Financièrement, le mode de vie américain, basé sur l’étalement urbain comme principe de modernité, s’analyse comme une fuite en avant qui se finance sur le pari de l’accroissement perpétuel. Dès lors, l’échec est programmé, au moins dans une économie américaine où les infrastructures de réseaux sont largement financées au niveau fédéral mais dont l’entretien revient au local.

Traditionally, courts have held that the Fourth Amendment does not cover the trailing of a suspect because people have no expectation of privacy for actions exposed to public view. But the appeals court argued that people expect their overall movements to be private because different strangers see only isolated moments and a police department’s surveillance resources are limited. GPS technology, by allowing police departments to inexpensively track someone’s comings and goings, changes that equation

The challenge is that consumers will continue to do whatever they wish on the Internet, and find clever ways to not attract the attention of the content companies or I.S.P.’s,

The shoes that Julie Matlin recently saw on Zappos.com were kind of cute, or so she thought. But Ms. Matlin wasn’t ready to buy and left the site. Then the shoes started to follow her everywhere she went online.