May 13, 2025 - Info Warrior - Jason Bermas
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| We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. | |
| Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. | |
| We think too much and feel too little. | |
| More than machinery, we need humanity. | |
| We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. | |
| We know things are bad, worse than bad. | |
| They're crazy. | |
| Silence! | |
| The great and powerful Oz knows why you have come. | |
| You've got to say, "I'm a human being!" Goddammit! | |
| My life has value! | |
| You have meddled with the primal forces of nature! | |
| Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think, or what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. | |
| Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts. | |
| Yeah, thank you. | |
| You're beautiful. | |
| I love you. | |
| Yes, you're beautiful. | |
| Thank you. | |
| It's showtime. | |
| It's time to buckle up for making sense of the madness. | |
| And who loves you? | |
| And who do you love? | |
| Everybody, Jason Burmus here. | |
| And last night, kind of late, probably 10.30ish central time, I get a text from my buddy, who I have now known, it's hard to believe, but 20 plus years. | |
| Here we are, 20 plus years later, and I happen to be going to his wedding in New York at the end of the month. | |
| And he asked me if I had seen the latest news about Siri and spying and this class action lawsuit. | |
| And I replied, no I hadn't, but I had seen a kind of a clickbait title that you may be entitled to this if you owned an Apple device with Siri on it. | |
| Wasn't exactly spelling it out for me. | |
| And I want to read verbatim. | |
| What he told me. | |
| And this actually speaks to me being desensitized, just like so many others, to the aspect of our entire lives being tracked, traced, and databased, really beyond that at this point, unfortunately. | |
| But for someone like myself that has literally talked about this, tracked, traced, database society for more than 20 years. | |
| Almost 20 in the public arena. | |
| That comes, I believe, this summer. | |
| It will be like 20 years I've been in the public arena talking about all these things. | |
| But I wasn't born out of nowhere. | |
| I had my questions before 9-11, and then post-9-11 I was supercharged into all of this stuff. | |
| So let me read what he said to me verbatim. | |
| I want to say this. | |
| And we're going to play a news clip. | |
| We're going to show you the story. | |
| And we should really all be alarmed, even though this has been an open secret and something we've known about forever. | |
| He goes, when talking about it, when talking about Siri spying on you, okay? | |
| We all knew you were, I mean, this Android device does too, but these Apple people, they think they're special. | |
| He says, you earn 83 cents a month to have been potentially listened to. | |
| If you had five devices over ten years, so if you sign up for the settlement, that's effing insane. | |
| And I said, yes, but it's darkly hilarious. | |
| And he said, you know, basically he sent me a screenshot of the story. | |
| And he said, you know, I told a couple of my buddies they didn't even flinch. | |
| They acted like they already knew. | |
| And in a sense, we do already know. | |
| But I want to put it into perspective really quickly. | |
| 83 cents a month to be spied on for decades. | |
| You are literally worth pennies on the dollar to them. | |
| Nothing. | |
| There's going to be no criminal action for essentially eviscerating your Fourth Amendment right to privacy within your persons and property. | |
| This is extremely invasive, and I've been saying it forever. | |
| It's not just the smartphones. | |
| The smartphones were the big way in because they traveled with you, right? | |
| The televisions, the game systems, anything hooked up to the internet that has a speaker on it. | |
| That's it. | |
| What do you think it's for? | |
| It's not just for interactions. | |
| And for that reason, I have never, ever, ever Ever. | |
| With any app, except for literally voice-to-text on my little watch, the only reason I really have this thing while I drive, voice-to-text, that's it. | |
| I've never used Siri. | |
| I've never used a Google Assistant. | |
| I've never used an Amazon Echo or a Google whatever it is. | |
| I don't do it. | |
| I'd rather type it out. | |
| I don't want to interact with the machine. | |
| Even my Xbox that has the microphone feature. | |
| And I'm not ignorant. | |
| You know, I realize it's powered on. | |
| And if the powers that be want to access the speakers in that, whether or not the red light turns on and the device is on, they can. | |
| They worked with Microsoft. | |
| Microsoft is another military-industrial complex company. | |
| Just like Apple is a military-industrial complex company. | |
| Now, were they herded and shepherded in the same fashion as Google? | |
| No. | |
| But they also supersede Google in many ways because they're pre-internet era. | |
| They're literally IBM, military-industrial complex. | |
| Competition. | |
| And by the way, there really wasn't much competition back in the day. | |
| You can look into it. | |
| Microsoft had to bail Apple out in the 90s. | |
| So then you ask yourself, well then, from that, how were they able to essentially take a niche in the market as large as they have? | |
| Everyday folks that don't feel like they're tech savvy love Apple. | |
| It just works. | |
| And then people of a certain caliber that are tech savvy are also Apple snobs. | |
| Anybody that's hardcore into customization, into really doing things themselves, Building things. | |
