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The Glenn Beck Program

Best of the Program | Guest: Michael Rectenwald | 9/9/19

The Glenn Beck Program

Mercury Radio Arts

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.625.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The DOJ ordered Apple and Google to release data on ALL the users of a gun scope app, and that’s just the latest attempt to watch our every move – for our safety, of course. Author Michael Rectenwald joins the show to discuss the onslaught of “smart” technology and why we’re dumb for trusting it. Joe Biden’s gaffes keep racking up, but they’re starting to sound more like aneurysm side effects. Kamala Harris laughed after a man called Trump “mentally retarded,” but then denied ever hearing him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, today we have kind of a rollercoaster ride for you. The information on you that is being sold. The total information awareness program,

0:08.7

Harpa and DARPA, coming to the US very soon. Also, we're talking about the new streaming services, the plays. We've been

0:19.9

dinged again by Facebook last week, now this weekend. YouTube demonetized my interview with Dave Rubin. I guess we're just too dangerous for them.

0:31.8

Planned parenthood, a story that you have not heard anywhere that should be the lead in in every decent journalist paper or report today.

0:44.9

Michael Rectonwald joins us to talk about Google, more on Ileon, Elano, Mar and representative Clyburn says, I don't think the Bill of Rights would pass today.

0:55.4

Stu and I look at that all on today's podcast.

0:58.0

You're listening to the best of the perfect program.

1:13.0

All right, here's what broke last week. The Department of Justice on Thursday filed a court order stating they want Apple and Google to hand over the information of more than 10,000 gun owners.

1:26.0

The DOJ wants information of gun owners who use the mobile app called Obsidian 4, which allows rifle owners to calibrate their scope using their cell phone.

1:37.0

The government wants users data as part of a larger immigration and customs enforcement investigation into breaches of weapons export regulation.

1:46.0

This scope, we have stuff here in America that our enemies abroad would love to be able to get their hands on.

1:53.0

And so we export bad guys export some of this stuff. They buy it and export it.

1:58.0

And the government is trying to catch these guys. Now, the company isn't under investigation.

2:04.0

But the investigators are looking for a quick way to find out where the app is in use.

2:11.0

So if it's in use in Afghanistan, then they know and they can track it all the way back to who sold them that.

2:21.0

So it seems like a pretty good idea except they're asking for a warrant on everybody.

2:29.0

So anybody who has bought this, you're not you're not under suspicion.

2:34.0

So you're going to get all of your information. So did you download the app? What did you use it for? How long did you use it for?

2:41.0

All of your information is going to go into the hands of the federal government. It's not really a good idea.

2:49.0

This is not the way we issue warrants in America.

2:54.0

But the problem is bigger than this. The problem is most people don't understand that we are...

3:03.0

I don't even know how long we are before we get there. If we're not there now.

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