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Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the erosion of privacy
tech radar ^ | 06 01 2026 | Keumars Afifi-Sabet

Posted on 06/04/2026 5:09:48 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Co-founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison, who serves as the cloud giant's CTO, has been part of the tech industry's furniture for decades now. Looking ahead, he projects the rise of technologies such as AI, drones, and additional monitoring systems.

“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on." — Larry Ellison, September 2024

The modern surveillance state

Ellison's warning came during an hour-long Q&A at an Oracle financial analyst meeting in September 2024.

This world that Ellison describes revolves around AI technologies processing huge amounts of video footage from the explosion of cameras in the streets, cars, front doors, and even police officers. AI will, he added, automatically report issues that it detects while it's analyzing footage captured in real time.

With so much opportunity to scan and detect wrongdoing across society, and AI reducing the processing and decision-making burden, Ellison posited that citizens will, in kind, respond by adjusting their behavior. This vision is eerily similar to that George Orwell described in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which Big Brother oversaw the daily actions of citizens.

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To: yesthatjallen
Dear Larry,

Record and report this.

Oh, and yes that does include the horse you are currently engaged in relations with.

Have a nice day now.

21 posted on 06/04/2026 6:08:11 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: jimwatx

I think it is time you exited stage left.


22 posted on 06/04/2026 6:08:44 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: yesthatjallen

It is getting more and more difficult to look into the Nation’s future and see anything except the darkness of a growing tyranny...


23 posted on 06/04/2026 6:11:02 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: TermLimits4All

I would say 1965 Immigration act was very unhelpful.


24 posted on 06/04/2026 6:18:32 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12- 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Some of those computer geeks aint to SMRT. He got 2 things wrong in one sentence.

Humans gonna do that sh!t regardless of your observation.

...and you said the quiet part out loud.


25 posted on 06/04/2026 6:22:42 PM PDT by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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To: algore

At the time, I thought, “They should put a camera above Scott McNealy’s toilet in the lavish bathroom of his office suite.
When he finds out and complains, just tell him, ‘privacy is over. Get over it.’”


26 posted on 06/04/2026 6:29:48 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Charlie Kirk's assassination / murder was our Fort Sumter moment. But only one side is fighting.)
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To: yesthatjallen

But illegals will be more free than ever to do as they please, in defiance of ours laws.


27 posted on 06/04/2026 6:40:02 PM PDT by Pilsner
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To: yesthatjallen

just like the communist chinese do to people there


28 posted on 06/04/2026 6:49:11 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: TermLimits4All; Mark

“We need a digital life altering event to destroy everything.”

I can live with that, as long as Free Republic is spared!

Pony Up, Lurking Patriots! Ten bucks from each of you will put us back in the red! :)


29 posted on 06/04/2026 7:17:25 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Lol, these clowns are so out of the touch, they are in a different galaxy.


30 posted on 06/04/2026 7:34:47 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria

Fascism lives. Freedom dies.


31 posted on 06/04/2026 8:07:39 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

I just wanted to punch him in the face, I knew he was right, but I was lying to myself and wanted to continue to pretend I had some.

since the late 70s I had been feeding false info into data bases and obscuring stuff that I couldn’t pass a lexus nexus identity verification test.

even today I have a dumb phone and dedicated nav book called a thomas guide, and cars that don’t have canbus


32 posted on 06/04/2026 8:10:13 PM PDT by algore ( )
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To: yesthatjallen

I honestly don’t care. I don’t break the law. No worries.

-SB


33 posted on 06/04/2026 8:17:58 PM PDT by Snowybear
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To: Snowybear
I honestly don’t care. I don’t break the law. No worries.

"So? I've got nothing to hide."

That is easily the most un-American thing anyone can ever say.
34 posted on 06/04/2026 10:12:39 PM PDT by fr_freak (So foul a sky clears not without a storm.)
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