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By Malcolm Lee Kitchen III | Margin Of The Law A data broker has spent years selling raw location data on individual Americans to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. The Electronic Frontier Foundation confirmed this after filing more than 100 public records requests across several months. The company is called Fog Data Science.…
Walmart operates one of the most sophisticated surveillance infrastructures in American retail. What shoppers encounter is not simply closed-circuit television monitoring aisles for theft. The network is an AI-integrated data fusion system that combines computer vision, behavioral analytics, loyalty program information, and wireless device tracking into a unified surveillance apparatus.
Data centers are the physical foundation of modern surveillance. They provide the storage capacity and computing power required to convert human activity, movement, financial transactions, private communications, biometric records, into machine-readable data at a scale the state can actually use. Without this infrastructure, the current scope of government oversight would be technically impossible to sustain.…
By Malcolm Lee Kitchen III | Margin Of The Law The Illusion of Sovereignty For generations, Americans have operated under a specific assumption: that they govern themselves. The republic is real, the consent of the governed means something, and the institutions built to protect individual rights actually do that. This assumption is not cynicism bait.…