California’s constitution opens with a broad, likely familiar, proclamation added on Nov. 5, 1974.

“All people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights. Among these are enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy.”

The prescience of this section is hard to overstate, especially as those inalienable rights have been attacked. Specifically, the right to privacy has progressively eroded in San Francisco thanks to partnerships between the police and private companies.

In 2019, San Francisco banned the use of facial recognition technology and nearly two dozen other municipalities followed suit shortly after. The hallmark vote in the city did little to stop the police from heavily surveilling protestors the following summer, as SFPD used a network of private security cameras to monitor Black Lives Matter protestors in late May and early June.

This is just one example of the public-private surveillance partnerships at work in the city. These partnerships obfuscate misuse at the expense of the public.

Another example of this predatory partnership is Flock Safety’s extensive network of surveillance cameras, storing the public’s information on private servers and sharing it with a variety of federal agencies.

Similarly, SFPD’s Real Time Investigation Center, which recently moved to a new location downtown thanks to a $9.4 million donation from crypto billionaire Chris Larsen, represents the logistical hub of the network.

Far from making us safer, these partnerships have demonstrably destructive effects on our civil liberties and put the most vulnerable members of our community in the crosshairs. In July, 2024 the ACLU NorCal authored a 50-page study entitled Seeing Through Surveillance that detailed the severe costs of unchecked surveillance technologies.

Part of the report outlined a 2019 lawsuit from the ACLU NorCal that revealed over 80 local law enforcement agencies in 12 states, including California, fed more than 1 billion license plate reader records to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  This pattern has only intensified with the interjection of private enterprise.

Beyond just the legislative and civil consequences, these technologies are often supported by our tax money.

The ACLU report details several local case studies that highlight the ineffectiveness, and costliness, of surveillance technology.

Between 2006-2011, the city of Oakland spent $2 million on technology that was barely used. Similarly, in 2005 San Francisco installed a series of cameras, owned by the city, in high traffic areas as a way of curbing crime. However, a UC institute analysis in 2008 revealed that the cameras “​​had no impact on violent crime” and were not a useful tool for investigators or prosecutors.

Despite this, surveillance technology has been widely implemented across the Bay Area. The key distinction now, as opposed to the developments twenty years ago, is the addition of private companies like Flock Safety.

In March, 2024 then-Mayor London Breed announced the city was installing 400 Flock Safety Falcon license plate reader cameras. That month the city also initiated the Real Time Investigation Center at its original location, the Hall of Justice. Critically, the RTIC is equipped with Flock’s ALPR data.

Both came shortly after the passage of Prop E in the March 5 election, which expanded police surveillance tactics and was financially supported, at least in part, by Chris Larsen.

Flock Safety was founded in 2017 by Garrett Langley, a Georgia Tech grad with a background in engineering. It quickly became a disruptor in the surveillance space, honing in on a market primarily dominated by Motorola cameras. By and large, Flock Safety has won contracts with large municipalities through partnerships with city governments and through smaller, local associations.

The cameras are “almost always [paid for using public funds],” Dave Maass, director of investigations for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said in an interview. “Sometimes it’ll come through an outside grant that will become public funds. It can get a bit hinky in San Francisco with Chris Larsen, is it public funds is it not public funds. But Flock did make a lot of headway by coming in through homeowners’ associations.”

In February, 2024 Flock Safety published a study claiming that its ALPR cameras are “instrumental in solving 10 percent of reported crime in the U.S.”

That kind of eye-catching claim invariably bolsters the company’s bottom line and opens the door to more contracts with homeowners’ associations or cities.

But the study was written by Flock employees with “oversight” by two academic researchers. One of the researchers spoke to 404Media, and noted that he would have approached the study quite differently and explained that the police data was “too varied and incomplete for us to do any type of meaningful statistical analysis on them.”

This kind of marketing tactic is not uncommon in private enterprise, but those strategies being used for issues like law enforcement and surveillance have more destructive consequences.

