I’m not so concerned with privacy. Yeah they’d have access to all of that data, but it’s A LOT of data.

I subscribe to the idea of security through obscurity. It’s kinda like when everyone on the highway is speeding and you’re just keeping up with traffic. Who do the cops pull over for speeding? They find the ones that split off from the “pack”. As long as your data isn’t “anomalous”, then why should the Panopticon shift its gaze you?

But I’m not so naive as to believe that’s end-all answer. It all depends on who’s in power and what they define as “anomalous activity”. It also depends on what they use that data for.

If it’s used to control and suppress, or even worse oppress, any group or individual, then we need to address the use of the data. Privacy has already gone out the window, so trying to address data privacy at the root would probably have no social or political will to do anything effective.

Organizing against a corrupt Panopticon is difficult but not impossible.