PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

To eliminate from all societies, and hold maximally accountable for widespread and well-known abuse, all stakeholders, vendors, and end users in the “data forensics,” “geolocation data,” and “video analytics” industries (see partial list plus links below). Both supply and demand sides of these industries systematically defraud both the general public and would-be overseers as to what their true aim is (on one hand dirty money, but on the other a sort of Global Right Wing Christian Dominion world order dominated by the US). The vast majority of end usage despite super weak and disingenuous “lawful investigations” and “persons of interest” rhetoric is abusive and unethical, and all participants know this. These powerful tools are increasingly, especially in my life, used to stalk, harass, sabotage, and sometimes worse, by way of real-time geolocation details “doxxed” and distributed to vast numbers of people who are not in any way legitimate end users, who represent the dregs and goons and thugs of society but apparently are quietly enabled and encouraged by police.

A lof of the leanings and incentives (aside from revenues) for this industry are heavily politically tainted, and hide targeted abuses in opaque narratives of “crime prevention,” or conflating dissidents with threats to public safety. Many key players here are very Right leaning, as are their algorithms, as are abusive end users who understand how to manipulate via malicious and intentional inputs, and vicious ubiquitous discrimination against those deemed their “threats” which ultimately upends lives and creates a “free existence” which more closely resembles incarceration and in some ways is less free than institutionalization itself.

A short list of these criminal enterprises (by no means exhaustive) includes the following below, with heaviest concentration of clientele in the transportation, first responder, private security, public utilities, municipal government (“smart cities”), hospitality, healthcare, shipping, and retail industries (so they’re pretty much pushing to normalize the reach of their stalkerware tentacles into all corners of the economy and society). If you’re curious to learn what issue I take with the brokers of these surveillance packages, visit their sites yourself; they don’t hide what they do. There are euphemisms, appeals to safety, slick graphics, pictures of sad “missing children,” the usual bells and whistles of propaganda … but the reality of what it is, an unchecked all-encompassing totalitarian surveillance empire presented via the Illusion of Choice, as if these aren’t all law enforcement-backed “private” entities - is all right there for your consumption. The part you don’t know, but I know all too well, is that a “suspect” is basically a vulnerable person presumed to not have a voice and influence over public opinion, the kind of person that many of these end users don’t think twice about when using these tools to commit criminal acts against them.

That’s where I come in. My perspective needs to be heard, as a target of several end users, sold to by companies well aware of what these tools are really for, and enabled by cops who aggressively look the other way being that they themselves are the most egregious abusers of the same programs. I believe they messed with the wrong person’s life and that they should face a serious reckoning because my story represents that of thousands upon thousands of others who have had their lives utterly turned upside down, or ended, via the abuse of these digital weapons disguised as public safety tools. Everything they’re promoting is largely a made up problem and they fill in with “suspects” they think are easy to villify. There never was a “retail violence epidemic,” nor a “violence against healthcare epidemic,” nor a “missing child epidemic,” nor a “child sex trafficking crisis,” nor an “organized shoplifting epidemic,” these things happen from time to time, some are video-friendly and go viral, but they were exploited for one reason, to build and justify this industry and normalize the Espionage and Stalker economy, where margins are absolutely through the roof and there are billions upon billions of unscrupulous filthy dirty dollars to be squeezed out of you suckers, at my expense, and any “trusted” member of the in group can participate in the Witch Hunt by way of simply having a cellular device with GPS, cameras, sensors, and mics actively connected to a local tower.

They’re always going to claim “data breaches” and put in on “hackers” (it’s always “the Russians” or “the Chinese” — bullshit) to stay ahead of the only true narrative, the one untold where domestic companies and government agents are aggressively hacking their citizens’ lives and have no intention of ever pumping the brakes. Stop believing this, even as mainstream news enables them with headlines that sound credible. Shut them all the fuck down so I can finally have my life back and have peace.

Data Forensics, Geolocation, Biometric & Video Analytics Brands

**Note the names often change, so you may stumble upon broken links. These players know they are thugs and criminals and some are finally coming under pressure, as regulatory agencies have finally decided to pick up their Whack-a-Mole mallet and enforce bans. This approach is a sorry substitute for sweeping bans and criminalization of these industries and their buyers, and by the time you reach any broken link it’s very likely the same company has resurfaced under a different name already. What’s shocking to me is how apparently the executive suite and government folks seem far, far less appalled and totally okay with the flooding of biometric and vehicle data vacuuming via “traffic management” services and "customer & staff safety” apps than they seemed to be when the NSO Pegasus scandal broke several years ago. I would know from experience that face and car alerts are far more difficult to hide from, if in the hands of bad actors, than merely leaving a device at home. I typically view politicians and executives as only caring when a long-running scandal or tragedy hits home. I mean - very visible and important figures and aspiring politicians are being assassinated and disappearing left and right in Latin America via the use of this technology … so I don’t know why the American bourgeous doesn’t feel that that is a concern for themselves at this time when it should be.

