The Inevitability of Total Surveillance and the Penetration of Privacy Laws

It is a common fact that you could position yourself better in a social setting if you know the people you are dealing with, namely their interests and personalities. If you have power, the knowledge of such things can help you manipulate people into playing to your plan without coercion. This is the benefit of total surveillance to the government and other corporations, and they can save money from making surveys.

This is why laws on fairness about privacy are put in place. We all want freedom to do things on our own accord, and without these laws that allow us to protect our rights to privacy, we just lose to the bigger corporations.

But then the best player for the game comes. Technology.

Technology carries an amour of convenience and wonder at the capabilities of a device to perform superhuman tasks. Carrying this particular superhuman mentality associated with technology, we inevitably enjoy things that some entity could use against us. We willingly post information about our own selves through social media, share our thoughts through blogs.

Technology is making it easy for us to enjoy this particular freedom, a freedom that has a cost in the form of providing oppressors confidential information about ourselves.

This is why total surveillance, regardless of new laws coming about to protect the right ofindividuals, is highly inevitable. It will likely have similarities to the total surveillance described in Brave New World. No, it will not be an Orwellian police state, but, because the government and almost every corporation in the world knows what we want, they are not breaking any laws because we allow them to look into our lives with open arms.