> For years, privacy advocates, who foresaw the contours of the surveilled world we now live in, warned that privacy was a necessary prerequisite for democracy,

> For years, privacy advocates, who foresaw the contours of the surveilled world we now live in, warned that privacy was a necessary prerequisite for democracy, human rights and a flourishing of the human spirit. We’re about to find out what happens when that privacy has all but vanished. Hopefully there will be enough popular backlash in the near future, without too much institutional breakdown, that elected government officials will have no choice but to figure out how to fight for and protect everyone's right to privacy in personal spaces. Hopefully.