Why the NSA Started Spying on Americans (S3, E2) | America's Book of Secrets | Full Episode
Uncovering Secret Surveillance Methods Used by Government and Big Business
Discover the extent of constant government and corporate monitoring, spanning from utility meters and home devices to classified NSA programs like PRISM. What are the secret reasons for tracking millions of citizens daily, and how can you confront this surveillance state?
Short Summary
- The NSA aggressively monitors American correspondence, escalating activities significantly after 9/11, as exposed by Edward Snowden.
- Surveillance extends beyond digital communication to physical tracking via facial recognition (Trap Wire), drones, and even harvesting biometric data from consumer devices.
- Corporations like Facebook and Verizon actively cooperate with government data collection programs (PRISM), often concealing these partnerships.
- Emerging and planned technologies (e.g., DARPA cyborg insects, FAST lie detection) aim to predict intent, potentially eliminating private thought.
- The massive Bluffdale data center exists to store the entire digital trail of citizens indefinitely for future (and potentially unstated) analysis.
This episode reveals the pervasive "Big Brother" state, comparing modern surveillance capabilities to dystopian fiction. Whistleblowers expose massive, secretive data collection affecting every digital interaction and detail of daily life. Understand how technology, business partnerships, and government agencies converge to erode privacy in our time.
Unlock all features
FREE: Get instant access to 10 AI summaries, chats, or transcripts per day.
Unlock all features
FREE: Get instant access to 10 AI summaries, chats, or transcripts per day.
Unlock all features
FREE: Get instant access to 10 AI summaries, chats, or transcripts per day.
Unlock all features
FREE: Get instant access to 10 AI summaries, chats, or transcripts per day.
Unlock all features
FREE: Get instant access to 10 AI summaries, chats, or transcripts per day.
Related videos
Uncovering America’s Deepest Secrets *Marathon* | America's Book of Secrets
HISTORY
233.8k views
How the Colonies Took Down the British Empire (S1, E3) | America: The Story of Us | Full Episode
HISTORY
122.5k views
Dawn of the Hot Dog Empire (S2, E9) | The Food That Built America | Full Episode
HISTORY
204.9k views
America's Birth: Colonies to Revolutionary War (S1, E1) | America: The Story of Us | Full Episode
HISTORY
97.2k views
Trained to Kill: Inside Elite U.S. Ops (S3, E5) | America's Book of Secrets | Full Episode
HISTORY
227.9k views
The Hidden Power Behind Gold (S3, E4) | America's Book of Secrets | Full Episode
HISTORY
165.6k views
Bigfoot Breakthrough? New Clues Revealed (S2, E9) | America's Book of Secrets | Full Episode
HISTORY
398.4k views
The Food That Built America: Cashing in on the Fast Food CRAZE (S2, E3) | Full Episode
HISTORY
207.0k views
The Food That Built America: A Sweet Competition (S2, E2) | Full Episode
HISTORY
136.5k views
America's Book of Secrets: Exposing the Hells Angels (S2, E12) | Full Episode
HISTORY
255.1k views
Top Comments (10)
This show is at least 10 years old. Multiply everything by 10,000 and that's the extent of this now.
This is something I've always known. It's no surprise to me. And this info on this show barely scratched the surface.
This is only what the government allowed us to know about.
Remember kids, if the government can do whatever they want, so can you😂
Viewing from my govt monitored phone ....THAT I PAY FOR! 😢😢
Stay up to date on all of your favorite The HISTORY Channel shows at history.com/schedule.
And congress every 10 years keeps renewing their ability to do it without anyone even really hearing about it.
They were doing this with cable tv before any computers or iPads or I phones …. So you can imagine what they do now 😮
Edward Snowden is an American Patriot , a Hero
Our GPS is our Main SPY...😮
Unlock the Data Inside
Turn Videos into Knowledge
- Get FREE 10/day: transcripts, summaries, chats
- Chat with videos, export text & PDF
- $1 free API credit for RAG, chatbots & research
Free forever plan • All features unlocked
Top Comments (10)
This show is at least 10 years old. Multiply everything by 10,000 and that's the extent of this now.
This is something I've always known. It's no surprise to me. And this info on this show barely scratched the surface.
This is only what the government allowed us to know about.
Remember kids, if the government can do whatever they want, so can you😂
Viewing from my govt monitored phone ....THAT I PAY FOR! 😢😢
Stay up to date on all of your favorite The HISTORY Channel shows at history.com/schedule.
And congress every 10 years keeps renewing their ability to do it without anyone even really hearing about it.
They were doing this with cable tv before any computers or iPads or I phones …. So you can imagine what they do now 😮
Edward Snowden is an American Patriot , a Hero
Our GPS is our Main SPY...😮