In Technologies of Consent section author makes interesting point. Modern surveillance is enabled by technology, we've never dealt with something like that befo

In Technologies of Consent section author makes interesting point. Modern surveillance is enabled by technology, we've never dealt with something like that before[1]. Technology is not going away, our digital fingerprints will only get larger. Essentially that means that we would need to restructure[2] social/political system in order to address that problem. [1] - Interesting side thought about that - technology allows you to survey people who are doing the surveillance and maintaining the system with relatively low overhead. In theory this could allow for 1984 like totalitarian state, although I believe probability of such severe scenario happening is pretty low. [2] - issue with just ending government surveillance is that private companies already have gigantic amount of data on individual people too. Consider this - how much money would it be worth to Google to subtly run A/B tests on individual users in order to present them with ad layout/content they are most likely to click on?