We may have government surveillance people listening in on Quaker anti-war meetings.
A funny thing happened on the way to utopia: We've turned into this surveillance society and become a race of spies, where we track our kids and we track our spouses and we track our friends. I think very soon there will be an obsolescence of trust, because it's much easier to access a person's location than it is to ask - or to trust.
The social media not only become new platforms for the invasion of privacy, but further legitimate a culture in which monitoring functions are viewed as benign while the state-sponsored society of hyper-fear increasingly defines everyone as either a snitch or a terrorist.
A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.
People watch me... whatever I do, wherever I go.
A small town has as many eyes as a fly
Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.
What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.
If I know what your messages are, if I can read those, I'll probably be able to conclude where you're going, who you're with, the location the message was sent.
