During the Scott Peterson trial, his attorney (or was it a pundit?) discussed the level of surveillance Scott had been under prior to his arrest - how police had intercepted his cell phone calls and followed him as he drove out to the bay. The attorney (pundit?) said everyone becomes suspect when captured on tape or watched every minute of the day. Everyone looks guilty of something, he warned.
I remembered my studies of geographic profiling, and I wondered what crimes - and criminals - intersected with my life, how guilty I would look under scrutiny (even though I lead a crime-free life.)
And what crimes would never intersect without all the data collected every day: tapes, card swipes, surveillance videos, and in the future, RFID databases. I remembered an article I read about fingerprint databases, and how the bigger they get, the more fallible they become.
Which led me to interrogations and false confessions. One of my worst fears.