This anonymity is pretty recent, though - on some levels only since WW2 and arguable that anonymity was very limited for a long time before. Try moving around France in the 30s with no papers.
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True enough, but it would be equally unhelpful to say war is new. When we’re trying to work out what we think about something new, it’s worth working out what parts really are new, and how we reacted to comparable changes in the past (cf ‘databases destroy freedom’ in the 70s)
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I think another angle to pursue is how far we’re uncomfortable because the new thing is somehow an automated version of something we were previously comfortable with - doing it *at scale* is the problem. That’s why face recognition is different to wanted posters.
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