Without openly admitting it, we are moving closer to a Surveillance State.
And maybe the reason no one wants to admit it is because it would also be admitting we have willingly given up all freedoms and privacy to government agencies who are implementing measures under the guise of securing children from online dangers.
But that is simply an acceptable excuse reason to monitor online activity.
In reality, it’s all about control.
Because once you accept that governments will always seek the maximum possible control over citizens’ lives, the real question is not whether this power will be used, but how it will be used.
Who will decide the norms, and what safeguards (if any) exist?
Governments know with certainty that they can monitor the masses through their digital footprints.
And they have begun to chip away (pun intended) at our privacy, integrating the state with our main medium for communication.
And with Digital IDs, Apple pay, Digital wallets, and CBDCs, all the plans in place will embolden the state with total power over our lives.
Think we’re exaggerating?
Right now, under our collective noses we are seeing (live and in real time) Iran’s Surveillance State that’s led to the slaughtering of over 40,000 civilians in the last few weeks.
Huh?
That is a staggering number of deaths.
Put it in perspective…that’s more than all casualties in the Russia-Ukraine war or Palestine-Israel conflict combined.
The difference is, we are talking about a government slaughtering civilians here…and not wartime casualties.
Surveillance State on Steroids
The Iran Surveillance regime is spying on all citizens in real-time to prevent another uprising.
Ironically (or NOT) we don’t hear much about it.
And that’s mostly because the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps owns or is a partial owner of all telecom systems in the country.
Removing internet access was one of the first measures the regime took when protests emerged.
It gets worse…
And it is being tried in Beijing, discussed in Brussels, and quietly adopted everywhere that elites feel threatened by inconvenient political movements or crisis-driven instability.
In Iran’s case, the “Digital Nation Plan” consolidates messaging, biometric tracking, traffic monitoring, and app control into a unified architecture that can identify, categorize, and punish behavior.
Adding insult to injury, they call it “public health surveillance,” “national security monitoring,” “AI content moderation,” or “electoral integrity protection.”
Their goal?
To Centralize data, index citizens, and give the state the power to monitor and respond to “undesirable behavior.”
And the phrase “undesirable behavior” is determined by them.
Translation: Anything they want.
We hate to say it but this kind of Surveillance State is “Coming to a Neighborhood Near You Soon.”
Learn what steps you should be taking (and where to invest your money) to protect yourself from the inevitable in our upcoming March newsletter (HERE).
And feel free to share this with a friend…especially if they are naïve and think our government wouldn’t do such a thing. They’ll thank YOU later.
And tell them:
