebook’s data. This allowed President Obama’s campaign to micro target personal issues to engage and entice future followers to vote for him.

The power of Big Tech is not only used for direct advertising purposes but it can bypass the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. According to the latest revelations, not only does our searching for particular items on the Internet generate more pop up ads but our home conversations with a cell phone or personal assistant device nearby can recognize, record and store information that was merely discussed in an audible area of the cell phone’s internal speakers. Our medical records now can readily be accessed with the newly available data and Facebook is planning to enter.

Edward Snowden tried to warn us that the NSA was recording and storing our telephone conversations. He was instantly portrayed as a liar and a traitor although he was right.  He was a hero in his attempt to warn us of government intrusion into everyone’s detailed daily actions and thoughts. He was correct and knew that the Big Tech was also being enlisted by the intelligence community.

The purpose of this unholy alliance is to enhance and better utilize technology to

target politically incorrect speech and electronically perform “search and seizure” into our supposedly sacred homes.

The ability to record and access personal conversations and information is a potent tool to establish a strong totalitarian government within the United States without firing a single weapon. These tech companies have already identified conservative Americans to undermine their future potential before it could take root.  They are systematically censoring individuals that these companies disagree with. (Facebook’s refusal to carry Diamond and Silk commentary and others.) This computer surveillance is beyond the average person’s comprehension. The future advances in technology will make keeping our liberties even more precarious or even impossible if we do not create government safe guards to protect the people

This nexus between surveillance agencies and Big Tech has the potential to stifle free speech and intimidate citizens into accepting governmental dictates of PC behavior in our daily interactions even with family members. The knowledge of our thoughts in every setting will facilitate selecting and forcing citizens into reeducation camps.

The odds of establishing a totalitarian government with these new surveillance techniques have become quite favorable. Something has to be done!

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a new just published book, entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can visit Dr. Maglio at www.drmaglio.blogspot.com.