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The today's "brave new world" will start turning into Orwellian Big Brother society. It's already happening. Of course neither option is great but I prefer drugs, orgies and idiots to surveillance, absolute police state and slaves/prisoners.
It's inadvisable to think about people being after you, "how would I hide," etc...but if you give it a thought or two, you might realize it would already be very, very, very difficult to escape nearly omnipresent surveillance. You just need to put one or two headlines together...
"Google Tracking Your Phone Even Before You Open App/Potentially Even When Phone is Off"
"DOGE Has Gained Access to Americans' Private Data"
Etc... We let it sneak up on us and we're going to find it's seemingly all there at once.
In Finland the Police has been demanding full access to fingerprints originally gathered for passports and IDs (of around three million citizens) which means that the police could use them for other than their intended purposes. AND it looks like the police is finally going to have their way in this matter. This is how a police state is build, one step at a time until it's too late to complain.
In the US the cops come by schools and fingerprint every kid when they're about 10 years old. They did it thirty years ago to me and they still do it today.
Yeah, and after the last two Independece days I really don't trust cops much.