{"id":83952,"date":"2025-07-17T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=83952"},"modified":"2025-07-17T04:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:58:15","slug":"the-surveillance-state-the-wearables-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/the-surveillance-state-the-wearables-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surveillance State: The Wearables Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83953\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Apple-Watch.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Apple-Watch.png 1024w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Apple-Watch-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Apple-Watch-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Apple-Watch-850x427.png 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/the_wearables_trap_how_the_government_plans_to_monitor_score_and_control_you\">The Wearables Trap: How the Government Plans to Monitor, Score, &amp; Control You<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<blockquote>\n<h2>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/opinions\/1992\/10\/03\/the-slippery-slope-of-euthanasia\/d525bfb6-c95d-4212-aef4-f938dacee8e4\/\">When the states legalize the deliberate ending of certain lives\u2026 it will eventually broaden the categories of those who can be put to death with impunity.<\/a>\u201d\u2014Nat Hentoff,\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>, 1992<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Bodily autonomy\u2014the right to privacy and integrity over our own bodies\u2014is rapidly vanishing.<\/h2>\n<h2>The debate now extends beyond forced vaccinations or invasive searches to include biometric surveillance, wearable tracking, and predictive health profiling.<\/h2>\n<h2>We are entering a new age of algorithmic, authoritarian control, where our thoughts, moods, and biology are monitored and judged by the state.<\/h2>\n<h2>This is the dark promise behind the newest campaign by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump\u2019s Secretary of Health and Human Services, to push for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/rfk-jr-wearables-benefits-risks\/story?id=123422287\">a future in which all Americans wear biometric health-tracking devices<\/a>.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/the_wearables_trap_how_the_government_plans_to_monitor_score_and_control_you\">RTWT @ The Rutherford Institute<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83954 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Smart-Watch-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Smart-Watch-2.png 474w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Smart-Watch-2-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wearables Trap: How the Government Plans to Monitor, Score, &amp; Control You &nbsp; \u201cWhen the states legalize the deliberate ending of certain lives\u2026 it will eventually broaden the categories of those who can be put to death with impunity.\u201d\u2014Nat Hentoff,\u00a0The Washington Post, 1992 &nbsp; Bodily autonomy\u2014the right to privacy and integrity over our own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5441,15358,16280,3958,14485,15696,15169,15672,4002,17655,3140,13,473,74,5653,1317,4912,4126,883,5655,9806,13991,14643,14588,5594,4942,1814,1725,18244,483,484,14502,16173,15639,3712,10173],"tags":[18851,3494,8490,474,7806,5656,18853,9514,16142,18852],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83957,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83952\/revisions\/83957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}