**Something I really don’t like about these industries is, in my opinion, that they unequivocally result in far greater injustice and yes, death, than say the murder of George Floyd; but their ways are subtle and don’t create the kind of spectacle that can be made media-friendly and tugs at the heartstrings. So nobody really takes to the streets or otherwise puts public pressure on the decision-makers to finally act. This is the surveillance industry’s greatest strength, the ability to seep into the public’s psyche and daily lives slowly enough up to the point where it normalizes itself and is, remarkably, seen as the societal benefit Big Brother tells you it is. There has been a clear tone shift, morever, which I find similarly alarming over the past 2 years - with more messaging targeting “human traffickers” and “missing children.” Both of these propagandized fake American epidemics are being pumped to win over two key “on the fence” demograhpics - people of color / immigrant communities; and moms. Even though entities using these technologies absolutely devastate immigrant families and communities of color, and these technologies are very well cited in cases of women / children being hunted by end users of these technologies, not the “good guys stopping the bad guy” (same fallacy as the gun lobby I suppose), these are clearly attempts to get more people to view this sleazy industry as a force for good and presenting innocent men like Joe Leineweber as The Monster Who Might Rape Your Child! Kind of a joke but not really, that’s literally how they frame me within these systems, trust when I say I know what it feels like to be an exploited / trafficked human against his free will.

A lot of the best and more revelatory information about this industry comes from companies outside the U.S. My sense is the U.S. population is waking up (finally, thank you fellow citizens) to how shady this stuff is and companies are getting a lot more vague and restrictive of what they reveal about their services via their own webpages. But what they really do is very readily available via similar company pages widely published by companies in Israel, the UK, etc.

Also I think there’s a clear difference between the culture of industries that market explicity on the Fear Spectrum (video analytics) and those who think it’s cool to sell location data for “marketing” without thinking about the ramifications and those being made vulnerable perhaps unwittingly to predatory people, institutions, etc. So there’s that frustration, the seeming nonchalance of those who aren’t necessarily deliberately facilitating things like my life’s total destruction, but don’t really care if that’s a byproduct of facilitating granular data sales that enable others to locate my car, house, and, ultimately, associate that with biometric features and launch pinpoint attacks on me accordingly.

Something to be keenly aware of too, as there has been a (very minimal and wholly inadequate) “crackdown” on a small handful of brokers trafficking in the movements of cell phones tracked via advertising technology …. there is currently a very aggressive push to keep doing the same, only worse, via our actual biometrics, including face, voice, gait, or any other unique characteristics (even “butt print” in your car seat) … and most troubling … heartbeat signature detection. Apparently devices and even faces were inadequate for our authoritarian government which demands to know where we are and what we are doing at all times. Once this becomes de facto, there is no way to escape it, you can’t change your heartbeat or put it on pause and it can be accessed much more easily and from far greater distances than any camera …. to say nothing of the massive medical risks that the tech poses to the actual functioning of your single most vital organ. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Nobody warned me, I’m just the guinea pig actually going through it, on a way more intense level as I’ve been deemed the “threat” by this whole industry, before the rest of you get to. Nothing good will come of the hacking of our bodies, there’s plenty of evidence out there about what’s going on, and shockingly, still, as I was when this device ID stalkerware was exploding onto the scene, nobody in leadership is doing a thing about it, indicating they apparently feel they have more to gain than lose via this economy. And that reflects incredibly short-sighted, naive thinking and an attitude that is at odds with the best interests of the people in every conceivable way.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE:

My secondary objective is simple but imprudent barring bans on biometric and device and activity surveillance.

