Comment by oigursh
3 years ago
There's a video of a panel with Moxie Marlinspike who says something along the lines that there is value in being able to break the law. It's how society evolves. Complete surveillance means no broken laws, means a relatively static society.
This was also mentioned as a theme in passing in a sci-fi book I read. One of the trends across civilisations was that some would become total surveillance states, and they always failed because they stopped progressing at that point.