Wait wait wait wait can the data brokers sell the same information like domestic

information about US citizens they could sell that to the US government

to what this entire episode's been about and like that's crazy enough you're not telling me those brokers can also

sell them to foreign countries oh yeah yeah absolutely what? Welcome to Bankless, where today we're exploring the frontier of privacy.

This is Ryan John Adams.

I'm here with David Hoffman and we're here to help you become more bankless.

The topic of today's episode, the US surveillance state.

We're talking total surveillance.

Our guest is an investigative journalist who says the

U.S government has in quotes a digital dossier of every citizen.

Thanks. Everyone listening to this. How do they collect the data?

How are they using it? Can we ever get back our digital privacy and does crypto does

encryption fit into the picture here?

Some questions we asked Byron on the episode today everyone knows that internet users give up their privacy

but you listener do you know how far that actually goes

do you think that US citizens actually have a right to privacy

because I wouldn't be so sure

the United States government can't search the contents of

your emails, but does that even matter in the same age when there's so much data out there?

And is there even really a difference between the authoritarian state of China and the capitalistic democracy of the United States

when it comes to our privacy.

These are some of the questions that we ask Byron, so let's go ahead and get right into that conversation

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