The Internet is a surveillance state
No, no, no, no, no.We are always under surveillance - my neighbours know I stay up late watching crap tv, the bookshop assistant knows I browse the comics section but don't buy, and a hundred people each day see me do weird or normal things.I am not oppressed when they do that.  Embarrassed maybe, but not dragged of for "re-education".As long as no-one uses the surveillance to force political outcomes from me or any individual, then this is pollution, not dictatorship.Yes we need radical privacy laws - but not ones trying to put the genie back in the lamp.  There are amazing benefits from technology - the sharing of knowledge seamlessly across 7bn people is going to ,produce wonders we cannot guess.But we must embrace this new world -  a world without secrecy.  For privacy is not secrecy - it is politeness of our neighbours.The problem is not my neighbours who know, it is companies across the world who now know.  Their knowledge and actions are kept secret from me - and that must be prevented.  Sunlight is the best disinfectant applies to targeted ads as much as corrupt politics.Firstly any organisation that holds informant that can be used to identify and track people must publish the identifications they hold in real time.  Expect a cottage industry of telling me about everything about me.  Oh and those cottage industries must publish as well.  So not a profitable cottage industry.
Seen me walk out the door of mcdonalds after paying with my Loyalty card - great mail me the link so I can see. Secondly a legal framework that makes commercial profit from my identity only allowed if I consent and preferably if I get a cut.  Want to sell me ads - great pay me.  Oh suddenly finding ads less profitable? Want to sell me a coffee after that burger - you could use the freely published info mcdonalds has to fling my phone a coupon - but that's my information. I charge a flat 2c for every commercial use of my info - I get 2c even if I don't want coffee.Thirdly, get used to the idea your wife instantly knows you are sleeping with the secretary.