The government and large corporations don’t see you as an individual; you’re just a data node. From John and Nisha Whitehead at rutherford.org:
Americans have become easy prey for hackers, scammers, snitches, spies, and con artists.
But don’t be fooled into thinking the government is protecting you.
To the contrary, the U.S. government is selling us (or rather, our data) to the highest bidders.
By the way, those highest bidders also include America’s political class and the politicians aspiring to get elected or re-elected. As the Los Angeles Times reports, “If you have been to a political rally, a town hall, or just fit a demographic a campaign is after, chances are good your movements are being tracked with unnerving accuracy by data vendors on the payroll of campaigns.”
Your phones, televisions and digital devices are selling you out to politicians who want your vote.
“Welcome to the new frontier of campaign tech — a loosely regulated world in which simply downloading a weather app or game, connecting to Wi-Fi at a coffee shop or powering up a home router can allow a data broker to monitor your movements with ease, then compile the location information and sell it to a political candidate who can use it to surround you with messages,” writes journalist Evan Halper.
In this way, “we the people” have been reduced to economic units to be bought, bartered and sold by all and sundry.
On a daily basis, Americans have been made to relinquish the most intimate details of who we are—our biological makeup, our genetic blueprints, and our biometrics (facial characteristics and structure, fingerprints, iris scans, etc.)—in order to navigate an increasingly technologically-enabled world.
America is Nazi Germany, East Germany, or Russia if you like comparisons, just with a coat and tie. The perfunctory notice of your constitutional rights, whenever you become a profitable target of the state or the corporations (Fascism as described by Mussolini), is a declaration that rights guaranteed to citizens and protection from the state do not exist. A state that can take property without so much as a nod to judicial procedures, lock up its citizens in secret jails, and try them in secret courts while refusing to acknowledge that an individual is in their possession is not a state where freedom exists. A state that can stop people from working, demand behavior that destroys health, and isolate people because it is ‘concerned’ for their safety is a state that has complete control of the lives it enslaves. There is no turning the state back to what the constitutional contract specifies. To quote an old farmer responding to a request for direction from a city slicker, “You can’t get there from here.” ~ Chad Chadburn