For me, the scariest bit is that I tell people about this (techies and non-techies alike) and they are made aware of the consequences of their every move being tracked and they still don't care. At all.
We're either collectively retarded and it will take very little to rule us all, or venturing toward a society where privacy simply does not exist but it's... fine? Can society adapt to this and someone having a sextape or their browser history leaked be no big deal to anyone?
One problem is that most people decide very early on in their life that they will keep their heads down and never question the violent totalitarian authority that controls them, and thus see no reason why the government would use this data against them.
But then you try the insurance / health care angle and they still just don't care. We've been raised this way. Raised to be like scared children who do not know how to look towards the future or how to accurately assess any complex situation not immediately under their area of expertise
We're either collectively retarded and it will take very little to rule us all, or venturing toward a society where privacy simply does not exist but it's... fine? Can society adapt to this and someone having a sextape or their browser history leaked be no big deal to anyone?
I don't know which is scarier.