>And what better way to prove it than to cherry-pick examples.
Examples are always cherry picked. The other option is called "exhaustive enumeration", and I don't think it's possible.
Let's just say that 50 years ago,
1) nobody could track your exact position 24/7,
2) there was not fingerprint matching,
3) you could still dissapear in a remote place with much fewer chances of people finding you
4) your friends didn't post pictures of you for all the world to see
5) people were not required to carry some sort of ID cards
6) your purchases could not be tracked in real time (cach or cachiers check's, no credit cards)
7) all your (snail then) correspondence was not automatically and efficiently read
8) CCTV wasn't prevalent
9) radio couln't track what you were listening to (as Pandora etc)
10) nobody kept track of what movies you watched (like Netflix, Youtube, etc)
11) They could track cars by reading their plates of some camera.
etc etc. And tons of other stuff besides.
It's nice living in a dream bubble, but all these do exist, and are a real tendency in a higher technological society. After all bureacracy and control with expand given the chance (and with the lack of any counter tendency), and technology is a huge enabler for it to expand.
Examples are always cherry picked. The other option is called "exhaustive enumeration", and I don't think it's possible.
Let's just say that 50 years ago,
1) nobody could track your exact position 24/7, 2) there was not fingerprint matching, 3) you could still dissapear in a remote place with much fewer chances of people finding you 4) your friends didn't post pictures of you for all the world to see 5) people were not required to carry some sort of ID cards 6) your purchases could not be tracked in real time (cach or cachiers check's, no credit cards) 7) all your (snail then) correspondence was not automatically and efficiently read 8) CCTV wasn't prevalent 9) radio couln't track what you were listening to (as Pandora etc) 10) nobody kept track of what movies you watched (like Netflix, Youtube, etc) 11) They could track cars by reading their plates of some camera.
etc etc. And tons of other stuff besides.
It's nice living in a dream bubble, but all these do exist, and are a real tendency in a higher technological society. After all bureacracy and control with expand given the chance (and with the lack of any counter tendency), and technology is a huge enabler for it to expand.