- You will be scanned when you enter a store, your clothing will recognised, by RFID tags embedded in it. This will be matched with your loyalty card data to determine your relationship to the store. Your relative economic worth will determine how you are treated during your 'shopping experience'.
- Your car will be tracked by a global satellite navigation system which will provide you with the quickest route to avoid current congestion. Money will be automatically removed from your bank account for fines, congestion charges and any infringements. The police will be empowered to monitor and track your movements, should they choose to do so.
- You will be subjected to biometric and psychometric testing, lifestyle profiling and diagnostic health testing. You will be refused employment if you are seen as a health risk, or you refuse to submit to the testing procedure. Your work benefit packages will be drawn up with any potential future health problems factored in.
- Your child's school will introduce an electronic system to allow monitoring of what your children eat, their attendance, record of achievement and drug test results.
- Facial recognition systems using tiny cameras embedded in lamposts and walls will be used to monitor your every movement.
- The elderly will become more isolated as friends and family feel increasingly able to rely on remote monitoring and contact systems to provide support.
- Wealthy people will use personal information management services to monitor their ‘data shadow’ and to ensure they are not disadvantaged by any of the vast quantities of information held about them being incorrect or out of date.
- The poor will be unable to afford this., they will increasingly suffer the consequences of poor quality information being used to make decisions affecting their lives.
Adapted from : A Report on the Surveillance Society: For the Information Commissioner by the Surveillance Studies Network, 2006
