You're Being Watched: Inside Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance | Carlos Garcia | Ep. 352
The Team House
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🗓️ 14 June 2025
⏱️ 120 minutes
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00:00 - Defining ubiquitous technical surveillance and the GCCD cycle.
55:05 - iPhone Data Tracking
1:14:25 - TikTok's Dangers
1:27:01 - Digital Self-Defense
1:33:55 - AI, Data & Geopolitics
1:43:33 - National Interests in Tech
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| 0:00.0 | Special Operations. |
| 0:05.2 | Covert Ops. |
| 0:08.0 | Espionage. |
| 0:10.0 | The Team House. |
| 0:12.1 | With your host, Jack Murphy, and David Park. |
| 0:21.4 | Hey, folks. welcome to episode 352 of the Team House. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm Jack here with Dave and our guest tonight in studio. |
| 0:29.1 | We're very happy to have Carlos Garcia here. |
| 0:31.6 | Carlos currently works for the United States government. |
| 0:34.6 | It's about as far as we're able to say at this moment. |
| 0:37.7 | He originally came from Nicaragua, escaped communism, and came to the United States, works for |
| 0:43.7 | America now, obviously, and is an expert in ubiquitous technical surveillance subject that |
| 0:50.1 | we'll get into in depth here. Carlos, thank you for joining us. Thank you all for having me here. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm grateful to be here. Excited to chat with you all. So let's talk about your origin story, |
| 1:00.2 | which I think is very interesting, has its high lights and low lights and everything in between, right? |
| 1:05.1 | Tell us about how you grew up. So growing up, really weird, man, was born in Nicaragua, |
| 1:10.6 | late 70s, early 80s. |
| 1:12.5 | Picture this, every single straight out of central casting character you can think of in the world of communism and rebellion in one place. |
| 1:19.5 | It's like a most icelandiazicantina except in Central America. |
| 1:22.9 | You have the great power competition using Nicaragua as a proxy so much so that I had uncles that went to |
| 1:29.5 | Russia to study petroleum engineering and other stuff. They came back with Russian wives. So I got |
| 1:34.7 | cousins named Katerina, Basili, and all these other weird names. And similarly, we had people go |
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