Our Creeping Surveillance State

Beware the siren song of connectivity

I’m not sure when I went from tipping point to over the edge. Maybe it was learning that “embedded connectivity” will soon be standard in new cars, or that digital phenotyping — tracking your online clicks — is being proposed as a clue to health and disease. Maybe it was reading one too many articles on how I’d better get used to a future with a virtual assistant that…