Move Along, No Panopticon To See Here

Last week Wikileaks--remember them?--released a sheaf of documents about the Trapwire security system, which, depending on who you believe, is either a network of cameras being used to spy on everyone everywhere, or an ineffective bust more notable for shady business practices than any successful surveillance. Is it being used for "monitoring every single person via facial recognition"? Probably not. Doesn't matter. Let's not kid ourselves: the point is that as cameras get cheaper and more connected and more ubiquitous, facial recognition gets more accurate, and data-mining software gets better, something like conspiracy theorists' worst nightmarish fantasies of Trapwire will come to pass. I've said it before, I'll say it again: this is only a matter of time, and not all that much of it. Little pieces of the panopticon are already being built all around you.

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