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It's too late. The cameras are here to stay. Most of the streets of Manhattan are already under constant 24/7 surveillance. I found this out a few months ago when an employee - who got into a shoving match with a fellow subway passenger - was tracked all the way to my office by camera. The police showed up 10 minutes later and had the entire video of him walking from Grand Central.

Technology is such that cameras will soon be the size of dimes and be on every telephone pole in America.

On the highways, you now have high-speed cameras that can snap crystal clear photos of the license plate of every single automobile (as well as driver) - even at speeds up to 100mph. They do this under the guise of toll collection but law enforcement also has access to the archives and will soon be able to retroactively (or in real time) map out the routes of any automobile, given a plate number.

Not saying I agree with it but it's here. It's quite possible that people being born today will have every second of their public lives recorded for posterity. Their only privacy will be in their own homes and even that will be suspect as parents and spouses can easily wire their homes to see what their children or spouses are doing at every moment. Soon, cameras will be the size of a grain of sand and be virtually undetectable.