meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Jordan Harbinger Show

1308: Benn Jordan | The Surveillance State Stalking You Without Consent

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Science, Business

4.8 • 12.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 88 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Over 100,000 cameras are quietly tracking your movements and feeding the data to police. Benn Jordan is here to explain why that should terrify you.

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1308

What We Discuss with Benn Jordan:

  • Flock Safety's network of over 100,000 license plate readers logs every car that passes, creating a searchable 30-day surveillance profile — and when mixed with consumer data, social media, and criminal records, it builds a disturbingly complete picture of your life that you never consented to.
  • The security on these cameras is shockingly weak — many run on a version of Android deprecated in 2021, and law enforcement accounts were found for sale on the dark web, meaning hackers, stalkers, and foreign actors can access the same footage as police with minimal effort.
  • Surveillance data is already being weaponized in unexpected ways — from Texas police tracking women suspected of seeking out-of-state abortions to insurance companies and banks using AI-scraped "open source intelligence" to quietly deny you a mortgage or jack up your premiums without ever telling you why.
  • The Hawthorne effect — the phenomenon where behavior changes when observed — means mass surveillance doesn't just watch us, it fundamentally alters how we live, learn, and express ourselves, eroding the private, judgment-free spaces where people practice new skills, take creative risks, and simply exist as themselves.
  • Development of "adversarial noise attacks" — tech that makes AI hear gibberish when it tries to train on protected music — is a powerful reminder that you don't have to wait for lawmakers to protect your rights. With creativity and a DIY mindset, individuals can fight back against invasive technology using the very tools that were built to exploit them.
  • And much more...

And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps!

This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors:

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories,

0:08.1

secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical

0:12.3

advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. Our mission is to help you

0:16.5

become a better informed, more critical thinker through long-form conversations with a variety

0:20.7

of amazing folks, from spies to CEOs, athletes, authors, thinkers, and performers. become a better informed, more critical thinker through long-form conversations with a variety of

0:20.8

amazing folks, from spies to CEOs, athletes, authors, thinkers, and performers, even the occasional

0:26.1

rocket scientist, Russian chess grandmaster drug trafficker or arms dealer. If you're new to the show

0:31.0

or you want to tell your friends about the show, and I always appreciate it when you do that,

0:34.2

I suggest our episode starter packs. These are collections of our favorite episodes

0:38.0

on topics like persuasion and negotiation, psychology and geopolitics, disinformation, China, North Korea,

0:44.3

crime and cults, and more. That'll help new listeners get a taste of everything we do here on the show.

0:48.2

Just visit jordanharbinger.com slash start or search for us in your Spotify app to get started.

0:53.2

Today on the show, imagine a company

0:55.1

putting a GPS tracker on your car. Now imagine they tell you it's for public safety and the cops

1:00.8

get access to it and private companies get access to it and the database quietly mixes your driving

1:05.9

history with consumer data, social media activity, photos, criminal records, whatever else they can buy.

1:11.3

Now, imagine the system is so poorly secured that hackers can get into it in under 30 seconds.

1:16.8

Tonight's guest discusses exactly that.

1:19.1

Ben Jordan is a technologist.

1:20.9

That's the term we're using these days, I suppose, for hackers, musician and security

1:25.1

researcher, all euphemisms, except for a musician, I suppose,

1:28.3

who decided to take a closer look at the massive network of automated license plate readers

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jordan Harbinger, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jordan Harbinger and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.