Your iPhone, your Android, your smarty-smart-smart phone isn’t just a phone or a map or a camera — it’s a pre-hacked surveillance device. And Palantir, the CIA’s favorite data-mining beast, is quietly weaving together a new AI-powered control grid to track, predict, and police us all.

In this explosive conversation, I sit down with Hakeem Anwar, CEO of Above Phone, to expose how Big Tech and federal agencies are merging into a unified surveillance state — and more importantly, how we can opt out.

We dig into: • Palantir’s secretive rise from CIA seed money to global surveillance empire • Why mainstream phones are designed as digital prisons • The hidden traps baked into everyday apps (yes, even your PDF reader) • How to reclaim your privacy with open-source tools and Above Phone • The spiritual + practical path to tech sovereignty in an age of AI panopticons

If you’ve ever wondered how deep the surveillance rabbit hole goes — and how to escape it — this one’s a must-listen.

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Show notes:

• Origin of Above phone
• Open-sourced vs Pre-hacked phones & data-mining
• Analytics & Apps, Privacy & Permissions
• Tech Support for Above phone
• Comparing an Android/iPhone with Above
• Palantir, Peter Thiel, and OBB bill.
• The World and questionable ethics of Software development
• Birth of the Internet- a new paradigm
• How do we protect our online autonomy/privacy?
• Decentralized & private communication alternatives
• Spending & social media- which does he use?
• Open Source apps- FDroid App Store on Above
• Music Streaming apps
• Demographics of Hakeem’s clientele
• Human customer service & corporate culture
• Derek Broze & Freedom Cell- an inspiration
• Trump & Operation Warp Speed
• From spiritual to solutions-oriented seeker
• What truth cracked Hakeem open?
• Current rabbit-hole topics of interest
• Evolving consciousness to flip the game