Jack Mullen, THE PANOPTICON’S CONTRACT: How Corporate State Surveillance Nullifies the Fourth Amendment and Reduces Free Men to Managed Livestock

Jack Mullen Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie. — 2 Thessalonians 2:11 Safety is not a blank check. Law enforcement is not a constitutional exception. Private contracting cannot nullify the Fourth Amendment. And mass, searchable, suspicionless surveillance should not be treated as ordinary observation merely because each individual data point was captured in public. It is to the growing fabric that begins to wrap an individual in a web of observations – or a digital stalking. They call it “public safety.”…