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Who's Watching You? Inside America's Surveillance State

Your phone isn't just a phone anymore. It's a checkpoint. Phil and Ted dig into the quiet, relentless buildout of America's surveillance state — the one where government agencies and private data brokers have quietly merged into something neither the Constitution nor most Americans ever signed up for.

Nicole Bennett, PhD candidate and assistant director at Indiana University's Center for Refugee Studies, breaks down how we got here: the long history of U.S. government surveillance, the explosive rise of data brokers like Palantir, and the invisible algorithms now scoring your life without…

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