What concerns me the most about all of this is that it puts us on a slippery slope. If always on surveillance becomes the norm for people to just take as a fact of life, then it just gets worse from there. I have a couple friends who run a startup and have told me they have given up the fact that privacy is an illusion/out moded when discussing this with them. So if being recorded all the time is the new norm and letting those outside of your own self connect data points about you is okay... where does that lead? That's what I'm really worried about.
It spells out my worst fear of later generations of digital natives will actually live in a world best described as Orwellian or even post Orwellian... even more ridiculously pervasive. They wouldn't know any better.
Ultimately data can never tell the whole story, but yet we'll act on it as if it does.
I think one of the other real concerns is that it's not even as if the government had to be careful when embarking on this journey of increased surveillance.
The public has made it very clear how little they care about their privacy on the Internet when they started adopting things like GMail, Facebook, iCloud, etc. and not just as a convenience, but to actually run and manage their personal lives.
People, businesses, everyone didn't just not resist the New World of digital surveillance, they explicitly begged and pleaded for these new capabilities to be pushed to the fore as a matter of convenience to them.
It spells out my worst fear of later generations of digital natives will actually live in a world best described as Orwellian or even post Orwellian... even more ridiculously pervasive. They wouldn't know any better.
Ultimately data can never tell the whole story, but yet we'll act on it as if it does.