there is no "general public" just like there is no 2.5 children. More than 1 million working adults in the USA are in uniform or under non-disclosure to security sensitive things.. you will never address those people in the same breath as lowest-common-denominator fear mongering, as is immediately and unwisely suggested here by "good" people.. oh by the way .. "caring about human rights" people will start to behave in a mob like any other mob.. in many cases.. crowds make bad decisions.. etc

And never leave. No going to the store. No driving. No friends coming by. No servants. Every supply run is a clandestine operation.

Individualist solutions don't work here. Only regulatory solutions can address the source of the problem and those require solidarity and collective action.

Yeah because that's totally worked out, right?

Where has technology as disruptive as 'AI' ever been defeated by regulations? That's just more rules that the rich can ignore with impunity.

Western society doesn't really have real solidarity. It's a performance we go into every election season but it's just that: a performance.

Society will do nothing about this until it affects the rich. As always.

The surveillance state adopted to lidar decades ago, specifically because it can see through trees.