(0:10 - 0:19) Your computer knows what color underwear you buy. And no, I'm not joking either. Recently, both Windows and Apple have pushed massive updates to their operating systems. (0:19 - 0:30) And these are not your everyday normal updates. Both of these big tech companies have released new AI spyware that is specifically designed to gather an unprecedented amount of information on you. Let me give you an example. (0:30 - 0:48) In 2023, Windows announced their new AI software called Copilot that constantly watches and understands everything you do on your computer. So much so that it even takes a screenshot every second and stores those screenshots for posterity. And if you don't believe me, let's take a second and hear what the Microsoft CEO has to say about it. (0:48 - 0:57) One of the dreams we've always had is how do we introduce memory, right? Photographing memory into what you do on the PC. And now we have it. So it's called recall. (0:57 - 1:07) It's not keyword search, right? It's semantic search over all your history. And it's not just about any document. We can recreate moments from the past, essentially. (1:07 - 1:22) Here's how it works. Windows constantly takes screenshots of what's on your screen, then uses a generative AI model right on the device, along with the NPU, to process all that data and make it searchable, even photos. I got to try it out. (1:22 - 1:31) I searched brown leather bag. It came up in visual search. There's no place on this page that it says brown leather bag. (1:32 - 1:42) It just knows because it sees this brown leather bag. There could be this reaction from some people that this is pretty creepy. Microsoft is taking screenshots of everything I do. (1:42 - 1:52) Yeah, I mean, that's why that you can only do it on the edge, right? So this is, you know, you have to put two things together. This is my computer. This is my recall. (1:53 - 2:03) And it's all being done locally, right? So that's the promise. So that's one of the reasons why recall works as a magical thing, because I can trust it that it is on my computer. Great. (2:04 - 2:11) You can trust Microsoft and Bill Gates. When has that ever gone wrong? And before I go further, I want to go on a quick rant. Yes, I'm sick, but that's not the rant. (2:11 - 2:29) Why do big tech guys look so weird? Like when I see the CEO of Microsoft, I feel like he has a reminder on his phone to go outside and tan his butt. And when I look at the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, all I can see is the cockroach alien man from Men in Black. And when I see Mark Zuckerberg, I mean, come on, that's like the least human human on this planet. (2:30 - 2:40) And I don't really want to make fun of how people look too much. I think it's childish and it's also just sensational. But just as a whole, why do big tech people always look so weird? It's so it's so strange. (2:41 - 2:52) Anyways, let's go back to Copilot. So as they mentioned, it's constantly watching and analyzing your screen at all times. And before we think about what this means, I want you to stop for a second and think about what you do on the computer. (2:52 - 3:02) If you shop online, it knows what you like spending your money on. If you search for recipes or restaurants, it knows what foods you like. If you message your friends, it knows everything that you say to them. (3:03 - 3:18) And right now you're watching this video that says something about you and your computer knows that all of these things are analyzed to create a ginormous profile on you. And that profile is not only going to be used for social credit like systems that blindly punish you. It's also going to be used to manipulate you. (3:18 - 3:34) Gene Epstein did a study and he determined that Google was able to change 50 50 swing voters to 90 10 voters just by how they placed search results. OK, so let me use an example for it. So let's say you search covid vaccine efficiency. (3:34 - 3:45) Then you look at page one of results. Not many people go to page two and a lot less go to page five. So just by changing the way that articles are listed, they can change someone's mind that much, which is crazy. (3:45 - 3:56) And that's just the tip of the iceberg of the type of stuff that they can do. Well, anyways, with your profile and the power of AI, it can manipulate you in ways that you can't even notice. It'll be able to predict your patterns, where you go. (3:56 - 4:08) It can lead you down rabbit holes and create new interests that you thought that you found on your own. This is already seen very much in social media platforms and YouTube. These algorithms are so optimized now that it's disgusting. (4:08 - 4:20) That's also why we've seen such a radicalization of people in the last 10 years. Social media is brainwashing. But think about what it'd be like if this happens not just on social media, but every aspect of your computer. (4:21 - 4:35) The levels of manipulation are unprecedented, even more than what George Orwell warned us about in his famous book in 1984. And of course, these big tech companies will always try to downplay what they're doing. They'll always use excuses like tailored ads or increasing usability. (4:35 - 4:43) And those are just buzzwords that get people to say, oh, OK, yeah, that makes sense. And then they stop asking questions about it. And I want to make this very, very, very clear. (4:43 - 4:50) This is not sci-fi or conspiracy theory. This is actually happening right now. Like I said, Copilot was released in 2023. (4:51 - 4:57) It's 2025 now. That means I'm not warning you of what's to come. I'm telling you what's happening right now. (4:57 - 5:09) Copilot is on all Windows 11 computers. So you might be wondering, should I stick to Windows 10? The answer? No. Windows is intentionally ending life support to Windows 10 on October 14th of this year. (5:09 - 5:22) They're also no longer supporting a lot of hardware. And a big reason of that is because they won't support their AI, which means a lot of people will have to buy new computers soon. It also means that they're forcing people to use their AI. (5:22 - 5:35) And to this point, I've heard a lot of people say, well, what if I just don't update my operating system? To which I say, you can't do that. It's very dangerous. An operating system needs to be up to date or else it will get hacked very easily. (5:35 - 