Over at Takimag, our dubious doctor receives an email with unsolicited advice and bogus concern from his insurance company, which gets him thinking…

It is rather that such constant surveillance tends to undermine the distinction between what is properly public and properly private, to the detriment of the latter and the expansion of the former. Where everything is recorded (and we are increasingly complicit in this), we become performers rather than characters, and the boundary between the real and the bogus is extinguished.