
Hakeem Anwar | Digital Freedom, The Above Phone, & Taking Back Our Tech
Hakeem Anwar, founder of Take Back Our Tech and the Above Phone, joins the program to expose how Apple and Google have weaponized mobile hardware against user sovereignty. Anwar reveals that Apple recently enabled an Enhanced Visual Search feature without public notification, allowing AI to scan local photo libraries for geolocation data and landmark identification regardless of iCloud status. This shift toward total technocratic visibility is framed as a foundational step for the coming social credit systems being piloted through biometric driver's licenses and the Real ID Act. Global digital ID implementation is accelerating through the World Bank ID4D initiative and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, targeting undocumented populations in the Global South to ensure no one remains off-grid. In Russia, the Gosuslugi system now integrates banking biometrics with CCTV to automate the detention of protesters, while India’s ADHAR system has become a functional requirement for basic survival. Anwar details how the Clarity Act serves as a Patriot Act for cryptocurrency, aiming to criminalize privacy coins like Monero and decentralized exchanges to force all financial activity into regulated, traceable channels. Beyond the surveillance state, the conversation explores the suppression of free energy technologies like the GEET engine and Tesla turbines researched by Aaron Murakami and Eric Dollard. Greg Carlwood shares his personal transition to a de-googled Pixel 4, highlighting the learning curve of RCS messaging and the benefits of lower EMF radiation. The duo looks forward to The People’s Reset conference in Morelia, Mexico, where Derek Broze and artists like Dub FX gather to build physical communities outside the digital panopticon.



















