Love everything about this post and how you framed the whole privacy issue when it comes to how technology is being used. Especially by government and corporate special interests. I'm reminded of how shocked I was by the decisions school administrators would make to 'protect children' when it was really just authoritarian and oppressive policies and technologies that made it hard for the youth to feel free and safe. Sadly, this exacerbated the misbehaviors and overall mental health crisis.
These administrators genuinely thought they were doing the right thing to surveil and control the kids. Yet our fears of liability were more important than our desire to innovate and find new ways of solving problems together. So their actions made it worse. How do we help support a society in which those in power develop tools and practices that actually support public safety and wellbeing?
The surveillance state in all its guises is problematic. Kids should be protected from this, not subjected to it. I can see how electronic monitoring would harm mental health. It's weird to me that so many authority figures spy on everyone.