#340 Byron Tau - The Government Doesn't Just Spy on You. It Buys You. artwork
The Shawn Ryan Show

#340 Byron Tau - The Government Doesn't Just Spy on You. It Buys You.

Sep 17, 2026 · 1 hr 49 min

Byron Tau is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at ProPublica and the author of "Means of Control." He spent five years tracing how the surveillance apparatus built after 9/11 came home and found Border Patrol monitoring millions of American drivers through hidden cameras and a secret algorithm. Shawn and Byron get into who built these tools, how buying data legally sidesteps the Four…