Lehigh Valley Films Privacy Policy:
As an independent filmmaker, musician, and artist, I am passionate about my rights, and my privacy. I am appalled by the rampant violation of our rights and laws by politicians, law enforcement, and corporate America. I am even more appalled by the continuous erosion of our rights as Americans, and the direction our divided nation is headed, through lies, corruption, and greed.
What you are about to read is complete and utter bullshit. We are required by law to create a privacy policy, so we are taking this opportunity to argue what is happening in the real world, regarding our complete lack of rights, and privacy. As far as international rights go, they seem to violate the rights of Americans to the degree where foreign corporations require biometric facial scans, that are stored indefinitely on servers of companies across Europe, with no regard for protecting the identities of Americans, who’s personal information, facial biometrics, driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers are floating in cyberspace, just waiting for hackers to steal our identities.
To our clients, and potential clients, regarding our use of your data:
Please visit our website without fear of your data being exploited by Lehigh Valley Films, other than to provide our services to you as our clients, partners, and creative associates. We have no desire to track you, steal your intellectual property, or exploit your data. We don’t use facial recognition software like your social media companies do, and we don’t claim perpetual rights to your intellectual property, or collect every keystroke on your computer, so that we can sell it to marketing companies. The social media and search engine giants do that all on their own.
As per the terms of our hosting provider, Lehigh Valley Films is required to post a privacy policy, so that nobody gets sued. So, here goes: Lehigh Valley Films does not sell, or give away your data. The only data we collect, is what you give us. For example: If you use our contact Us page to send us an email, or if you phone or text us, there will be a record of your contact on the email server associated with our web host, and our phone company server. We may use the information you provide us to offer you a quote for services, send invoices, collect payment methods, such as your credit card information, schedule future services, sell you merchandise if we set up a company store, or other means necessary to conduct business under this website, or our other websites that link back to Lehigh Valley Films.
As such, the internet provider we use, is called “In Motion Hosting”, and the website builders we use to create this site are called “Word Press” and “Bold Grid”. In addition, there are several plugins and applications within this website builder. These companies have their own privacy policies, that are not under the control of Lehigh Valley Films, so even though we say we will not collect your data outside the purview of this website and our services, that does not mean those guys won’t. Please visit their privacy policies. In addition, some of the plugins provided through our hosting provider, collect analytical data, that shows how many people visit our web site, which pages they viewed, how long they stayed on each page, how much web traffic our website received, and general usage data. Beyond the visual representations of analytical data we see on those plugins, we have no information as to whether those plugins collect data outside of what we see or set up in the plugin. If you text or phone us, we have no control over what Verizon, our internet provider, or cable companies collect, or what they do with that data.
Electronic Media Devices:
Every time we pick up our phones, tablets, or laptops to check email or surf the internet, we are constantly being bombarded by data collectors, scammers, spyware, and intellectual property thieves. The apps on your phone and computer track you. Your location, purchase history, photos, and keystrokes are sold to marketers, and your hard drives are accessed by hundreds of trackers and data collection spy bots every single day. These companies earn billions selling our data, and there is not a consumer protection law on the books to stop them.
KYC Laws (Know Your Customer):
Financial companies, particularly cryptocurrency exchanges are manipulating American KYC laws to “require” facial biometric scanning”, citing US KYC regulations. This is patently false! KYC laws require customers to prove their identity through “showing” a driver’s license, or through an existing customer affiliation with a partner company requesting the information. For example: Your crypto exchange has verified your ID, and now their payment portal client is also requiring a biometric scan. You are only required to prove your ID to your exchange. KYC laws do not require biometric scans for any proof of identification. In fact, companies are not legally allowed to copy, scan, or otherwise retain your drivers license number, SSN, Passport, or other forms of ID. Customers are just required to show their ID to them. These companies blatantly lie, when they state US KYC laws requiring they copy, scan, and retain biometric scans and ID. Furthermore, foreign companies also illegally cite these as US KYC requirements, but they do retain your ID and biometric scans for top to five years! The same thing goes for your dentist, doctor’s office, or hospital. They are not legally allowed to scan, copy, or retain images of your driver’s license or SSN. More Bullshit!
Our Constitutional Right To Privacy?
Here’s the deal folks. The US Constitution does not afford Americans any “Right to Privacy”, nor does it restrict or prevent corporate data thieves from pillaging every keystroke from our mobile phones, tablets, and computer hard drives.
