The critique of the massive capacity to know

Surveillance technologies enable a pervasive constant investigative gaze.

To investigate is to search out and examine details to learn hidden facts.

To gaze is to look steadily and intently.

Businesses and governments gaze steadily and intently at virtually everyone thereby realizing a massive capacity to know the details of people’s lives.

The consequence: a profound loss of informational privacy.

Informational privacy is the ability to control what others do with information about you.

Contemporary surveillance greatly reduces the control people once had.

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