For the past decade, people have underestimated the most powerful surveillance system ever built, not by intelligence agencies, but by corporations. Every movement you make, every store you walk into, every website you open, every conversation near your phone, it’s all collected, correlated, sold, and fed back into behavioural models more invasive than anything that Langley or the Kremlin could ever have dreamed of.

Your phone doesn’t just listen. It watches how you walk. It measures how you move. Not only that, but it predicts your emotional state, loneliness cycles, purchasing intent, and even what you’ll search next, before you search it.

And you’re paying for the privilege.

In this episode of The OPSEC Podcast, Allen and Ahmed break down how modern surveillance works when everyone (from convenience stores to dating apps to foreign intelligence services) is harvesting your data. Not by hacking you, but by exploiting the sensors you voluntarily carry.

You’ll discover:

How retail stores use enhanced camera networks to track your movement, biometrics, and purchasing behaviour

Why your phone’s gyroscope, accelerometer, and Bluetooth signals can identify you even if everything else is turned off

How dating apps use motion-sensor analytics to determine when you're lonely, then target you.

Why are executives travelling to China with their personal phones are walking SIGINT targets.

The truth about burner phones, why 99% of people use them wrong, and how surveillance teams detect them instantly.

Why Europe is sleepwalking into a surveillance state through digital ID, KYC expansion, and anti-encryption laws.

The hidden danger of bringing compromised devices back into your home network after international travel

How modern ads appear seconds after conversations, and why it’s not a coincidence

Privacy isn’t dying, it’s being optimised out of existence.

Your devices broadcast more intel about you than most people will ever realise. And unless you actively shut down those signals, someone is always listening.

Your privacy is your responsibility. Do your due diligence, or accept the consequences.

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Podcast 420: Jonathan Stout