Commentary
It is no secret, especially since 2020, that we live in a society where surveillance of various kinds and at different levels—optical, audial, text-oriented, administrative—has increased almost unbearably. As long ago as 2011 Sherry Turkle sounded the alarm on the growing acceptance of surveillance (by the U.S. government, among other agencies) and the concomitant loss of privacy by most people. In “Alone Together” (2011: p. 262), she raised this issue by observing:
