Resulting in THIS informative little photo-essay.

Now I know what you're thinking..
..during Drumpf's Third-term, following the up-dating of that tired old 'Constitution'-thing after the National Emergency was declared (and all those agitators were ...

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Well, that's just one scenario. We could. look. at. ... an even uglier ... OK maybe not today.
Cel-fone + I-net + mondo face-recognition + Typical modrin/techno attenuated attention span?
Imagine what you can conjure with Just Those er, 'Input-constraints' and a giant team of a-moral gung-ho Gear heads working 3 shifts/day.

(Moi? I Don't Wanna run with that.. maybe later? should we get past the Young 'Un madness-baiting W.H. We Dare You -shit-flinging squad's Outcome.)

Carrion:
"say 'Cheese'"
(or anything else) and you're a Datum. Permission??? ..what an abject anachronism!

Oh and remember, Phone-fruit Users:
absolutely everything that happens whenever you evoke "Siri" DOES indeed get dumped into the gigundo Apple Corporate bit-vacuum-cleaner (which is said to Suck-mightily, to use the technical term.)

[Dunno about WSJ pay-wall; went with cloak&dagger, as befits the Very topic. I wot.]

(re. the Death of privacy) ... and China didn't even need a worm-hole McGuffin! (though that was about across-Time imaginations..)
At least the few folks quoted in above, seem to LIke the Security ... ka-boom .. tish.

How appropriate too, it's ~~ birthplace of that Curse, now a meme
May you live in Interesting times (well ... we Think it came from there.)

So glad I'm not possessed of that Eternal. Life.™ [..on *this* Planet !?] wet-dream :-)
But it's been sorta Fun, all-along imagining: that those ideas/Ideals we liked to think we Aimed-->for
--like Freedom, Civility, Truth, Honesty and other feel-good [Referents]
--could survive the pressures of exponential over-population.. as creeps up just like the boiling-the-frog? (wrong) koan.

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Still, as [Dickens] Mr. Micawber [/Dickens] was wont to say, "Something will turn up.."