More and more people get to experience what happens when the information they give - willingly or not - gets used against them. I was lucky enough to have a primer when corporate surveillance was only in its infancy, and not quite as nefarious as it is now. But most haven’t yet. Those who have know exactly what to fear and hate.
The problem is, when a critical mass of people realize the pickle we’ve let ourselves be in as a society, it’ll be too late to do anything about. In fact, it probably is already.
Most people know China is evil, many even understand why. Yet they still buy cartloads of China-made products at Walmart without any qualms, not realizing the contradiction. People don’t think anymore these days, they react to stuff they’re told.
It’s good that you understand how to drive people with gut reactions and steer their misguided feelings away from implants. Unfortunately, people whose opinions are truthiness that comes from the guts aren’t exactly an informed population, and aren’t likely to rebel en masse against the corporate encroachment on civil liberties.
As a side note, it’s funny in a way that a forum run by an implant manufacturer serves as a meaningful vehicle for intelligent conversation on surveillance. In the past - say in the 90s when I read about Kevin Warwick’s experiment - I was firmly in a “chips are evil” camp. I used to think their potential for abuse was too great if people started to use these things willingly to identify themselves everywhere, because it would be way too easy to track them from the breadcrumb trail of scan events they would generate,
Well, in 2020, the vast majority of people around the world are followed around much more closely than it would have ever been possible with chips, the breadcrumb trail has become a solid line, and the information derived from biometrics and metadata analysis is much more vast and intrusive than a puny handful of bytes scanned every once in a while on different isolated readers.
So, in an ironic twist, I reckon implants have now become the electronic identification method of choice for the privacy conscious who wants to give away as little information as possible and still enjoy the benefits of not using physical keys or cards. At least that’s how I see my own implants: I’m reasonably happy to let an RFID or NFC reader exchange a bit of data with my hand, but I sure as hell won’t let a computer take a photo of my face or scan my fingerprint and send it to some remote corporate server doing who-knows-what with the data, just to identify me.