Or perhaps...
we could be asking whether we need all this bloody surveillance?
Video is a growing segment of the exploding IoT market – that is, CCTV for security, traffic, workplace monitoring and more scenarios. The market for video surveillance is expected to be worth $43bn by 2025 – a CAGR of 11.8 per cent, according to Research and Markets. If there’s one thing facilitating that, it’s the growing …
Wait, what?! Are you saying... we wouldn't actually all drop dead at once if we didn't have all this surveillance?
I'd like to stretch some game theory. Most of that surveillance might bring fuck all (I'm not at Google, obviously - just as an example of a different kind of monitoring) but the crucial issue is that many believe that maybe it might bring something and many do not want to forego this "opportunity", as dim as it may be.