The Constitution does not prohibit law enforcement in every town, city and state in America from illegally using ALPR’s (Automated License Plate Recorders) from capturing our license plates every time we pass a police car or traffic camera, and tracking our movements, right down to the exact day, time, speed, place, and GPS coordinates: Where we work, go to school, shop, where our friends live, where we go on vacation, where we go for entertainment on the weekend. A single ALPR on a police car can track and capture data for up to 1800 cars per minute. Some cruisers have four or more scanners, giving them the potential to park on a bridge over a highway, and track upwards of 7200 vehicles, per minute. This data is collected, and sold to companies who aggregate and compile it into portfolios on every one of us. These data maps contain thousands of dots, pinpointing our location for up to years. Some law enforcement departments claim that they don’t retain this data, but in reality, it is uploaded to other tracking companies, who sell it to marketing companies, corporations, and other law enforcement agencies, like ICE.
The truth is, America’s law enforcement agencies have managed to manipulate Homeland Security laws that allowed the implementation of traffic cameras and ALPR’s as a means to track terrorists, and armed criminals when police are in hot pursuit. That would allow police to locate terrorists quickly, while controlling traffic lights to slow them down. That would have been fine, but after receiving millions in government grants to install these devices, they weren’t working as expected. America wasn’t being invaded by terrorists, and bank robbers were rare. Police now, illegally use these devices to surveil college campuses, under the erroneous guise of “we’re looking for stolen vehicles.” How many college students steal a car, and then go to classes at their local college? More Bullshit!
Since traffic cameras or ALPR’s, have rarely, if ever, captured terrorists, police now use these devices as REVENUE GENERATORS for their municipalities. The entire system is corrupt from the ground up. Police know the use of these devices to generate revenue is illegal, but there are no legal mechanisms in place to enforce the law. The corruption goes right to the prosecutors and judges, who knowingly allow thousands of people, every single day, to be ticketed and fined based on police illegally scanning their license plates, without cause, and without due process. When prosecutors lie in court, to protect the police who who use these devices illegally, and judges convict, fine, and sentence people as a result of illegal use of ALPR’s and traffic cameras, the entire judicial system becomes corrupt.
Then, there is Social Media and Search Engines:
A gentlemen by the name Tim Berners-Lee essentially, invented the code that allows us to navigate the World Wide Web. He would have become the richest person in the world, but instead, he gave away this invention, to the world, for free. Unfortunately, by doing so, he opened the floodgates to search engine companies, social media, and greedy corporations with an agenda to control and manipulate the internet, and claim it for their own. Although Lee is working on a ‘Do over”, to place the internet and our data in the hands and control of users, instead of corporate giants, we will just have to wait and see if this truly becomes a reality.
Social Media Predators:
Every time you visit any website in the world that has a Social Media icon or link, you are unknowingly giving assess to your electronic devices. The privacy policies contained within those Social Media and Search Engine links, claim unrestricted, perpetual rights to collect data, including personal identifying information, on any electronic device capable of accessing the internet, without compensation to you. These companied earn Billions of dollars selling our data, even when they don’t have our permission to do so. Their “privacy policies” claim unrestricted rights to access data anywhere, and do whatever they want with it. Many even claim to use and sell your intellectual property, just because you picked on a link to their website, or use their Social Media account. Just because these privacy policies claim to be legally binding, does not mean they actually are. It all comes down to how much money you have to sue them for violating your rights.
If the police were to search your business, home, or car without a warrant, it would be called illegal search and seizure, which is what they are doing every time they collect data from your hard drive without express, written permission and full disclosure. These predators actually believe that any website in the world containing a link or image of their logo, gives them the perpetual right to access the hard drives of anyone who visits that website. If you post your intellectual property on their websites, they claim perpetual, royalty free licenses to it, without compensation to you. What nonsense! They wouldn’t be very happy if you did the same to them.
The truth, is that there are no laws regulating privacy policies. If the US Constitution does not afford us a right to privacy, then no corporation can claim it or deny it. Anyone can claim a blanket umbrella of unrestricted, perpetual rights to every keystroke for anyone who visits their web page, but that doesn’t mean they actually have any legal right to do so. Imagine what would happen if we all created our own privacy policies, that gave us unrestricted rights to hack into the servers of the biggest search engine and Social Media companies, and sell their intellectual property? They would sue use until we ran out of money. Then they wold win by default. That is the only reason they continue to get away with it. It is all, complete bullshit!
