Moving beyond 'impacts': cheating for Privacy

Technologies of surveillance are becoming more widespread, and sometimes they are actually quite friendly. Just as smart meters will help cut down electricity use, near-field communications, and eventually ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence will make it possible to create transanction logs of nearly every real-world interaction. Certainly safeguards can be built into law to try to minimise the privacy harms created by such a system, but it is highly unlikely that these will be sufficient. Is this necessarily going to lead to a transformation of what it is to be private in the public sphere?

Another option would be to remove uniqueness, determinism, perfection from our systems. In fact, it is highly unlikely they were ever there.