How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance

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Awesome, no mention of information asymmetry when it comes to mass surveillance. The conversation is still on a base level.

I'll leave this here: "Information Asymmetry and Power in a Surveillance Society" http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/53109/1/MPRA_paper_53109.pdf

"This paper has engaged in a wide ranging discussion around the issues of information asymmetry in contemporary life. We have examined the relationship between such asymmetries and how power is ineluctably interrelated to such imbalances. Within this, we demonstrated how key technologies and techniques have been, and continue to be, employed to deepen and widen the information gap.

Unsurprisingly, we note that there are marked differences between those who inhabit the opposite banks – we are witnessing an entrenchment of power and information within a small, exclusive group on one side while the general population bears the weight of evermore intrusive surveillance.

One potential,and possibly democratic, move would be to ensure that knowledge is spread more equally and transparently.[…]"

Most surely such ideas can be transferred to "tell me like I'm five" levels.

> My worst parenting moments (so far!) have been when I’ve paid too much attention to the kid doing something at the limits of her abilities, only to make her so self-conscious about failing while someone else looked on that she moved on to something else.

This is the best analogy I've seen to the idea that in a world where no one could disobey the law, we could never make any progress as a civilization.