It’s been a while since we’ve checked in on the tech cabal,. You know that there’s always something to see. And something they’d prefer you’d not see.

One of the latest reports is that Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests. It seems the two behemoths “provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials,” Yahoo!finance reported, including “basic subscriber details, such as a customer’s address, phone number and IP address, in mid-2021 in response to the forged “emergency data requests.””

It seems that rather than hacking Apple and Meta (nee Facebook) directly, given their armies of coders, instead, the hackers breached law enforcement agencies worldwide. For the record, the hackers who sell this information to various and nefarious, only charge $100-$250 for this service. In 2021, Meta received 21,000+ ‘emergency requests’ which do not need to be signed off by a judge, and complied with 77% of them, while Apple received over 1100 and complied with 93% of them.

Doesn’t anyone think to call to confirm requests of sensitive user information? Especially in light of the fact that hackers tend to target Big Tech – that’s where the user information is – as a matter of course, by any means necessary? Apple certainly has no excuse to be so lax in follow up. They not only make bloody cell phones – they’ve garnered a lion’s share of the damn market!

Given the tech cabal’s overall lack of concern for consumer/user privacy and vulnerability – you will recall that not too long ago, the personal information of about half a billion Facebook users was breached, according to CNN, and the company didn’t even bother to inform users. Nothing to see here.

What was widely underreported and more worrisome is the Politico exclusive (A Google billionaire’s fingerprints are all over Biden’s science office) which reported that “A foundation controlled by Eric Schmidt, the multi-billionaire former CEO of Google, has played an extraordinary, albeit private, role in shaping the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy over the past year.”

Private? According to the piece, he “indirectly paid the salaries of two science-office employees,” what to speak of the fact that “The chief innovation officer at Schmidt Futures, OSTP alum Tom Kalil, also remained on Schmidt’s payroll while working as an unpaid consultant at the science office for four months last year until he left the post following ethics complaints.”

Ya think? Nor was he the only one.

Of course, while Schmidt and various companies of which he sits on the board benefited from the arrangement, “The White House said there was nothing unusual about its ties to Schmidt and that ethical issues were promptly and properly handled.”

Office of Science and Technology? That’s not science. That’s agenda.

Speaking of privacy and ethics, let’s not forget that Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance, as Quartz reported, or the The Military/Intelligence Origins Of Facebook.

Of course, there’s more! Said the Politico piece, “Schmidt has made the development of 5G technology and artificial intelligence key aspects of his post-Google work and has advocated for a stronger federal role in funding both, along with biotech initiatives.” Like implants, perhaps? These people are by no means to be trusted. Politico catalogued a number of people whom Schmidt had planted in key positions, and like Bill Gates and his so-called charities, it’s not only about money: it’s about influencing if not dictating policy.

Now here comes the Metaverse, where “Mark Zuckerberg ‘could become leader of virtual world’ as 5BILLION people expected to enter metaverse by 2030. It’s not beyond the realm of possibility. What always distinguished Facebook as opposed to other platforms that had come before it and even before it had billions of users, was its simple user interface and easy navigation, so pay attention, entrepreneurs out there developing for the metaverse and blockchain. It’s always all about user experience. As we’ve said before, make it easy. Make it simple.

Facebook and Twitter have hemorrhaged users due to their control the conversation, and many have become somewhat inured to that as well. We’ve no doubt that this is very much a consideration of both users and brands who are contemplating their entry into the metaverse. We’ve said it many times – that no one stays on top forever. Times and technologies and even levels of tolerance change. It’s a whole new landscape out there and hopefully it won’t be the domain solely or predominantly of the Zuckerbergs and Schmidts et al of the current landscape, which would be especially dangerous in a in a space that purportedly will have domain over some of the most important aspects of our lives, including work, ecommerce, personal savings and finance, home and entertainment. What if the metaverse is fully functional and they hand over all of your personal information, wittingly or not, to hackers, without question?

 It’s the same warning we gave at the dawn of Web 2.0, when the Zuckerbergs et al of the world first appeared, brash, rude, and unafraid and why not? They had the wind, and the government, at their backs. We saw the possibility of their creating nation-states, which is precisely what happened, and our warning seemed to have fallen on deaf ears. Once again, as we emerge from the lockdowns, which might have also been conditioning for life in a virtual world, considering how we socialized, attended meetings, ordered supplies et al, primarily online, and as we once again watch the cabal emerge in the new landscape, despite all of the various government threats to rein them in, with Zuckerberg potentially about to hold sway of five billion people, which is most of the planet, who and what’s to stop them, once they become that powerful?  How long have we heard those governmental claims, even as the cabal continues their deceptive machinations in the background (How Google and Amazon bankrolled a ‘grassroots’ activist group of small business owners to lobby against Big Tech oversight). From where we sit, it seems that they will continue to go unchecked.

And down the slippery slope we potentially once again go, if we once again throw up our hands and decide that in the long run, it doesn’t matter anyway. That they already know all there is to know about us. Well, what if we now give them the power to not only know, but to control everything in our lives? Social credit score – ever hear of it? Time to push back. High time for a regime change.  It is a brave new world descending upon us, and best to approach it with serious forethought, this time around. Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Larry & Sergey, Tim Cook and the like are all part of the same basic agenda. High time to stop accepting that it’ll always be more of the same and allowing them to continue to Schmidt all over us. Onward and forward.