we've conceded that option by living in a world where phones add GPS location data to cameras, you use pay-by-phone over cash, oystercards for public transport. I felt I was in control until I discovered a paragraph in the manual of the used BMW we'd bought about how to turn flash off.

Think about that: we are building cars with flash embedded in a browser wired op to a 3G+ modem and a car network bus whose vehicle motor data would be sufficient to identify where you are driving round Bristol (speed, time sitting at junctions, hill climbs inferred by RPM:speed), where you live, which school you drive you children to...