China And Friends Are Watching You

This ain't George Orwell fiction. It's real life, baby. You're being watched and your identity is in peril. Beware of Chinese spies.

When my grandmother was 29 years old, an author named George Orwell published the Hunger Games of 1949. In his dystopian novel titled 1984 Orwell imagines a futuristic society ruled by a dictatorship. In order to maintain a tight grip on power, the ruling elites engage in total surveillance of the citizenry. The mantra repeated throughout the novel is: "Big Brother is Watching You."

Our own prying politicians in Washington, D.C. are surprisingly no longer the biggest brother on the block. Even the U.S. president—long considered the most powerful world leader—is being watched by Big Brother China.

As we embark on a new year, I want to empower you to make every effort to safeguard your identity from spies within the Chinese government—before our own government follows suit.

Hillary Applauds Chinese Spy Tactics

On December 27, 2015 Reuters reported chilling news out of Beijing. The Chinese government will be forcing technology companies to "hand over sensitive information such as encryption keys to the government" as part of a "controversial new anti-terrorism law."

Alarmingly, though not surprisingly, Hillary Clinton also came out last month in support of doing the exact same thing in the United States should she become president. "You are going to hear all the familiar complaints: 'Freedom of speech,'" she quipped, insisting there was no other way to fight terrorism than to force companies like Apple and Google to hand over encrypted data to the government upon request—and to block the websites of suspected terror groups.

First of all, terrorists love attention and they love to fight. Deleting a terrorist's Twitter account, for example, routinely spurs them to create a new one. Hillary's strategy is endless, fruitless and will surely backfire.

Furthermore, law-abiding citizens like you and me need free speech in order to defend and maintain our freedom. We certainly cannot trust a politician like Hillary—who broke federal law by using a private server and private email account as Secretary of State—with the keys to all of our electronic communication.

Minneapolis information technology security risk manager Greg Kline wrote in the Star Tribune on December 8, 2015 that smartphones and tablets "have become intimate extensions of our lives. I propose that the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination be extended to cover these devices…"

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