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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Byron Tau: The U.S. Surveillance State's Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government
Description: âThat evening, I was given a glimpse inside a hidden world. . . . An entirely new kind of surveillance programâone designed to track everyone.âHear a tale of strange bedfellowsâthe U.S. government, data brokers, tech companies and advertisersâinvolved in shaping the surveillance state and privacy.For the past five yearsâever since a chance encounter at a dinner partyâjournalist Byron Tau has been piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world became a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring.Most people are som...