Comment The analogy is inapt (Score 2, Interesting) 209
The tribe analogy is inapt, because tribes didn't have distinctions like employer/employee, government/citizen, rich/poor. Currently within each of those pairs the surveillance levels are almost completely one-sided in favour of the former. There seems to be very little trend to address that imbalance, and the surveillance described in the article would increase it. If anything the balance should be more surveillance of the former, since those are the ones with more power, and as the great Stan Lee said, "With great power comes great responsibility". Sadly the former in each case wants to increase their power over the latter, and increased surveillance is just one of the tools.
Attempts to have disclosure of information from the former to the latter exist (eg google "freedom of information", "open government" or "corporate disclosue") but they are usually weak, because of the laziness of members of the latter.