[SamAdams76]

Also, I should mention that IPv6 (the new IP protocol) has the capability of 340,000,000,000,000 unique addresses (340 trillion). That compares to the 3.4 billion unique addresses available under the original IP protocol - which was at one time thought to be plenty. But we are running out of addresses to assign.

So with IPv6, that amounts to 45,333 unique addresses for each of Earth's 7.5 million human beings.

This will allow billions upon billions of webcams to be placed across the United States with trillions of addresses left over.

The cost of a basic webcam will be under a penny in about 20 years and they will be the size of a ladybug.

What this means is that webcams will be everywhere. It will not be unusual for a regular suburban street to have thousands of webcams. In the city, there will probably be several million webcams on every block.

The point I'm trying to make is that we are entering into a world in which everything will be able to be seen by anybody.

There is no way to avoid it either.

[SamAdams76]

Actually I apparently stand corrected in my previous post. There are not 340 trillion unique addresses in IPv6.

There are 340 trillion trillion trillion.

That's 34 followed by 37 zeros.

340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

That's 4.5333333e+28 unique addresses for every living person on Earth.

Each human could have billions of web cams assigned just to them.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

What this means is that webcams will be everywhere.

Except in the offices of elected officials where they are actually needed.