I don't want to sound melodramatic but one of the things that worry me is people's inability to separate absurd conspiracy theories from realistic scenarios that might happen, or that have been already happened.

Over the last few years, I've seen a rise of conspiracy theorists that come up with theories that are so unbelievable they end up 'harming' people who are trying to make realistic and valid points.

At the same time, this creates another type of danger: people who look at reality through rose-tinted glasses.

"Oh the government would never do this," they say.

One of the most dangerous things I keep hearing is: "if you've done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about."

Really?

Because who decides what's wrong?

I don't wanna name names but I think you can think of several countries (and governments) that have no problem hurting their citizens in all kinds of ways. I don't have to spell it out.

This, coupled with constant indirect and direct mass surveillance, worries me.

I went to a gig last night. I must've been caught on CCTV about a thousand times in the streets, a hundred more in the building, and then probably dozens of times in people's phones as they were filming the band and the venue.

This happens to everyone, every day.

Obviously, there are scales.

We all know who holds the record for the most CCTV cameras in the world, and who holds the record for the most CCTV cameras per citizen in the world.

And then there are laws being formulated in a way that worries me.

I'm not gonna say what it is but, recently, legislators in my homeland passed a law that contradicts the universal principle of any and every legal situation: innocent until proven guilty.

With this law, the accused is automatically guilty until proven innocent.

And that's not a one-off. Let me give you a silly analogy, and please don't take this literally because I made it up to make a point.

In the past, not long ago, if you went to the grocery store and put an apple in your bag and failed to pay for it, that would've been theft.

Today, if you hold an apple too long too close to your bag, somebody might call that attempted theft.

Privacy is dead, governments feel more comfortable doing whatever the heck they want, and there's a clear shift from objective laws to subjective intent.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid.

Solution? I don't have one, and I can't even think of one. And that worries me too.