Frankly, I'm hoping that they can come up with some, and some other people can come up with ways to make such measures socially accepted and encouraged. The ex

Frankly, I'm hoping that they can come up with some, and some other people can come up with ways to make such measures socially accepted and encouraged. The examples he gives are specifically the kinds of things that there are social solutions to - eg making it Not Socially Acceptable to wear mobile face recognition systems around in public. If you're going to devolve into a DDR-style police state, there's very little technically that can prevent that from happening. What can happen is that you force an enormous investment of resources to maintain it, instead of giving the ability to a tiny cabal. If you're forcing the recruitment of a demographically significantly portion of the population (somewhere 2.5% to 7% in the case of the Stasi) in order to maintain the security apparatus, there's much more room for debate over whether to build it or dismantle it than if it just requires a few billion dollars and a fistful of NSLs.