A number of your comments this week engaged what I think is the strongest connection between these readings: what makes us consent to ubiquitous surveillance? The safety thing? sure. But we also consent because companies give us free things (cool ads for stuff we want, gigs and gigs of space to store emails) in exchange for our consent to their rifling through our stuff. More subtle, perhaps, is how companies (and, increasingly, the state) persuade us that being watched and recorded all the time is normal. Finally, does it make a difference when we are also persuaded to constantly watch and report on each other?
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