We often wonder what surveillance tactics our digital overlords and their friends in law enforcement might have in store for us one day — if they get their way.
Speaking broadly, the surveillance tactics of nosy democracies flow downstream from authoritarian states. Sure, the United States or the United Kingdom, say, don’t have something like China’s social credit system, yet, and something exactly like it would be met with immediate resistance by the people of either country.
And yet, when the U.K. rounded up people who posted stuff on social media in the wake of the Southport stabbings and unrest last year, there was a shrug on both sides of the Atlantic even though it should have been a major story — especially when you
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