“Flock is in it for the business,” Maass said. They’re responsible to their investors first, their customers second and then down in the stack is the responsibility to the public.”

Reporting by 404Media in recent months has detailed the extensive surveillance network put in place by Flock Safety that has been tapped by federal law enforcement agencies. Jason Koebler of 404Media wrote in June about an email thread called, “Southern Oregon Analyst Group,”  in which local officers shared surveillance tactics and information with federal agents, including those in ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations.

This pattern of information sharing with federal agencies is well established, as Matt Cagle, a Technology and Civil Liberties Attorney with ACLU NorCal noted.

“As we’ve seen in San Francisco this is the kind of information that rarely stays local. This information about our locations and our movements,” Cagle said, referring to a recent SF Standard article that revealed SFPD allowed officers from Georgia and Texas to run 1.6 million illegal searches, including 19 explicitly for ICE.

In August, Koebler of 404Media reported that Customs and Border Patrol had routinely searched Flock Safety’s more than 80,000 ALPR cameras without the knowledge of the local police departments that operate them.

This relationship illuminates the issue with this kind of widespread surveillance.

“If a federal agency tried to get San Francisco’s data from Flock directly, what would happen? Would Flock hold off a bit and give SF a chance to challenge it?” Maass said.

While Flock Safety’s expansive array of cameras serve as the tendrils of the city’s surveillance network, all that data is collected, stored and analyzed in the RTIC, which serves as the brain of the network.

In June, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced a new headquarters for the RTIC at 315 Montgomery Street. The location is part of a bigger building complex that includes 555 California Street and is owned, at least in part, by The Trump Organization.

Of the $9.4 million donation from Chris Larsen through the Police Community Foundation, $2 million will go to paying the lease for the 14,000 square foot office space. Ripple Labs, Larsen’s crypto firm, was the former occupant and, by all accounts, will maintain the lease for the SFPD during its 16-month duration there.

The remainder of the donation, $7.4 million, will go to an expansion of the Drones as First Responders program. The donation will add 10 new launch sites for the drones and allow FAA trained officers to pilot the drones from the RTIC.

Both the RTIC as a whole and the deployment of Flock Safety cameras were made legally possible by the passage of Prop E. Once the proposition passed, Larsen then offered another substantial sum of money to move the RTIC into a building in which his company holds the lease.

“I think the example of Prop E being supported by Chris Larsen and how it led up to the RTIC is really important,” Jeremy Mack, executive director of the Phoenix Project, said in an interview “So he throws all this money to this PAC to support Prop E. Then Prop E passes and he turns around and gets on Lurie’s good side, then he starts this foundation. The SF police community foundation, just so he can give the $9.4 mill to the SFPD”

This municipal relationship between billionaire money and city services is not new, especially in San Francisco.

“These kinds of issues are part of a well-worn pattern that really came to be in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. You have Silicon Valley companies who were trailblazers in this respect, they collect reams of information about their users and then the government can tap into those databases using subpoenas and warrants and other demands,” Cagle said.

But such an opaque and expensive relationship comes with massive problems.

Namely, private companies are unaccountable to anyone but their shareholders. Even non-profits are shrouded by the cover of private enterprise and thus are not subject to the same scrutiny.

While city bureaucracies have myriad failings, they are—at least to some extent—accountable to the public. When it comes to issues of surveillance and policing, issues that often manifest violently and prejudicially on the poorest people in the city, public accountability is critical.

Privacy as a constitutional, inalienable right gives us as citizens the right to demand transparency from our municipalities. These ever-expanding public-private partnerships work directly against that right. More than that, privacy itself is not about shying away from the public light but rather safeguarding ourselves and our community against corporate overreach.

“Privacy is not about having something to hide. Privacy is about having something to protect,” Cagle said.

Source: https://48hills.org/2025/10/sfs-private-surveillance-state/

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A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in far western Kentucky.

