No duh. You think things are bad now? Imagine what happens if you could process and cross reference every available photograph or piece of video possible. Think

No duh. You think things are bad now? Imagine what happens if you could process and cross reference every available photograph or piece of video possible. Think face recognition is scary? Think about gait analysis. Computers can recognize you based on biometrics such as how you walk. Think about a database that collects up your entire inventory of clothing. Imagine every piece of evidence analyzed to a Sherlock level of detail. Imagine a picture of a part of you that doesn't show your face where you are recognized based on your smart watch, your arm hair, your moles, your clothing, who else is in the picture (the friends you associate with), the location (your friend's house where you hang out a lot, and a location near where you were known to be recently based on other information (social media checkins, etc.)), and so on. The amount of information that is out there already is enormous, but most of it is latent, not cataloged, not indexed, not cross-referenced. Once that process starts it will accelerate rapidly. And who will be in control of such data? Anyone with the resources to crunch it. If some corporation is doing the analysis then it might be up for sale to anyone as well.