5:42) And no, Apple is not the answer either. Apple is doing the same thing under the name Apple Intelligence. But don't worry, there is a solution for this. (5:42 - 5:54) But before I explain it, I want to reiterate why privacy is so important in the first place. Privacy is not just about closing your curtains or locking the bathroom door. Privacy is the backbone to individual liberty and surveillance is the backbone to tyranny. (5:54 - 6:03) Over the last decades, we've seen a coordinated attack on our freedoms through the surveillance state. This is not a left or right issue. This is a freedom versus tyranny issue. (6:03 - 6:16) Just like the old saying goes, information is power. And the more information that a government can gather about you, the more power it has over you. I want you to stop for a second and think about what it would have been like if Hitler, Stalin or Mao had the level of technology that exists today. (6:17 - 6:28) If they could track everyone's texts, locations, money and friendships. Their reign of terror would have been even more merciless than you could imagine. If King George III had this level of power, America would not exist the way it does today. (6:29 - 6:42) Our founding fathers would have been rounded up and shot before a revolution was even thought of. And I've said this before, but I've heard countless people say, well, what difference does it make if the government sees what I do? I'm not a criminal anyways. Well, that's easy for you to say while you're living in the most free part of history ever. (6:43 - 6:55) The term criminal is a term that can be redefined by tyrants to fit whatever parameters they want to see fit. Think about all of the people who were unjustly persecuted during Hitler's reign or Stalin's or Mao's. This surveillance state is not an accident. (6:56 - 7:12) They've been building this infrastructure for decades. Even Google was funded by NSA and CIA research grants. It has all been an elaborate plan to gather as much information on us as possible and lock us down with digital IDs, central bank digital currencies, and ultimately social credit systems. (7:12 - 7:32) This was made even more clear when the United States announced the Patriot Act, where citizens would be spied on in order to prevent domestic terrorism. Then 12 years later, Edward Snowden became a whistleblower and exposed the government for illegally spying on their citizens. Instead of being treated like a hero, he was forced to flee to Russia to avoid persecution, and no one in the NSA was punished. (7:32 - 7:43) Since then, the spyware has gotten much worse. I'm sure you've seen TV shows before make jokes about huge NSA rooms that are filled with countless agents listening to every phone call in America. Well, that's not what happens. (7:43 - 7:49) In fact, it's much worse. It's what I've been talking about with AI. And this is exactly why AI was created. (7:50 - 8:00) AI is designed to analyze huge amounts of data. And now with the help of AI, everything you do is not only tracked, but also analyzed. So that brings on the million dollar question. (8:00 - 8:06) Are we all hopeless? No, not at all. In fact, there is a third option that has been forgotten by the masses. Linux. (8:07 - 8:15) And I know that name might make you scared. Linux has been reserved for tech geeks for years. It's been completely out of reach for the average person, but that's not true anymore. (8:15 - 8:30) Linux is different than Apple and Windows because it's open sourced. And that means that all the code used in Linux is available to the public. This is very important because this allows security auditors to go in and actually confirm that the operating system is actually doing what it says it is. (8:30 - 8:38) Because if you're using something like Windows or Apple that is closed source, they can say whatever they want. Like Apple says, we're the private solution. Well, there's no way to audit that. (8:39 - 8:45) It's closed source. So no one can go in and see what they're actually doing. Open source is a huge key component to ensuring privacy. (8:45 - 8:54) But it also has another added benefit. When something is open source, that allows people to take that code and modify it into their own systems. That is why Linux has had countless distributions. (8:55 - 8:59) Simply put, Windows has Windows. That's all there is. Apple has Apple. (8:59 - 9:08) That's all there is. But Linux has countless different variations. And Glenn and I have spent years searching for a Linux distribution that is easy enough for the average person to use. (9:08 - 9:17) And to be honest, everything felt like a downgrade. I mean, really, we just couldn't recommend anything because it wouldn't work. The average person couldn't do it. (9:17 - 9:29) That was until we found Zorin OS. It's a privacy-oriented version of Linux that is specifically designed for non-techy people. You do not have to use the command line interface, and you can set it up to look like either a Windows computer or an Apple computer. (9:29 - 9:53) And if you want to learn more about switching over to a private computer, I recommend that you watch Glenn, my father's, webinar on it last week. I'm putting a link to the replay in the description. And if you're interested in switching to a private computer instead of buying a new big tech computer before the October 14th Windows end-of-life support, then I recommend checking out our website at privacycomputers.com. Glenn and I have a pile of laptops sitting around in our offices because we've tested out countless Linux suppliers. (9:53 - 10:07) After many rejections, we finally found some computer companies that are perfect. We've worked with them to create privacy laptops that are private out of the box and also preloaded with our recommended privacy software. The reason we like doing it this way is because these computers also have Coreboot. (10:07 - 10:16) And simply put, underneath your operating system is another operating system called a BIOS. There's a lot to learn about Linux. I really recommend that you watch the replay that Glenn had posted. (10:16 - 10:22) It's in the description. And if you want to switch to a laptop, I'd love that too, because this is not just a business for us. This is a mission. (10:22 - 10:27) We need to get off of big tech or else all of our freedom is gone forever. Thank you very much.