Dear Editor
Privacy is a luxury already extinct. People are not fully aware that everything they are doing online and offline can be easily watched, tracked and measured. The records are as exhaustive as they are perpetual. High-resolution facial recognition cameras scan every corner of the public space and non-public space. A simple stroll around a city is enough to edit a larger-than-life documentary about any individual. Would it be extreme to suggest the current era is, in terms of individual control and persecution, the most oppressive in human history? Progressively, and predictably, technology has eroded privacy into an obsolete rarity and is poised to make jails an expensive redundancy. The system requires persistent identity. Anonymity is a sworn enemy.
Gustavo Jalife
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