"You can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing." - Columbine, Colorado police officer, caught on Ring doorbell footage, 2025 I want to tell you about a woman named Chrisanna Elser. She's a financial advisor in Colorado. By every account, a law-abiding person. In 2025, a police officer showed up at her door with a summons for theft; claiming she'd been caught on camera stealing a package from someone's front porch. She was stunned. She hadn't d

The hand that reaches. The data that answers. The question is who controls which. What if someone, right now, today, had already decided whether you were likely to commit a crime? Not based on anything you did. Based on where you live. Based on whether your family needed help paying for school meals. Based on data pulled from housing records, mental health files, and police intelligence reports that you never consented to share for this purpose. What if that decision was made

Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. A face print database. And a folder labeled "Pending." This is what's already on 50 million phones. I want you to picture something before we get into this. You're sitting in a coffee shop, maybe waiting for a friend. Maybe you're just enjoying a quiet morning. A stranger walks in, nice looking, normal person, wearing a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses. And they glance in your direction. And their glasses know your name. Not because you told them. Not