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The Corbett Report - Feature Interviews

Interview 1394 - Smart Tech and The End of Privacy

The Corbett Report - Feature Interviews

The Corbett Report

News, Politics

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

James Corbett joins Dr. Joanne Conaway on The Power Hour to discuss how technology is spying on you in the digital age.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So this morning I'm delighted to bring on the show James Corbett.

0:03.2

Now, the reason I'm delighted to bring him on the show is because I am so looking forward to things that he has to share with us with respect to what would be referred to as invasion of certain privacies.

0:16.4

So, James, if you'll come on the show, please.

0:18.8

Tell us a little bit about yourself and a little bit about how you got involved in what you do.

0:23.0

I would appreciate it.

0:24.7

Okay, well, the long story form of this is available on my site, corporate report.com,

0:29.7

where I've talked about my background.

0:31.4

But long story short is that I'm a Canadian who's been living in Japan for 14 years now. I came over here just originally to teach English for a year, see a little bit of the world,

0:40.3

make some money, and then go back home to Canada.

0:42.3

But, well, yeah, these things happen.

0:44.3

One year turns into two, turns into ten, turns into 14, so here I am with a family in Japan.

0:49.3

But along the way, I started encountering these crazy conspiracy theory videos on YouTube, about 9-11,

0:57.0

that I found interesting, and at first I was poo-pooing them.

1:02.0

Oh, this is just silly, crazy conspiracy nonsense.

1:06.0

But the more I looked into it, the more I found, well, there's actually something to that.

1:09.0

Oh, I can actually look up that document.

1:11.2

Oh, I just found that piece of information. Oh, it's actually true. And that led me down the rabbit

1:16.6

hole, as it were, as I'm sure your audience is familiar with that experience. And that's ultimately

1:22.7

how I ended up starting my own website, which I never in my life thought I was going to do, and

1:27.2

started a weekly podcast, which I never in my life thought I was going to do, and started

1:27.6

a weekly podcast, which suddenly flowered into videos and interviews and articles, and here I am,

1:34.4

a good 11 years later, and I do this full time now. I'm blessed by the support of people out there

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