If you are a regular listener to our weekly Podcasts, you have heard us discussing the Tech Titans more than a few times. Like Ford, Vanderbilt and Morgan before them, the tech titans have all the money, all the power, and as we told you last year, they’ve leeched onto Donald Trump to have unfettered access to the Federal ‘candy store’. They are all dark and shadowy figures, but perhaps the darkest of the bunch is Peter Thiel, the billionaire who built PayPal, runs Palantir, and loves to talk about the Antichrist. Now tech titan Thiel is funding a company to create enriched uranium for use in nuclear weapons. That’s the memo.

“And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” Genesis 11:6 (KJB)

Let me tell you a funny thing about fog you might not have considered. When I lived in Los Angeles and found myself driving back after being out of town, the dense ‘bowl of fog’ could be clearly seen. Yet as you drew closer to it, it grew fainter and fainter until completely disappearing from view when you had arrived in it. Bible prophecy is much the same way. Remember before smart phones, smart televisions, AI and all that other stuff we were warned about, remember how resolved you were to never have anything to do with the things of the Mark of the Beast System? Now we live in that system, and almost no one’s sounding the alarm. Funny how that works, isn’t it?

Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah

FROM WKMS NEWS: In an email sent to WKMS, General Matter said that the company intends to make a “historic investment in American nuclear infrastructure” by restoring a shuttered facility in Paducah. The gaseous diffusion plant in McCracken County, which ceased operations in 2013, was built by the U.S. government in the 1950s to bolster national defense efforts – and later to generate fuel for nuclear power plants.

“Seventy-five years ago, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission selected Paducah to help lead the nation’s original enrichment efforts,” the email reads. “We are proud to return to and rebuild this historic site to power a new era of American energy independence.”

Local officials, including Paducah Mayor George Bray, confirmed that General Matter has been in talks to develop this facility in recent months. This business development follows a series of executive orders from President Donald Trump that have aimed to bolster nuclear energy development in the U.S.

Is billionaire tech titan Peter Thiel warning us about the coming Antichrist, or preparing us to receive him? So glad I am SAVED and won’t be here for when he arrives after the Rapture. pic.twitter.com/QZ5hUv1KS6

— Now The End Begins (@NowTheEndBegins) July 26, 2025

The former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant has been at the center of multiple major development talks over the past year. Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Energy listed it as being among the four sites being considered for “cutting edge data center and energy generation projects.” Plans are moving forward to establish the world’s first commercial laser uranium enrichment plant on property adjacent to PGDP. The Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce has also helped to push these development talks along by securing a DOE grant to commission a study on the site’s re-industrialization potential.

General Matter is led by former SpaceX employee Scott Nolan, a partner at the venture capital firm Founders Fund.

Formed in 2024 in San Francisco, California, the company announced itself on the social media platform X in April as being “incubated within” Founders Fund by a team of people from SpaceX, Tesla, Anduril, national labs and the U.S. Department of Defense. That VC fund was co-founded by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who World Nuclear News reported joined General Matter’s board earlier this year. Thiel – who also co-founded the controversial data-mining firm Palantir contracted by the U.S. government to track migrant movements – is also listed as a director among the company’s initial officers on General Matter’s business filing with the Kentucky Secretary of State’s office, which was filed Tuesday.

In December 2024, General Matter was one of six companies added to the DOE’s list of contractors they could procure low enriched uranium from to incentivize the development of new uranium production capacity in the country.

A formal announcement event is planned for Aug. 5 in Paducah. According to General Matter’s email, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, U.S. Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul and Congressman James Comer are all expected to be on hand, along with members of the nuclear industry and local officials.

Source:  https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/peter-thiel-is-not-only-mining-our-private-data-through-palantir-now-he-will-be-enriching-uranium-for-use-in-nuclear-weapons/

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If you’re one of those with nothing to hide and would never complain about the surveillance economy, then it is guaranteed that you’re part of this gigantic surveillance dataset that circulates around various companies providing intelligence, and surveillance data to both police, corporations and private parties. There are no rules to getting a hold of this data, and the detail will shock you.

