
About this episode
What if the government could read your messages, track your searches, and store your data… without a warrant?
In this episode, we go back to the moment everything changed—when Edward Snowden exposed the true scope of mass surveillance—and trace how we ended up here, on the brink of renewing the very system he warned us about.
From Section 702 and the Patriot Act to today’s political fight in Congress, this isn’t just policy—it’s power. The kind of power that can reach into your private life, your conversations, even your thoughts… and never tell you it was there.
But the real question isn’t just can they do it? It’s should they?
We break down how warrantless surveillance actually works, why it keeps expanding, and how even the people who once opposed it are now defending it. Along the way, we get into the deeper issue most people miss:
What happens to a society when privacy disappears… and the government doesn’t have to ask anymore?
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Edited by Jake Bennett https://www.bennettstudios.co/
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