I get to knowingly grin and nod now when people acknowledge the wisdom of covering all of my devices' cameras that point at me with black electrical tape.

Although, I've developed what must seem a Tourette's symptom by randomly declaring, "You don't have to follow unethical orders." I do so hope that anyone unlucky enough to be tasked to listen to the On-Star microphone in my car enjoys my obsessive coaching of other drivers more than my partner.

I used to care about these things, now I feel sorry for any faction of Big Brother...willingly bludgeoned by the collective mundaneness of most of our lives. Seriously, surveillance of interesting criminals is largely boring...can you imagine...?!