Good post, but this part you got it wrong: "I guess this is what surveillance is trying to do. Rather than accepting a level of risk as the price for being fre

Good post, but this part you got it wrong: "I guess this is what surveillance is trying to do. Rather than accepting a level of risk as the price for being free and handling disasters when they do occur, we seem to be increasingly trying to avoid danger at all costs." Surveillance doesn't try to reduce the risk or anything like that. Surveillance institutions treat the whole population as suspects.