Ep 195: Rise Above Big Tech: Defying The Surveillance State And Spiritual Sabotage with Hakeem Anwar

The Way Forward with Alec Zeck

Alec Zeck

Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Hakeem Anwar joins Alec for a discussion on how Big Tech tracks, trades, and monetizes user data — and what we can do to reclaim privacy. A former health firm engineer turned technologist, Hakeem exposes the hidden collaboration between Apple, Google, and law enforcement through systems like "Sensor Vault." He also explains how surveillance extends beyond devices into the spiritual domain and introduces Above, a suite of privacy-first tools designed for autonomy.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Oh,
0:03.0	Oh,
0:04.0	and
0:05.0	The Hakeem, man, thank you so much for joining me.
0:40.7	It's good to be here, Alec, man.
0:42.2	Yeah.
0:42.6	Yeah.
0:42.9	Good to have you here, dude.
0:45.4	I'm excited for this conversation, and I want to preface this by saying, like, this conversation
0:52.0	could get, I don't want to say, little bit dark, that's not the case,
0:56.1	but the factual information that will be relayed here can be a little bit jarring to people
1:04.4	who've not considered the implications of what will be related here. And with that being said,
1:10.0	the whole purpose of this conversation is also to guide it to solutions, which you've developed and we'll get into that. But could you just start by introducing yourself? First, do you disagree with anything I just said there? No, it's true. But you know, on every side of the coin, there's darkness. You've got to become aware of that to move towards the light how are you going to do anything about the problems if you don't know about them just
1:31.0	living ignorance so yeah i mean and i think that's what the way forward does so well
1:36.7	it's shooosh uh yeah now um just to tell you a little bit about myself, man, I was awake since college.
1:46.0	And-
1:47.0	What woke you up?
1:48.0	What woke me up?
1:49.0	A friend, a good friend and mentor.
1:51.0	We were music producers together, ironically enough.
1:54.0	And then one day he's like, hey, do you know about Raytheon?
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