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The UK has 74 deregulated Special Economic Zones and 12 Freeports, which are not strictly regulated allowing for potential misuse of state aid to favour corporations. 

The manner in which the UK is implementing these SEZs enables corporations to self-regulate and gain significant influence over the public sector.

The UK government, now backed by Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, is partnering with corporations like Blackrock, granting them significant powers and paving the way for the privatisation of the UK, aiming to replace the government with “Sovereign Corporations” or “SovCorps,” writes European Powell.

What are Special Economic Zones?

Special Economic Zones (“SEZs”) are designated areas where business and trade laws differ from the rest of the country to encourage business activities and investment. These zones include freeports, greenports and investment zones, each tailored to support economic growth in specific sectors.

Read more: Special Economic Zones: A UK User Guide, CLES (the national organisation for local economies), 23 January 2025

Enterprise Zones are a specific type of SEZ in England. There are currently 48 operational Enterprise Zones in England, and similar policies have been adopted in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The rapid establishment of SEZs with minimal local input has led to concerns among residents about lack of transparency, reduction in public consultation, and expansion of private sector influence without clear benefits to the local population.

Critics of SEZs, including opposition parties, trade unions, think tanks and economists, argue that these zones may be used as tax havens and could lead to money laundering and erosion of workers’ rights.

Despite these criticisms, the UK government has continued to implement SEZs across the country, with plans for new zones and extensions to existing ones.

Related: UK Investment Zones: Will the self-governing zones enable the abuse of rights?

The Deadly Grift of Deregulated Special Economic Zones

By European Powell

The grift of deregulated Special Economic Zones is that they are set up to help developing countries achieve a stable economy and alleviate poverty. State aid (which is public money) is used to kickstart a country’s economy.

The EU has 82 SEZs but these are strictly regulated to stop governments of member states from giving State aid (public money) as profit motives to corporations. The European Commission enforces this to ensure a level playing field in the EU’s single market, preventing member states from distorting competition by favouring their own industries.

State aid under WTO rules provides a mechanism for members to challenge them if they harm trade interests, often through dispute settlement or countervailing duties. Article 107 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union says that if State aid distorts competition or the free market, it is classified by the European Union as illegal state aid.

[Related: It’s time for the EU to reverse its SEZ ban, FCi Intelligence, 16 February 2023]

The UK now has 74 deregulated SEZs plus 12 Freeports initiated by Sunak and Truss, signed off and now fully backed by Keir Starmer’s changed Labour Party.

[Related: Who benefits from Freeports and Special Enterprise Zones? Sussex Bylines, 7 May 2024]

Brexit ensured that the UK left the EU’s regulatory orbit for a laissez-faire approach to economic growth by installing a corporate political model which allows companies to self-regulate under Adam Smith’s “invisible hand.” This is crucial to understanding why the UK’s public sector is now being eclipsed by corporations such as US’ BlackRock, which has launched an ‘Infrastructure Imperative’ and is making serious incursions into the public sector.

On 21 November 2024, Keir Starmer casually announced on Twitter a government partnership with Blackrock.

Lord Evermore (with Starmer’s support) announced during a webinar with 700 corporate lobbyists that they were to be given “governance powers” while the UK government would take a “secondary position.” This was music to the lobbyist’s ears, as for decades think tanks like the International Energy Agency (“IEA”), The Heritage Foundation, Policy Exchange, and the ATLAS Network (a right-wing think tank that creates right-wing think tanks) have sought to dismantle big government by breaking it down into more “manageable pieces,” and where better to do this than in deregulated free zones?

Free zones carve out regions of a country and set up a deregulatory framework within their boundaries. This is tailored specifically for corporate hegemony and in the most extreme cases with separate laws from the host country, these are branded as “localised freedoms.”

Devolution in this context is synonymous with deregulation, collective sovereignty (people power) is replaced with corporate sovereignty (the asset classes power).

