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by davidw 4232 days ago
This is covered in David Brin's book The Transparent Society:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society

There are actually a lot of benefits to surveillance like this, but we need to be able to watch the watchers, so to speak.

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There is a book. "The Circle". Proponents of transparent societies should read it IMHO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_%28Eggers_novel%29

In England we have The Surveillance Commissioners who should do a reasonable job of oversight.

https://osc.independent.gov.uk/

But how can we be sure? Maybe we need another level of oversight...
humans are guaranteed to drop the ball at some point in time