Depends on how you define it. We all certainly leave much more of a paper trail.
My dad and I spoke about this a few years ago. When we lived in NYC I used to go to work with him for a week or two in the summer. The only evidence recorded of that was my name on the visitor log taken by the receptionist.
That visit today is almost certainly auditable. The subway trip is via payment card, and our entry in and out of stations are almost certainly captured by MTA and NYPD cameras. Street surveillance is pervasive in Manhattan from any number of entities. The NYPD network has facial recognition capability.
Entry into the building is logged by swipe card, every time you go pee in the bathroom in the public area, there’s often a badge swipe.
So are we less free? I don’t know. We’re more watched. But then again talking to my cousins on the phone in California was a major family event. And my dad would have to dodge out of work to take out cash for the weekend. A few weeks ago we took a long weekend in Florida with 4 hours notice and travelled without luggage.
They have more things to keep them entertained, more tv channels, millions if not billions of websites to choose from, so much content on streaming platforms like Youtube, you would need millions of lifetimes to watch everything.
You see, if you know enough about humans or any other animal you can manipulate them, like throwing a dog a stick to fetch, this means they dont have freedom not even freedom of thought.
Newspaper headline writers are wordsmiths, but now science can predict what words and phrases will hook different types of people to get them to read their output. Just look at the Trump relection & Bidens election, using adverts to identify floating voters ie those who have not made up their mind and then targeting them to manipulate them to vote a certain way.
I can usually pick out the next US president from a year before the elections, done this Bush.
Its like right now, people give out data which when datamined can be used to track and identify people across multiple websites, work out your working patterns, holiday preferences and then from there you can be targeted remotely or in the flesh.
Another example although this is more access to property, but its a tool you can find in Locksmiths toolkits and first responders tool kits. In other words this is a deliberate bug in a security system. Link is already cued.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5-qy2tbDG8&t=119s
When you look at the legislation that exists and does not exist, you can identify the area's where state criminality can occur, but the official secrets which released by countries annually will always hold back some stuff as national security. This can include things like techniques still valid for use today, ie stuff thats been used for hundreds of years and stuff that is fairly recent but still in use today.
When you look at the legislation that exists, like people haved said we are a product of google, we are also a product of the state.
My dad and I spoke about this a few years ago. When we lived in NYC I used to go to work with him for a week or two in the summer. The only evidence recorded of that was my name on the visitor log taken by the receptionist.
That visit today is almost certainly auditable. The subway trip is via payment card, and our entry in and out of stations are almost certainly captured by MTA and NYPD cameras. Street surveillance is pervasive in Manhattan from any number of entities. The NYPD network has facial recognition capability.
Entry into the building is logged by swipe card, every time you go pee in the bathroom in the public area, there’s often a badge swipe.
So are we less free? I don’t know. We’re more watched. But then again talking to my cousins on the phone in California was a major family event. And my dad would have to dodge out of work to take out cash for the weekend. A few weeks ago we took a long weekend in Florida with 4 hours notice and travelled without luggage.