The Rise of ‘Luxury Surveillance’ [Amazon's “Everything Tracker”]

> It would be a bit glib—and more than a little clichéd—to call this some kind of technological dystopia [...]: Dystopian fiction is generally speculative, whereas all of these items and services are real. At the end of September, Amazon announced a suite of tech products in its move toward “ambient intelligence”, which Amazon’s hardware chief, Dave Limp, described as technology and devices that slip into the background but are “always there”, collecting information and taking action against it. // [...] Amazon has been unusually explicit about its plans[: t]he Everything Store is becoming an Everything Tracker, collecting and leveraging large amounts of personal data related to entertainment, fitness, health, and, it claims, security. It’s surveillance that millions of customers are opting into