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Barry Levine

Founder & CEO, Sperry West · 1 appearance on the record.

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Barry Levine is the founder and CEO of Sperry West. He built a business manufacturing covert surveillance cameras and equipment for governments and corporations to detect theft and criminal activity.

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2 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Barry argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Levine: My company provided all access control for the original World Trade Center
“So we were doing this for places like the World Trade Center, the old one, original one, obviously. We did all of their access control and some of their cameras.”
Barry Levine Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 4:40 30 Years of Surveillance Footage Later: Privacy Is Already Dead

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Opinion
Surveillance veteran Barry Levine declares personal privacy is effectively dead
“Privacy, as far as I'm concerned, and I discussed this more with my family than others, but we believe privacy is kind of dead. There just isn't any more privacy”
Barry Levine Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 29:52 30 Years of Surveillance Footage Later: Privacy Is Already Dead
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Levine: A rejected collaborator attempted to hack Sperry West's systems
“And I can tell you that I know that he tried to hack our computer systems at one time because of how upset he was that we weren't going to do it.”
Barry Levine Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 13:44 30 Years of Surveillance Footage Later: Privacy Is Already Dead
Disclosure
Levine: Sperry West covert cameras deploy primarily in commercial and government facilities
“Most of our products do end up being used in major facilities, whether it's companies or it's Government. But that's where most of our cameras end up. People envision that, oh yeah, they're in a house everywhere. I think there are very few covert cameras being…”
Barry Levine Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 32:21 30 Years of Surveillance Footage Later: Privacy Is Already Dead
Assertion Contradicted
Levine: My company provided all access control for the original World Trade Center
“So we were doing this for places like the World Trade Center, the old one, original one, obviously. We did all of their access control and some of their cameras.”
Barry Levine Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 4:40 30 Years of Surveillance Footage Later: Privacy Is Already Dead
Disclosure
Surveillance CEO Barry Levine refuses cloud storage due to fundamental distrust
“Maybe being old fashioned about all of this, I don't trust the cloud. Therefore we do not store information on the cloud. And we do store it on our own backups.”
Barry Levine Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 16:24 30 Years of Surveillance Footage Later: Privacy Is Already Dead

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
30 Years of Surveillance Footage Later: Privacy Is Already Dead Oct 12, 2021 25m
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