When Starmer, Reeves and Rayner talk of removing the “regulatory burden, stopping the blockers and cutting red tape,” they are following the neoliberal playbook to the letter. It should be noted that the UK’s 86 free zones, unlike Thatcher’s SEZs, are now embarking on something they couldn’t do when the UK was an EU member – that is give public money to their corporate friends to facilitate economic growth for the 1%.

The fact that those on benefits, those struggling to live from paycheck to paycheck, those juggling two or more jobs, those facing council tax rises and astronomical energy bills will be expunged in the same way that the left were expunged from Starmer’s changed Labour Party is anathema to these ghouls.

Public services are deemed “small potatoes” by right-wing libertarians; their goal is “countrypreneurship,” no more Prime Ministers, no more Presidents – CEO’s will be chosen to run countries like a business. The UK government, just like the US government, is being hollowed out from within by oligarchs. Why? Because governments are being primed to be replaced with Sovereign Corporations aka SovCorps.

The UK is going to be privatised, and “Zone Fever” is the template for doing just that.

Source:  https://expose-news.com/2025/04/05/special-economic-zones/

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Companies are getting rich by contracting with the government to keep tabs on your movements and actions 24/7.

In fascist America, many of the corporations we do business with on a daily basis are in fact acting as secret agents of the government.

Facebook, Istagram, Google-YouTube, TikTok, etc., are all working with the government at every level. Your education data, your health data, your financial data, almost all of it can be requisitioned by the government at a moment’s notice and it will be turned over.

But some companies are turning over your personal data where you would least expect it. Remember, the very definition of fascism is when the private sector corporations are colluding with government agencies to oppress the people. Keep that in mind as we look at a shocking story that broke over the weekend that impacts almost every American.

The Daily Mail, citing an article in Forbes magazine, has a shocking story about FedEx using AI-powered cameras installed on its trucks to serve as the watchful eyes of police departments nationwide.

The private postal-delivery firm has partnered with a $4 billion surveillance startup company based in Georgia called Flock Safety, Forbes reported.

Flock specializes in automated license plate recognition and video surveillance, and already has a fleet of around 40,000 cameras spanning 4,000 cities across 40 states.

FedEx has teamed up with the company to monitor its facilities across the U.S., but under the deal it is also sharing its Flock surveillance feeds with law enforcement. And it is believed to be one of four multi-billion-dollar private companies with this type of arrangement.

Critics liken the move to rolling out a mass surveillance network – as it emerged that some local police departments are also sharing their Flock feeds with FedEx.

Here is a short exposé on Flock and its founder.

Jay Stanley, a policy analyst with the ACLU, told the Virginian Pilot: “There’s a simple principle that we’ve always had in this country, which is that the government doesn’t get to watch everybody all the time just in case somebody commits a crime.”

He adds that, “The United States is not China. But these cameras are being deployed with such density that it’s like GPS-tracking everyone.”

In response to Forbes’ report that FedEx was part of Flock’s nationwide surveillance system, he told the outlet: “It raises questions about why a private company…would have privileged access to data that normally is only available to law enforcement.”

He went on to describe it as “profoundly disconcerting.”

Flock Safety’s cameras are used to track vehicles by their license plates, as well as the make, model, and color of their cars. Other identifying characteristics are also monitored, such as dents and even bumper stickers.

Lisa Femia, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, warned that FedEx’s participation is open to abuse because private firms are not subject to the same transparency laws as police.

This, she told Forbes, could “leave the public in the dark, while at the same time expanding a sort of mass surveillance network.”

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee confirmed its partnership with Flock in an email to Forbes, stating:

“We share reads from our Flock license plate readers with FedEx in the same manner we share the data with other law enforcement agencies, locally, regionally, and nationally.”

He also confirmed his department had access to FedEx’s Flock feeds.

So, in essence, FedEx is an arm of the government. More accurately, it’s the eyes and ears of the government. Treat it accordingly. If you’re able to install a gate across your driveway that would require them to leave packages there, do it. If not, make sure all garage doors, blinds, etc., are closed whenever you are expecting a delivery from this company.

Source:  https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/is-america-becoming-fascist-government

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