Shopping for Citizenship? Let’s Talk Turkey?
If you’re shopping for a second citizenship, let me present a country with warm hospitality, rich and diverse culture, and an affordable cost of living: Turkey. June 22, 2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP It seems with all the stuff happening in the world, things have come to a veritable stand-still. Depending on where […]
A Small Reprieve in Surveillance
The United States has been under the jackboot of the surveillance state for quite some time; but recent events have brought about some reprieve in the facial recognition. June 15, 2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP It looks like there’s been a slight armistice in the brokering of our private data. I’m pleasantly surprised […]
Taxation by Citation: Policing For Profit
Tickets, fines, fees, surcharges, and asset forfeiture are all forms of policing for profit, and it’s lead to more discord within local communities. June 8, 2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP I remember when people called out George W. Bush about his foreign policy. “The US is not the police of the world!” they […]
The Destruction of COVID-19 Response and Aftermath
COVID-19 has done some harm to people around the world, the but the toll of the response and the aftermath are much worse. June 1, 2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP The COVID-19 is bad. For many, it has been deadly, and for others a tough recovery. We can dispute how the numbers are […]
The Crypto Economy Has Arrived & Not a Minute Too Soon
Cryptocurrency has been around for about a decade, but it’s becoming normalized and its application more commonplace and streamlined. By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP It used to be, bartering was the only form of economic transaction. You have cows, I have tomatoes. We determine a quantity of cows that equal the value of a […]
The Immortality of the Patriot Act
Like a bad case of herpes, the Patriot Act is flaring up again in the halls of the Senate, and there were some hits and misses, with the main casualty being privacy rights. May 25, 2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP The sun set on Section 215 back in March around the same time […]
Smartphones to Reach “Peak Tracking” (No Warrant)
Yet another feature to the smartphone has been added to track users, and that collected data is sold to the government to avoid obtaining a warrant. Just a few years ago, anyone who warned that “Big Brother is watching” was mocked, called a conspiracy theorist, and told to put on a “tin foil hat.” Almost […]
Gig Workers Unite
More politicians have their sights on restricting and regulating gig work, and they are coming for it during the worst possible economic times. May 18, 2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Provided governments don’t have the global society regressing back to some dark age, the days of professional career monogamy are waning. Keeping options […]
TRACE is in the House
The House of Representatives has a bill called TRACE which will begin the efforts of monitoring people with or those who came in contact with people with COVID-19. May 11, 2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP If I were to look at the response to COVID-19 so far, here’s what I’ve observed: People became […]
The COVID-19 Panopticon Could Be Permanent
Letting no crisis go to waste, COVID-19 is being used as a Trojan Horse for all sorts of invasive policies, trampling your privacy in the name of safety. The COVID-19 virus isn’t just a pandemic in the viral sense, it has also created a privacy pandemic. In fact, the U.S. could be on the verge […]