That goal had been to expatriate to a country that can and will guarantee my freedom and safety from surveillance abuses of any kind - public and private. That nation, let alone single solitary community, in Year 2025, flat-out does not exist. Where I will never be tracked, stalked, “prevented and deterred,” by any agency, company, or civilian. To not be stalked by decentralized “cell phone brownshirts” scanning my every utterance, facial features, location and time on every corner of every “smart district” in the world. To be able to safely and anonymously use parks, retail areas, cars, parking lots, hotels, airports, ride buses and subways, etc, knowing I’ll never be violated by these people. Knowing I can do these things without being treated like the worthless piece of garbage they see me as, in fulfillment of their own bizarre delusions of innumerable “threats,” ranging from terrorism to shoplifting to kidnapping to robbery - that they seem convinced I represent and they alone are here to thwart. That I can turn on a cell phone, use a cell phone, and be a normal part of the modern world without it turning into a weapon that will be used to aggressively hunt me by these people under completely false pretenses which seem to become more vicious and outlandish with time. To not have to feel like my choice is to “keep my mouth shut” or “get out of here” at the community level, only to be bullied and stalked via the same types of people using the same technologies representing the same ideologies, following the same protocols, in the next neighborhood, city, state, or country, etc. Physical relocation is futile when your phone and laptop, face and voice and ID and credit cards are the means by which you’re hunted. I want to be in a place that truly embraces a spirit of Liberalism, not just self-righteous talk masking increasingly discriminatory tendencies in the name of “safety” - where my neighbors don’t spy on me, where I’m not hated, where I’m free to spread my wings, safe to travel, safe to return to work, safe to visit a retail store, safe to call my own mother from abroad, and that world is far from my reality (it is your reality, the vast majority of you are not triggering a silent alarm / alert based on person-based predictive policing and likely think my claims are crazy talk).

Even if America does affect radical change and cracks down on its own surveillance industry, it wouldn’t matter. Have any of you ever been in an abusive relationship? Yeah, it’s like that. So much damage has been done that there’s simply no way I could ever love or be anywhere near this country, even if they gave me my life and freedom back tomorrow. I’ve already experienced too much here. I’ve seen the true soul of the nation and its people, its law enforcement and “justice” industries, its medical and psychiatric industries, transportation industries, labor unions, business and home owners associations that function like organized criminals and thugs, and the cross-collaboration among power structures and their true aims …. and I definitely still intend to leave.

Why am I still here then, you ask? Great question. Two reasons!

One, having traveled the world, the treatment is not necessarily better. As I’ve learned over the past 3 years, including a bona fide escape attempt in 2021 that I cut short following multiple robberies and intense harassment by Mexican police - this combination of tracking tools and threat scoring spans the entire planet. I ran marathons in Rome, Lisbon, Puerto Vallarta, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Curacao, California, Nevada, Washington, and Oregon in 2023. Not a single place was any different from here in terms of the having the exact same AI-enabled cameras, alert systems, and types of people responding to them, effectively converting my trip into a hunting campaign (Joe = prey) by the “people who matter” in various neighborhoods, districts, etc. So it comes down to culture, who has the friendliest people, who is the least abusive in spite of these horrible practices, and more importantly, who is most likely to at some point in the future affect a movement against the use of these private algorithms, identifiers, stalking apps, and community safety networks?

The other is a matter of practicality and many in these would-be destination countries would find this very much a First World Problem which I admit it is: I love my dog! And my dog can barely survive a 3-hour car ride without internally combusting (I’ve never seen any animal get so overcome by car anxiety) let alone an air trip. As I’m unwilling to ever just leave the dude, it nixes any place that requires crossing an ocean from my short-term list, and also nixes the idea of globetrotting, the “digital nomad” plan. So - that relegates my short-term options to, I suppose, Mexico and Canada or another U.S. city (bleh). There are things I really, really like about both countries. Mainly, the “people vibes” in Canada and Mexico are similarly chill. There are hurdles too - it is a fact that I did literally “move” to Mexico in 2021 but was forced back after being extorted for $$$ under false pretenses by Mexico cops twice, and harassed by countless others. It is also a fact that I’m not super stoked on Canada’s weather, especially relative to its cost of living - so that’s my sitch, and in the meantime I continue to travel around in hopes I land on the “sweet spot” —— the place where I feel inspired and excited and welcome, but also safe and respected.

But at the end of the day, what I’ve learned going to these places, as well as Europe which is known to be more anti-surveillance than us, and especially here in my own home city of Portland which purports to have “face rec bans” but doesn’t have anything of the sort in actual practice - is that there are no places I can safely live under my current status. I am the hunted anywhere on Earth and there is no way to “hide” forever, the means of ID’ing, and hence summoning the “hero network” of any community to where I’m at to stalk and harass, are so vast that it simply cannot be done …. and especially if I make attempts to enjoy the lifestyle I try to live, with so much time spent in public places and moving around, putting my face and voice and devices on the radar of this disgusting surveillance behemoth wherever I go, effectively attracting the unwanted and malicious attention of the most disgusting people on Earth.

In wake of an absence of surveillance regulation or crackdowns, I become wholly dependent on my making the right bet on culture, on the people theselves, on pinpointing just the right community in just the right country where those whom I share a community with are not going to weaponize said tech and “safety algorithms,” otherwise my escaping the U.S. becomes simply a lateral move from one pile of s*** to another and that’s what really makes this tougher to execute than it may appear.