February 14, 2021
fromEndoftheAmericanDream: As you drive to work or to school, license plate readers are systematically tracking where you travel. In major cities, thousands of highly advanced security cameras are monitoring your every move. If authorities detect that you are doing something suspicious, they can quickly pull up your criminal, financial and medical records. If they want to dig deeper, your phone and your computer are constantly producing a treasure trove of surveillance data. Nothing that you do on either one of them is ever private.
fromMises: “Tyranny in form is the first step towards tyranny in substance,” warned Senator John Taylor two hundred years ago in his forgotten classic, Tyranny Unmasked.
fromNationAndState: Negative rates are a huge transfer of wealth from savers and real wages to the government and the indebted. A tax on caution. The bailout of the inefficient.
fromNYPost: “Do any of us want to live in a world, or work in a field, where intent is categorically ruled out as a mitigating factor? I hope not."
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: ❤️ A Valentine's Day special you won't love. Edward Snowden explains the sinister purpose of LoveInt and looks ahead to a new generation of privacy violations.