“How did we get to this point?” That’s the question I was asked, and this video is my answer.
In this eye-opening video, I trace the 160-year history of government and corporate surveillance in the United States—from Civil War wiretaps to the NSA’s mass data collection and the rise of Surveillance Capitalism.
Discover how each era—from the 1928 Olmstead case to the Patriot Act, from COINTELPRO to PRISM—chipped away at our privacy rights, often with the best of intentions.
This isn’t conspiracy theory—it’s history, backed by public records, Supreme Court decisions, and government documents.
➡️ Stay tuned for the next video where I’ll cover how YOU can protect your privacy and push back.
🔥 Related videos and sources are linked in the end playlist and description.
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🧠 “The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” – Justice Louis Brandeis
Links to sources used in this video…
https://www.historylink.org/File/4015
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/277/438/
https://louisville.edu/law/library/special-collections/the-louis-d.-brandeis-collection/the-right-to-privacy
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/supreme-court-case-library/olmstead-v-united-states
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mlks-speech-attracted-fbis-intense-attention/2013/08/27/31c8ebd4-0f60-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/king-sized-bombshell-lies-in-fbi-files-ttl22xkg8
https://time.com/3582004/fbi-letter-hoover-mlk/
https://apnews.com/article/trump-jfk-mlk-rfk-assassination-files-e92f89d694eb55c595175f71a72cb5bc
Original U.S. Vietnam War Era Operation Igloo White Seismic Sensor ADSID III- Complete!
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/weekinreview/the-agency-that-could-be-big-brother.html
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/whistleblower-who-exposed-nsa-mass-surveillance-revealed-by-the-guardian/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/agent-of-intelligence-how-a-deviant-philosopher-built-palantir-a-cia-funded-data-mining-juggernaut/
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– Written by Dr. Steve Turley but applicable to Business Reform as well.
