Surveillance 2.0 : when private life becomes a luxury
🇬🇧 Howdy English speaker, please note that this article was translated from French using Lumo, a privacy-friendly AI. Forgive me for any typos in the translation, and the occasional weird passive sentence that we use so much in la langue de Molière. The centralized, uncontrolled accumulation of information about citizens creates the conditions for an authoritarian regime. Just ask former East Germans. That’s why, in a democracy, it is the people who hold the right to privacy and the government that must act in broad daylight. It cannot be otherwise. (The Guardian, 30 janvier 2026) ...