Unless you’re “frozen caveman lawyer”, recently thawed and awoken from the glacial ice, it should be pretty obvious that scale changes things. It’s not creepy w

Unless you’re “frozen caveman lawyer”, recently thawed and awoken from the glacial ice, it should be pretty obvious that scale changes things. It’s not creepy when the guy at the coffee shop knows your order because you come in every day. It is creepy if every Starbucks barista knows who you are and what you want. Technology has already put significant limits on free movement and privacy. It is impossible, for example, to enter or leave an urban area by vehicle without at minimum LPR footprints tracking that movement. Photos and video are increasingly common. The problem in a place like NYC is that the residents there will feel it first. Nobody can afford property, so private entities can record everyone in your home at any time, in public or private spaces. We’ve already seen abuses of this - an employee of a law firm was ejected from Radio City Music hall because her law firm was suing MSG, the venues parent company.