Tom DeWeese
'Catching Fire News" video
FacebookTwitter
By Tom DeWeese
September 12, 2026

The Digital Control Grid: AI, Digital ID & the Fight for Liberty with Glenn Meder of Privacy Academy, Host Sam Bushman

As technology becomes increasingly embedded in our everyday lives, a growing debate is emerging over just how much privacy Americans are willing to surrender in exchange for convenience and security.

At FreedomFest, Sam Bushman of Liberty United sat down with privacy educator Glenn Meder of Privacy Academy to discuss the rapidly changing digital landscape — from social-media algorithms and artificial intelligence to online child-safety laws, digital identification and the future of anonymity on the internet.

Meder argues that privacy is more than simply keeping personal information away from corporations. He describes it as a foundation for free speech, freedom of the press and individual liberty, while warning that the combination of technology and government regulation could create an increasingly centralized system of digital control.

In the interview, Meder also explains why he believes people need to take practical steps to protect their privacy — and why he says defending liberty ultimately has to begin at the local level.

Visit https://www.privacyacademy.com for more.

WATCH NOW

___________________________________

WHAT IS CATCHING FIRE NEWS?

The purpose of Catching Fire News is to present truth and provide knowledge rarely available from other sources, combined with an agenda to help local activists organize and take back their own communities.

Catching Fire News is the place where we share strategies and tactics for fighting and winning in your local community whether it’s the city council, school board, county commission or state legislature. The focus is on government overreach, attacks on property rights, private business, and personal liberty.

Catching Fire News will become your most reliable source for the real news and – most importantly – your source for renewal of hope and reports of victories from the front lines, as local activists succeed in setting those brushfires of freedom.

© Tom DeWeese

 

The views expressed by RenewAmerica columnists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the position of RenewAmerica or its affiliates.
(See RenewAmerica's publishing standards.)


Tom DeWeese

Tom DeWeese is one of the nation's leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education, and American sovereignty and independence... (more)

Subscribe

Receive future articles by Tom DeWeese: Click here

More by this author

 

Stephen Stone
A message to all who love our country and want to help save it

Stephen Stone
The most egregious lies Evan McMullin and the media have told about Sen. Mike Lee

Siena Hoefling
Protect the Children: Update with VIDEO

Stephen Stone
FLASHBACK to 2020: Dems' fake claim that Trump and Utah congressional hopeful Burgess Owens want 'renewed nuclear testing' blows up when examined

Paul Cameron
Are LGBTs taking over? Part 2

Tom DeWeese
'Catching Fire News" video

Cliff Kincaid
We need another Holy League

Bruce Deitrick Price
Welcome to the K-12 Jargon Factory

Jerry Newcombe
9/11: Twenty-five years later

Curtis Dahlgren
A classic anniversary column

Pete Riehm
After 25 years, has America forgotten?

Rev. Mark H. Creech
While Babylon feasted: North Carolina should close the intoxicating hemp loophole

Cliff Kincaid
Feminists exploit Clancy case

Rev. Mark H. Creech
When vulgarity becomes ordinary: What the F-word says about us

Tom DeWeese
Video Interviews from 'Catching Fire News'

Mark Malaszczyk
The firewall is burning: What Saxony-Anhalt means to America and the world
  More columns

Cartoons


Click for full cartoon
More cartoons

Columnists

Matt C. Abbott
Chris Adamo
Russ J. Alan
Bonnie Alba
Chuck Baldwin
Kevin J. Banet
J. Matt Barber
Fr. Tom Bartolomeo
. . .
[See more]

Sister sites