My feeling is that there will be more and more data sharing and we're going to have to reorganize our society around the assumption of transparency. Cheap came

My feeling is that there will be more and more data sharing and we're going to have to reorganize our society around the assumption of transparency. Cheap cameras connected to the cloud will continue to proliferate and face recognition software will get better and more widely available. Trying to prevent big corporations and the government from using data about people is going to be an uphill battle, and probably hopeless. If you start from the assumption that massive amounts of data on people will be collected and exist, I don't see how you successfully keep it all secret without turning into a police state. The solution will be to make this data available to everyone. Not just government and the financially powerful, but everyone. Some types of activities should remain private, especially when it's practical to do so. Encryption works, so conversations can be private so long as all participants agree. Certain types of medical records should be kept private, and some types of legal records where few people are involved. But general activity that falls outside of the bands that society has deemed worthy of special protection should be considered public. Travel records? Forget it, that stuff's all over the place. As far as financial records, society has an interest when large sums of money are involved. IMHO we'd be better off if privacy and wealth were inversely correlated.