It's Uncanny How Your Parents Know Everything About You

American Family Insurance has a program, Teen Safe Driver, allowing parents of teenage drivers to sign up for the program, and monitor the behaviour of their children behind the wheel.

A DriveCam camera, fixed in front of the car, facing the driver, will monitor the teenage driver.
According to the program's web site and the video, not data is saved, unless the 10 seconds before, and 10 seconds after an "erratic vehicle movement" such as hard breaking , or quick acceleration. These images are transmitted wirelessly to an "analysis center" for review, and the parents receive a report card and a risk score.

I am an advocate of safe driving, and I am often appalled by the dangerous way some people drive, teenagers and grown-ups, yet this program makes me shiver. It comes down to this general question: is accepting more surveillance the only way to achieve a sense of security? In order to get this elusive sense of security, do we need to feel we are under the constant watch of benevolent parents, our own parents when teenagers, then benevolent corporations monitoring our daily lives, and grading them according to their own scale?

The way we eat has a great incidence on our health, and the disease we may develop in the future. Should we then install a camera in the refrigerator and the pantry, and the data be transmiited to tour health insurer? And should my Sonicare transmit my brushing (and flossing, mind you) to my dentist?