Check out an App called “DISCONNECT”. Although I am not affiliated with this company, I do use their software. The app identifies every entity that is trying to track you, or access your computer hard drive. It shows you the website you visited, and then shows every website, social media icon, or data collector that branches out from that initial website. There can be hundreds of data collectors and trackers from visiting a single web page. Even if you don’t have any Social media accounts, some of their bots attempt to access your computer HARD DRIVE hundreds of times per minute! What legal right do these predators have to access the hard drives of computers, even when you don’t have one of their accounts? These are not “Cookies”. These are attempts to upload the data on your hard drives to their servers!
Every single app on your phone, tablet, and computer collects data. Every single time you pick up your phone, tablet, or computer, whether it is to check your email, look at a text, or surf the internet, you are being tracked, and your data is being collected. These apps track you, and sell your information to marketing companies. The apps on your phone are some of the most invasive data predators out there. If these apps are left open open your device, they continuously monitor and track you. Some apps can access your camera and microphone, and illegally record you wherever you are. Social media apps are viscous predators, who use facial recognition algorithms to track you anywhere in the world. They capture the visible icons in the photos and videos you post online, on the clothes you wear, and the products you buy, and then sell that information to marketing companies who represent those brands. These data thieves can access your hard drive, and capture every single keystroke, then claim their right to perpetual use without compensating you, all because you clicked on a random website that had their Social Media icon somewhere on the page. You don’t even have to click on their icon, or have one of their Social Media accounts. Their privacy policy says so, it must be legal, right? NO! We just don’t have a government that protects our rights, so they get away with it.
Even some of the electronic devices you use contain spyware. Chinese made electronics are notorious for this. Many consumer electronics restrict the use of their products unless you give them access to your computer. Just try using a Chinese drawing tablet without them spying on you! Many Chinese electronic devices contain backdoor chips that give them access to your hard drives, or control of your device!. This is a major issue for our nation’s national security, as many of the electronic devices used in our banking, security, telecommunications, and the components used to operate our electrical grid are manufactured by companies under he control of the Chinese government. Just ask any patent attorney how many times they send our drawings for electronic circuit boards, only to find “extra” chips installed when they receive their Chinese manufactured circuit boards. These chips contain backdoor access, where the Chinese government hackers can access and control our infrastructure.
Why are there no laws that make it illegal for our elected officials to lie?
The Speech and Debate Clause was meant to protect politicians who, in the heat of a debate or speech, might “accidentally” say something that may be considered offensive. It essentially protects them from frivolous lawsuits. However, in recent years, certain politicians have manipulated this clause into a tool to lie, every time they open their mouths, appear on camera, on a fake news show, at a political rally, or pretty much anywhere they want. Since congress creates their own rules, they could easily amend this clause to prevent blatant lies and disinformation, but they won’t. As long as politicians are allowed to lie, America will continue to be divided through lies, manipulation, and corruption.
Our US Constitution does not provide us a right to privacy, nor does it require politicians or law enforcement to tell the truth. This could be changed with a simple majority vote in Congress and the Senate, but they won’t do it. Giving Americans the right to privacy, and the right to prevent our data from being collected and exploited, takes billions out of the pockets of corporate predators. It also prevents corrupt politicians from lining their pockets with payoffs and kickbacks from lobbyists that exploit our lack of rights. It prevents law enforcement, prosecutors and judges from illegally creating revenue generators for their municipalities, by violating our rights to the laws due process, and our freedom from illegal search and seizure. It would prevent Americans from being tracked, and manipulated by marketing companies, political candidates, and corporations who benefit financially from our data. It would afford every American the right to OWN their identity, without fear of legal, financial or electronic exploitation.
PRIVACY POLICY for SEARCH ENGINES, SOCIAL MEDIA, and DATA COLLECTORS REGARDING OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Notice there are no social media icons on this website? That’s because you think adding your icon to any website gives you free access to all of the data contained on the computer hard drives connected to it.
The internet is supposed to be a free and equal place for the world to explore. Tim Berners-Lee invented it’s www. navigation, not you. You don’t own it, and you have no legal right to exploit it by restricting access, and rampantly stealing and selling every bit of data contained within it. The lack of consumer protection laws has allowed you to manipulate your bullshit, one sided, privacy policies, and steal what was never yours in the first place. You are not authorized to collect data from this website, or copy our intellectual property without our express, written consent.
How do you like them apples?