Surveillance Nihilism

As long as they’re watching, I might as well throw them a bone.

I remember my first smartphone from more than a decade ago. It was made by Palm, long before the iPhone and long before the G1, the first Android phone. The Palm Treo had a stylus for a tiny screen with icons much the same as the iPhone and the Android phones did. It even had a browser, but data speeds back then were very slow by comparison to what we have now.

What I wasn’t thinking about back then with the smartphones and the internet in general, is that someone was watching. Someone with a pretended…