Reading the first paragraph immediately reminds me of the The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi. In it, there's a colony where every conceivable surface is cove

Reading the first paragraph immediately reminds me of the The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi. In it, there's a colony where every conceivable surface is covered with sensors that monitor every aspect of life. It's stored encrypted in a publicly available database that anyone can query (if you have the requisite encryption key that is). Very interesting to consider that such a database might not be that far off into the future.