I’m here much earlier than normal today. I hope you don’t mind. My apologies if I’ve completely thrown off your circadian reading rhythm.

That’s enough preamble. Let’s begin.

Aaron Rodgers cares about privacy. A lot. 

The star quarterback has repeatedly spoken out about our current culture's flagrant disregard for people’s desire to avoid prying eyes.  

"It's a sick society, isn't it?” Rodgers said in a June 2025 appearance on The Pat McAfee Show. “What is [it with] the entitlement to information that we're living in society these days?”

Months later, Rodgers bemoaned that he was under constant, technologically supercharged surveillance, claiming that paparazzi had been “flying drones over my house.”

It got so bad, he said, that he left his longtime Malibu home. 

I get why Rodgers is upset. It is a sick society, isn’t it? We live in a world now where people can suddenly subject anyone to invasive, omnipresent monitoring, entirely without their consent. 

Like this one small town in New Jersey, where local cops recently added new tools to their surveillance arsenal. Unbeknownst to the people who live there, the effort was the work of a single wealthy individual. A recent transplant to the town, they funded the police department’s purchase of a number of Flock-style license plate cameras.

This person used an LLC as a cutout to shield their identity, secretly helping enhance a digital dragnet that robs residents of their right to privacy. 

I have to assume Aaron Rodgers doesn’t have an issue with that, though.

After all, he’s the one who did it.