| They're not really interested in the Apple devices whatsoever. | |
| People like myself. | |
| And that's the vast majority of them. | |
| But there's a certain esteem. | |
| My company uses Apple. | |
| Well, your company, your livelihood has been spied on on a new level. | |
| That again, pennies on the dollar. | |
| Reminds me once again. | |
| Remember when you used to watch those commercials? | |
| And for pennies a day, it's not pennies a day anymore, you could sponsor a child or a family, usually in an African nation. | |
| Well, for really probably less than pennies per day on the aggregate because people with Apple devices are interacting with people without them. | |
| It's open air. | |
| If you think they were just listening, again, they're listening to their conversations. | |
| That's what the big reveal here is. | |
| So plenty of people without the Apple devices. | |
| They're harvesting a multitude of data. | |
| No one lied about it. | |
| So many times, all these people lie about it. | |
| They do so in a semantical legalese. | |
| Oh, well, we're using proprietary technology. | |
| We're not recording anything. | |
| We're using voice recognition software. | |
| That's different. | |
| Oh, we've talked a lot about that over the years here. | |
| I mean, when that broke on smartphone devices, like probably a decade ago almost, it might be 2000, yeah, probably 2017, 16 is where that broke, where your smartphone devices on both sides, the apps themselves, were using voice content recognition or auditory content recognition, ACR. | |
| It's all out there in the open. | |
| So, we're going to get into this story. | |
| We're going to show you this news clip. | |
| And just realize, again, the fact that we're not outraged, that no one's going to jail, just encourages this corporate structure. | |
| This is peanuts. | |
| Like, they're talking about a $100 million settlement for a decade of data harvesting plus. | |
| On the entire, not only U.S. population, but global population that utilizes their devices. | |
| And no one's going to, I mean, a hundred million dollars doesn't even make you a Hollywood blockbuster anymore. | |
| Wild. | |
| Wild. | |
| Folks. | |
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| We illustrated that as well. | |
| So let's get to it. | |
| Apple to pay out nearly $100 million over claims phones listened in on users' conversations. | |
| How to get the payout. | |
| See, that's the whole thing. | |
| So they go back to iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, MacBooks, and they're like, hey, you could get up to $100. | |
| You could be in on this. | |
| How cool is that? | |
| Nothing cool about it. | |
| Absolutely nothing cool about it. | |
| This is the case of Lopez versus Apple. | |
| This is, again, a $3 trillion company spying on you and your family. | |
| Like, it's not just you. | |
| First of all, in that Apple environment, they don't just get the kid a smartphone. | |
| They get them an iPhone. | |
| Believe me, my nieces will not touch a cell phone. | |
| That is not an iPhone. | |
| Drives me bonkers. | |
| And again, it's not like my Android device is not doing the same. | |
| I'm not trying to be a hypocrite. | |
| I'm trying to say, they lie to us. | |
| You don't think they've made over $100 million on just data mining that? | |
| Forget about using it operationally for their algorithms and their artificial intelligence software. | |
| I mean, my God. | |
| Excuse me. | |
| Now, each customer at the max can only get $100 of Ben Franklin. | |
| I'm just going to stop. | |
| I'm going to throw it to the mainstream media, and I'm going to show you their take on this. | |
| Because, again, we're in embarrassing territory. | |
| The multi-million dollar privacy settlement involving some Apple devices, it could mean up to $100 each for some Apple product owners. | |
| And ABC's Alex Pache is following these details. | |
| Alex, good morning. | |
| Good morning, Gio. | |
| Yes, this is a $95 million settlement, man. | |
| If you had an Apple device between 2014 and 2024, you could be entitled to some of that cash. | |
| Now, Apple is creating this fund after a class-action lawsuit alleged that the company's voice assistant, Siri, was snooping on Apple device owners in the U.S. and infringing on their privacy. | |
| The allegations are that Siri would unintentionally activate during private conversations on Apple devices. | |
| It would capture those conversations and then pass that data along to third-party contractors | |
| Now, Apple denies all the allegations made in this lawsuit and denies that it did anything improper or unlawful, saying in a statement, Now, | |
| claims can be submitted on up to five devices, and if approved, you could receive up to $20 per device. | |
| Claim applications are open now until July 2nd. | |
| Janae? | |
| All right. | |
| Did you notice there was no concern about privacy? | |
| That they towed the line on what Apple stated? | |
| That they still protect all the data? | |
| That everything is quote-unquote unintentional? | |
| I mean, when I tell people... | |
| That we literally live in the dark cartoon. | |
| It's not a simulation. | |
| It's not a multiverse. | |
| Again, I told myself, I told my buddy it was darkly hilarious. | |
| Shame on me for not being hip to this story before that text message. | |
| And shame on everybody for just acting, oh, $100. | |
| Ooh, if I bought a couple of iPads and a few iPhones over the last decade. | |
| And they unintentionally spied on me and harvested my data. | |
| Wow, I could get $100. | |
| It is idiocracy on so many levels. | |
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