As Surveillance Fight Rises Again, New Fed Spyware Is Revealed
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🗓️ 10 February 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, February 9th, 2024. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Caleb Brown. |
| 0:08.0 | The fight over federal surveillance of Americans is back just a few months after Congress kicked the can down the road and as that |
| 0:15.2 | reform rages there is a relatively new wrinkle. |
| 0:18.2 | U.S. intelligence agencies using ad-based spyware to collect all manner of information on you. |
| 0:24.4 | Cato's Patrick Edington comments. |
| 0:26.6 | I get ads on my phone. |
| 0:28.0 | I get ads in web browsers. |
| 0:29.9 | I get ads served to me all over the place. |
| 0:33.0 | For a while there, it was ads for things I had just purchased. |
| 0:36.6 | Yes. |
| 0:37.6 | Which I thought was kind of funny. |
| 0:40.4 | It's like, hey, remember that thing you just bought? |
| 0:43.0 | Why some more? |
| 0:43.8 | Need another one? |
| 0:46.0 | But the notion of using that kind of targeted, |
| 0:52.2 | highly targeted, in my case, advertising as a surveillance tool seems |
| 0:59.5 | pretty new, frankly. |
| 1:01.8 | Our difficulty, of course, know, some of this stuff, you know, has been around for a while and once in a while it's really good to get a reminder about exactly how pervasive this stuff is and also how it can potentially be |
| 1:16.1 | you know turned against us so we had a circumstance very recently where the folks at 9 to 5 Mac, which is one of the Apple industry |
| 1:26.4 | publications and I get their RSS feed on a daily basis to just kind of keep up |
| 1:31.8 | with what's going on in the Apple world. |
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