We used to trust our tools. A bike was just a bike; a car was just a car. But in the age of the Internet of Things, our possessions have evolved from dumb tools into silent informants for the state. In this episode of Big Brother’s Earpiece, we expose how the very things we buy to navigate the world are now mapping our lives for surveillance.
From Cathy Bernstein’s car autonomously reporting her accident to police, to Madison Square Garden’s cameras tracking Nina Richards’ every move, we dismantle the illusion of privacy in the physical world. George Orwell warned us about the telescreen, but he couldn’t have predicted the smart car, the connected bike, or the biometric arena. Today, Big Brother doesn’t need to turn on a camera; he just needs to ask your car where you’ve been. Join us as we lay out the evidence of a surveillance grid woven into the fabric of your daily routine, turning your belongings into witnesses against you.
Links used
https://www.wired.com/story/madison-square-garden-jim-dolan-surveillance-machine/
https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-surveillance
https://www.404media.co/webinartv-secretly-scraped-zoom-meetings-of-anonymous-recovery-programs/
https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/citizen-lab-law-enforcement-used-webloc.html?m=1
https://www.shodan.io/
https://www.surveillanceaccountability.com/
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