# The Surveillance Economy, Part One (TCF Investigates)

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-capitol-forum-podcast-3964355/the-surveillance-economy-part-one-tcf-investigates
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-capitol-forum-podcast-3964355/the-surveillance-economy-part-one-tcf-investigates.md
Podcast: [The Capitol Forum](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-capitol-forum-podcast-3964355)
Published: 2026-06-10T18:07:36+00:00
Episode link: https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_16065_3e6bf948-d653-4a32-9ef2-7540ac3e040d&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F16065%2Ffeed-rss.xml
Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/16065/3e6bf948-d653-4a32-9ef2-7540ac3e040d/TCF_Broker_V2_1.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-capitol-forum-podcast-3964355/episodes/the-surveillance-economy-part-one-tcf-investigates
Duration seconds: 2319

## Resource

Corporations are spying on you — and you've given them permission to do it. Every time we log on to a browser, open an app or share information with a business, that data is packaged and sold. This lucrative business, however, has turned consumer technology into a surveillance apparatus, and that information is being sold to governments around the world. In the first episode of a special two-part investigation on "The Capitol Forum Investigates," reporter Ethan Ehrenhaft tells the story of how a former cocaine smuggler taught the government how to surveil the public, and how states, including California, are trying to clamp down on the unchecked proliferation of personal data.

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-capitol-forum-podcast-3964355/episodes/the-surveillance-economy-part-one-tcf-investigates/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-capitol-forum-podcast-3964355/the-surveillance-economy-part-one-tcf-investigates.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.