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Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State
(greenwald.substack.com)
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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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It is fascinating to me that the FBI desperately wanting to pretend that they're relevant and doing actual investigative work in the Guthrie case stupidly confirmed that corporations are not only spying on us all, but feeding the data into federal databases for access without a warrant or any meaningful oversight.
Y'all, it's wild that so much of what your dumbass, Infowars-obsessed grandparents told you is literally true and provable now.
A few people have said it, but I'm really glad my tech is always a few generations behind and I never bought into voice assistants or smart home technology. And I keep my phone in a faraday bag when not in use. That probably makes it somewhat harder for them to spy on me logistically.
My dad rips his name out of junk mail and shreds it. He doesn't want his name tied to his address, which is ironic in the first place, given that he's already getting junk mail. He's been worried about hiding his identity, address, cars, etc from some unknown surveillance entity based around Red Scare beliefs. Still, a few steps short of foil hat types.
Then he went and got cloud-based cameras. He's clueless about smartphone privacy already. He resembles his friends in his cohort. They protested "leftist government surveillance" and then showed me that they'd will invite mystery surveillance in with the slightest promise of convenience.
Sounds about right. Boomers are adorable.
What's also interesting to me about this is imagining how many crimes they know about that they simply allow to take place.
I mean why assume a boomer. Very easily a genx or millennial. Think about it millennials kids are around 20 now.
That's fair. Gen Z and millenials are radicalized by their corporate social media feeds too. I just default to Boomer because, for so long, Boomers were emblematic of this kind of thinking.