Surveillance

Your phone is probably spying on you. Facebook, despite its grudging concessions, still wants you to make your life as public as possible. "Eye in the sky" drones are already watching over borders; next, they'll patrol the Olympics; and it won't be long before police drones are omnipresent in the skies over every major city, and then every minor city. Welcome to the 21st century. Smile! You're probably on TV. Especially if you live in the kind of repressive state that imprisons its citizens without trial. (You know, like America, if the US Senate has its way.) According to both Wikileaks and that well-known bastion of the left wing known as the Wall Street Journal, such regimes have been buying up Western-made high-tech surveillance systems like business travellers on unlimited expense accounts. To quote the former, "companies are making billions selling sophisticated tracking tools to government buyers, flouting export rules, and turning a blind eye to dictatorial regimes that abuse human rights." Which kind of puts Facebook privacy violations in perspective. I'm actually not going to bash Mark Zuckerberg, for once. The guy probably genuinely believes in the merits of a transparency society where everybody's life is essentially on display all the time. Or even if he doesn't, he recognizes that our ever-doubling tech level means we're heading there inevitably anyways, so he may as well make a few dozen billion dollars from that sea change while he's at it. Fair enough.

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