Extremely cogent points, thanks for bringing them up. Your "Sure, we got engineered into falling into trap voluntarily." reminded me of the Panopticon'ish quali

Extremely cogent points, thanks for bringing them up. Your "Sure, we got engineered into falling into trap voluntarily." reminded me of the Panopticon'ish quality of an increasing number of the social networks and data nets we are forming. Who needs a Stasi, when the people themselves will eagerly straitjacket themselves into the pre-determined, desired conformity of whomever wields the power of this data corpora? And it isn't just the sheer quantity and/or quality of the data either, that I see as different from before. Like you pointed out, the sheer ability to store the data indefinitely and efficiently retrieve it regardless of time passed adds a new dimension and quality to surveillance capabilities that too few outside the surveillance industry recognize.