If you've watched Netflix's documentary The Social Dilemma, you'll know that it paints a terrifying – and accurate – picture of the damage that digital technology is causing to individuals and societies. Screen addiction, increased rates of suicide and swayed elections are just a few of the horrors laid at Silicon Valley’s door. But despite its apocalyptic tone, what the documentary fails to emphasise enough is the engine driving this social destruction: the systematic violation of our right to privacy. The examples above are worrying enough, but they’re just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the implications of privacy loss. Facial recognition – a technology so fit for abuse that it ought to be banned altogether -