The internet of watchful things

Twenty years ago, as the commercial internet took form, the web’s default setting was switched to “surveillance” when it might have been switched to “privacy.” As is often the case with defaults, no one much noticed at the time. Today, with the Silicon Valley surveillance complex set to expand furtherthroughthe Internet of Things, we have another opportunityto think carefully about digital surveillance and itsconsequences for how we live. That opportunity, as I argue in a Los Angeles Times o...