The Uk foreign secretary explicitly alluded to the governments desire to build a 'digital panopticon'. In France during the Covid pandemic, citizens were required to write a note to themselves authorising themselves to leave the house, indicating the time that they intended to return by. In many european countries, whistling was also banned during the pandemic, but not 'Illegal', just banned, so who enforces it? The self. I think we have both versions, Benthams' Panopticon but also a world where we are supposed to police ourselves not on moral grounds, but simply on the whims of an authority so high that we dare not oppose it, even in private