My larger concern is that this constant surveillance is actually making children better prepared for the world they will have to live in as adults.

I find the the constant surveillance of our online, and increasingly of our offline, lives infuriating and push back when I can.

Twenty years from now perhaps it will all be accepted as perfectly normal, and I'll be an old man yelling at clouds.

There has already been a huge cultural shift.

I am old enough to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall. At the time people in the west were shocked at the level of surveillance that we found had been going on in East Germany.

Now we accept a greater level of surveillance as normal for ourselves.

It's not making them better prepared for it at all. Surveillance from parents is about providing safety for the child, if the child grows up confusing surveillance with a sense of safety that's the opposite of prepared.

Twenty years ago, the level of tracking we have today already would have seemed idiotic. But we've accepted it for convenience, not through choice but through the arms race of tech companies offering "free" services in exchange for convenience which in turn gives its users a temporary boost in their productivity.

I've come to the conclusion that it is primarily our instinct that drives this process and we cannot control it, except by refusing the tech altogether.