Ball and Chain

The Brits seem well ahead of the US in privacy reducing technologies, but I have little doubt that those technologies will migrate this way soon enough. From taking motorists' fingerprints on the road, to listening in on public conversations from a hundred yards away, to capturing everyone, everywhere, on camera, to installing devices in private vehicles, etc., etc., it seems there are few spaces left where one may not be intruded upon for no good reason. The technology has jumped well ahead of public debate about rights, privacy, and freedom—so far ahead it may just choke that debate off before it starts. Post-modern fascism: unlikely to be recognized when directly encountered...